RAYMOND FARLEY SALMON Jr.

Oxford - Raymond Farley Salmon, Jr., 88, life-long resident of Coahoma County, MS, died June 7, 2015, at the Mississippi State Veterans Home in Oxford, MS. Born November 20, 1926, Farley was the son of Raymond Farley Salmon and Alma Bell Black Salmon. He grew up in Coahoma, MS, and graduated from Clarksdale (MS) High School at mid-term in 1945 in an accelerated class designed for students who wished to enlist in the military during World War II. He served in the Army Air Corps. Farley graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1949, where he was a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity, the Mortar Board and the M-Club. He was a member of the Ole Miss football team as a halfback in 1946 and 1947 and as quarterback under Coach John Vaught in 1948. Farley became the SEC’s first split-T quarterback in 1948, and led his team to an 8-1 record. He also lettered in basketball. In 1993, he was inducted into the Ole Miss Athletic Hall of Fame and into the Clarksdale/Coahoma County Sports Hall of Fame in 2014. He married the former Stella Caroline Connell of Clarksdale in 1951. He founded Salmon Sales Company, an agricultural chemical business in Clarksdale and was later a sales executive with Display Sales of Minneapolis, MN. At the time of his retirement, Farley was director of Sunflower Landing in Clarksdale, a substance abuse treatment center for adolescents. Farley was a communicant of St. George’s Episcopal Church in Clarksdale, where he served as a vestry member, Senior Warden, lay reader, and Eucharistic lay minister. He was a past-president of the Clarksdale Chamber of Commerce and a member of the American Legion. In addition to his wife of 64 years, he is survived by three children, Terre Sullivant (Henry) of Memphis, TN, Farley “Fel” Salmon, III of Jackson, MS, Caroline Mayo (Cal) of Oxford, MS; eight grand-children, Connell Sullivant NeSmith (Eric) of Athens, GA, Henry “Hank” Sullivant (Daisy) of Athens, GA, Farley Salmon, IV (Suzanna) of Atlanta, GA, Bryant Salmon of Jackson, MS, Virginia, William, Callie and Thomas Mayo of Oxford, MS; and three great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and his brother, William Thomas (Billy) Salmon. Visitation will be in the parish hall at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Clarksdale, Wednesday, June 10 at 12:30 p.m. A memorial service will follow at St. George’s Church at 2 p.m. Memorials may be made to St. George’s Episcopal Church in Clarksdale, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Oxford, the Ole Miss Athletics Foundation in Oxford, or to the charity of the donor’s choice. Waller Funeral Home (662)234-7971