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WOLFRAM,Joydelle (Garrett)
Joydell Garrett, b July 4, 1926 at Stranger, Falls County,
Texas-resides in Marlin, Falls county, Texas-was a daughter and
sixth child of Sanford Quay and Agnes Estell (Mitchell) Garrett, and
is the fourth generation of her father's family, and fifth
generation of her mother's family, in the county. She is the widow
of Bertram Wolfram, Jr., b February 22, 1922 in Galveston, Texas,
died there November 12, 1952 and buried in Calvary Cemetery in
Galveston-the only child of Bertram and Elizabeth (Basset) Wolfram,
natives of Texas. Bert and Joydelle were married in Lubbock, Texas
on July 4, 1950; and he was a 1943 graduate of Texas Technological
University-and practiced his profession as a Geophysicist until a
short time before his death.
Joydelle completed Stranger School, attended Marlin High School two
years, and graduated from Lubbock Senior High School, Class of 1943.
Departing Falls County in August 1942, she did not return to live
until October 1977, and has made her in Marlin since that time.
Her thirty-five years away from Falls County include two years of
work for the Senior Vice President of Twentieth Century Fox, a year
as one of the first "female detailmen" for Texas Pharmacal
Company-showing an increase of over 200% during that year; and
thirty-two years in association with various medical
professions-including the position of Administrative Assistant to
the Executive Dean and Director of The University of Texas Medical
Branch, Galveston, during which time she was in Hospital Control
during the September 1961 Hurricane Carla, and also serving as the
representative from the Medical Branch at the Dedicatory Ceremonies
for the Torbett-Hutchings-Smith Memorial Hospital in Marlin. She was
the world's first Medical Administrator of a Chronic Hemodialysis
and Renal Transplant Program, working with the renowned and combined
program of the Veterans Administration and UCLA in Los Angeles,
California; and subsequently as the Administrator of a national
committee on kidney disease-serving on an elite committee which
wrote the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act which regulates the donation
of organs for transplantation.
Mrs. Wolfram has been published in prestigious medical journals,
including the International Journal of Chronic Diseases, the
Transactions of Artificial Internal Organs Association, Texas
Journal of Medicine, and others. She is also a published poet. She
has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American
Heart Association's Texas Affiliate in Fort Worth, Texas, and was a
member of their Speaker's Bureau. She has participated in writing
various TV spot announcements for use in public service
advertisements, funded by the Detroit Committee, and related to
better understanding between races; and recruited Hollywood Stars
(including Ann Blythe, Gene Tierney, and Jim Nabors) for recording
special public service advertisements relating to endstage kidney
disease and treatment. She participated in writing and producing a
special curriculum for training patients and family members to carry
out "artificial kidney" treatment.
Mrs. Wolfram, under the direction of Dr. Milton Rubini, participated
in a study for the California Department of Public Health to
determine the feasibility of state-supported artificial kidney
programs in the State of California, and two such centers were
established as a result of the feasibility study. This same report
served as a National guideline for the White House Committee on
Kidney Disease, established by President Lyndon B. Johnson. In the
Fall of 1967, she was one of a two-member team selected to tour
eight European countries for the Veterans Administration to study
facilities, equipment, rehabilitation of patients, and methods of
financing treatment for end-stage kidney patients; and she was
awarded the Director's Commendation by the Veterans Administration
for her contributions to the medical, administrative, and scientific
programs of the Veterans Administration Center. Named Outstanding
Citizen of Galveston County in 1963, in Tarrant County in 1972, and
selected "Woman of the Year for 1985-1986" by the Beta Sigma Phi
Chapter of Alpha Omicron Omicron in Marlin, Joydelle has been named
to the International Who's Who In Poetry, in the National Register
of Prominent Americans, and honored by the Dictionary of
International Biographies. She is a past Vice President of Texas
Press Women, and a member of National Federation of Press Women, and
Poetry Society of Texas. She was nominated in 1970 for membership in
International Platform Association and American Biographical
Institute.
Since returning to Falls County in 1977, she has served with the
Falls County Historical Commission as a member, Secertary-Treasurer,
and as Chairman of the Falls County Historical Museum Endowment and
Memorial Fund-being a Founder of the Museum. In 1984, she was
appointed by Falls County Judge, Burke Kirkpatrick, to serve as
Chairman of the 1986 Falls County Sesquicentennial Committee to
celebrate 150 years of Texas. She is amember of First Presbyterian
Church of Marlin, and active in the Women of the Church Circle. She
designed the adopted Falls County Flag, which was honored by the
Texas Senate and House of Representatives on February 14, 1985, and
recommended by those bodies to be adopted by the various counties in
Texas. She has participated in the research and preparation of a
number of historical markers which have been approved by Texas
Historical Commission for Falls County.
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing these
bio of these Falls County Families to this Web page
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County
Historical Commission,
page 496-497, column 1 and 2, column 3
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