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protect hearing, to correct damaged • Do you avoid social situations
frequencies, and to bring back the because you find it difficult to
quality of life associated with music, understand conversations?
conversation, and the peaceful
sounds of nature. Grand Hearing Center is a part of
the Wampler Legacy which has
Please, take a minute to do this short served the South Plains for 50 years.
self-evaluation. If you answer “YES” We have two offices—in Plainview
to two or more of the questions, and Lubbock, and we have patients
please call our office, and let us go as far away as Seminole, Hobbs,
over possible solutions with you. Amarillo and Perryton. Second
generation clinicians Gayle Willson,
• Do you ever feel that others are BC-HIS, (Board Certified in Hearing
mumbling? Instrument Sciences) and Blair
• Do others comment that your Willson, HIS, are proud of the
“Wampler Legacy.”
TV volume is too loud?
play for herself or for others are the
Beethoven sonatas. • Do you ever ask others to repeat
what they said?
Jeannine, like many others, has a Come see us as
genetic hearing loss. Her mother and • Do you struggle to understand we celebrate our
sister both had some loss at a young while on the phone?
age. We encourage everyone to have Golden Anniversary
their hearing tested for a baseline • Do you have ringing or other
audiogram, especially if you have a sounds in your ears? in 2026!
family history of hearing problems.
Environment can aggravate the loss, • Is it difficult to understand with
but so much technology exists now to background noise?

The Legendary Kenneth Wyatt

" t's strictly a gift from God," During the next 50 years he Kenneth and his love, Veda,
was internationally-known produced over 8,000 pieces of lived in Tulia, Texas until God
Iartist, Dr. Kenneth Wyatt's art in his astonishing career. called them home (Veda-age
own explanation for his talent His ability to paint a diversity 85 and Kenneth-age 90). The
with brush and paint. "Some of subjects; the various types Wyatts owned Galleries in
people hear music in their of mediums and styles he Red River, NM, Ruidoso, NM,
souls and, in inspiration, they mastered in oil, watercolor, Amarillo, TX, and in their
write it down. As for me, I pastel, pencil, bronze, pewter Tulia home.
see paintings in my soul, and (including hundreds of
I just push the paint around original cross sculptures for The number of people
Kenneth Wyatt with his until it looks like what I see jewelry) is unmatche.Kenneth Kenneth has reached through
daughter, Jill Wyatt Marshall inside." Wyatt's paintings are for his God-given gifts of heart-
everyone, as evidenced by his touching, soul-stirring, and
Kenneth was proud to be collectors: farmers, queens, beautiful art, as author and
born and raised a Christian/ bankers, presidents, movie poet, as motivational speaker
Texan/American and stars, clergy, and teachers and entertainer is countless!
represented his titles well! (just to name a few)...the How do I know all of this?
Wyatt was ordained as a fan base runs mighty deep! Because I had the best gift of
Methodist Minister at the His religious art hangs in all…He was my Dad.
age of 15, was a captain in churches of all denominations
the U.S. Navy and began and in more than ninety
his career as an artist at 40.
Rider on the Rim countries.

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