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Caroline Paine CHRIST THE KING

Caroline Paine is a senior at Christ the King Diocesan High School. She is the daughter
of Dr. Carrie Caffey and Chris Paine and has a younger sister, Chloe. Throughout her
high school career, she has participated in varsity volleyball, cheer, tennis, and track.
She is Editor in Chief of the school newspaper and president of the National Honors
Society. Next year, she hopes to attend the University of Texas at Austin to major in
anthropology and a minor in classical archaeology.

she personally delivered food and supplies to her phone calls to distributing blankets alongside the
community in need. Mary Lou recalls enlisting the National Guard in times of need, Mary Lou is highly
help of an aspiring municipal politician by the name regarded as a servant among her family and her
of Tom Martin to help babysit the council member’s friends. But in my eyes, her elegance, wisdom, and
children as both the council members and their moral stature lead me to consider her as the “queen” of
spouses were heavily involved in rescue and recovery the great city of Lubbock.
efforts following the tornado. Martin would later
become mayor of Lubbock in 2008.

Mary Lou met the role of First Lady with a
tremendous level of elegance and class. Her
gracious and kind demeanor, accompanied by
her sharp wit and strength of character, formed
alliances and friendships among the most
prestigious in the Lubbock community, the state, Discovering, Encountering & Proclaiming The Word!
and even the nation. Mary Lou and Moe were
often invited to the governor’s mansion to visit Providing
their friends, Governor Preston Smith and his wife, Christian
Ima. Among dignitaries, Mary Lou recalls riding
in a police motorcade as she and her best friends, education in
George Mahon and his wife, Helen, were being Lubbock for
escorted through Lubbock. “I was scared to death,” over 65 years!
said Mary Lou. “We were going 100 mph through
Lubbock!” Whether in the company of John Wayne
or James Stewart, or on the stages of Johnny Carson
or Ed Sullivan, Mary Lou never lost the connection
she had with her West Texas community roots.

Through her humility, it is no surprise that Mary
Lou is looked upon with great respect among Scan QR Code
her family and friends. A devout Christian, Mary for more info
Lou always placed the needs of her family and or call to schedule
community above her own. Mary Lou would a personal tour
welcome anyone to her table, even if it meant 4011 54th Street, Lubbock
giving up her own seat. From making comforting 806-795-8283
www.ctkschoolslbk.org

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