WEST PARIS – Stanley G. Farrar of 15 Littlehale Road, West Paris, died at Ledgeview Living Center on May 1, after a full and wonderful life.

He was born in West Paris on Oct. 5, 1919, the son of Hezekiah Stoddard and Margaret Ross Farrar. At age 8, after the death of his father, and the marriage of his mother to Charles Keith, the family moved to Bryant Pond, where he graduated from Woodstock High School in 1937.

In January 1942, less than two months after Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. During World War II, he was in the first wave of Marines on Guadalcanal and later participated in the battle of Cape Gloucester, New Britain Islands.

Both before and after the war, Stan was known locally for his skill as a baseball player.

In 1933, while playing for the Woodstock town team, he was involved in a tournament against the Worumbo Indians after which he was picked as an All-Maine star for his errorless play at third base and his .585 batting average.

After the war, he played one season as a pitcher for the Geneva New York Redbirds, a Boston Red Sox farm team. In 1995, he was inducted into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame.

Though he could have played another season for the Redbirds, he returned to Bryant Pond in 1947 to accept the position of postmaster. He served in that position for 30 years. In 1977, he retired to care for his elderly mother. After his mother’s death, he married Helen Farrar on Jan. 27, 1983.

He is survived by his wife of 25 years, Helen, of West Paris; stepsons, Gary Farrar and his companion, Liz, of Modesto, Calif., and Timothy Farrar and his wife, Beverly, of West Paris; stepdaughter, Cathy Corbett and her husband, James, of Oxford; sister-in-law, Iva Farrar of Bryant Pond; niece, Diane York and her husband, Clifford, of Bryant Pond; seven stepgrandchildren; six stepgreat-grandchildren; two grandnieces and their three children.

He was predeceased by his parents; and his brother, James.