Jewell (Eubanks) Farmer

Mrs. Ruby Jewell Farmer, 88, passed away Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at Riverview Nursing and Rehab in Greenwood with her family by her side.  Funeral services are 10 A.M. Monday, November 24, at Greenwood Delta Funeral Home with Dr. Jim Phillips officiating.  Visitation is from 9-10 A.M. prior to the service.

Jewell was born July 24, 1937, to William Hugh and Mary Cotten Eubanks in Indianola, MS.  She is the oldest of six girls who grew up in the Mississippi Delta.  She attended Greenwood High School where she met Shelby Sudduth whom she married and had one son with, Roy Michael, who was seven when Shelby was killed in an automobile accident.  Two years after his death, God called her to full time service prompting Jewell to move to Vicksburg to begin her career in the Salvation Army.  There she was a youth counselor, secretary and bookkeeper.  A year later she moved to Natchez in the same position.  She later entered the school for officers’ training in Atlanta, GA.  Jewell was commissioned as an officer with the Salvation Army and ordained to the ministry and transferred to Miami, FL.  She served in Sebring, Sarasota, Lakeland, and finally Tampa.  During this time, she met her husband, Vennoy Farmer. 

Twenty years as Candidates’ Secretary at the Florida Divisional Headquarters gave her the opportunity to teach at the National Soldiers’ Seminary in Colorado Springs for three years.  She then taught at the school for Officers’ training and conducted training seminars  in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina and later led young adults on mission trips for eleven years.

In 2004 she returned home to the Delta where she became an avid Explorer (which is an in- depth Bible Study).  She began as a student and later became a teacher.  She was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and served on their board.

Jewell was preceded in death by her parents, two husbands; Roy Shelby Sudduth, Vennoy Farmer; a son, Roy Michael Sudduth; sisters, Alma Ferguson and Dean Killebrew; stepson, Dick Farmer and Stepdaughter, Emily Lanier.  She is survived by her sisters, Nell Homeyer of Memphis, TN, Pat Jones of Greenwood, Reba Burgess of Memphis, TN, ; step-son, Gary Farmer and several Nieces and Nephews.

Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

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