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PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY
“harvesting the fruits of their labor”,
they also sold raffle tickets through
the third weekend in August, when
everything came to a head at the
club’s annual picnic – another
tradition still intact.
“We have a picnic in August
every year,” 20-year member Chris
Uptmore said. “That’s when we raffle
off the quilt. Everybody brings a
covered dish just like they did many
moons ago. We used to have music,
but our music people got too old to
play, I guess.”
McCarty helped her friend recall
why the music finally stopped. “Well,
they died.”
This year’s quilt was another
sentimental work, a tapestry of several
members’ lives gone by in the small
agricultural hub. The centerpiece is
a Texas star and longhorn silhouette.
The surrounding elements are
several members’ ranch brands – a
traditional Texan’s thumbprint.
The raffle raised nearly $640 and
the quilt went home to newcomer
Mary Erichsen.
You don’t have to be a member to
join the raffle.
“Anybody can give a dollar,”
McCarty said. “It’s a dollar [for a
ticket]. We put them in a garbage
sack, shake them up and let a little
child come around [and do the
drawing].”
Participants can have the odds
stacked in their favor by purchasing
multiple tickets, but the raffle bag has
a mind of its own, McCarty said.
In the late ‘70s, the club quilted a
friendship quilt, where each member
contributed and had their name
stitched onto the fabric. But that
year’s raffle led a very special quilt to
a sad ending – at least for a while.
Pointing to it in the room, McCarty
said the quilt had been on a journey
since it was created and raffled off
until three or four years ago.
“At the time, we sold tickets for
50 cents for a chance on the quilt,”
McCarty said. “This man bought one
50-cent ticket and won this quilt.
It made Connie Howard mad. She
said he would probably let his dog
sleep on it. She fussed about it till
she died. Dana Newman [found and]
bought this at a store in Mineral Wells
and donated it to our club. She’s a
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