Obituary: H.V. ‘Mac’ McFarland

H.V. (Mac) McFarland, Jr. was born Jan. 10, 1933, in Leander, Texas, to the late H.V. McFarland, Sr. and Leona P. Simpson McFarland. He spent his younger years in Texas and New Mexico, Where his father was a civil servant working on military bases. Mac attended high school in New Deal (near Lubbock), Texas, where he was an avid football player, even receiving a scholarship to attend a local junior college. Mac was drafted during…