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Bill Sylvia Curry

How Firm a Foundation

by Ted & Jody Boudreaux Wilson

ill and Sylvia Curry met of marriage
at Plainview High School built on a great
Band began dating in 1952. friendship and
Sylvia was a sophomore; Bill was a a deep, abiding
senior. He said he had to be good. faith.
His dad was chief of police and his
mother was a librarian for the city. From the onset,
And before that his mom coached Bill and Sylvia
sixth grade football at Central laid some
Elementary, unusual for a woman ground rules.
back then. Sylvia quipped, “She They would
coached my daddy.” build their lives
on the Christian
We asked them, “What attracted principles dear
you to each other?” Sylvia laughed to their hearts.
and said, “He was a good-looking Wherever Bill’s
football player, and he went to employment
our church.” Bill piped up, “And took them,
she was a cheerleader.” They the first order
attended First Methodist Church of business
and were part of the youth choir was to join
of more than fifty from various the Methodist
denominations under the direction Church. There
of Charles Signor. “He made it fun they found
for all of us.” In April, 1955, they places to serve
ran off to Clovis to get married. and enrich the
They knew their parents would lives of those
have a fit. Bill was a college senior around them coach and scouted on weekends.
at McMurry in Abilene, and he was while strengthening their own One weekend, Bill was scouting
concerned about losing his football Christian walk. and had to go to Spur. There was
scholarship if he got married. a house where the road turned
But love won. Granny was a co- Bill began his career as a teacher into Spur. On his way back, the
conspirator. She loaned them her and a coach, became an assistant house just exploded right in front
car and her rings. They went to principal, then a principal. He of them. They pulled six people
the Methodist parsonage of Rev. even drove a school bus in the out of the house, and not one of
Raper, of Clovis, who performed mornings for a while. In Floydada, them died. It was an unforgettable
the ceremony. So far, Sylvia and Bill was the 7th grade coach, the event of being in the right place
Bill have shared sixty-four years 8th grade coach and the 9th grade at the right time. Bill also served

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