George Farmer’s family moved from Virginia to Saint Petersburg Florida in 1925, where he graduated from Saint Petersburg High School in 1936, and then attended Saint Petersburg Junior College, and Florida Southern College. He was ordained a Southern Baptist minister at Mirror Lake Christian Church in 1939. He moved to Texas where he pastored the Polytechnic Christian Church of Fort Worth, while doing graduate study at Texas Christian University. In 1943 he entered military service and was commissioned a U.S. Army chaplain. After attending the Chaplain’s School at Harvard University, he was assigned as a chaplain for the 95th Infantry Division, arriving in France in July 1944. While serving as chaplain, he was renown for establishing a “cussing fund,” where soldiers were fined a penny for each profanity uttered, with the money going to buy sacks and food for the troops. He returned to Florida and ministered in several churches there, with a brief absence when he served again as a chaplain during the Korean War. For three decades he taught in Pinellas Schools, and also taught psychology at Saint Petersburg and Seminole high schools, and was a guidance counselor at Tyrone Middle School until his retirement in 1975.