Debra Ann Farwell

Debra Ann Farwell
October 29, 1953 – August 11, 2018

Deb was a woman who embodied love, light, kindness, and generosity of the soul. Deeply spiritual, she was a woman of endless heart, enormous intellect and equally enormous talent. Some people are beings of positive energy and grace that touch you and make the world an immensely better place to be. Deb Farwell made everything around her better, richer, warmer, kinder. She brought unconditional love to her husband of 25 years, Jonathan Farwell, and opened her heart and her arms to her sister Kathy Notarangelo, stepdaughters Alison Garrigan and Elisabeth Farwell-Moreland, and her grandchildren, Christopher Mitchell and Jessica Moreland. Deb was grace personified, keeping about her a beatific joy and calm that made this last, long journey with ovarian cancer one that became one of betterment for all whom she touched, rather than one of sadness and grief. In Deb's own words—No fears. No regrets. Deeply loved by all who knew her, her legacy of heart and hope will live on always in anyone who came within space of her smile.

Deb attended Stanford University before pursuing a singing career with her LA-based band Chameleon, and holding jobs with Bullock's in Sherman Oaks, Atari, and Gallo Wines in Modesto, California. Deb had a love of performing and singing, which she parlayed into a vibrant career on the stage. Two of her favorite roles included Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, and Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors. She met her future husband, Jonathan in 1994 when they met and performed together in the first of three productions of Shadowlands at Columbia Actors' Rep in California. They married onstage a year later, in 1995, when they reprised the production in Ashland, OR. Once in the Fort Collins area, Deb became a beloved performing and directing presence for many years with such theatres as Bas Bleu Theatre, Midtown Arts Dinner Theatre, OpenStage Theatre, and Pop Up Theatre, often working alongside her equally beloved husband, Jonathan. Her skilled work will be remembered here for such diverse roles as Sylvia in Sylvia, The Fool in King Lear, and Maria Callas in Master Class.

Deb requested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Talespinner Children's Theatre, at www.talespinnerchildrenstheatre.org

A memorial service will be held at 6pm on Wednesday, September 19, 2018 at the Lincoln Center, 417 W. Magnolia St., Fort Collins, CO 8052. Doors open at 5:30pm.

https://www.coloradoan.com/story/life/2018/08/14/saying-goodbye-deb-note-farwell-force-fort-collins-theater/987734002/

https://www.denvercenter.org/the-death-of-deb-note-farwell-a-drop-rejoins-the-ocean/