Bill Text: TX HR39 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: In memory of Margaret Ruth Williams Meador of Arlington.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-02-21 - Reported enrolled [HR39 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HR39-Introduced.html
Bill Title: In memory of Margaret Ruth Williams Meador of Arlington.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-02-21 - Reported enrolled [HR39 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HR39-Introduced.html
83R193 JGH-D | ||
By: Patrick | H.R. No. 39 |
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WHEREAS, Family, friends, and former students will long | ||
treasure their memories of educator Margaret Ruth Williams Meador | ||
of Arlington, who died on February 13, 2012, at the age of 75; and | ||
WHEREAS, The former Margaret Williams was born in Lamesa on | ||
November 14, 1936; her parents, Dr. H. V. Williams and Ruth | ||
Williams, were teachers at Baylor University, and following her | ||
graduation from Waco High School, she trained as an opera singer at | ||
Baylor; after receiving her bachelor's degree there, she went on to | ||
earn a master's degree in music from Florida State University and a | ||
master's degree in humanities from The University of Texas at | ||
Arlington; along the way, she married Pete Meador, and though the | ||
couple later divorced, they remained good friends and devoted | ||
parents to their daughter, Karen; and | ||
WHEREAS, Mrs. Meador began her career in education as a high | ||
school English teacher, first at Westbury High School in Houston | ||
and then at several schools in the Dallas/Fort Worth area; for the | ||
last 16 years of her life, she was a professor of literature and | ||
humanities at Dallas Baptist University and Texas Wesleyan | ||
University; and | ||
WHEREAS, Professor Meador was a beloved and inspirational | ||
teacher, and she earned the affection and respect of her students | ||
and colleagues alike for her accomplished scholarship and devotion | ||
to the humanities; she was also passionate about the causes in which | ||
she believed, working in behalf of peace and justice and to | ||
alleviate hunger and cruelty to animals; and | ||
WHEREAS, A loving mother and a true and generous friend, | ||
Margaret Meador will be forever remembered by all who knew her for | ||
her intelligence, warmth, and wit; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 83rd Texas | ||
Legislature hereby pay tribute to the life of Margaret Ruth | ||
Williams Meador and extend sincere condolences to the members of | ||
her family: to her daughter, Karen Meador Brown, and her husband, | ||
Daren; to her grandson, Duncan Gabriel Brown; to her sisters, Lisa | ||
Hayes and Catherine Williams; to her sister-in-law, Sandra | ||
Williams; to her brother-in-law, Jim Veninga; to her nieces, Jenny | ||
Veninga, Suzanne Stoner, and Christine Kiss; to her former husband, | ||
Pete Meador; and to her other relatives and friends; and, be it | ||
further | ||
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
prepared for her family and that when the Texas House of | ||
Representative adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Margaret | ||
Ruth Williams Meador. |