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2 Brownwood Bulletin
Friday, August 2, 2013
FUNERALS AND OBITUARIES
Funerals today
Eva Jean Nichols Perkins, at 2 p.m. in the Winchell
Cemetery. Heartland Funeral Home of Early.
Grady Raymond
Swindell
LUBBOCK — Grady Ray-
mond Swindell, 82, of
Amarillo, bom on March 3,
1931, in Sudan, passed from
this life in the early morning
hours of July 18, 2013, after
a 15 month stmggle with
pancreatic cancer.
He is survived by his loving
ex-wife; one son and wife; two
daughters; one son-in-law;
five grandchildren and spous-
es; one brother and wife; one
sister; and numerous cousins,
nieces and nephews, all of
whom loved him dearly.
Private graveside services will be held in Lubbock at a
later time. Arrangements were handled by Cox Luneral
Home of Amarillo.
Brownwood Bulletin, Friday, August 2, 2013
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STEVE NASH | BROWNWOOD BULLETIN
The Camp Bowie Aquatic Center added Tuesday, Aug. 6
through Friday, Aug. 9 to its summer schedule.
Aquatic Center adds
four swimming days
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The Camp Bowie Family Aquatic Center has added four
more opportunities to enjoy the water the summer.
Originally, the Camp Bowie Family Aquatic Center was
only slated to be open today as well as two additional
weekends — from 1-6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3 and Sunday,
Aug. 4, and again Saturday, Aug. 10 and Sunday, Aug. 11.
Thursday, the dates of Tuesday, Aug. 6 through Friday,
Aug. 9 were added to the schedule, with the pool open
from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. each day.
Lap swimming will continue from 7 to 8:30 a.m.
Tuesday through Fridays. The lap swimming area will be
the only area of the pool open during these hours, none
of the other features of the pool will be open. Standard
admission rates will apply.
Wiggins Pool is already closed for the summer.
For questions, call Parks and Recreation Department at
(325) 646-0146.
Conrad Leroy Meadow
Conrad Meadow passed away Wednesday, July 31, 2013
at his home near Blanket surrounded by his family
Conrad was bom Aug. 11,1929, to William Walter (W.W.)
Meadow and Essie Vella (Horn) Meadow in Ingram. He was
the fifth of seven children.
Conrad was bom to a life of ranching, although his fam-
ily moved often during his younger years and service in
the U.S. Army during the Korean War he returned to the
family ranch in Hunt, Texas, to work the land he loved.
He was married to the free spirited Barbara Cade in 1955
and raised sons, Philip and Jeff. He was known for several
innovations in ranching such as “Cow Stairs” allowing cows
to climb from the valley to a pasture atop the hill, saving
many hours of herding and stress on livestock.
He gave freely of his time to things that mattered most to
him: First was family and friends: he loved his family wife,
his own children and numerous “adopted” ones, grandchil-
dren and great-grands. As for friends he would say “a rich
man counts his money but a truly rich man cannot count
how many friends he has.” Education: he was a member of
the Hunt, Texas, school board for 12 years where he was
instrumental in allowing the first black children to attend,
and set the standards for which the school is known for
today. Disabled/Underprivileged children: he was a 30 plus
year member of the Hunt Lions Club where he donated
much time to the Lions Club Camp for Crippled Children.
Church and community: He organized a bam raising for a
friend who lost his pig bam in a fire finishing in one day. He
was a Deacon in the Hunt Baptist Church and in the Blanket
Baptist Church.
He and Barbara moved to Blanket in 1990 to retire after
his stroke where he continued his active commitment to
family, friends and community. Despite a slight speech im-
pairment, he greeted you with his big infectious smile, and
hug for the girls and a very
“firm” hand shake.
Conrad was preceded in
death by his wife of 56 years,
Barbara; his parents; three
brothers, Wayne, Garth and
Keith; and three sisters, twins
Vemice and Bernice and Mil-
dred. He is survived by sons,
Philip and his wife Remoh of
Aurora, Colo., and Jeff and
his wife Beth of Blanket; six
grandchildren and four great-
grandsons, James Meadow
and his wife Kelly of Eugene,
Ore., Jennifer Singleterry
and husband Jason with their sons Cade and Gus of New
Braunfels, Justin Meadow and his wife Lisa with their son
Cash of Blanket, Wayne Meadow and his wife Crystal with
their son Wyatt of Blanket, Holley Higgins and her husband
Andrew of Carrolton, and Wynde Priddy of Denver, Colo.;
sister-in-law, Cleo Meadow of Ingram; and brother-in-law,
Dudley Cade and wife Candy of Ingram.
Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. today at Heartland
Funeral Home. Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m.
Saturday at Heartland Funeral Home and internment will be
held at 3 p.m. at Sunset Cemetery in Mountain Home.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Texas Lions
Camp for Crippled Children@ Texas Lions Camp, P.O. Box
290247, Kerrville, Texas 78029.
Friends are invited to sign the guest book at www.heart-
landfuneralhome.net
Brownwood Bulletin, Friday, August 2, 2013
oseph ‘Joe’ Earl Wetzel
WHITNEY — Joseph “Joe” Earl Wetzel, 75, of Whitney,
passed away Saturday, July 27, 2013.
Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4,
2013, at the Whitney Church of Christ.
Joe was born June 17, 1938, in Comanche, to Earl Till-
man Wetzel and Hazel Ellis Wetzel. After graduating high
school in Brownwood, he attended Abilene Christian
College and graduated in 1960. He moved to Denton and
worked on his Masters degree at North Texas University.
