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In 1922, John married Charlotte C. Geyer, who was residing in Orange, [[New Jersey]]. Their son John T. Ferris Jr. was born in Detroit (1924), but shortly afterwards the family relocated to Dearborn, then to Bloomfield, N.J., then to Harrisburg, PA where the elder John was working as an architect on state government buildings, then back to New York to help with the design of the double-decked suspension George Washington Bridge, which was opened in 1931, and connects Washington Heights, Manhattan, N.Y. with Fort Lee, N.J. That bridge was the longest main bridge span in the world until the Golden Gate Bridge was opened in 1937, according to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Bridge GWB wiki].
Then the family relocated within Westchester County to Crestwood, N.Y., then to Ardsley, N.Y. when John Jr. was starting high school, then to Hastings-on-the-Hudson where he served three years as captain of the baseball team, and a catcher, coached by Cochrane, who also oversaw the football team where John Tserved as a center. Ferris Switzer, Jrthe math teacher also served as an assistant coach, he and John attempted to start a hockey team, he also played tennis. enlisted John was called into active duty in the U.S. Army Air Corps while a senior at right after graduating from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings_High_School_(New_York) Hastings High School] in New York. He remained trained in service Albany, GA on a Stearman Boeing PT-17 for a couple months, then to what would become the UGreenwood, MS (two hours south of Memphis) for [https://military-history.Sfandom. Air Force throughout WWIIcom/wiki/Greenwood%E2%80%93Leflore_Airport basic flying school], the Korean conflictthen to Napier Field in Dothan, and Vietnam, and would be honorably discharged earning the rank of Major. During WWIIAL to fly T-6's in training as a fighter pilot, but he flew was instead assigned as a B-24 Liberator thru 15 aeronautic bomb runsbomber pilot. While in In the serviceFall of 1944, he taught 1952-1954 in Oxfordtransferred near Springfield, [[Ohio]] at MA to [https://miamiohen.eduwikipedia.org/ Miami Universitywiki/Westover_Air_Reserve_Base Westover Field]to train on flying B-24's, and then was an early instructor transferred in MontgomeryApril of 1945 to Naples, [[Alabama]] 1954-1961 at and stationed in [https://wwwen.airuniversitywikipedia.af.eduorg/wiki/ Air UniversityLecce Lecce] on Maxwell Air Force Base, Italy.
His first combat mission was in Vienna with the 98th Bomb Group with several B-24's in groups of threes, and the first two groups were shot down, and he flew the lead plane in the third group which was spared. Ultimately he did fifteen aeronautic bomb runs out of Italy. Then he flew two missions with the 465th Bomb Group before WWII ended, his last mission was April 25, 1945. He served 22 more years, being recalled and restationed throughout the world including the Korean Conflict, and was stationed in Germany until 1952-1954 where he served as an instructor in Oxford, [[Ohio]] at [https://miamioh.edu/ Miami University], and was then an early instructor in Montgomery, [[Alabama]] 1954-1961 at [https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/ Air University] on Maxwell Air Force Base, then served in the Vietnam War, being eventually honorably discharged in 1968 as a Major. After WWII ended, on Sept. 10, 1946 at Taylor, [[Texas]], John married Betty Annette Allgood (b. 1924 Plainview, Hale, TX), a daughter of Henry Arnold Allgood (b. 1900 Forestburg/Stoneburg, TX - d. 1984 Jasper, TX) & Lucile Ballard Allgood (b. 1898 Killeen, TX - d. 1982 Tulia, Swisher, TX). At the time of Annette's birth, Henry was employed in Lockney, TX as a teacher. In the latter part of 1946, John Sr. and his wife Charlotte tired of NYC life, and removed to upstate New York, to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva,_New_York Geneva].
He and his family was commended by Gallion Bible Chapel in [[Alabama]] to the Lord's work in South Korea in 1970, and subsequently to open brethren (OB) assemblies in Dallas, [[Texas]], including Glenview Bible Chapel (North Richland Hills, TX), founded in 1968, which was formerly known as Meadowbrook East Bible Chapel, and subsequent to 1984 known as Summerfield Community Chapel, then in homes. John was then the primary founder of Believers Bible Chapel in Lewisville, founded in 1994, now known as [https://elbiblechapel.org/ Edmonds Lane Bible Chapel].
In 1996, John remarried Edna Elizabeth Cutler Aaron (b. 1933 - d. 2022), who was previously married in 1955 to Waldo Aaron, associate director of Wycliffe Bible Translators, serving the Lord in Brazil where they had been since 1961. In 1970, two months prior to a planned promotion to a director, Waldo was killed in an auto accident in Brazil, leaving his widow with two small children. In spite of the death of Waldo and John, Edna continued in faithful service with Wycliffe, and Wheatland Bible Chapel in Texas, where one of John's son-in-laws served in the late 1980's as an elder. She was promoted to Glory on Jan. 27, 2022 at the age of 88.
John T. Ferris Sr., had another son, Robert Haldane Ferris, born in 1926 in Dearborn. He retired A year after John entered the Air Corps, Robert entered the Navy and went to Dartmouth in the B-12 program, and was stationed with Admiral Bird in 1946 at the South Pole, then was stationed in England and Japan as a Commander with the Usupply officer on an aircraft carrier.S. Navy, having He also served WWIIin the Vietnam War, Korean War & Vietnameventually retiring as a Commander. In 1952, he married Margaret Doreen Lee (b. 1925 Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Eng. - d. 2000) at Chelsea, London, England. She was the daughter of Albert Edward Foster Lee (1891-1971 Ilkeston, Derbyshire, Eng.) & Doris May Sheppard Lee-Loak (b. 1906 Coventry, Warwickshire, Eng. - d. 1987 Nottingham, Eng.). Charlotte Ruth Ferris Merrill was born in 1932 in N.Y., and in 1955 @ Albany, N.Y. married Lt. Donald E. Merrill, USMC in 1954.
