{"id":836,"date":"2026-09-01T15:07:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/?p=836"},"modified":"2026-09-01T15:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:07:28","slug":"at-92-jamie-farr-looks-back-at-the-family-hes-lost-one-still-hits-especially-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/at-92-jamie-farr-looks-back-at-the-family-hes-lost-one-still-hits-especially-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"At 92, Jamie Farr Looks Back at the Family He\u2019s Lost \u2014 One Still Hits Especially Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For millions of television viewers, Jamie Farr will always be Corporal Klinger \u2014 the unforgettable\u00a0M*A*S*H<\/em>\u00a0character who could bring laughter to even the darkest moments at the 4077th.<\/p>\n

But behind the cameras, Farr found something even more lasting than television fame.<\/p>\n

He found a family.<\/p>\n

And after more than half a century, many members of that family are now gone.<\/p>\n

One loss, however, became especially personal:\u00a0Loretta Swit<\/strong>, the beloved actress who played Major Margaret Houlihan.<\/p>\n

Their friendship began almost by accident.<\/p>\n

Farr\u2019s first appearance on\u00a0M*A*S*H<\/em>\u00a0was originally supposed to be a\u00a0one-day job<\/strong>. Instead, Klinger became one of the show\u2019s most recognizable characters \u2014 and that first day also introduced Farr to a woman who would remain close to him for the rest of her life.<\/p>\n

After Swit\u2019s death at 87 in May 2025, Farr described her not simply as a former co-star, but as his\u00a0\u201cadopted sister.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said they were as close as family could be.<\/p>\n

Their first embrace on the\u00a0M*A*S*H<\/em>\u00a0set, Farr remembered, became the beginning of a\u00a0lifetime friendship<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And their bond went far beyond television.<\/p>\n

Swit once revealed that Farr became close to her mother as well. When her mother lived at the Motion Picture home, Farr would sometimes visit her without even telling Loretta.<\/p>\n

During the holidays, Swit\u2019s mother wanted to spend time at Jamie\u2019s house.<\/p>\n

Years after\u00a0M*A*S*H<\/em>\u00a0ended, Swit still described Farr as an extraordinary person and a very close friend.<\/p>\n

But perhaps the most touching detail came much later.<\/p>\n

Farr recalled that\u00a0on the night Swit died, he and his wife Joy spoke with her on the phone for about an hour<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

According to Farr, Loretta was happy during that conversation.<\/p>\n

They were even making plans to see each other again at a fan gathering in Tennessee that July.<\/p>\n

They never got that reunion.<\/p>\n

For Farr, memories like those have become increasingly precious.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0M*A*S*H<\/em>\u00a0family has lost numerous beloved members over the decades, including Harry Morgan, Wayne Rogers, David Ogden Stiers and William Christopher.<\/p>\n

Swit herself once reflected on those losses, saying that they had actually brought the surviving members closer because they understood how fragile life could be.<\/p>\n

Today, Farr carries those memories with him.<\/p>\n

He has said that memories are among a person\u2019s greatest treasures because\u00a0they remain with you<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For fans, Klinger and Major Houlihan will always be waiting somewhere in the 4077th whenever an old episode comes on.<\/p>\n

For Jamie Farr, however, Loretta Swit was never simply Major Houlihan.<\/p>\n

She was family.<\/p>\n

And more than 50 years after one unexpected day on the set of\u00a0M*A*S*H<\/em>\u00a0brought them together, that\u2019s the part of the story that mattered most.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For millions of television viewers, Jamie Farr will always be Corporal Klinger \u2014 the unforgettable\u00a0M*A*S*H\u00a0character who could bring laughter to even the darkest moments at the 4077th. But behind the cameras, Farr found something even more lasting than television fame. He found a family. And after more than half a century, many members of that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chua-phan-loai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}