960 Heritage Way Brentwood, TN 37027 Phone: (615) 376-0102 Center Hours: 8:30a.m-3:30p.m
July 2019
Martin Member Bill Farmer I was born in West Palm Beach Florida. I went to a Catholic school and played football, basketball, and baseball in high school. After I graduated I joined the Navy in 1950. I went to bootcamp at the Great Lakes; took a train to San Francisco; and a ship to Japan and I was stationed at N.A.S at Atsugi. When I got there the Navy was working on forming a football team in Japan. They found out I use to play and was pretty good and invited me to try out. Two other guys and I tried out and we all three made the team. I played (Found in picture: Bill (left) His Grandson ,the mascot, (right) three games and got hurt on the fourth game. Needless to say, that was the end of my Navy football career. After one year in Japan, I went aboard the aircraft carrier Kersarge. Three of us from Atsugi went aboard to help on revamping their supply system. We serviced the aircraft that came in from Korea. I then went on to join the salvage team. This meant that when a plane crashed we would come in and crate the parts up and send them back to the United States. After Japan I was stationed at NAS North Island in San Diego. Five years after I got out of the Navy I got married in West Palm Beach to a pretty little girl from Maine, Mona. We were married five months after we met. We had two sons; Bill Jr. and Fred. Bill Jr. had two children Monica and Nicholas. I went into the Plumbing Supply business with my father. We ran the business for 34 years and then sold it to a larger company. I retired and played golf and my back went bad and I could not play golf anymore. My wife died five years ago. When my son and my daughter-in-law Vickie said “...let’s move to Nashville” I said “okay let’s go.” As I drove around Brentwood I kept seeing a sign that said “Senior Center.” I came by, and drove around and checked it out, but I did not go in. One day I thought to myself, “You need to do something. You need to get up and do something else.” So I came back. When I did, I came inside and I met Jessica; she was so nice. I joined and the first thing I did was play pool with the guys. They