High school confidential

Lewisville ISD lights stadiums to honor coach's memory

Lewisville school officials planned to turn the lights on at Goldsmith Stadium and Neal E. Wilson Jaguar Stadium on Saturday night to honor the memory of Neal Wilson, their longtime athletic director and namesake of one of the stadiums.

Wilson, 65, died Saturday morning in Dallas of leukemia. He had begun his career as a middle school coach in Lewisville in 1965, became a head football coach at Decatur and Saginaw Boswell, and returned to be head coach at Lewisville.

Funeral for Mineral Wells legend is Thursday

Bobby Burris will be mourned Thursday in Mineral Wells, where he was one of the town's most accomplished athletes.

He died last weekend in Arlington at age 70. Services are scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church in Mineral Wells.

He won the Class 3A state pole vault championship in 1957 and was a standout in football, track and diving, says Mark Bumpus, chairman of the Mineral Wells High School Athletic Hall of Fame committee. Burris was inducted into the Mineral Wells hall in 2001.

-- Carlos Mendez