Deborah Reese Potts Deborah Reese Potts lived a life of joy, happiness, and love. She was born on May 21, 1952 to parents Gertrude Marie Stubbs (Reese) and to Hiram Drew Reese. She grew up in the south Texas towns of Three Rivers and Pleasanton, where she developed her life-long love of Mexican food.
She graduated from Pleasanton High School in 1970. Debbie attended Baylor University, where she met the love of her life, Arthur Neale Potts, Jr., when they were assigned as lab partners.
Neale and Debbie were married on May 26, 1973. She graduated from Baylor University in 1974 with a bachelors degree in English and Journalism Education. She completed her master’s degree in school counseling in 1975.
While at Baylor University, she worked for the student newspaper, The Baylor Lariat, and she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She received the Frank and Sue Mayborn scholarship in journalism. In her senior year at Baylor, she was named as one of 10 outstanding senior women.
For 33 years, Debbie worked as a counselor at Belton High School and later went on to serve in the role of counseling coordinator. She also headed up the Teen Involvement program at the high school for many years and was instrumental in starting the Freshman Focus student orientation program. Debbie began a career in private practice in 2008, working at Chupik Counseling and retired from Baylor Scott & White, where she was a mental health therapist for children and adolescents, Debbie was always read.