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Personal Information and photo links below :
- Thomas F. McFarland was
born 12 September 1906 in Milwaukee, graduated
from Sims (Montana) HS in 1926;
was married July 1936 to Dorathy Adele Landis,
and died 2:35 PM 23 April 1989 in Phoenix, Arizona;
for much of his life, managed the Credit Dept of The Milwaukee Journal newspaper.
From 1941 to 1971 lived at 7723 Stickney Avenue in Wauwatosa,
Wisconsin, retiring to Phoenix. He sufferred from psoriasis on his legs.
Video available (1985 Phoenix, CD only);
Video biography by his sister Alberta (2002 CD only)
- Dorathy Adele (Landis) McFarland, born 6 January 1913, in
Austin, Illinois (=Chicago), married 3 July 1936 to Thomas F.
McFarland in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, lived at
7723 Stickney Avenue in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin from 1941 to 1971, retiring to Phoenix
in 1972. Dorathy died about 4 PM Halloween, 31 October 2003 in the home of her
son Brian, where she lived since a stroke in 2000.
Videos available (CD only)
- Thomas Landis McFarland, born 21 March 1937 in Milwaukee Hospital on Vliet Street, married
Susan M. De Vos in Madison, Wisconsin, on 15 Feb 1985. Legally separated (but remaining married) on 5 December 2005.
As of October 2007, Math Professor at Univ. of Wisconsin in Whitewater. One daughter Diana
born 19 October 1986; an avid swimmer and author of this digital family album. Videos available (CD only)
- Patricia Adele McFarland, born 8 April 1939; worked as telephone operator in Cedarburg, Wisconsin,
and school teacher in Pueblo, Colorado; never married, no children; organized family photo
- Brian Douglas McFarland (father),
born 29 April 1949, eloped with Pat DeCaire at age sixteen, with whom he had two sons,
Timmy and Billy; married Pat at age 19, but soon divorced, and their sons were
largely raised by their mother, Pat. Married Susan Ann Lemirand on
6 April 1973. Brian and Sue (who had two kids, Randy and Laurie, by a previous marriage) then
moved to Tempe, Arizona, and later to Phoenix, raising a daughter Shelly. Brian has worked for
the Paradise Valley Police for many years. Brian and Sue divorced, Brian later marrying
Wanda (who died in 1995 leaving two children by her earlier marriage).
Brian and Sue remarried on 6 April 1997 and live in Phoenix. Brian cared for his mother, Dorathy, after she had a stroke
in 2001, but upon Dorathy's death in 2003, Brian failed to share Dorathy's estate, and as a
result, he has become estranged from his siblings.
- Brian Douglas McFarland, born 29 April 1949 in Milwaukee, married 3 times,
3 children, two sons (Bill and Tim) by his first wife, a daughter Shelly by his second wife; worked as radio announcer in Abilene, Texas, and police
officer in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Videos available (CD only)
- Lou Finkleman, married 1990, late in life, to Dorathy (Landis) McFarland, but divorced
about 1995 when diabetes forced him into hospitalization. Dorathy and Lou had no children
together, but Lou had children from an earlier marriage. Lou died about 1999.
