1.   Elsie had to leave her job to care for her sick father.

2.   As a teenager, Smith vowed to become a doctor when he saw how badly his sick father was treated at a local hospital.

3.   A young Gloria had to tend her sick father and raise her younger sister, while her mother struggled to support the family by working as a teacher.

4.   His scholarship check covered only the essentials, and his mother, Melva Sankar, worked for Pacific Bell and was spending her paycheck on her sick father.

5.   Juanita Rodriguez was in Coahuila, Mexico, where she had spent two weeks with her youngest daughter Claudia, taking care of her sick father.

6.   SCOTT BROSIUS is home in Oregon with his gravely sick father and might join the team Friday in Anaheim.

7.   Supposedly, this was only to see his sick father, his jailed brother and his graduating son.

8.   They admired her porcelain dolls and offered to visit her sick father and sister so they could pray for them, Bramstedt said.

9.   Born in Romania, Dragoi told police he had returned to his native country to visit his sick father.

10.   He was visiting his sick father at the time.