JOHN FARRELL grew up, lived and died in the Bronx. He entered St. Joseph's Seminary (Dunwoodie) in Yonkers to become a priest c.1938. Due to his mother's poor health, he resigned the seminary and did not become a priest. When John went to register for World War II, he was given the routine medical examination. He was told by the Army doctors that he had a bad heart and that not only was he not being accepted into the Army, he should go home and rest as he would not be long for this world. It seems that John had rheumatic fever as a child and it affected his heart. He did live to the age of 75. 

John resided with his mother and most of the clan on Teller Avenue, in St. Angela Merici's Parish in the South Bronx. He was very active in the parish, being a member of many parish groups, including the Usher's Society. John decided to take a vacation to the Catskill Mountains in the summer of 1955. His mother died January 9 of the previous year. He joined his sister and other members of his family who were vacationing at The Thompson House, in Windham New York. There he met and later married Alice Jackson who was on vacation with her aunts. Her father had died a few months earlier.   

JOHN HENRY FARRELL married  ALICE FRANCES JACKSON, on June 30, 1956 in St. Angela Merici RC Church, Bronx, NY. 

Children of ALICE JACKSON and JOHN FARRELL are: