Sunday, June 22, 2025

‘Way to go … way to go!’

Louise Deems has been teaching swimming lessons since early childhood, imparting lifesaving knowledge to more than 4,000 Hood County students

By CHLOE LAING, Staff Writer
Posted 5/28/25

Everyone who has had the pleasure of meeting Louise Deems eventually ends up wondering if she's hiding gills under her latex floral swim cap. Throughout the course of her long and colorful life, there’s not a time the 69-year-old Granburian recalls being out of the water for more than 48 hours. Every summer since 1977, she has spent her days in the pool of her Granbury home, teaching the community’s youngest and oldest residents alike how to swim.

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