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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, The Spring community lost a much-loved and admired |
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teacher on August 3, 2006, when Gay Susan Chandler Mechler passed |
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away at the age of 55; and |
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WHEREAS, Born in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 28, 1950, the |
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former Susie Chandler came to Dallas in 1956 and graduated from |
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Thomas Jefferson High School in 1968; she attended the University |
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of Arkansas for a year before transferring to Stephen F. Austin |
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State University in Nacogdoches to be with her high school |
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sweetheart, Floyd A. Mechler, Jr.; the couple were married in |
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Dallas on August 15, 1970; and |
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WHEREAS, After graduating from SFASU, Mrs. Mechler began her |
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32-year career in education as a sixth-grade science teacher with |
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Humble Middle School; after teaching for a year in Kansas City, she |
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returned to Texas and was hired to teach for the Klein Independent |
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School District; in 1978, she joined the faculty of Strack |
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Intermediate School, where she would remain for the next 27 years |
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teaching sixth-graders math and honors math; and |
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WHEREAS, Through hard work and an uncompromising commitment |
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to setting her students on the path to bright and rewarding futures, |
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this exceptional educator touched the lives of countless young |
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Texans, and she will be deeply missed by them, as well as by her |
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family and many friends; now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 80th Texas |
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Legislature hereby pay tribute to the life of Gay Susan Chandler |
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Mechler and extend sincere sympathy to the members of her family: |
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to her husband, Floyd A. Mechler, Jr.; to her mother, Gay Heim |
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Chandler; to her daughter, Michelle Sheridan, and her husband, |
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Rick; to her son, Russell E. Mechler, and his fiancée, Danielle |
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Stephens; to her granddaughter, Amy Sheridan; to her brother, Fred |
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R. Chandler, Jr., and his wife, Phyllis; and to her other relatives |
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and friends; and, be it further |
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RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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prepared for her family and that when the Texas House of |
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Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Susie |
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Mechler. |