The Rotary Club of Farragut has two connections to Hurricane Harvey, it turns out. The Singletary and Hoffman families have been following the news and been on their phones a lot of late. Mike Singletary and John Hoffman are both Farragut Rotarians and both retired from the University of Tennessee.

Mike was a professor in the College of Communications and John was in the Haslam College of Business.  And their Texas families, we learn, live and work within minutes of one another.

Both Mike and John shared this with us at a recent meeting.

Dr. David Hoffman

John and wife Susan’s son is Dr. David Hoffman. He lives in The Woodlands (in Conroe, Texas) with his wife, Laura, and is an oral surgeon. “He is very fortunate,” John says. “He told me: ‘Dad, we’re alive and our nearby grocery stores are open. Our practice has been closed the last couple of days because too many patients and staff couldn’t get there.”

He added that many parts of Houston are “an absolute mess and folks here are really hurting.”

Mike Singletary’s daughter and her family live in Spring, Texas, and that’s where David Hoffman practices while living in nearby Conroe. Mike’s daughter is Angie Dailey and his son-in-law is Kevin, who has been using his fishing boat to rescue people in Spring since Harvey hit and the flooding began. Their home was elevated just enough that it did not flood.

David Hoffman grew up in Farragut and graduated from Catholic High in 1997. He earned his undergraduate degrees from Notre Dame and completed his dental education at the Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas. Following graduation, he completed his six-year residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Kentucky. He earned his medical degree and completed his general surgical internship at the University of Kentucky as well. He has participated in medical missions to Ghana, Guatemala and South Africa during his training.

David joined Northwest Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 2016 and practices in Spring and Huntsville.

As the saying goes, it is a small world!