Jamie Farr found happiness with his wife Joy Richards in a miraculous way and made his childhood dream come true after becoming a believer in God. He became one lucky man apart from his career and found love with a woman who stood by him long before he became a millionaire, when he was a nobody.
Jamie Farr is a veteran actor who was raised in a low-income family. His parents owned a small grocery store and had a solid marriage.
They instilled values in him that he carried well into adulthood. Farr recalled what he remembered about his mom and dad during a 2021 interview and the lessons they taught him.
Actor Jamie Farr as Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger on the CBS television sitcom, “M*A*S*H” on January 1, 1977 | Source: Getty Images
His parents were not only family-oriented, but they fed homeless people too. As they owned a business on the corner of Locust and North Ontario streets, the family patriarch would save the ends of cold cut to feed the hungry residents in their neighborhood. Farr explained during an October 2022 interview:
“In those days, you didn’t call them homeless – they were tramps or hobos – and they would stop in, and my dad would make them sandwich. They would ask if they could do anything in return, and my dad would say, ‘No that’s perfectly all right.'”
It was a harmonious neighborhood, and Farr felt lucky enough to have pals from that area in his old age. Moreover, growing up, the Ohio native dreamed of becoming an actor.
That childhood dream finally materialized in 1992 when he replaced actor Nathan Lane in the Broadway revival of “Guys and Dolls” as Nathan Detroit….CONTINUE READING