10/23/1994
Warden Charles Farquar State Cattle Ranch, Alabama Alabama Department of Corrections Warden Charles Farquhar and Mrs. Charles (Doris) Farquhar of the Charles A. Farquhar State Cattle Ranch in Greensboro, Alabama were murdered on October 23, 1994 by an inmate who broke into the Farquhars’ home on the Cattle Ranch grounds and afterward set fire to the house. In 1990, Warden Farquhar was honored with the Billy Max Moore Award from the National Association of Institutional Agribusiness. This award was in recognition of Warden Farquhar’s many accomplishments and achievements in a career of nearly four decades of service to the Alabama DOC. Respecting the State Cattle Ranch in particular, Warden Farquhar had managed and supervised the Ranch, a minimum security facility, since 1956 and turned it into a profitable, efficiently-run producer of catfish and high quality commercial cattle. Mrs. Farquhar was the clerk at the Ranch, of which it was said in the letter nominating her husband for the Billy Max Moore Award, “Due to the caliber of its operations and the ever immaculate conditions of its buildings and grounds, the Ranch is considered by many a model operation and showplace for the Alabama penal system. As such, Mr. Farquhar frequently hosts tours of government and university officials from state, national and international levels.” Robbie Farqhuar, one of two surviving sons, became a CPO Foundation Representative in 1995. Robbie covers the general Southern and Southeastern areas of the country for the Foundation, and is largely responsible for the achievement of payroll deduction for the CPO Foundation in Florida, Louisiana and Kentucky.