About Our Namesake

Leonard & Audrey Dearing

Dearing Elementary opened in 2014 and is named for Pflugerville couple Leonard and Audrey Dearing. The Dearings have long been active members of the community and given back in many ways. 

Leonard Dearing was a former member and president of the Pflugerville ISD Board of Trustees before his passing in 2007. He also was honored as a participating supporter of Pflugerville High School’s FFA Chapter.

Audrey was a founding member of the Friends of Pflugerville Library, helping establish a library for the community before the city created its own public library. She and some friends saw a need for a library in the community when a mobile library serving Pflugerville quit running in the 1970s.

Audrey also partnered with her friends and fellow Pflugerville icons Vernagene Mott and Pamela Stephenson to write “Images of America: Pflugerville” detailing the history and founding of Pflugerville.