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Friday, October 27, 2006
Mixing business with love: Wife's illness inspires sitting service
- The Clarion-Ledger Few things will push a man to start a new business when he reaches his 50's and has 15 years of service in with a state institution, especially when the change has nothing to do with quick wealth or some pent-up dream gnawing at him. Bill Gittins did it in the name of love - and a promise he made to his wife, Beth, shortly after they were married in 1992 that he would never allow the multiple sclerosis that was invading her body to force her into a nursing home. "I even asked him, 'Bill, are you sure you want to do this?' " says Becky Hudgens, a longtime friend of the couple and the president/CEO of Methodist Children's Home in Jackson. "I mean, he is the sole provider for them. He had retirement. But he just said it was something he had to do for Beth. "I admire him so much for what he's done, how he put Beth ahead of everything." On June 1, Gittins opened Right At Home, a franchised in-home care and assistance agency for seniors and disabled persons.MORE - The Clarion-Ledger |