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Tues Sept 30 2003
In Memorium
We Regret to Announce the Passing
of Searcy W. of Dallas Texas
White House Group
Yale Plan Hospital Developer in the 1940s.
He was the man who sobered up Ebby T
Bill Wilson's Sponsor in the 1950s
He was the founder and sponsor of the
Old Timers Convention/ReUnion
Gathering of the Eagles
He was a tireless worker
for sobriety and the cause of AA.
55 years sober
I went to the White House Group
often when I lived in Dallas,
and Searcy opened his AA Museum Archives
to me often. He gave me great encouragement
in the development of this website.
He was really my only link to living AA History.
We All will Miss him. Our Support Goes to his wife in this time of
need.
LD P Editor www.aabibliograpy.com
At 2:15am God saw fit to take
our beloved Searcy home. As he passed his loving and devoted wife Margaret was
by his side. We ask that there be no calls at this time. For
the first time in weeks she has been able to rest peacefully. We are in the
process of making arrangement for the funeral. Time and place as well as hotels
in the vicinity will be posted in the next few days. Don't forget to keep
sharing your love and compassion to those around you.
In loving service,
Ellie S.
Searcy's office asst
White House Group Dallas Tx
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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.
Source: The Fort Worth Star Telegram 10/2/2003
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Searcy R. Whaley died September 30, 2003 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, Texas, to James
and Etta Whaley. For 57 years, Searcy was an active member of Alcoholics
Anonymous (AA).
In 1948, at the insistence of AA's co-founder Bill Wilson, 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, Connecticut 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 alcoholic 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 to
today's drug and alcohol treatment centers) in Lubbock, Dallas, Houston, and
Carlsbad, New Mexico. Alcoholics were brought in there 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.
Searcy is survived by his loving wife Margaret--one of the earliest al-anon
family group members. |
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