How can we do service for a man who did such a service to the community of Alcoholics Anonymous and the community as a whole?
Trust God, clean house and help others was his motto.
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http://www.aadallas.org/wordpress/aa-history/an-interview-with-searcy-w/?fdx_switcher=true
http://www.prestongroup.org/aa_docs/Interview_with_Searcy_W.pdf
DALLAS -- Searcy W., 93, died Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2003, in Dallas, Texas.
Funeral: A service and celebration of Searcy's life will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church of Dallas. A reception will follow in Grace Parlor at the church. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Mount Hope Cemetery in Anson.
Visitation: A viewing will be held 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Sparkman/Hillcrest Funeral Home and a visitation 9 to 10:15 a.m. before the service, in Grace Parlor, First Baptist Church Dallas.
Memorials: The family suggests donations be made in Searcy's name to the American Heart Association.
Searcy R. W. died at the age of 93, after a life of significant joy and service to others.
Trust God, clean house, help others was his motto. And it doesn't have to be done in that order!
He was born March 30, 1910, in Funston to James and Etta W. For 57 years,
Searcy was an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). In 1948, at the insistence of AA's co-founder Bill W., Searcy attended and graduated from the Yale School on Alcohol Studies. He came back to Dallas and Lubbock. Soon thereafter, Dr. Jellinek moved the Yale School on Alcohol Studies from New Haven, Conn., to TCU in Fort Worth and renamed it the Yale Institute on Alcohol Studies in the Southwest. Searcy was hired as field representative to make talks to churches and schools about the disease of alcoholism, how the alcoholics could be helped and that they were worth helping. It was a community problem and therefore a community responsibility. This was a new approach for many in Texas. Dr. Jellinek became ill and unable to carry on with the school studies. He asked Searcy to establish some hospitals where alcoholics could go, sober up, and be taken to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Beginning in 1949, Searcy established alcohol hospitals (the predecessor of today's drug and alcohol treatment centers) in Lubbock, Dallas, Houston and Carlsbad, N.M. Alcoholics were brought in for one week and paid $125, which included their doctors, hospital, nurses and medications. They were taken to Alcoholics Anonymous and 75 percent of them stayed sober. Searcy later became a staff member of the Yale Institute on Alcohol Studies in the Southwest at TCU in Fort Worth. He continued his alcoholism educational work from that time until the day he died, traveling internationally to spread the message of hope and recovery from alcoholism.
Survivors: His loving wife Margaret, one of the earliest Al-Anon family group members; nephew, Jim Bettle and wife, Deborah, of Delaware; nephew, Dick Bettle and wife, Liz, of Texas; niece, Kay Beaird and husband, Curtis, of Texas; niece, Doris Jean and husband, Gene, of California; and brother-in-law, Clayton and wife Alta Mae Bettle of Texas.
Trust God, clean house and help others was his motto.
http://lubbockonline.com/stories/100203/obi_100203046.shtml
http://www.aadallas.org/wordpress/aa-history/an-interview-with-searcy-w/?fdx_switcher=true
http://www.prestongroup.org/aa_docs/Interview_with_Searcy_W.pdf
DALLAS -- Searcy W., 93, died Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2003, in Dallas, Texas.
Funeral: A service and celebration of Searcy's life will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church of Dallas. A reception will follow in Grace Parlor at the church. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Mount Hope Cemetery in Anson.
Visitation: A viewing will be held 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Sparkman/Hillcrest Funeral Home and a visitation 9 to 10:15 a.m. before the service, in Grace Parlor, First Baptist Church Dallas.
Memorials: The family suggests donations be made in Searcy's name to the American Heart Association.
Searcy R. W. died at the age of 93, after a life of significant joy and service to others.
Trust God, clean house, help others was his motto. And it doesn't have to be done in that order!
He was born March 30, 1910, in Funston to James and Etta W. For 57 years,
Searcy was an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). In 1948, at the insistence of AA's co-founder Bill W., Searcy attended and graduated from the Yale School on Alcohol Studies. He came back to Dallas and Lubbock. Soon thereafter, Dr. Jellinek moved the Yale School on Alcohol Studies from New Haven, Conn., to TCU in Fort Worth and renamed it the Yale Institute on Alcohol Studies in the Southwest. Searcy was hired as field representative to make talks to churches and schools about the disease of alcoholism, how the alcoholics could be helped and that they were worth helping. It was a community problem and therefore a community responsibility. This was a new approach for many in Texas. Dr. Jellinek became ill and unable to carry on with the school studies. He asked Searcy to establish some hospitals where alcoholics could go, sober up, and be taken to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Beginning in 1949, Searcy established alcohol hospitals (the predecessor of today's drug and alcohol treatment centers) in Lubbock, Dallas, Houston and Carlsbad, N.M. Alcoholics were brought in for one week and paid $125, which included their doctors, hospital, nurses and medications. They were taken to Alcoholics Anonymous and 75 percent of them stayed sober. Searcy later became a staff member of the Yale Institute on Alcohol Studies in the Southwest at TCU in Fort Worth. He continued his alcoholism educational work from that time until the day he died, traveling internationally to spread the message of hope and recovery from alcoholism.
Survivors: His loving wife Margaret, one of the earliest Al-Anon family group members; nephew, Jim Bettle and wife, Deborah, of Delaware; nephew, Dick Bettle and wife, Liz, of Texas; niece, Kay Beaird and husband, Curtis, of Texas; niece, Doris Jean and husband, Gene, of California; and brother-in-law, Clayton and wife Alta Mae Bettle of Texas.
