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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
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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.
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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 asstWhite House Group Dallas Tx
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
Searcy R. Whaley
March 20, 1910 -- September 30, 2003
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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