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[[Image:Carol Ross of LA.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Carol Ross Gomez]]

[[Image:Carol Ross of LA.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Carol Ross Gomez]]

==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 (born 1946), a USL graduate originally from King of Prussia, [[Pennsylvania]], who assists him in the 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 had her own conservative radio program on KPEL-Lafayette for three years prior to June 2020, when the program ended. On occasion, she substituted for statewide broadcaster [[Moon Griffon]], also based at KPEL. 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 was divorced from the former Purdy Linton, later Purdy Gers of Baton Rouge. In 1975, he married his second wife, the former Carol Ross (born 1946), a USL graduate originally from King of Prussia, [[Pennsylvania]], who assisted him in the 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 had her own conservative radio program on KPEL-Lafayette for three years prior to June 2020, when the program ended. On occasion, she substituted for statewide broadcaster [[Moon Griffon]], also based at KPEL. Gomez had 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]