{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"The News Journal","provider_url":"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net","title":"For Johnny Wheels founder Tom Storms 'right was right' &ndash; The News Journal","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"gv9pcxh1uK\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/for-johnny-wheels-founder-tom-storms-right-was-right\/\">For Johnny Wheels founder Tom Storms &#8216;right was right&#8217;<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/for-johnny-wheels-founder-tom-storms-right-was-right\/embed\/#?secret=gv9pcxh1uK\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;For Johnny Wheels founder Tom Storms &#8216;right was right&#8217;&#8221; &#8212; The News Journal\" data-secret=\"gv9pcxh1uK\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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Tom R. Storms, Sr., the founder of Johnny Wheels Auto Service, passed away Sunday at age 79. Storms and his wife, Barbara, opened the business at the junction of Main Street and 18th Street in 1972. \u201cWe started there and didn\u2019t have any bays or anything like that,\u201d recalled Storm\u2019s son, Bill, who has ran the business with his brother, Thomas Ray Storms Jr., after their parents retired in 1996. Even after the elder Storms retired, the brothers said he was regularly at the store. The brothers said their parents moved to Corbin to be close to family. \u201cDad had sold his share of an insurance company and gone to work in the mines in West Virginia. Mom told him, she wasn\u2019t going to live in those hollows,\u201d Bill Storms explained adding that the elder Storms ran an ad in the local paper seeking to purchase a business, and bought the block building in which he would start Johnny Wheels. The brothers said their father was a very complicated person, but was simple and direct when it came to principals. \u201cIt didn\u2019t matter if it hurt your feelings, right was right,\u201d Bill Storms said. Outside of work, the brothers said their dad\u2019s favorite pastimes were hunting and fishing. Bill would join his father in the woods during hunting season, while Thomas was the partner of choice on the lake. \u201cI\u2019ll miss the sound of the drag on his fishing pole and him yelling, \u2018Net!\u2019\u201d Thomas Storms said. \u201cI may not have been able to see him come in, but I would know he was there because I would hear him in the back office. He would stop there and talk to my wife, beginning with, \u201cHey, pretty girl!\u2019\u201d Bill Storms recalled. While it was important to their father that the business continue to do well and provide great customer service to the community, the brothers said their father was very community minded, especially when it came to being able to give back by helping local charitable organizations and fundraising efforts. \u201cWhenever he saw something about Johnny Wheels making some kind of donation, he would tell us, \u2018You boys have done a good job,\u2019\u201d Bill Storms said. \u201cHe had a heart of gold,\u201d the brothers said. Corbin Mayor Willard McBurney said he knew Tom Storms since Johnny Wheels first opened in Corbin. \u201cHe was very congenial. He was low key, but a good-natured guy,\u201d McBurney said. The funeral mass will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Corbin. Burial will follow at Pine Hill Cemetery. Vankirk-Grissell Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. Condolences may be offered to the family at www.vankirkgrisellfuneralhome.com."}