Paul and Courtney
Paschall
Patience is a Virtue
FEBRUARY 2016
PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY
Paul Paschall and Courtney Dickert
were both students at Tarleton State
University when they met.
Paul was working for the police
department, writing parking tickets,
when he spotted a beautiful blonde
walking across the parking lot.
“I told one of the policemen that
I was going to marry her someday,”
Paul recalls. He did manage to meet
her. There was only one big obstacle
to overcome before the wedding.
Courtney already had a boyfriend
and once she got to know Paul she
thought of him as a nice guy who
was a great friend but not really
boyfriend material. So, the two of
them became “just friends.”
Then, a year and a half later,
Courtney broke up with her boyfriend
and Paul had a chance to come to
her rescue.
“I helped her move a bunch of
furniture from Mississippi in the
14
summer,” Paul said. What better way
to say, “I care,” right?”
On their first date, they had
dinner at Chili’s in Fort Worth on
Hulen Street.
That was in 1995. He proposed to
her a year later in Dallas when they
had dinner at the Hyatt Regency.
“Our wedding was in West
Monroe, Louisiana,” Paul Paschall
said. “It was a beautiful wedding but
I can’t remember any of the particulars about it except for how beautiful
Courtney looked.”