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CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
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WHEREAS, Friends and family are mourning the loss of Mary |
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Ellen Border Tubbs McDowell, who passed away on May 20, 2009, at the |
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age of 78; and |
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WHEREAS, Born on May 30, 1931, to Ray and Neva Riddle Border |
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in Des Moines, Iowa, the former Mary Ellen Border moved with her |
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parents to California at an early age and graduated from John C. |
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Fremont High School in Los Angeles; she worked at the May Company |
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Department Store and as a switchboard operator in L.A. before she |
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married Charley McDowell in the late 1960s; the couple shared 42 |
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rewarding years together and moved to Texas in 1970; and |
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WHEREAS, This devoted wife, mother, and grandmother raised |
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nine children, Glenn, Danny, Keith, Jerry, Scot, William, Susanne, |
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Jeanine, and Libbie, and she had the joy of welcoming numerous |
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grandchildren and great-grandchildren into the family; she helped |
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support her loved ones by working as a school bus driver for various |
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school districts, including Paris ISD, and she was also employed as |
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a church secretary; through the years, she took great comfort in her |
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Christian beliefs and was known for the generosity she showed to all |
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she met; and |
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WHEREAS, Mary Ellen McDowell brightened the world for all she |
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encountered, and she will be forever remembered with great fondness |
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by those fortunate enough to have shared in the richness of her |
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life; now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the 81st Legislature of the State of Texas |
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hereby pay tribute to the life of Mary Ellen Border Tubbs McDowell |
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and extend sincere sympathy to the members of her family: to her |
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husband, Charley McDowell; to her 9 children and their spouses; to |
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her 17 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren; and to her other |
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relatives 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 and Senate adjourn this day, they do so in memory of |
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Mary Ellen McDowell. |