Later Years
Bob and his wife Barbara hosted Horizons 22, a Tampa Bay area Christian-themed news, music, and interview program on WCLF, a Christian television station based in Largo, Florida. Although it gained widespread appeal in that area, they were abruptly released after only three months, with the station saying that they were "not spiritual enough." A year later, the scandal of Jim Bakker's ministry The PTL Club rocked the headlines, and the Wellses were happy not to have been "tarred with that brush."
Bob also ran a successful financial planning company in Florida, earning "Agent of the Year" honors from a Cleveland-based insurance company. They also did radio and TV commercials in the Tampa area. Wells and his wife regularly appeared at "Ghoulardifest" functions in Cleveland, held by WJW in tribute to Ernie Anderson, who died in 1997.
In addition to his TV and radio work, Bob has also been in numerous movies and TV shows (including the movie Summer Rental with John Candy).
Since 1979, Wells had been living with his wife Barbara in Clearwater. After 51 years of marriage, Barbara died after a lengthy battle with cancer on August 28, 2007.
Wells has three adult children, named Teri, Rob and Tricia. Wells is currently semi-retired in Clearwater, lending his acting and singing skills to several Tampa Bay area professional theater companies, as well as performing free-lance commercial announcing and narration.
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Famous quotes containing the word years:
“Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!
Clouds of the west—sun there half an hour
high—I see you also face to face.
Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me!
On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning
home, are more curious to me than you suppose,
And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“I leave the governor’s office next week, and with it public life ... [which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for ten years and over my salaries have not equalled my expenses, and there has been a feeling of responsibility, a lack of independence, and a necessary neglect of my family and personal interests and comfort, which make the prospect of a change comfortable to think of.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)