Sara W. McFarland passed from this life on January 14, 2023 at her home with her husband at her side.

Sara is currently telling the angels to move over because she is gonna sing.

Sara Schwartz was born to Peter M and Mary S Schwartz, along with her twin brother Jacob, Sara was the eldest of 15 children and was born near Geneva Indiana on Feb, 20, 1946. Sara was born to an Amish Family and was one of the few young Amish ladies who attended public school. She was able to attend through the ninth grade, before she was taken from school to help with the family responsibilities. Sara later completed her GED which she passed on her very first attempt at the test, after which she helped teach other students who were studying for their GED tests.

January 2, 1968, At the age of 22 Sara moved from Geneva, to Seymour Missouri and was among the first Amish Families to settle in the Seymour Missouri area. Several years later Sara left the Amish Community, and Attended the Seymour Beauty Academy in Seymour where she learned the art of hair dressing, and worked on a farm milking cows for the Grisham Farm near Houston Missouri, Brown Shoe in Mountain Grove, and Emerson Electric in Ava Missouri and was a cook at the Little House Restaurant, and other local restaurants in the area.

Sara was married to Elza Gene McFarland on February 18, 2017 and lived in the Macomb and Mansfield area. She attended Happy Home Freewill Baptist Church where she was a special blessing to the church singing specials and helping to keep all the other people in church lined out. Sara was the person that was there to give a hug to all who were in the church, giving love and inspiration to all who might be in attendance.

Sara was saved at a revival in Ava Missouri, after which she started attending Happy Home Freewill Baptist Church, and she was baptized at Lead Hill Freewill Baptist Church. She met her Husband at Happy Home church where she spent the happiest years of her life.

Sara was preceded in death by both of her parents and brothers Joseph, Aaron, Amos, Emanuel, and Johnnie. She was also preceded in death by sister Leah.

Sara is survived by her husband of the home in Mansfield and brothers Peter, Christian and Sammy also sisters Maggie, Mary, Fannie, Josephine and Elizabeth a well as a multitude of nieces nephews cousins and friends and special friend, Sheila Bell.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, January 20, 2023 at Clinkingbeard Funeral Home in Ava, MO. Visitation will be Friday morning from 9 a.m. to service. Burial will be in the Hensley Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to "Loving the least of these" and can be left at the funeral home.