Rita Ann (Lansdown) Farrell passed on June 9, 2020 was born May 12, 1956 to John and Lelia (Branson) Lansdown in Springfield, Missouri. She was preceded in death by her father John and her younger sister Terry. She is survived by her mother Lelia, her husband Kirk and only daughter Jessica Stiles husband Lawrence and 3 granddaughters Averi, Emeri and Norah along with lots of other family members and a host of friends who loved her dearly. She has been described as the glue of the family multiple times by family members. While Rita had worked different jobs ranging from GM of McDonald’s to reading meters for Carroll Electric and Nixa City Utilities ending with the USPS as a Postal worker. She worked hard at any job she ever had to make a good life for herself and her daughter Jessica. She sometimes would work two jobs at a time to make sure she was able to provide for her daughter as it was just the two of them for several years after her divoce from her first husband, James Stiles Jr. Rita loved being outside doing anything from hiking and collecting rocks to doing yard and caring for many plants and flowers she had around the home she shared with her second husband Kirk. Rita and Kirk had a house built in Spokane, MO in early 2000. She also loved anything to do with water. Whether that be skiing at Table Rock Lake when she was younger standing on her two older brothers’ shoulders or swimming. She and Kirk loved a good adventure going floating with friends or kayaking just the two of them. Rita and Kirk both had a love of traveling as well. They were drawn to the more tropical places immediately, spending time every year for 10 years in a row in the Florida Keys and moving up to traveling to Hawaii as they got older, spending over a month’s amount of time on the islands there in the 3 times they went. Rita was a light that shined bright in a dull world and she will be greatly missed by anyone who’s life she ever touched. She would definitely want everyone to find some comfort in knowing she passed doing something she loved.