Bill Text: TX SR32 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: In memory of Jean Williams Barac.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-08-23 - Reported enrolled [SR32 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SR32-Enrolled.html
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| In Memory | ||
| of | ||
| Jean Williams Barac | ||
| WHEREAS, The Senate of the State of Texas honors and | ||
| commemorates the life of Jean Williams Barac, who died July 27, | ||
| 2021, at the age of 94; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Jean Barac was born on August 31, 1926, in | ||
| Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; she grew up in Austin and attended | ||
| Austin High School, and she earned a degree in English from The | ||
| University of Texas at Austin; and | ||
| WHEREAS, She became an integral part of the Central Texas | ||
| arts and literary scene in the 1950s, and she counted as her | ||
| friends and contemporaries such figures as Kelly Fearing, | ||
| Michael Frary, Bill Hoey, Robert Benton, Franklin Gilliam, and | ||
| Bill Brammer; and | ||
| WHEREAS, She enjoyed a long and varied professional career | ||
| as an artist, teacher, journalist, writer, and editor; she served | ||
| as a director of the Laguna Gloria Art Museum, where she | ||
| established an art school for children, and she also taught art | ||
| at Saint Stephen's Episcopal School; and | ||
| WHEREAS, She was an associate editor for Austin Homes and | ||
| Gardens magazine, and she published numerous pieces in a wide | ||
| range of regional publications, including Texas Monthly; she was | ||
| a passionate and adventurous traveler whose journeys included | ||
| being part of a crew that sailed round-trip between California | ||
| and Tahiti; and | ||
| WHEREAS, She was blessed with a wonderful family; her | ||
| children, Emilie Barac and Theodore Barac, and her grandson, | ||
| Wilson Barac, were a source of much pride and joy for her; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Jean Williams Barac was an international Texan, a | ||
| talented contemporary artist, a single mother, and a singular | ||
| woman who was ahead of her time at every step of her remarkable | ||
| life; she lived life as a work of art, always expressing her | ||
| truest self, and she leaves behind memories that will be | ||
| cherished forever by all who were privileged to know her; now, | ||
| therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 87th | ||
| Legislature, 2nd Called Session, hereby extend sincere | ||
| condolences to the bereaved family of Jean Williams Barac; and, | ||
| be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be prepared for | ||
| her family as an expression of deepest sympathy from the Texas | ||
| Senate and that when the Senate adjourns this day, it do so in | ||
| memory of Jean Barac. | ||
| Eckhardt | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| President of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that the | ||
| above Resolution was adopted by | ||
| the Senate on August 23, 2021, by | ||
| a rising vote. | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| Member, Texas Senate | ||
