"It was really hard for him to hold back the tears," recalled his wife, Alicia.

"He never lacked for a meal or a bed," his wife recalled the other day.

He appeared at breakfast one morning, his wife recalled in an interview, and announced, "We're changing everything."

"He was so happy to lose that," his wife recalled.

His wife, Marion, recalled this time as "all work and no play."

His wife recalls deciding, "I must get rid of this guy."

The patient's wife recalled that he had recently bumped his head getting out of the car.

He fell into professional touring by accident about 30 years ago, his wife recalled on Tuesday.

As his wife, Peggy, recalled recently, when they were introduced in 1955 even she had never heard of him.

Recently, his wife of 35 years, Rhoda, recalled what she thought was the first time he did so.