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==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Gomez is divorced from the former Purdy Linton, now Purdy Gers of Baton Rouge. In 1975, he married his second and current wife, the former Carol Ross, a USL graduate originally from King of Prussia, [[Pennsylvania]], who assists him in the current operation of The Acadiana Gazette. Carol Gomez has an advertising agency known as Edge Communications, with such clients as the Lafayette Surgical Specialty Hospital. She also has her own radio program on KPEL-Lafayette and has on occasion substituted for statewide broadcaster [[Moon Griffon]]. Gomez has three living children from the previous marriage, Ronald James "Jimmie" Gomez, Jr., of Baton Rouge, Nanette Oliver of Lafayette, and Laurence Hughes Gomez of [[Austin]], [[Texas]]. He held the custody of the children after the divorce. A third son, Gregory Stephen Gomez, died in 1996 in Austin in an accident at the age of thirty-three. [29]
Gomez is divorced from the former Purdy Linton, now Purdy Gers of Baton Rouge. In 1975, he married his second and current wife, the former Carol Ross, a USL graduate originally from King of Prussia, [[Pennsylvania]], who assists him in the current operation of ''The Acadiana Gazette.'' Carol Gomez has an advertising agency known as Edge Communications, with such clients as the Lafayette Surgical Specialty Hospital. She also has her own radio program on KPEL-Lafayette and has on occasion substituted for statewide broadcaster [[Moon Griffon]]. Gomez has three living children from the previous marriage, Ronald James "Jimmie" Gomez, Jr., of Baton Rouge, Nanette Oliver of Lafayette, and Laurence Hughes Gomez of [[Austin]], [[Texas]]. He held the custody of the children after the divorce. A third son, Gregory Stephen Gomez, died in 1996 in Austin in an accident at the age of thirty-three. [29]
Gomez recalls his mother's warning to him as a guiding light to integrity when he announced for state representative in 1979: "If you're not careful, you'll end up just as crooked as all those other politicians." Gomez said, "I never forgot her warning. The honesty, integrity and humility of this saintly woman as well as my father's simple but solid principles were pounded into all five children with regularity."[29]
Gomez recalls his mother's warning to him as a guiding light to integrity when he announced for state representative in 1979: "If you're not careful, you'll end up just as crooked as all those other politicians." Gomez said, "I never forgot her warning. The honesty, integrity and humility of this saintly woman as well as my father's simple but solid principles were pounded into all five children with regularity."[29]