I know there have already been a couple of threads on this, but I wanted to give everybody the chance to put a story with a name so that she’s not just another statistic. I wanted everybody to have the opportunity to get to know Mary Beth just a little bit
Mary Elizabeth Farmer came from an Aggie family. Both parents attended A&M and all four of her brothers and sisters are Aggies as well (Christopher, class of 04, Andrew (me), class of 07, John, class of 10, and Abbie, class of 12, who will start this fall), not to mention numerous cousins, aunts, and uncles. Mary Beth was class of 2008 and graduated last Friday, Magna Cum Laude, with a degree in music (She was a beautiful singer) and minors in Psychology and Spanish. She was to start a PhD program in Psychology this next fall at A&M.
Mary Beth was heavily involved with St. Mary’s Catholic Church, most notably the Kappa Theta Beta Catholic Sorority for which she acted as the service chair. This last part defined her life. Mary Beth loved to help other people. She was like a young Dr. Laura and everybody recognized this and called her to talk about their problems. Some of her cell phone bills were appalling. Mary Beth was the person that you’d call if you’d gotten your car towed at 2am and needed a ride to the impound. She loved being there for people and would never hang you out to dry. Mary Beth was also highly active in the St. Mary’s pro-life efforts. She was a very religious person, but not in an arrogant way. She was quite literally willing to talk with anybody and to serve as an example for what God can do with your life.
She also had a great sense of humor and an incredible wit. I can’t tell you how many times she made us laugh until we cried with her clever remarks on people’s mannerisms and actions or her great impersonations. A few weeks ago, she performed her senior voice recital, which was the culmination of her four years of voice study. Her favorite song to perform was sung from the perspective of a lady who had just finished one glass of wine too many. She performed it perfectly, stumbling around the stage, singing in her beautiful voice, while we in the audience tried to keep our laughter from getting too loud. Shy was not in her vocabulary. She had a quick retort for everything and never hesitated to give it. It was so much fun to be around her and the number of people that called her friend is a testament to this. People that she hadn’t seen in years showed up at the hospital in Austin to offer love and support. That’s how much she meant to them. To us, her family, she was indispensable. She and her boyfriend of a year and a half were to be engaged this summer.
Mary Beth passed away on May 14th, 2008, five days after she graduated. Most of the doctors predicted that she wouldn’t last through the first night, but she fought for another 24 hours, which gave all of her out of state friends and family time to make it to the hospital and say goodbye. Even in death, she is going to help save lives as she is donating two healthy lungs, a healthy liver, healthy kidneys and a healthy heart. Three to four people are going to get a second chance at life because of my sister’s sacrifice.
We’re going to miss you terribly.
Mary Elizabeth Farmer came from an Aggie family. Both parents attended A&M and all four of her brothers and sisters are Aggies as well (Christopher, class of 04, Andrew (me), class of 07, John, class of 10, and Abbie, class of 12, who will start this fall), not to mention numerous cousins, aunts, and uncles. Mary Beth was class of 2008 and graduated last Friday, Magna Cum Laude, with a degree in music (She was a beautiful singer) and minors in Psychology and Spanish. She was to start a PhD program in Psychology this next fall at A&M.
Mary Beth was heavily involved with St. Mary’s Catholic Church, most notably the Kappa Theta Beta Catholic Sorority for which she acted as the service chair. This last part defined her life. Mary Beth loved to help other people. She was like a young Dr. Laura and everybody recognized this and called her to talk about their problems. Some of her cell phone bills were appalling. Mary Beth was the person that you’d call if you’d gotten your car towed at 2am and needed a ride to the impound. She loved being there for people and would never hang you out to dry. Mary Beth was also highly active in the St. Mary’s pro-life efforts. She was a very religious person, but not in an arrogant way. She was quite literally willing to talk with anybody and to serve as an example for what God can do with your life.
She also had a great sense of humor and an incredible wit. I can’t tell you how many times she made us laugh until we cried with her clever remarks on people’s mannerisms and actions or her great impersonations. A few weeks ago, she performed her senior voice recital, which was the culmination of her four years of voice study. Her favorite song to perform was sung from the perspective of a lady who had just finished one glass of wine too many. She performed it perfectly, stumbling around the stage, singing in her beautiful voice, while we in the audience tried to keep our laughter from getting too loud. Shy was not in her vocabulary. She had a quick retort for everything and never hesitated to give it. It was so much fun to be around her and the number of people that called her friend is a testament to this. People that she hadn’t seen in years showed up at the hospital in Austin to offer love and support. That’s how much she meant to them. To us, her family, she was indispensable. She and her boyfriend of a year and a half were to be engaged this summer.
Mary Beth passed away on May 14th, 2008, five days after she graduated. Most of the doctors predicted that she wouldn’t last through the first night, but she fought for another 24 hours, which gave all of her out of state friends and family time to make it to the hospital and say goodbye. Even in death, she is going to help save lives as she is donating two healthy lungs, a healthy liver, healthy kidneys and a healthy heart. Three to four people are going to get a second chance at life because of my sister’s sacrifice.
We’re going to miss you terribly.