Assist with Woody Farris' Estate and Cremation

Hello, I never thought I'd have to be the 1 doing this, but here I am! My bio dad passed away Friday. I am the only child. He chose to not raise me. My mother took him for DNA but not until i was 13. At that time he was court ordered to pay child support. And boy was he proud to say he faithfully paid that $125 a month, (for 5 years) When i was about 24/25 i was contacted letting me know he had a stroke. My husband, children and I went to hospital to meet him.. He then never contacted me until his wife left him in about 2019 . He asked me to help him move to Illinois from Georgia. I was able to do that for him. Got him a 1 bedroom house 10 miles from me. Visited him a few times in 2019/2020... then ghosted again.... Im needing to raise funds to pay for cremation and lawyer fees to start the estate process... he only has a house worth about $10,000, and some nascar memorabilia. I can not sell those things until the estate part is done. I dont have much contact with any of his family. Only a step brother, mom and sister.. at this time, they have said they have no funds to help. So I'm asking if anyone can help no matter how small I would forever be greatful... if you can't help financially please share for me so I can try to get past this . Ill add the obituary i have for him. If you not comfortable sending funds here, they can be paid directly to funeral home. Airsmen-Hires Funeral home Roodhouse, Illinois

Managed to ghost permanently, on June 20th, 2025 after decades of dodging fatherhood like it was a debt collector. Hes officially checked out, no forwarding address... Woodys relationship with his only daughter was like a bad WIFI signal: weak, unreliable. And mostly nonexistent.

Leslie (Woody) Woodrow Farris died on June 20, 2025, after a lifetime of showing up exactly as little as possible. He perfected the art of absence—physically, emotionally, and morally—leaving behind a trail of missed birthdays, broken promises, and silence where there should have been support.

I am the woman I am today because he was absent. His neglect forced me to become my own hero, to build strength out of abandonment, and to teach myself the love and care he never gave. Where he failed to show up, I learned how to stand tall.

He was not the father I needed, nor the man I deserved. But his failure became my fuel, and his absence my harshest teacher.

Thank you to my stepdad, who chose to be a father every day — for the love, the guidance, and the presence that Woody never offered. Your care gave me what I truly needed, and for that, I am forever grateful.

There will be no memorial service—because he would have found a way to miss that too.

Goodbye, Woody...

You vanished in life, and now forever.

He is survived by his only child Jennifer Cox Meza spouse Jeremiah their children Kaylene Anthony Deskovich, Jeremiah Meza, Cheyenne Ernest Sprague, and Alexis Alyiah Curry, and 11 Great Grandchildren, a Brother Sean Farris, a sister June Robinson, his mother Martha Hood, and father Lesie Farris. who continue onward, shaped not just by his absence, but by the strength they found within themselves.