Daisy P. Farrow

DAISY PARK FARROW – 96, died early Saturday morning January 19, the result of a stroke suffered six hours earlier at her home in Arlington, VA. Dee, to family and friends, was a native of Korea born in Pyongyang March 2, 1916. Since Korea was then a Japanese territory, she learned that language in early grade school levels in addition to her native Korean, but she spent later grade levels and high school in China where her father served as a Korean Presbyterian missionary in villages near Qingdao in Shantung Provence, then an area in the twilight of China’s warlord period. She came to America in 1937 on a student visa and in 1942 graduated from Arthur Jordan Conservatory in Indianapolis, IN with a degree in music composition. Her language skills brought her immediately to Washington, DC where she spent the remainder of World War II employed at the Pentagon in military intelligence translating Japanese maps, source materials and captured documents. After the War she returned to her musical training and taught private piano lessons in the Washington suburbs, with up to fifty piano students each week.

She is survived by her husband Richard P. Farrow, daughters Jean Anderson and C. Lynn Farrow, one granddaughter, three grandsons, and six great grandchildren.

Visitation for family and friends Friday, January 25 Murphy Funeral Home 4510 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA 22203.

In lieu of flowers please consider donations to Walker Chapel United Methodist Church 4102 Glebe Road Arlington, VA 22207-4529.