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455 Sixth St. N.W. Heart Campaign Page First as a barber, then as a truck driver, he earned enough to move them from a trailer into a good-looking home. With income from his job and the money his wife, Betty, earns as a secretary at Janie Howard Wilson Elementary School in Lake Wales, they made payments on their house and a 1998 sport utility vehicle. But in late November, two weeks after his 49th birthday, he had a stroke. He spent two months in the hospital and came home in late January, in a wheelchair, to an uncertain future. I don't have any joint control.