Athlete.
Born at Winnipeg on 6 August 1975 to Teresa “Terrie” and Ted Farr, he grew up in Vancouver and Winnipeg. He attended St. Thomas More Collegiate in Burnaby, British Columbia, and graduated from Oak Park High School in Winnipeg. He was an elite athlete in hockey and lacrosse. His minor hockey experience, Atom through Bantam, was as a New Westminster Royal in BC.
He finished midget with the Assiniboine Park Rangers in Winnipeg. But it was lacrosse that he loved and which took him on his journey. He learned to play Canada’s official national summer sport with the New Westminster Salmonbellies organization, and then played Junior A box lacrosse in both Winnipeg and Victoria. While in Winnipeg, he represented Manitoba in national competition five times as a member of the Junior A box lacrosse all-stars, where he was playing with and against adult men as a 16-year-old, and in field lacrosse in the under-19 and senior divisions.
He was not yet 18 when he made the roster of the Junior A Victoria Eagles. The BC Junior Lacrosse League produces some of the best players in the world. He was a lacrosse left-hander in a sport where goal-scoring lefties are highly valued. His high level of skill and achievement earned him the chance to play as an NCAA scholarship athlete at Limestone College in Gaffney, South Carolina. His name is in the Limestone Saints record book as the team’s top goal scorer for two seasons. He was honoured as a Deep South Conference all-star and was selected as a pre-season All American in his junior year.
He graduated from Limestone with a BSc degree. It was in South Carolina where he met and married his wife, Anna Allum. Employment opportunities took them to Baltimore, Maryland, where he entered a career in sales, for which he showed a natural affinity. He became a mortgage broker and eventually owned his own business in partnership with another former Limestone lacrosse player, Rob Jenkins.
He died suddenly at Baltimore, Maryland on 27 January 2008.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 2 February 2008.
“‘Tall’ Ted Farr,” Ted Farr Media.
This page was prepared by Lois Braun.
Page revised: 5 December 2024
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