Friday, April 26, 2024
Under the glare of Friday night’s lights, Hannah Branum nervously toes the 50-yard line hanging on to her father’s arms.
Richard Branum leans over ever so slightly and whispers in her ear: “I’m really proud of you.”
The Granbury senior and head drum major wearing a burgundy dress was crowned 2020 Homecoming Queen at Johnny Perkins Field. Her beaming mother Suzzi was cheering her on in the stands.
“I was so surprised,” Hannah Branum said. “The court was full of such great girls. Anyone could have won it.”
Dana Ruth Meyer Wilson-McCoy and Charles T. (Charlie) McCarty Jr., 1970 graduates of Granbury High School, were also honored as the Coming Home Queen and King at halftime of the Granbury/Copperas Cove non-conference football game.
The show included a colorful and graceful performance by the Stowaways. The Granbury High School dance team delighted the socially distanced crowd of about 500 with a Field skirt routine to Journey’s “Any Way You Want It.”
Branum knows her selection can open doors.
“Its a really big honor to be Homecoming Queen because you get to be the face of the school,” she said. “This will help me talk to people inside and outside of school.”
The girl with long blonde hair and easy smile understands the networking opportunities will certainly help her quest to become a businesswoman. She envisions opening a chiropractic practice in Granbury “if not as close to Granbury as possible.”
Being involved in the community has always been in her heart.
“I just wish this was a normal school year,” she said, reflecting on the many changes the pandemic has wrought to her school. “But I am very appreciative of what the school district has done in making our high school experience as close to normal as possible and still make it memorable for us.”
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