Muriel Mure Farber was born January 17, 1916 in Beemer, Nebraska to Hiley Holmes and Annetta Jensen Holmes. Her parents homesteaded west of Crook, Colorado when she was a little girl. She was the third of nine children. Later the family located in Sterling, Colorado because they could not make a living on the dry land farm. Muriel graduated from high school in Hillrose, Colorado in 1934 and soon after she married Lester Wind of Brush, Colorado. After Lester passed away in 1965, Muriel found employment in cooking at a dude ranch in Wickenberg, Arizona and then sewing for a drapery shop in Oakland, California. Then she moved to Fort Collins, Colorado where she lived with her sister-in-law and worked in Food Services at Colorado State University. She met and married Les Farber in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1980. They built a home in Lowman, Idaho where they lived for the next 18 years. When Les passed away in 1998, Muriel moved back to Sterling, Colorado where she lived until 2011. She spent the last three years of her life in Eben Ezer Lutheran Care Center in Brush, Colorado.

Muriel is preceded in death by her parents, two husbands, her brothers LeRoy, Bob, and Bill Holmes and her sisters Mildred Runsteder, Jean Boyce, Ferne Sandstead. She is survived by her brother Dick Holmes of Brush and her sister Irene Siefried of Farmington, New Mexico. She is also survived by her cousins Jim Jenson of Ankeny, Iowa and Cleo Jean also of Iowa.

Muriel was never able to have children, but she helped raise many of her younger siblings. She worked hard and faced life with a positive attitude, simply doing what needed to be done. She loved her extended family and generously helped many of them in times of need. Her sharp memory until the end of her life helped recall the long history of her family during the last century. She will be deeply missed.

Funeral services will held at the Eben Ezer Lutheran Chapel in Brush, Colorado at 10 am on Friday, September 18, 2015, with interment at Brush Memorial Cemetery.