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some social events to be held in the garden .
“ They did such a beautiful job of restoring the gardens to their original splendor ,” Bodiford said . “ The Bradfords became my heroes .”
One morning while Bodiford was reading her Sunday paper , she spotted an ad announcing that the property was for sale . Tears came to her eyes . “ I became physically ill ,” she said . “ I just knew some developer from Dallas would buy it and do who knows what with it . The Bradfords had purchased the property when it was in decline ; they had renovated it and brought it back to life . When they put it on the market , I was so afraid it was in danger of being lost forever .”
Bodiford , who was new to the Weatherford City Council at the time , sprang into action . Fortunately , she wasn ’ t alone in viewing Chandor Gardens as a local treasure . She initiated a grassroots campaign to save Chandor Gardens . At first , Bodiford ’ s efforts seemed hopeless .
“ It was just after 9 / 11 ,” she said . “ The city council had set some goals about what we wanted to accomplish for the coming year , what we intended to accomplish . Acquiring another park wasn ’ t one of them . This wasn ’ t the first time an effort was made to make Chandor city property .”
The first time had been following the death of Douglas Chandor , when his widow , Ina approached the city council with an offer to donate the gardens to the city , and they respectfully declined her offer . That was in the 1950s . The second time had been after the death of Ina Chandor . Again , the city council had declined .
“ I approached a number of highprofile citizens in the community ,” Bodiford said . “ I was amazed at how few of them had actually seen Chandor Gardens and others hadn ’ t been there since they were children .” She set out to remedy that , starting with then Mayor Joe Tison .
“ At the time , when that purchase became available , I wasn ’ t sure that I could support it because we had set some other priorities ,” Tison said . “ Then Jamie asked me to come out and take a tour of the gardens with her .” While giving her little hope that he ’ d change his mind , Tison did go