Anita Cullum

Friday, January 20, 2012

BLOOMFIELD -- Anita O. Cullum, 69, died Jan. 18, 2012, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

Born Dec. 21, 1942, in Holcomb, daughter of the late Herschel T. "Jack" and Dolly O. Wilson Farmer, she was a homemaker and affiliated with the Church of Christ.

On July 25, 1975, in Dexter, she married Lloyd Cullum who survives of the home.

Other survivors include: four sons and a daughter-in-law, Jeff Darnell of Chesterfield, Tom Darnell of Bloomfield, Pete and Carla Darnell of Jackson and Alan Cullum of Dexter; one daughter and son-in-law, Dolly "Sis" and Dale Billingsley of Dexter; one brother, Gerald Farmer of St. Charles; two sisters, Phyllis Farmer and Vickey Hartline of Bloomfield; and 13 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Besides her parents, she was also preceded in death by three brothers, Donald Ray Farmer, Eddie Farmer and Odell Farmer.

Visitation is scheduled from 5-8 p.m. Saturday at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter where services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday. Herman Morse will officiate.

Burial will follow at the Bluff Cemetery in Idalia.