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his older brothers – Junior,
George, and Ed – dropped
Bud Lovell out of school in 7th, 8th,

and 9th grades, they each
served their country. Junior
A Song in and George were in WWII.
They all later became career
firemen. Bud teared up
His Heart remembering Ed and spoke
fondly of his only sister,
Mary Katherine.

The storyteller doesn’t mind
by Jane Bromley name-dropping if it will
enhance his presentation.
“Pat Boone grew up in
t Senior Link, we like to say build a fire in the wood stove to Nashville, too. He was
everyone has a story. Arthur cook.” An outhouse was necessary friends with my brother-in-law.”
AFrancis “Bud” Lovell has for the family of seven because After graduation from North
a LOT of stories. And every story indoor plumbing was not available. Nashville High School, and a month
reminds him of another story. In Clarence eventually bought a or two at Belmont College, Bud
fact, his reservoir of stories is rivaled grocery store which had been added enlisted in the Marines. His basic
only by his repertoire of vintage to the front of a five-room house. “It training was at Parris Island, SC,
songs. Like a minstrel, he's likely to had a bathtub AND a commode.” where he was trained as a company
burst into song at any time in the clerk – like Radar O’Reilly on the TV
middle of regaling his audience, Bud’s mother died when he was series M.A.S.H. He enjoyed working
and, at 85, he still has a remarkable 11. His dad remarried, but his as a typist in HQ Company, HQ
voice. In addition, his recollection is second wife died giving birth to Battalion, Second Marine Division,
so vivid, and he gets so immersed Bud’s half-sister. He married again Camp Lejeune, NC and achieved the
in his memories, that laughter, and spent 30 years in the Nashville rank of corporal.
tears, and hand gestures frequently Fire Department. “I usually hung
punctuate his spoken words. out (unsupervised) with the “When I got out of the
neighborhood boys. I was not Marines, I returned to Belmont,
Bud was born in 1936 in Nashville inclined to get into trouble, but I
to Clarence and Gertrude Lovell, didn't go to the church that our
the youngest of five siblings. He mother used to take us to.”
grew up in North Nashville in a
little three-room house. “We called The family was not wealthy, but
it ‘Hoodlum Hollow’. There was they were close, and Bud is very
no cookstove, so Mom had to proud of his siblings. Even though

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