We are men who lead, serve, protect and defend, whether we are giving out Coats for Kids, donating wheelchairs, lending a helping hand in disaster relief efforts, supporting local pregnancy centers or providing top-quality financial products.
The efforts of the council’s Family of the Month for July, Marce and Brenda Tebbe, were readily seen by many parishioners yet also out of sight from all but a few. The T e b b e s planned and constructed most of the props and decorations that made Deborah Garrison’s “SKY” VBS week come alive for the parish kids in the community center in late June. They built the six-foot plane that the youngest campers could sit in, the two-dimensional plane for use by the older kids, the 15-foot radar tower in the center of the gym floor, the “metal detection” entry way and provided materials for August–It was good to see David and Veronica Ybarra, the Family of the Month for August, helping at the Fall Festival. They haven’t been able to make many council functions of late. David was scheduled to ascend from Chancellor to Deputy Grand Knight this past summer. But his KC plans and the couple’s lives changed last December, when they graciously invited Veronica’s parents – 102-year-old Amelia and 101-year-old Juan Rojas – to move into their Waxahachie home from El Paso. (The Rojases attended other aspects of the imaginative presentation. They also spearheaded the efforts to cook burgers and dogs for the wrap-up dinner. What wasn’t as noticeable was their labor among the KC’s who expanded the sprinkler system in the backyard of the rectory. They planned how to attach the new piping to the existing system (which was also installed by the council), purchased the materials – including almost 500 square feet of sod and two tons of fill dirt – rented a trencher and did the dirty work with some assistance from Allen Reitmeier and Jeff Miller. They returned to the scene of the grime three times afterward to roll the new sod and later Winter Welcome last January and occasionally join the Ybarras at 8 a.m. Mass, where David still ushers.) The Rojases, together since 1930, lived on their own in a small trailer until Amelia fell one day. “We said, ‘That’s enough,’ ” David recalled. The couple’s belongings fit in one trip of a pickup truck. A few months later, Veronica retired from her government job after 33 years instead of 35 as planned. She’s their main caregiver for most of the day. helped satisfy Fr. Joe’s request for a vegetable garden and herb garden.
