William Greer, a writer, teacher, father, high school jock, Air Force veteran and adjunct professor at Kendall Campus, died on April 2 due to complications during a gallbladder operation. He was 68.<\/p>\n
Annette Rawlings, his partner for the last 18 years, said Greer went to the hospital for a minor gallbladder surgery, but then got an infection the doctors couldn\u2019t control.<\/p>\n
Greer, a Coral Gables Senior High School graduate, was a star football player at the school.<\/p>\n
\u201cBill played right in front of me,\u201d said Robert Greer, his younger brother. \u201cHe was the starting fullback and a remarkable blocking back.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to his brother Robert, William Greer was in the Air Force in 1960 during the Vietnam War. Before teaching at the Kendall Campus, Greer made his living as a writer.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a \u2018ghost writer,\u2019\u201d Rawlings said. \u201cHe would write and have his work published under different names.\u201d<\/p>\n
At Kendall Campus, William Greer taught English 1101 and English 1102. He also worked in the speech lab.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe loved being a teacher,\u201d Rawlings said. \u201cHe found it very gratifying and loved his students.\u201d<\/p>\n
So much so that he drove more than 60 miles from his home in Lake Worth to Kendall Campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wouldn\u2019t mind the hour drive it took him to get to work,\u201dRawlings said.<\/p>\n
Greer was also an artistic man.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe collected books, art and antiques,\u201d Rawlings said. \u201cHe also collected fine wines since his father owned a liquor store in Coconut Grove. We also belonged to the same breakfast group for more than 40 years. I was an artist, he was a writer and others from the group were musicians; we were all creatively inclined.\u201d<\/p>\n
Greer\u2019s son, Jonathan Drant, remembers his father as an energetic man.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would always travel,\u201d Drant said. \u201cWhether it was New York, Colorado or North Carolina, he was very active.\u201d<\/p>\n
Drant said Greer was more than just a father.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a wonderful friend and father to anyone who knew him,\u201d Drant said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
William Greer, a writer, teacher, father, high school jock, Air Force veteran and adjunct professor at Kendall Campus, died on April 2 due to complications during a gallbladder operation. He was 68. Annette Rawlings, his partner for the last 18 years, said Greer went to the hospital for a minor gallbladder surgery, but then got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"yoast_head":"\n