Can John Sharp protect his maroon empire?

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6. My parents owned that house from 1971 to 1998.

However, there wasn't any reason to remain there after my father retired in 1985. It's 25 miles away from the nearest hospital and it doesn't rain very much in that part of south Texas so my mother could never grow the flower gardens that she hoped for. While my father had a garden and raised many different vegetables, as far as flowers were concerned it was pretty much limited to zinnias and snapdragons. They moved to Brenham and she kept busy in the garden until a few weeks before she passed away in October 2000.