Marsha Farney

Marsha Lane Hatley Farney (born December 15, 1958) is a businesswoman and former educator from Georgetown, Texas, who has been since 2013 a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 20, based in Burnet and Milam counties and a portion of northern Williamson County, a suburb of Austin in the central portion of the state.

Background

Early years

Farney is the daughter of Hurshell Hartford Hatley (born c. 1925) and the former Shirley June Abney (born 1934) of Temple, Texas, formerly of Paris in Lamar County in northeastern Texas. Hurshell Hatley was a reserve police officer on duty in Dallas on November 22, 1963, the day of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the wounding of Governor John B. Connally, Jr. Hatley was near the grassy knoll of Dealey Plaza in Dallas where some have claimed that a second shooter actually fired the fatal shot at the president. At one point during the motorcade, Hatley was called upon to assist officers when Lee Harvey Oswald was brought into custody for the fatal shooting of both President Kennedy and the city patrolman J. D. Tippit. In the aftermath of Kennedy's death, when word spread that a police officer had also been shot, Mrs. Hatley feared that the other victim was her husband, rather than Tippit.