When Wheeler came home from work the next day, Lucille informed him that she had named the son Wheeler Junior. Wheeler quickly informed her that he had promised his employer, Johnny McDade that the new son would be named John after him. So I became John Wheeler and also missed being a junior.

In a place far away, about the same time, on May 2, 1928 a cartoonist named Scancarell introduced a new character to his popular comic strip, "Gasoline Alley." The new character, named Corky, was the first child and son of Walt and Phyllis Wallet, the stars of the strip at that time. They did already have an adopted son named Skeezix he was left on their doorstep in a basket in February of 1921.

Corky's most recognizable features were a long gown that covered his feet and a cowlick in his hair. On the spur of the moment, one morning, mother decided that we should drive down to Pine Island to visit her mother. When she carried me into the house in my long gown with my cowlick sticking up, my uncle "Buster" looked up and said, "That's Corky." From that day on, I have been know as and called Corky by almost everyone in Pine Island.

We moved to Houston when I was a year old. After I retired from the City Of Houston, I ran a small repair shop for some years until I retired again and at 71 years old, we moved back to Pine Island. Now I create Web Pages and do a little writing for fun and have been writing a newspaper column for about 4 years.