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Do you know a Texas Chiropractic Association (TCA) member from a rural area who has served the TCA, chiropractic, or their patients exceptionally well? If you do, nominate them for TCA’s P.A. Willmon Memorial Award. Email your nomination and your reasons for consideration to info@chirotexas.org or mail to the TCA office at 1122 Colorado St., Suite 307, Austin, TX 78701. Deadline for nominations is January 29. Presented by the TCA to recognize a recipient specifically from, or serving the people of a rural area, the award is named for P. A. Willmon Jr,. DC, a member of the TCA since he first began practicing chiropractic. Dr. Willmon served as TCA State Director for District 3 for nearly a decade and was chair of the TCA Mid-Winter Conference seminars for 23 years until 2003. He was also an active member of many civic activities and political campaigns. Selected as TCA’s Young Chiropractor of the Year in 1981, Dr. Willmon also won the TCA President’s Award in 1989 before being recognized with the prestigious Keeler Plaque in 2003. Born in Spur, Texas, in 1941, Dr. Willmon grew up on the family farm at Afton, Texas, and was active in 4H and FFA. He raised show sheep, pigs, rabbits, chickens and heifers. He and his siblings hoed cotton in the summer and pulled cotton in the fall. He decided to become a doctor of chiropractic when he was in the fifth grade after his older brother graduated from Texas Chiropractic College in 1949. After high school, Dr. Willmon attended Texas Chiropractic College in San Antonio and was part of the last graduating class from TCC’s San Antonio campus in 1965 before the school relocated to the Houston area. Dr. Willmon passed away in 2009.