Bobby Temple Frady was born on January 31, 1938 in McGregor, Texas to Robert Price and Marguerite Eak-ins Frady. He passed away on December 19, 2018, surrounded by his loving family. Bobby spent most of his life in El Paso, Texas. He graduated from Austin High School and complet-ed two years of college as a business major at Texas Western. In high school, he was a star tennis who

competed in tournaments throughout the Southwest. He was an avid sports fan who loved football, tennis and baseball. Every year he attended more than 50 games a year.

He was a very hardwork-ing honest and compas-sionate person who was extremely devoted to his family. He enjoyed travel-ing and actively supporting his grandchildren as the competed in soccer, track, football, volleyball, wres-tling, and baseball.

Upon moving to Wim-berley, Texas in 2004, he became a dedicated volun-teer at Deer Creek of Wim-

berley, Meals on Wheels, Wimberley Visitors Center, and community organiza-tion’s special projects.

Bobby is survived by his loving wife of 39 ½ years Tonda, sister, Bobbi Jean Frady, daughter, Cathy Ard-rey, grandchildren, Andrea Luu, Milton, Colby, and Claire Ardrey and grand-daughters Victoria Baker and Elizabeth Catchings.

In lieu of flowers, please donate to Wimberley Unit-ed Methodist Church, P.O. Box 737 Wimberley, Texas 78676 or Wimberley Li-brary Foundation, P.O. Box 1240 Wimberley, Texas 78676.

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One of the most popu-lar TV Game Shows in the world featured a Wimberley resident on their December 20, 2017 program. Local Katy King was a contestant on the show. Spoiler alert. She didn’t win a car or the game, but she had a great time doing it.

Katy is a member of the Wheel Watchers Club and sent an application into their website and received an email saying that try-outs would be held at the Hyatt Regency in Austin. About 50 others competed with her and 25 of the con-testants were picked, after playing the game.

Of course, WOF produc-ers taped the game’s con-testants for perusal. The producers at the tryouts would be the same produc-ers from start to end of their appearance on the show.

They were told that if they were picked they would re-ceive an email in two weeks. In two weeks, nothing was received. “Three days later,

my husband got the email. I was chosen. And my birth-day was two days later,” Katy said.

The producers phoned about a month later, and asked her if she could fly out to Los Angeles. Of course the answer was yes. They were given a choice of options at Los Angeles hotels, which Katy and her husband Ryan paid for at a reduced price. Contestants also pay for their own trav-el.

A shuttle picked them up at the hotel and trans-ported them to Sony Stu-dio at 7:15 a.m., with about 18 contestants going to the show. Once there they were broken down to six groups of three and taping for the whole week was done on one day.

Breakfast was provided and every one of the contes-tants was nervous. Paper-work had to be filled out. Then it was Wheel practice time. “The Wheel weighs over 140 lbs. and there is a proper way to spin. Every-one was cheering and Van-na White came out behind me, with no makeup and in

everyday wear. She was just beautiful. Vanna’s compa-ny, a yarn business, has 50% of the profits going to St. Jude’s. She’s really down to earth.”

On the Wheel’s set, the individual platforms on which contestants and Pat Sajak stand are hydraulic to keep everyone the same height. After watching oth-er contestants compete, it was time to get mic’ed up.

“Then it hits you. There are millions of people watching you. I was a ner-vous wreck… I hit bankrupt. Between the commercials I said, ‘Katy get it together’.

She went on to get two half cars, but she guessed the wrong answer with “Happiness and Cheers” while the answer was Hap-piness and Cheer. She lost the cars and ended up getting the parting gift of $1000. Enough to pay for plane travel and the hotel.

“It was absolutely great, amazing to see. The studio was small but looks big on TV…and the outcome had to be kept secret,” something written in the contract.

“The best part was play-ing the game, even with lots of nerves and being next to Pat.

“It was a sight to see. It was the same studio where Judy Garland and the Wiz-ard of Oz filmed the tornado scene. We couldn’t be loud in the dressing room as next door “Jeopardy” was being filmed.”

Watching the show every night with her family was a tradition. “I always said I’d be on that show while grow-ing up…and honestly it was a dream come true,” Katy said.

Katy King spins the Wheel of Fortune

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Sewer...sick of living with it... All I ever see, hear or talk about is the sewer, and I’m sick of it and I want to get it done and move on.”

After the meeting, mul-tiple city officials said they were advised by their attor-neys not to discuss what the next steps are in the pro-cess.

Former Mayor Steve Thurber said that he doesn’t believe the vote ends the discussion.

“Absolutely not,” Thurb-er said. “It is just beginning. They have a lot of work to do. As far as I know, they don’t have any money to do this plan. To my knowledge, the Texas Water Develop-

ment Board has not giv-en them approval to make this change. It is my opin-ion that they have violated several of the covenants in the bond documents. So it remains to be seen what happens there. They have a lot of things to do to get this done.”

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Lawrance Ray Smith, 68, of Wimberley, Texas passed away on December 13, 2018. He was born to Hugh Lee and Evelyn Smith in Austin, Texas on January 16, 1950. Lawrance was a 1968 grad-uate of Wm. B. Travis high school in Austin and earned

a Bachelors degree in Liber-al Studies from St. Edwards University. After 33 years of service, he retired from the Texas Department of Transportation as Director of Motor Carriers. He is survived by his wife Jane, daughter Christa and hus-

band David, son Matt and wife Vannessa, and grand-sons Hayden, Reed, Gavin and Hudson. A Memorial Service is being planned for January 12, 2019 at 1:00 at the Wimberley Communi-ty Center, 14068 RR 12 in Wimberley.

Lawrance Ray Smith

Bobby Temple Frady

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