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                                                                  H.R. No. 38 


R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Juanita Daniel Zachry has earned widespread respect for her writings about the history and beauty of Abilene, West Texas, and the State of Texas; and WHEREAS, Currently a member of Abilene Writers Guild, which she founded, she has inspired many writers by her endless travels across Texas and the United States for research to make writings of West Texas factual and understandable to the readers she may touch; and WHEREAS, Ms. Zachry has published several history-based books including A History of Rural Taylor County, A Living History: Abilene--The Key City, Buffalo Gap Historic Village, Potosi--The First One Hundred Years, Merkel Area History Book, and Juanita Daniel Zachry's Classics; and WHEREAS, She has written articles that have been purchased by American History Illustrated, Texas Highways, Arizona Highways, America's Civil Wars, Texas Parks and Wildlife, Early American Life, and many other historical and western magazines; and WHEREAS, She was inspired to write stories of history by hearing how her own parents, A. M. Daniel and Exa Green Daniel, settled in Taylor County with each of their parents at young ages around 1900 and later married and raised Juanita at Horn in Jones County and encouraged her as she excelled in her writing skills by graduating from Noodle High School and taking courses at Writers Digest, a famous writer's school, and the University of Oklahoma; and WHEREAS, She has also been encouraged and inspired by her late husband, B. A. Zachry, and her three children: Barbara Ann (Mrs. Coy) Williams of Abilene, Beth (Mrs. Jim) Pate-Beasley of Garland, and Charles Zachry of Garden City; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 78th Texas Legislature, 2nd Called Session, hereby commend Juanita Daniel Zachry for her extensive writings, which help to preserve the history of West Texas for her fellow citizens and for future generations, and extend to her best wishes for success and happiness in the future; and, be it further RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be prepared for Ms. Zachry as an expression of high regard by the Texas House of Representatives. Hunter Craddick Geren Mercer Allen Giddings Merritt Alonzo Goodman Miller Bailey Goolsby Moreno of Harris Baxter Griggs Moreno of El Paso Berman Grusendorf Morrison Bohac Guillen Mowery Bonnen Gutierrez Naishtat Branch Haggerty Nixon Brown of Kaufman Hamilton Noriega Brown of Brazos Hamric Oliveira Burnam Hardcastle Olivo Callegari Harper-Brown Paxton Campbell Hartnett Pena Canales Heflin Phillips Capelo Hegar Pickett Casteel Hilderbran Pitts Castro Hill Puente Chavez Hochberg Quintanilla Chisum Hodge Raymond Christian Homer Reyna Coleman Hope Riddle Cook of Navarro Hopson Ritter Cook of Colorado Howard Rodriguez Corte Hughes Rose Crabb Hunter Seaman Crownover Hupp Smith of Tarrant Davis of Harris Isett Smith of Harris Davis of Dallas Jones of Lubbock Smithee Dawson Jones of Bexar Solis Delisi Jones of Dallas Solomons Denny Keel Stick Deshotel Keffer of Dallas Swinford Driver Keffer of Eastland Talton Dukes King Taylor Dunnam Kolkhorst Telford Dutton Krusee Thompson Edwards Kuempel Truitt Eiland Laney Turner Eissler Laubenberg Uresti Elkins Lewis Van Arsdale Ellis Luna Villarreal Escobar Mabry West Farabee Madden Wilson Farrar Marchant Wise Flores Martinez Fischer Wohlgemuth Flynn McCall Wolens Gallego McClendon Wong Garza McReynolds Woolley Gattis Menendez Zedler ______________________________ Speaker of the House I certify that H.R. No. 38 was adopted by the House on August 5, 2003, by a non-record vote. ______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House