Jimmy D. McFarland was born on Nov. 23, 1938, at Breckenridge Hospital in Austin, Texas, to Hubert V. McFarland and Leona Pearl Simpson McFarland. He died on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015.
Jimmy spent his childhood in Austin, Leander, New Deal and Lubbock, Texas. Jimmy’s family moved to Mack, Colo., at the age of 14 in early 1953. He attended and was graduated from Fruita High School in 1958. After receiving his…