Bill Text: TX HR814 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: In memory of Everett "Ebbie" Brown Neptune, Jr., the longtime athletic director for the Eanes Independent School District and Westlake High School.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-03-21 - Reported enrolled [HR814 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HR814-Introduced.html
Bill Title: In memory of Everett "Ebbie" Brown Neptune, Jr., the longtime athletic director for the Eanes Independent School District and Westlake High School.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-03-21 - Reported enrolled [HR814 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HR814-Introduced.html
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By: Howard | H.R. No. 814 |
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WHEREAS, Everett Brown Neptune, Jr., the longtime athletic | ||
director for the Eanes Independent School District and Westlake | ||
High School, passed away on June 22, 2012, at the age of 73; and | ||
WHEREAS, "Ebbie" Neptune was born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, on | ||
May 14, 1939, to Everett and Virginia Neptune; in 1948, he moved | ||
with his family to Sweeny, where he became a star player and captain | ||
on the Sweeny High School football team; following his 1957 | ||
graduation, he attended Texas Lutheran College on a football | ||
scholarship, earning all-America honors as a tight end; and | ||
WHEREAS, Coach Neptune worked as an assistant coach in La | ||
Feria and Pleasanton and then helped Coach Kenneth Dabbs guide | ||
Sweeny High to the 1966 University Interscholastic League 2A state | ||
championship; in 1969, he joined Coach Dabbs in a move to Westlake | ||
High to establish the school's new football program; and | ||
WHEREAS, After serving as offensive line coach and offensive | ||
coordinator there, Coach Neptune held jobs in Bay City and Round | ||
Rock before returning to Westlake in 1982 as head coach and athletic | ||
director of the school; he went on to lead the Chaps to three | ||
playoff appearances and was twice named Central Texas Coach of the | ||
Year by the Austin American-Statesman; and | ||
WHEREAS, In 1987, Coach Neptune became the first full-time | ||
athletic director of both Westlake High and the Eanes Independent | ||
School District; he remained in that post for 22 years, during which | ||
time Westlake High won 19 state championships as well as the 2002 | ||
UIL Lone Star Cup; Coach Neptune was inducted into the Texas High | ||
School Athletic Directors Association Hall of Honor in 2004, and | ||
the Eanes ISD School Board immortalized his contributions by naming | ||
the football stadium Ebbie Neptune Field; and | ||
WHEREAS, Among the numerous accolades bestowed on Coach | ||
Neptune was the Texas Lutheran Fighting Heart Award, which was | ||
later renamed in his honor as the Ebbie Neptune Fighting Heart | ||
Award, and he was also recognized by the Greater Austin Chapter of | ||
the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame; and | ||
WHEREAS, He further distinguished himself as a devoted family | ||
man to his wife, the former Mary Sue Pinckney, whom he met while in | ||
college, as well as their two daughters, Rebecca and Elizabeth; | ||
over the years, he delighted in welcoming six grandchildren and | ||
three great-grandchildren into his life, and he took great pleasure | ||
in supporting their involvement in sports; and | ||
WHEREAS, A towering figure in the history of Westlake High | ||
School athletics, Ebbie Neptune was devoted to his students, his | ||
community, and his loved ones, and he will forever be remembered | ||
with great admiration and affection by all who were privileged to | ||
know him; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 83rd Texas | ||
Legislature hereby pay tribute to the life of Everett Brown | ||
Neptune, Jr., and extend sincere condolences to the members of his | ||
family: to his wife of 52 years, Mary Sue Neptune; to his daughters, | ||
Rebecca Gibson and her husband, Scott, and Elizabeth Dodge and her | ||
husband, Todd; to his grandchildren, Amanda Gahan and her husband, | ||
Brian, Allison Schmid and her husband, William, Everett and Grant | ||
Gibson, and Todd and Molly Dodge; to his great-grandchildren, Luke | ||
and Audrey Gahan and Benjamin Schmid; to his sisters, Linda Smith | ||
and Diane Krafka; and to his many other relatives and friends; and, | ||
be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
prepared for his family and that when the Texas House of | ||
Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Ebbie | ||
Neptune. |