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Wild fires and a recovered Aggie Ring

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CanyonAg77
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To make it football related, I'm sure Dr. Garner attended Aggie football games.

Reader's Digest version: Dr. Art Garner '55 lost his home and almost all of his possessions in the grass fires that swept the Amarillo area one year ago. He was serving with the volunteer fire department, saving other homes when his was lost. His Aggie Ring was among the few possessions recovered.

After fire, Garners recover through faith, family
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Roberto Rodriguez / Amarillo Globe-News-Art Garner shows his Texas A&M University class ring, which was salvaged after his house burned down.

...It was a year ago on that windy Sunday that Art told Angeline to drive to their son David Garner’s house in Claude. Fire was engulfing Timbercreek Canyon that afternoon and Art was part of the Tanglewood volunteer fire department. Angeline needed to get to safety.

That night, a weary Art arrived at the home of his son’s family. He could barely get out the first three words, “Angeline, we’re homeless.”...

The smell of smoke had not left the Garner home when people started to show their better selves. The four Garner children and spouses the next day sifted through ashes and found Art’s 1955 Texas A&M class ring. Son Keith, a college minister in Lubbock, brought some students to sift through rubble to uncover Angeline’s LSU ring and three more rings.

McFarlin’s and Goodin’s jewelry stores cleaned the rings at no charge...
chrisocker
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Old Wooden Ship
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rocky the dog
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tx.agg.96
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TheAggie22
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SEC-UT
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I love the way that you value your rings in Texas. I have to admit mine stays mostly in the box in my dresser.

I know a guy at work who is a Texas Tech grad and he wears his every day.

UT just started a ring ceremony a couple of years ago, so I'm not really sure that it has or will catch on.
Mantis Toboggan MD
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TempleAg97
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Nonregdrummer09
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I know a guy at work who is a Texas Tech grad and he wears his every day.


That's unusual. TAMU students by far treasure their Aggie rings greater than any other University in the state. Aggie Ring Day at A&M is a huge, day long event, capping off with a Ring Dunk party that friends will have. Texas Tech, t.u., Baylor, don't really care about rings.

I'll put it this way: at my ring day ceremony/ring dunk party I had my best friend, my brother, my parents, my Uncle, my cousin, her husband, her brother, my fiance (who also received her ring that day) her parents, her brother and sister-in-law, and many friends.

At my graduation I had my parents and my brother.
MROD92
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RNGR74
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TexasAgs
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Honar
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Chips2003
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nativetxaggie89
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CanyonAg77
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A little more from August 2011
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The Garners on the day after the fire had their four grown children searching around the skeleton of their home at 102 N. Shore Drive. Angeline found some of her jewelry but everything else was twisted metal and soot. Gone were her high school yearbook from Baton Rouge, La., and Dr. Garner’s four yearbooks from Texas A&M University, as well as his Aggie ring.

“About the only thing we saved from the fire were the clothes we had on,” Garner said...

One of Art Garner’s relatives somehow found his Aggie ring among the soot just a couple of days after the fire. Old classmates and former students have given them old yearbooks of memories......

Gotta love Aggies.
Brazos Ag 1970
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UT just started a ring ceremony a couple of years ago, so I'm not really sure that it has or will catch on.
I hope it does.....that is, if it becomes meaningful to Texas grads. We very much like ours, and it provides a common bond - one of many - for those who are graduated from A&M. Texas, I'm sure, has its own things that make it unique for former students, but the ring thing is pretty damn cool, and would be something that they could cherish in a fond way as the years pass.

I've seen 'em play since way back when
And they've always had the grit.
I've seen 'em lose and I've seen 'em win
But I've never seen 'em quit.
Brazos Ag 1970
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Gotta love Aggies.
Gig 'Em.

I've seen 'em play since way back when
And they've always had the grit.
I've seen 'em lose and I've seen 'em win
But I've never seen 'em quit.
CampingAg
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Ancalagon06
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billkemp, that guys talking about Tennessee...
Brazos Ag 1970
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billkemp, that guys talking about Tennessee...
Well, I feel pretty embarrassed right now, like I just farted in church, kinda. Sorry, fellas. Please consider my above post to apply to all Tennessee Volunteers, in terms of saying positive things about the experiences this new tradition might bring to your college experience.

Gig 'Em.

I've seen 'em play since way back when
And they've always had the grit.
I've seen 'em lose and I've seen 'em win
But I've never seen 'em quit.
dcbowers
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I know a guy at work who is a Texas Tech grad and he wears his every day.


So, you deliver pizzas for a living?
Worlds Foremost Ag
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McFarlin’s and Goodin’s jewelry stores cleaned the rings at no charge...


Kiss your Balfour warranty, GOODBYE.
rmhaggie
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