Biography
Vincent Ford was born around 1940. He used a wheelchair, having lost his legs due to diabetes. Despite his disability, he was still able to save another youth from drowning when he was a teenager.
Ford died at age 68 on 28 December 2008 in Kingston, Jamaica.
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