JULIA LOU PRINCE

Julia Lou Prince, age 75, Holden, Mo., passed away Monday, July 26, 2010, at St. Luke's Medical Center, Kansas City, Mo. She was born Feb. 1, 1935, in Columbia, Mo., the daughter of Bryce and Lou Ella (Waters) McFarland. She graduated from Holden High School in 1952 and lived in the Kansas City area most of her life until returning to Holden and Kingsville in 1996. Julia sewed for a drapery factory and later worked as a nursing home nutritionist. The past nine years she was a cashier at Price Chopper in Lee's Summit. On Jan. 28, 1988, she married Wendell Austin Prince in Blue Springs. He preceded her in death Feb. 20, 2005. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Anthony Krieger, and a son, Donald R. Ferris, Sr. She leaves one son, Bryce Edward Ferris, Tonganoxie, Kan.; four daughters, Barbara Gregory, Leeton, Mo., Linda McConville and husband Randy, Kingsville, Mo., Kathy Reynolds and husband Rusty, Lee's Summit, and Tammy Siebrandt, Claflin, Kan.; two brothers, Robert B. McFarland, Holden, and Ray McFarland, Raytown, Mo.; 15 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. Funeral services 10 a.m. Friday, July 30, at Ben Cast & Son-Wood Funeral Home, Holden. Interment in Mount St. Mary's Cemetery, Kansas City. Friends may call 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, at the funeral home.