A movie was made about Bill and his two sons. He fought for custody of his two sons, and won the battle. The courts had contended a paraplegic could not be a suitable parent for two young boys. But Billy proved them wrong. He won after several appeals, and having a sharp lawyer who was a paraplegic himself.
Paraplegics do make wonderful parents.
They are left-handed. Barbara had a mastoidectomy on her right ear in 1956. Richard Douglas Carney 4 Jr. He married Patricia Violet Budinger, daughter of Kenneth Budinger and Millicent Stuck. She was born Bet.