C. Sims Farr ’42

C. Sims Farr, a prominent attorney, died of cancer Dec. 11, 2007.

Sims graduated from Kent School and attended Princeton for two years before beginning officers’ training in the Navy. In 1941 he was on convoy duty escorting supply ships from Iceland to England when the destroyer ahead of his ship was sunk by a German torpedo, the first American ship lost in World War II. Later he received a commendation for meritorious conduct during the invasion of France.

At the end of the war, Sims separated as a lieutenant commander and attended Columbia Law School. After graduation he joined the firm of White & Case, where he practiced for more than 40 years, specializing in wills and trusts.

Sims was active in the not-for-profit sector. He chaired the Commonwealth Fund and served on the board of the Wildlife Conservation Society and the board of visitors of Columbia Law School. He also was counsel to the General Theological Seminary and chancellor to the presiding Episcopal bishop.

Sims’ first wife, Mary Randolph Rue, died in 1980. He then married Muriel Tobin Byrnes, who survives him. To her, his sons, C. Sims Jr., Randolph, and John ’81; his daughter, Virginia Ramsey; four stepchildren; 11 grandchildren; and seven step-grandchildren; the class sends its sympathy.