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Oklahoma lottery winners Don and Joyce Harvey help fight diabetes

 
SUSAN SIMPSON | Published: September 5, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment


Don and Joyce Harvey were generous folks before they won the Powerball lottery and became millionaires five years ago. Money didn’t change their will to help others. It just meant that now they can help even more.

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A recent donation by the eastern Oklahoma couple will help University of Oklahoma Medical Center doctors buy and operate a mobile research unit that will study diabetes in children who live in rural areas.

The gift was announced Friday at OU Health Sciences Center. The mobile unit is the size of a recreational vehicle and should be ready to travel next year to rural Oklahoma.

"Our goals are to find the causes and cures of childhood diabetes,” said Dr. Steven Chernausek, director of the CMRI Diabetes and Metabolic Research Program.

Chernausek said children in rural areas usually don’t have access to specialists and often can’t participate in research done in Oklahoma City.

Don Harvey, a former truck driver, said that before winning the lottery, his biggest investments were tires for his big rig.

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