He was a member of the National Guard. He was married
to Ruth Elaine Gaston June 2, 1962; they were married for
51 years. He was a businessman at heart and managed
Wetzel Office Supply in Arlington. He was the District
sales manager in Dallas for Texas Farm Bureau Insurance
for 10 years and sold insurance for 35 years. He was hon-
ored with numerous awards for his sales achievements. He
enjoyed fishing, sports cars and helping others. He was a
member of the Whitney Church of Christ.
Joe was an incredibly wonderful, loving husband, father
and grandfather and will be missed greatly.
He was preceded in death
by his parents; and his sister,
Laura Susan Jackson.
Survivors include his wife,
Ruth Wetzel of Whitney;
daughter, Laura Callaway
of Whitney; daughter, Joan
Brown and husband Brian of
Aledo; daughter, Ellen Brown-
lee and husband Michael of
O’Fallon, Mo.; and grand-
children, Lauren Callaway,
Kailey Callaway, Eric Brown
and wife Amy Brown, Tyler
Brown, Tanner Brown, Bran-
don Brown, Connor Brownlee and Hannah Brownlee.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Whit-
ney Church of Christ.
Brownwood Bulletin, Friday, August 2, 2013
Art for
all ages
Leslie Hair and her 3-year-old
son, Maddox, look over the
piece created at the Muse
& Merlot event that had
residents creating their own
“Starry Night” creation during
the Brownwood Art Associa-
tion’s First Thursday featur-
ing mosaic creations by Jill
Keesee.
AMANDA LEIJA |
BROWNWOOD BULLETIN
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graduate of the now-closed
Brown County DWI Court,
which, she said, played a
large role in helping her
overcome alcohol issues.
The DWI that sent to her
DWI court, Carter said,
wasn’t her first DWI — “but
it was my last.”
When Carter learned that
the DWI Court was closing
due to lack of funding, she
knew she was willing to
speak out about how much
the court benefitted her and
how much it is needed. Lo-
cal officials didn’t want to
see the program end, but a
state grant that funded the
program is being shifted
toward larger counties.
DWI Court was a special-
ized year-long probation
administered through the
Brown County Court-at-
Law. The program included
weekly court dates, close
monitoring and intensive
counseling.
“It really did help me,”
Carter said of the court.
“I do not think I would’ve
made it without the DWI
Court program.”
Carter was bom and
raised in Brownwood and
dropped out of Brownwood
High School as a sopho-
more in 1997. “I ran off at
18, had my not-so-good
times, though they seemed
good at the time,” Carter
said.
She lived in other states
including Virginia and
North Carolina and was
“just out there.”
Hers was a life of “drink-
ing, working job-to-job,
partying ... no goals in life.
I didn’t think I was going
to make it to 2 5 years old
or even 20, really.” Carter
hadn’t thought she could go
any place where there was
no alcohol.
Carter returned to Brown-
wood in 2009. While driving
in Early, Carter received
the DWI that resulted in
her attending DWI Court,
which she began in 2010.
She’d previously tried to get
a GED but always “let the
fun times” get in the way.
As a DWI Court participant,
Carter was required to get a
GED and she did so through
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which gave her “a great feel-
ing of accomplishment.”
Carter is particularly
appreciative of the counsel-
ing she received as a DWI
Court participant from
Brownwood counselor John
Sommer. “He was the first
person who really opened
my eyes,” Carter said. Som-
mer also became the first
person she “didn’t want to
let down.”
But getting through the
program wasn’t easy. “The
purpose of the court is to
not drink alcohol for one
year, no matter what,”
Carter said. “It was very,
very hard but I did it and
I’m still working on it.”
Carter was accepted into
HPU in 2011 — another
great sense of accomplish-
ment. She hasn’t decided on
whether she would want to
work with youth or adults
as a probation officer.
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When asked what she
would say to someone who
has just received a DWI,
Carter said, “Let the people
who are reaching out to
you, in. Don’t run away
from them. Let them help
you help yourself. When it
comes down to it, only you
can change you.”
Asked how she’d com-
pare her current life with
her previous one, Carter
said, “I feel like ... oh, I’m
just a straight-arrow person
now” — work, home to care
for her two children, school.
Carter said she knows
state funds for DWI Court
have been directed away
from small counties. “Don’t
forget about the little
towns,” Carter said.
Court-at-Law Judge Frank
Griffin, who presided over
the DWI Court in Brown
County, said the key to DWI
Court was “close monitor-
ing and catching or detect-
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became major problems.”
A couple of programs
that were part of DWI
Court are being continued
with “regular” DWI pro-
bation, Griffin said. One
of those is “bar checks,”
when probation officers
and law enforcement of-
ficers make unannounced
checks in bars to see if they
recognized any DWI Court
probationers in the bars.
A DWI Court probationer
seen in a bar was subject to
immediate arrest and then
a one-on-one conversation
with Griffin.
The “bar checks” program
has seemed to be a deter-
rent, Griffin said.
Another DWI Court pro-
gram that’s continuing: a
probation officer may show
up at a DWI probationer’s
residence unannounced
with a portable breatha-
lyzer.
There won’t be weekly
court appearances, but Grif-
fin said court and probation
officials are considering
having DWI probationers
come to court once or twice
a month so their progress
as probationers can be
monitored.
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