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Family pens obituary for fallen father; blames society's response to COVID-19

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Posted at 11:56 AM, Dec 04, 2020
and last updated 2020-12-04 12:56:19-05

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The family of a Kansas man who died this week from COVID-19 wrote in an obituary that his death occurred “in a world where many of his fellow Americans refuse to wear a piece of cloth on their face to protect one another.”

Dr. Marvin J. Farr, 81, died on Dec. 1 at a nursing home in Scott City, which is in far western Kansas.

The obituary, posted on a local funeral home’s website, starts as follows:

“Dr. Marvin James Farr, 81, of Scott City, Kan., passed away Dec. 1, 2020, in isolation at Park Lane Nursing Home. He was preceded in death by more than 260,000 Americans infected with covid-19. He died in a room not his own, being cared for by people dressed in confusing and frightening ways. He died with covid-19, and his final days were harder, scarier and lonelier than necessary. He was not surrounded by friends and family.”

Farr’s son, Courtney Farr, wrote on Facebook he hopes the obituary he wrote for his father causes debate.