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Name: Joseph S. Bonsall (or Joe, Honey, Joey, Ban-Joey, Daddy, PopPop, one “of the”… I answer to ALL)
Birthday: May 18, 1948
Family: Wife, Mary Ann; daughters, Sabrina and Jennifer; hard-working sons-in-law, Mark and Dan and grandchildren, Breanne (16) and Luke (12)
Hometown: Born in Philadelphia...have lived in Middle Tennessee since 1973
What I Do: Sanger, writer, half-baked banjo player
Websites: josephsbonsall.com / oakridgeboys.com
FAVES
Bible Verse: John 3:16, Phil 4:13, Psalms 33:3
Song: “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus,” “I Love To Tell the Story,” “Never Hurts To Hurt”
Movie: The Godfather, Saving Private Ryan
TV Show: “The Closer”
Magazine: Sports Illustrated, National Review, Macworld and Banjo Newsletter
Leisure Activity: Working on my farm and picking banjo
FINISH THESE SENTENCES
My idea of true happiness is...
being surrounded by family.
If I were given a million dollars to spend frivolously...
Frivolously? I’d build a new house on a hill at my farm…and buy more guns and banjos!
I was never more afraid than when...
I almost drowned as a kid.
The greatest miracle I have ever witnessed or experienced was...
BIRTH!
The hardest I ever laughed was...
Too hard to answer—I laugh every day. My tongue is ALWAYS firmly implanted in my cheek.
If I could live anywhere else in the world it would be...
It would take a burning bush experience to drag me away from Middle Tennessee!
The worst trouble I ever got into when I was a child was...
gang fights and coming home bleeding. I once also got arrested for breaking a store window with a brick.
God first became a reality in my life...
at age 15 when I accepted Jesus Christ into my heart as a personal Savior. I really needed that change!
I would like my epitaph to say...
He loved his family and his God…the land, his banjo and the Oak Ridge Boys.
To me, a perfect day would be...
to wake up early, take a long walk, sit by the creek and pick a little banjo, then dinner with family, umm…then watch a Phillies game.
The best advice I ever received was...
“You can be anything you want to be if you honor God, tell the truth and work your behind off... that is what America is all about; and many guys like your father paid the price and sacrificed so that you can do just that!” — from my mom, Lillie Bonsall
My favorite sound of all is...
birds singing.
If I could pick my “last meal” it would be...
a great steak cooked medium rare, some freshly caught tuna sashimi and a New York PIZZA!
My best quality and my worst quality are...
Best? I am a good friend. Worst? I can be a bit bull-headed and set in my ways.
My motto for life is…
See my mother’s advice above!
