James Stuart "Stuart" McFarland1
M, #10259, b. 27 March 1933, d. about 2015
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BASIC FACTS
James Stuart "Stuart" McFarland was born on 27 March 1933 in Dalton, Whitfield Co., Georgia.1 He and Frances Harris "Bitsy" McLellan were married on 27 July 1957.1 He died about 2015.2 James Stuart "Stuart" McFarland had reference number 10527. OBITUARY - Love Funeral Home (https://www.lovefuneralhomega.com/obituary/3025058)
Mr. James Stuart McFarland, 82, of Dalton passed away Saturday, April 4, 2015.
Stuart was born in Dalton in 1933, the son of the late Judge James A. and Gertrude McFarland (Jolly). Stuart was educated in the Dalton Public School System and at Emory University where he received a bachelor’s degree in Geology, was a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and sang in the Emory Glee Club. As a boy and as an adult, Stuart was a very gung ho Boy Scout and he became one of the earliest Eagle Scouts from Troop 60 where he served as Senior Patrol Leader and was awarded the first District Scout of the Year Award. As an adult, he received the Silver Beaver Award (the Boy Scout’s highest adult award) and the Boy Scout Leadership Award. He was a member of The Order of the Arrow and the Camp Sidney Dew Alumni Association. Stuart served on the District Board of the Northwest Ga. Council BSA for 40 plus years.
Shortly after the Korean War, Stuart spent two interesting years in the US Army (CIC) serving his country.
Stuart was the President, General Manager and Chairman of the Board of the Dalton Beverage Company, a company begun by his grandfather Frank Manly and his grandfather-in-law J.G. McLellan, until the company was sold to Eagle Rock in 2008. During his business career in Dalton he was the President of the Dalton Whitfield Chamber of Commerce, President and Chairman of the Board of the Georgia Beer Wholesalers Association, a member of the Dalton Rotary Club, where he was a Paul Harris and Will Watt Fellow, a Friendship House Board Member, a Salvation Army Board Member, and a member of the Kiwanis Club where he received the Distinguished Service Award for instigating the Scouting For Food Organization in Dalton. The Scouting for Food was an Anheuser Bush project which was started across the nation by the AB distributers.
Stuart was a member of the First Methodist Church where he sang in the Chancel Choir from the time he was 15 years old to the present time and he was a member of the Sounds of Joy older adult choir. He served on the Official Board of the church and on various church committees.
He is survived by his wife, Frances (Bitsy) McFarland; son, James Stuart McFarland, Jr. and his wife Carol of Dalton; daughters, Linda M. Pearse and her husband Robert of Saratoga, CA and Mary Stuart M. Wagner and her husband Brian of Clayton, NC; sister, Gertrude “Tut” McFarland of Dalton; and 6 grandchildren, Jim and Mary Pearse, Lee and Victoria McFarland, and Anna and Mark Wagner.
Services for Stuart will be Wednesday at 2:00 PM at the First United Methodist Church with Dr. Robin Lindsey officiating.
The family will receive friends an hour before the service in the atrium of the Church from 1 until 2 PM.
The family asks that flowers please be omitted and memorials made to one of the following: The Boy Scouts of America, PO Box 1422 Rome GA, Friendship House PO Box 794 Dalton GA 30722-0794, FUMC Saturday Sacks, 500 S. Thornton Ave. Dalton GA 30720 or the charity of your choice.
Words of comfort may be sent to the family at www.lovefuneralhomega.com.
Citations
- [S5329] Genealogy prepared by Bitsy (McLellan) McFarland, Source Medium: Book
- [S3179] Conversation with Frances Harris "Bitsy" (McLellan) McFarland 2019-09-01