So he and his brother, Jim, opened a boat lot. A combination of hard work, luck and doing the right thing led the boat lot to evolve into a company that manufactures boat trailers. A successful company. Loadmaster, off Faulkenberg Road in east Tampa, supports 30 employees and a number of family members. I wrote about in mid-February.
Prosperity provides only the means.
What brought me to write about the Gomez family was the loss of their 1984 Chevy van, which gave up the ghost after 285,000 hard miles. Gomez, is also disabled - and was unable to afford another vehicle. Community response was quick and significant. Others made futile attempts to find a vehicle to be donated or purchased at a bargain price. Some offered to try to fix the van, which was beyond repair without a major investment of dollars.