Family and Post-MLB Work
Pearson and his wife Helen married in 1953. As of mid-2011, they had five daughters, 17 grandchildren, and 16 great-grandchildren.
Pearson is an ordained minister. In the 1960s, he started a Riverside youth foundation, which focused on helping children stay off drugs, founded a non-profit organization providing training for pastors and ministers, and set up churches and orphanages in Ecuador and Zambia.
In 1997, Pearson and his wife founded Father's Heart Ranch in Desert Hot Springs, California, an 11-acre (45,000 m2) home for abused, neglected and abandoned 6-12 year old boys. The Pearson's Father's Heart International foundation, also set up by Pearson, was, as of mid-2011, providing food to about 4,000 Zambian children each week who had lost their parents to AIDS.
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