Stanley Vincent Farier's Obituary
Stanley Farier Obituary
Stanley Vincent Farier was born in Sandy Point, Sc. Kitts, in the West Indies, on July 28, 1933; one of the ten children born to Francis Farier and Emily Lewis. At the age of 17, he decided to study for the Catholic ministry, and after fourteen years of study, he was ordained a priest in the religious order - Society of the Divine Word - in 1964 in Rome, Italy. His first assignment after ordination,
from 1964 to 1969, was to teach Theology to young men in the last four years of their preparation for the priesthood.
From 1969 to 1972, he pursued theological studies at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, specializing in "Ethics and Society". In 1972, he was asked to be pastor of Sc. Lucy's parish in Rochester, NY. This parish was intended to be a Center for Black Catholics in the Diocese of Rochester. This was a three year assignment. After the third year, he was named pastor of Our Lady of the Gardens in Altgeld Gardens in Chicago. This was a parish on the very southern fringe of Chicago that was to minister to parishioners in a Chicago Housing Project. As the church membership was very small, he saw the main mission of this church as providing an alternative school to the Chicago public school system.
Stanley served this parish church and school for eight years (from 1975 to 1983), working among the
poor and marginalized in this almost forgotten part of Chicago. The school served the community well and produced several alumni who became successful professionals. In 1983, he decided to take a year's leave of absence from the ministry, during which he reflected on his future in the Society of the Divine Word and decided to resign from ministry in 1984. Since leaving the ministry, he served as a social worker with the State of lllinois in the Department of Children and Family Services. He was a social service job which entailed monitoring children in foster homes, serving as a Child Protection Investigator, and for the last ten years was a Health Services Coordinator, which monitored agencies that provided health, services for children who were wards of
the State. He retired in July 2010, after 24 years.
On August 20 of 1988, his deceased mother's birthday, he married Paula Watson. Stan was preceded in death by his parents, Francis and Emily; his brothers, Franklin, Joe, and Austin; and his sister, Agnes.
Stanley is survived by his loving wife, Paula Farier; her two children, Pamela (Milton) Walker and their two children, and Bruce (Deniese) Watson and their three children; his sisters, Veronica (Gordon) Bristol and their daughter, and Lillian Armbrister and her three children; his three
brothers, Calvin and his four children, Francis and his four children, and Maurice (Linette) Williams and his children; as well as many grandchildren, nieces and nephews from all these families.
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