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Determination, Discipline Drive Driver By Lyn Rejahl Pry, Editor
There is nothing average about Donald Driver. Even the reason he and his wife, Betina, chose to build their home in Flower Mound in 2007 is not average. “During the [playing] season, we lived in Green Bay,” said the retired NFL Super Bowl XLV Champion and Packer Hall of Fame inductee. “But we wanted a permanent home. I suggested Houston [his birthplace], but Betina said ‘no,’ and she suggested Atlanta, but that felt like Hollywood. We came to Flower Mound for a cousin’s wedding in 2004 and liked it.” It could’ve been the town’s proximity to DFW airport or that it’s close to both Houston and Betina’s hometown of Cleveland, Mississippi, or its location between Dallas and Fort Worth that led
the couple to choose Flower Mound; but, that wasn’t why. “I got used to having a basement-- after living in the Midwest-- and I really liked it,” he said. “Once I found out that they’d [U.S. Corps of Engineers] said I could have a basement on the bluff on Lake Grapevine … that was it. I like walking out of my basement to the pool and the view of the lake.” His is quite a journey, from being the middle child of five kids who spent some time living in motel rooms-- bought with food stamps-- after his parents, Faye Gray and Marvin Driver, Jr., divorced and a collection agency took the family’s possessions. He moved in with his grandmother, See DRIVER on Page A19
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Flower Mound resident and former Super Bowl champ Donald Driver (left) with Dr. John Myers at Driven Elite Fitness & Health in Grapevine.
On a Search for Healing By Lyn Rejahl Pry, Editor
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Josh Felt of Flower Mound has battled Lyme disease for the past five years.
In March 2013, everything changed dramatically for a once energetic and larger-than-life young man in Flower Mound. Even though we don’t hear as much about it here in Texas, Lyme disease is the most common insect-transmitted disease in America-- even more than West Nile virus. By far the greatest number of Lyme disease cases, over 20,000 a year, are seen in the upper Midwest and northeastern states. But, Texas sees dozens of cases every year, mostly within the Golden Triangle region between Houston, Dallas and Austin. Most chronic Lyme sufferers are ill for months, years or even decades before they come to understand the root-cause of their disease. Most sufferers consult with
a multitude of doctors, only to have to figure it out for themselves. Such was the case of Josh Felt, the eldest of five children in the Australian family, which moved to Texas in 2009; his sophomore year at Marcus High School in Flower Mound. His father, Robert, said the family all adjusted to its new home and Josh was active and involved at Marcus, where he was on the Cross Country running team. See LYME on Page A7
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