The Waxahachie Daily Light article dated April 17, 2005, reports that Lionel “Waldo” DeCuir received the newspaper’s Headliner Award for March 2005. The award honored his extensive community service, charitable leadership, and decades of devotion to his wife, Diane.

What the Headliner Award represented

According to the article, the Daily Light…

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This is a warm human-interest story about how Robert Storey, a frightened 19-year-old Army recruit in 1966, spent nearly four decades remembering—and eventually finding—the young officer whose leadership helped shape his life.

The newspaper is the Waxahachie Daily Light, not “Daily Life.”…

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The article was written by Patrick M. Walker and published in the Waxahachie Daily Light on Sunday, September 19, 2004. It tells the deeply personal story of Diane and Lionel “Waldo” DeCuir as they approached their 40th wedding anniversary.

A marriage tested by serious illness

The opening explains that a 40th anniversary would normally be…

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