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Story Of Woman’s Miracle To Be On Television
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LISA MADDOX
Couch will
her the whole story.
“FOR SIX YEARS I had a
pacemaker, and I was instructed to
my pulse every day,” Doris
“One day I checked it after
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on national televis**' She is scheduled check i
to appear on the no Club, a religious recalls,
variety program jeen in the Fort coming home from a very exhausting
Worth-Dallas area on Channel 39 on day and it was at 48.1 got dressed and
Wednesday, Sept. 16 at 9 a.m. and 9 went to the hospital,” she
That was perhaps
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Wednesday, Sap*. 16 at 0 a.m. and 9
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Couch has been an evangelist for two
following a toiraculous healing
tanged her life. She now works to
years, followinj
that changed he
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continued,
the first step that
led to the change in her life, for as she
laid on a bed in the emergency room
______________and watched the monitor she had a
info the lives of others very close brush with death. “The nee-
dle was going up and down in a very
had been seriously sick with frantic motion," she remembers. “I
problems, the most knew that I was dying and I screamed
serious of which was a deteriorating for Jesus to help me.”
heart disease known as car- From that moment on Doris began
diomyopathy (sick heart muscle). The listening to cassette tapes of the New
only hope for someone who suffers from Testament and reading the Bible avid-
sdeh a disoaae is a heart transplant. ly. A few months later while preparing
’In 1974 tile doctors had discovered for a Sunday School class she came
that she had only three to five years to across a scripture that was to take on a
live, unless fhay could find s suitable special meaning in her life,
donck for a heart transplant as the con- “I WASN'T LOOKING in that Book of
dition worsened. However, Doris was the Bible, but for some reason my
not aware of the critical state of her fingers kept turning the pages to
heart until six years later, when she Ezekiel 36:26. f read the scripture over
believes that she was given a new heart and over and then it hit me that God
from God. It was then that doctors told was trying to tell me that He had given
me a new heart.”
Doris was the previous owner of one
of the largest insurance agencies in
Burleson, as well as an accounting
practice and income tax
practice. Her health in those six years
had deteriorated so much that she was
unable to continue working full time in
her Her husband continued to
manage the business until they decided
to sell the insurance portion of it.
A few months later they also decided
but for
i was then com-
pletely well and felt the call to
evangelistic work, having less time to
devote to her accounting practice.
However, she continues to work in her
agencies in « luwmuo uicjr disu i
accounting to sell the accounting practice,
preparation different reasons. Doris was tin
se six years pletely well and felt the <
office during income tax season when returned to her
she admits to having great oppor- shining and a smile from ear to ear. His
assg% ssssis
ESSSsHS SSSSSSS
he agreed. A year later the same man changed.
Trustees Will Meet Tonight
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With the budget, tax rate and ac-
companying public hearings behind
them for another year, Burleson School
| Trustees will settle back down into the
routine with a relatively short agenda
| tonight (Monday).
Not that a subject such as taxes won’t
assessed and collected city taxes. Next
year, however, valuations will be set by
the Johnson County Central Tax Ap-
praisal District so the school tax office
will be out of the assessment business.
. Not that a subject such uttMB won't w«Al cmtlaue lc mahe It,
■ come up at all Besides the monthly own deUlKluent tax collectlons
report from the tax office, the board Board members will also take a look
will take a look at a proposed agree- at the Burleson High School Inf orna-
ment with The City of Burleoson for col- tion Guidebook for students. A number
lecting taxes. of revisions have been made since last
For a number of years the BISD tax year and trustees will be asked to give
_ _ " office has assessed taxes for the citv their approval to these changes.
Doris Couch and last year the school district both under the proposed contract,
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BISD would continue to collect city
taxes undo- a formula that comes out to
$1,029 per month payment by the city
to foe school district.
Cockerham said he does not anticipate
needing to borrow money, but his re-
quest is made routinely every year in
the event the district is late in receiving
state allocated funds or local tax money
is slow in coming in.
Personnel consideration, including a
look at the substitute teacher list, wrap
up the meeting except for the routine
r.agenda.
the items on every .!
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on the application. The time factor also
entered into their decision since COG
wanted any comment thenrevious day.
-Approved the revised finaLpfat of
lot 3A, Block 2 of the WilshhWfflage — - j
Addition. This is the lot owned by the ,,;
Burelson Area Chamber of Commerce )
The chamber sold 39 feet of thAlot to
Circuits, Inc. ami has a potential buyer
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Moody, James. Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 95, Ed. 1 Monday, September 14, 1981, newspaper, September 14, 1981; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth760891/m1/4/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Burleson Public Library.