CANYON, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) - West Texas A&M University announced its WT Family of the Year was honored Saturday, including a mother with roots at the university dating back to the 1930s.

Carrie Padgett was selected as the top winner for WT's annual Family Weekend after being nominated by her son, Phillip Urquidez, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from Kansas.

Urquidez said Padgett helped him find scholarship opportunities and has continued to call and text frequently with news of university activities.

"From my freshman move-in day, she has only encouraged me to be as proud of the University as she is," said Urquidez in his nomination form. "She boasts the university and its programs to all our southwest Kansas friends. And here I am today because of my mother and her determinati

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