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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, Family and friends are mourning the loss of William |
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Theodore McElroy of Uvalde, who died on February 3, 2009, at the age |
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of 91; and |
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WHEREAS, Ted McElroy was born in Oklahoma on October 6, 1917; |
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orphaned as an infant, he was adopted by the McElroy family when he |
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was two years old; and |
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WHEREAS, Mr. McElroy was joined in matrimony to his lifetime |
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companion, the former Esta Tennyson, in Bentonville, Arkansas, in |
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1939, and they were blessed with a long and happy union that lasted |
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nearly 70 years, until his death; and |
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WHEREAS, A man of profound religious conviction, Mr. McElroy |
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was a lifelong member of the Church of Christ; he began preaching at |
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the age of 15, and he continued preaching while he attended Harding |
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University in Searcy, Arkansas; and |
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WHEREAS, From 1944 to 1947, Mr. McElroy was a minister in Del |
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Rio; in 1951, he and his wife moved to Uvalde, where he was the |
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minister of the Getty Street Church of Christ for three years; he |
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then moved to Birmingham, Alabama, for a time, returning to Uvalde |
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in 1960 to serve as the minister of the Getty Street church for |
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another two decades; and |
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WHEREAS, Mr. McElroy had served as the minister of Knippa |
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Church of Christ since 1981, and throughout those years he |
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continued to be an associate minister and an elder at the Getty |
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Street church; and |
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WHEREAS, An active member of his community, Mr. McElroy |
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offered counsel and solace to foster children and to troubled |
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children serving juvenile probation, and he worked with Medina |
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Children's Home and other institutions to match children with |
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adoptive families; he was also a member and former president of the |
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Rotary Club; and |
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WHEREAS, Ted McElroy was a man of great compassion and |
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abiding faith who dedicated himself to helping others, and memories |
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of him will forever endure in the hearts of all those whose lives he |
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touched; now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 81st Texas |
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Legislature hereby pay tribute to the life of William Theodore |
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McElroy and extend sincere condolences to the members of his |
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family: to his wife, Esta McElroy; to his sons, Joe McElroy and his |
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wife, Charlotte, and William Vann McElroy and his wife, Gale; to his |
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daughter-in-law, Donna McElroy; to his grandchildren, Kimberly |
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Olmstead and her husband, Michael, Leslie Bywater and her husband, |
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Dan, Joely Hendrix and her husband, Stephen, Ashley Pattison and |
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her husband, Neil, William Vann McElroy, Jr., Chad Austin McElroy, |
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and Allison Elizabeth McElroy; to his eight great-grandchildren; |
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and to his other 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 his family and that when the Texas House of |
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Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of William |
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Theodore McElroy. |