How can we do service for a man who did such a service to the community of Alcoholics Anonymous and the community as a whole?
Trust God, clean house and help others was his motto.
http://lubbockonline.com/stories/100203/obi_100203046.shtml
http://www.aadallas.org/wordpress/aa-history/an-interview-with-searcy-w/?fdx_switcher=true
http://www.prestongroup.org/aa_docs/Interview_with_Searcy_W.pdf
DALLAS -- Searcy W., 93, died Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2003, in Dallas, Texas.
Funeral: A service and celebration of Searcy's life will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church of Dallas. A reception will follow in Grace Parlor at the church. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Mount Hope Cemetery in Anson.
Visitation: A viewing will be held 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Sparkman/Hillcrest Funeral Home and a visitation 9 to 10:15 a.m. before the service, in Grace Parlor, First Baptist Church Dallas.
Memorials: The family suggests donations be made in Searcy's name to the American Heart Association.
Searcy R. W. died at the age of 93, after a life of significant joy and service to others.
Trust God, clean house, help others was his motto. And it doesn't have to be done in that order!
He was born March 30, 1910, in Funston to James and Etta W. For 57 years,
Searcy was an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). In 1948, at the insistence of AA's co-founder Bill W., Searcy attended and graduated from the Yale School on Alcohol Studies. He came back to Dallas and Lubbock. Soon thereafter, Dr. Jellinek moved the Yale School on Alcohol Studies from New Haven, Conn., to TCU in Fort Worth and renamed it the Yale Institute on Alcohol Studies in the Southwest. Searcy was hired as field representative to make talks to churches and schools about the disease of alcoholism, how the alcoholics could be helped and that they were worth helping. It was a community problem and therefore a community responsibility. This was a new approach for many in Texas. Dr. Jellinek became ill and unable to carry on with the school studies. He asked Searcy to establish some hospitals where alcoholics could go, sober up, and be taken to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Beginning in 1949, Searcy established alcohol hospitals (the predecessor of today's drug and alcohol treatment centers) in Lubbock, Dallas, Houston and Carlsbad, N.M. Alcoholics were brought in for one week and paid $125, which included their doctors, hospital, nurses and medications. They were taken to Alcoholics Anonymous and 75 percent of them stayed sober. Searcy later became a staff member of the Yale Institute on Alcohol Studies in the Southwest at TCU in Fort Worth. He continued his alcoholism educational work from that time until the day he died, traveling internationally to spread the message of hope and recovery from alcoholism.
Survivors: His loving wife Margaret, one of the earliest Al-Anon family group members; nephew, Jim Bettle and wife, Deborah, of Delaware; nephew, Dick Bettle and wife, Liz, of Texas; niece, Kay Beaird and husband, Curtis, of Texas; niece, Doris Jean and husband, Gene, of California; and brother-in-law, Clayton and wife Alta Mae Bettle of Texas.
Trust God, clean house and help others was his motto.
http://lubbockonline.com/stories/100203/obi_100203046.shtml
http://www.aadallas.org/wordpress/aa-history/an-interview-with-searcy-w/?fdx_switcher=true
http://www.prestongroup.org/aa_docs/Interview_with_Searcy_W.pdf
DALLAS -- Searcy W., 93, died Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2003, in Dallas, Texas.
Funeral: A service and celebration of Searcy's life will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church of Dallas. A reception will follow in Grace Parlor at the church. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Mount Hope Cemetery in Anson.
Visitation: A viewing will be held 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Sparkman/Hillcrest Funeral Home and a visitation 9 to 10:15 a.m. before the service, in Grace Parlor, First Baptist Church Dallas.
Memorials: The family suggests donations be made in Searcy's name to the American Heart Association.
Searcy R. W. died at the age of 93, after a life of significant joy and service to others.
Trust God, clean house, help others was his motto. And it doesn't have to be done in that order!
He was born March 30, 1910, in Funston to James and Etta W. For 57 years,
Searcy was an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). In 1948, at the insistence of AA's co-founder Bill W., Searcy attended and graduated from the Yale School on Alcohol Studies. He came back to Dallas and Lubbock. Soon thereafter, Dr. Jellinek moved the Yale School on Alcohol Studies from New Haven, Conn., to TCU in Fort Worth and renamed it the Yale Institute on Alcohol Studies in the Southwest. Searcy was hired as field representative to make talks to churches and schools about the disease of alcoholism, how the alcoholics could be helped and that they were worth helping. It was a community problem and therefore a community responsibility. This was a new approach for many in Texas. Dr. Jellinek became ill and unable to carry on with the school studies. He asked Searcy to establish some hospitals where alcoholics could go, sober up, and be taken to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Beginning in 1949, Searcy established alcohol hospitals (the predecessor of today's drug and alcohol treatment centers) in Lubbock, Dallas, Houston and Carlsbad, N.M. Alcoholics were brought in for one week and paid $125, which included their doctors, hospital, nurses and medications. They were taken to Alcoholics Anonymous and 75 percent of them stayed sober. Searcy later became a staff member of the Yale Institute on Alcohol Studies in the Southwest at TCU in Fort Worth. He continued his alcoholism educational work from that time until the day he died, traveling internationally to spread the message of hope and recovery from alcoholism.
Survivors: His loving wife Margaret, one of the earliest Al-Anon family group members; nephew, Jim Bettle and wife, Deborah, of Delaware; nephew, Dick Bettle and wife, Liz, of Texas; niece, Kay Beaird and husband, Curtis, of Texas; niece, Doris Jean and husband, Gene, of California; and brother-in-law, Clayton and wife Alta Mae Bettle of Texas.
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