The quilt panel for Bill Nelson and Terry Tebedo. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice) The Crow Museum has three panels from the Names Project’s AIDS Memorial Quilt on display.
One of them is a Dallas panel that is the most requested piece of the Quilt of the 50,000 panels. That panel contains the quilt for Duane Kearns Puryear.
The powerful message on the panel reads, “My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 p.m.
I was 22 years old. Sometimes it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead…” Duane died in 1991.