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his time on active barely walk, but they proudly presented
duty, with the the wreaths. I was fighting back tears each
help of Ruth’s time that honor was replicated.” Since then,
grandfather, he Don wholeheartedly supports the Honor
started farming Flight and enthusiastically recruits for its
near Shallowater, continuation.
Texas. He had
worked on the
family farm east
of Abernathy and
attended New
Deal schools,
where he participated in athletics, One Act
Play, and Poetry Reading.

He worshipped at Lakeview United
Methodist Church, where every other
Sunday there was no pastor. On such
Sundays, his song leader father and pianist
mother led the congregation in worship. Don
invariably sat next to alto, bass, and tenor
singers, so now he comfortably vocalizes in
multiple parts. After he graduated from New
Deal in 1963, he helped build Abernathy
Co-op Gin before entering Texas Tech as
a journalism major. Don was a full-time
cameraman at KCBD-TV while carrying a
full load at school. As Assistant Sports Editor
of The Toreador his junior year, he enjoyed
travel with Tech athletes, among whom
legendary Donny Anderson was often an We would like to
interview favorite. He wrote the story of
Texas Tech’s Sun Bowl trip for the La Ventana.
He also wrote newscasts for KCBD for two honor Don Enger
years. Don was a Scoutmaster in New Deal
for four years, a member of the Lubbock
Rotary for eight years, an Elder in Trinity for his 26 years of
Church for 20 years, and a Lubbock County
Farm Bureau board member for 29 years.
Don joined the Gideons 35 years ago and faithful service!
currently supervises the annual distribution
of New Testaments in the greater Lubbock
area, including 44 motels, incarceration
facilities, junior high schools in Lubbock,
New Deal, Idalou, Slaton, Roosevelt, Post,
and Lubbock Cooper ISD. (One million
Bibles are given out every four days in 200
countries by Gideon volunteers, worldwide.)
His 2017 Honor Flight experience rekindled
his awe and appreciation of his military
adventures. He remembers, “When we
went to the memorials that represented
each service branch, the eldest of each
branch was asked to present a wreath.
Some were in wheelchairs and some could

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