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Bud Brumley graduated TCU as a
second lieutenant in the US Army, so
the newly weds put on their traveling
shoes for a few years. Bud went to
peacetime Korea in 1959 and even-
tually retired as a captain. They had
three sons.
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and fixed-wing pilot in the Army, and
when the Bay of Pigs came up, it hit
me that I needed to do something,
because by that time we had two
children, and I said, ‘I’ve got to do
something in case something happens
to him!’” Marilyn recalled. “So I
started at Texas Wesleyan and got my
degree and taught school, taught art
for 16 years in Fort Worth and about
six or so in Aledo.”
As an artist and former teacher,
Marilyn believes art is good for soci-
ety, a positive influence perhaps a
little too often taken for granted.
“I really get upset when the
schools don’t offer it to children,” she
said, “because I think sometimes that
art allows us to express ourselves,
whether it’s in the arts like I do or
music or dance. I think there are
times it allows persons to become
who they should be.”
Born in Cowtown and growing up
on the Northside, Marilyn, in 1955,
graduated high school and married
her high school sweetheart — Bud.
“He’s still my sweetheart,” she
said matter of factly. “We married
when I got out of high school,
because he had graduated from TCU
— he was a basketball player at TCU,
had come up here on a full-blown
basketball scholarship, never seen a
two-story building; that’s how coun-
try he was. We started dating on a
blind date.”
“Three sons, three daughters-in-
law (we only got our daughters by
marriage) and six grandsons,” she
said. Two of the sons, the oldest
and the youngest, are in business
with their parents, partners since the
beginning. The Northside business is
called Brumley Printing. “This March
we’ve been in it, let’s see, 29 years,
with my husband and two sons, and
we haven’t killed each other yet,”
Marilyn said with a chuckle.
Marilyn, who lives in Aledo and
is a member of the Weatherford Art
Association, is currently into stained
glass and decorative pillows, which
she colors to great effect with colored
pencils.
“I started the stained glass 10 or
12 years ago,” she said, “and I loved
the glass because I’ve always loved
color. I started out doing standard
stained glass, which was the cane
and the soldering and all that stuff.
Then I saw some pieces that were
mosaic stained glass.” She worked
at that to develop her own style and
now, “Oh, my gosh, I love stained
glass!” she confirms.
“I do stained glass on clear glass,
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