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San Marcos mayor proclaims days honoring three longtime city employees
Summary
Mayor Jane Hewson issued proclamations recognizing Mary Louise Garcia (47 years at the San Marcos Library), Karen Smith (33 years in the City Manager's Office) and Roya Williamson (nearly 19 years with the San Marcos Police Department victim services), each praised for decades of service as they retire.
Mayor Jane Hewson on Jan. 30, 2026 read proclamations honoring three retiring city employees, declaring days in their names and thanking them for decades of public service.
The proclamations recognized Mary Louise Garcia for 47 years at the San Marcos Library, Karen Smith for a cumulative 33 years in the City Manager's Office, and Roya Williamson for nearly 19 years as a victim services coordinator with the San Marcos Police Department. "Thank you for all those years and the thousands of people that you have helped," Mayor Jane Hewson said after reading the proclamations.
Mary Louise Garcia began working at the San Marcos library on Sept. 25, 1978 and was credited in the proclamation with adapting from typewriters to computerized cataloging systems, leading the cataloging of the Texana books from the Mike Cox…
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