More Than A Queen Family of Camry Weinheimer remembers her compassion, spirituality. By Samuel Sutton Standard-Radio Post editor
Camry Weinheimer will always be remembered for her giving spirit.
by and said, ‘You put that shoe on backwards.’” She recalled the man picked up the foot in confusion, and Camry responded with, “Made you look.”
person a child would run up to either because they scraped their knee or because she was giggling about something funny they did.”
She also loved playing softball, competing with Fredericksburg High “That’s the kind dry sense of humor School for all four years and playing she had,” Haecker said. one year for the ASU Rams team. Throughout life, the family “She loved to play, but college remembers she always loved sports were too intense and time kids. In fact, she got her degree consuming for Camry,” Len said. “She in interdisciplinary studies with a Caring spirit wanted to focus more on her studies. special education certification from She loved to play the game for fun, “She always had a smile on Angelo State University to fulfill but decided education was more her face,” said her father, Len her dream of being a kindergarten important.” Weinheimer. “She had a dry sense of teacher. humor.” Softball and her love for kids were She worked for two years teaching parts of what made her who she was, A humorous moment that stood out special education and American but the most important part of her to them was a time when she told a Literature at San Angelo Central High life was her relationship with God. farrier on their ranch that he put on a School and spent some time as a horseshoe wrong. kindergarten teacher in Comfort in Camry’s family said her Christian 2020. spirit would often intermingle with “He had been shoeing horses for her love for kids. As an example, a while and we were good friends “You could tell she cared, but she when her second cousin, Libby Klein, with him, too,” said her sister, Lexus also enjoyed the childhood humor,” was nominated for homecoming Haecker. “She was casually walking Haecker said. “She would be the queen at Fredericksburg High Camry, the 125th Gillespie County Fair Queen in 2013, died of cancer at the age of 25 on May 1, 2022. But even through the grueling months of treatments, her family said she was always full of life.
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