Dr. and Mrs. Wm. A. Warner

After Phebe Warner's 1916 lecture on dry-land farming in El Paso, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's editor invited her to write for the paper, and for nineteen years she contributed to Texas newspapers and magazines. Governor Hobby named her the state's representative to the National Congress of Farm Women in 1920, and President Hoover appointed her to a national Home Builders Committee in 1929. She ran fourth among ten candidates for Congress in 1932, served ten years on the first Texas State Park Board and was among the first to urge a park in Palo Duro Canyon.

What the plaque says

Dr. and Mrs. Wm. A. Warner Two of the most admired and beloved pioneer citizens of Armstrong County, Dr. Warner (1864-1934) was a country physician and his wife Phebe (Kerrick) (1866-1935) was an ardent humanitarian. Natives of Illinois, they were married in Claude in 1898. During his 35-year practice here, Dr. Warner made numerous calls by buggy and delivered over 2,000 babies, many in dug-outs. Affectionately called "The Little Brown Wren" for her busy, cheerful manner, Mrs. Warner originated women's clubs in the Panhandle and continually worked to improve rural life. (1969)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Gem Theatre — steps away
  Claude's small-town movie house of 1915, restored by the Armstrong County Museum and remembered for the scene in Hud where Homer and Lonnie Bannon sing along to Clementine.
• Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight Ranch State Historic Site — 11 mi
  The two-story house the Goodnights moved into on December 27, 1887, after leaving the JA, with a porch that looks over bison descended from the calves Mary Ann saved.
• Carson County Square House Museum — 16 mi
  The 1880s ranch cottage that is the oldest house in the town of Panhandle, at the heart of a twenty-one-building museum of the plains from mammoth hunters to the oil boom.
• Lighthouse Trail — 21 mi
  The park's most walked trail, 2.8 miles each way across the canyon floor to the Lighthouse, a hoodoo of Triassic sandstone balanced on a pedestal of softer red shale.

More markers nearby

• Route of Coronado Expedition — steps away
• Town of Claude — steps away
• Boy Scout Troop No. 17 — steps away
• Great Panhandle Indian Scare of 1891 — steps away