‘His patients loved him’: Family remembers Texas doctor who died in winter storm
A longtime Bedford physician who died during this week’s winter storm is being remembered as a hardworking doctor who was loved by his patients and his family.
Barry Alldredge went to check on his cows Sunday morning, Jan. 25, as temperatures dropped into the teens, and he fell into a freezing pond at his Colleyville home. Dr. Alldredge, 78, was taken in critical condition to the emergency room at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Grapevine, where he died Sunday afternoon.
Hardworking doctor, husband, father
For nearly 40 years, Dr. Alldredge practiced internal medicine in Bedford, opening his practice in 1978, and his practice grew along with the Hurst-Euless-Bedford area. He retired at age 70, his wife, Faye Alldredge, told the Star-Telegram.
Faye said her husband came from “a long line of hardworking men” who were taught to do things the right way. “He was always thorough with his patients, and his patients loved him,” she said.
He enjoyed working in the pasture and handled the yard and pool maintenance himself until a few years ago. “He was always quick to lend a hand to anybody that needed it,” his wife said.
The couple met nearly five decades ago at St. Paul Hospital in Dallas, where he was a physician and she was a registered nurse. “We are one month shy of 48 years of marriage,” Faye said.
They have three children and seven grandchildren.
“He was a good dad, an excellent provider, supporter of all of our activities and a very excellent doctor,” their son Blake Alldredge said.
“He was probably the hardest-working person that I know, probably worked a lot more than he should have, but that was how he did it,” he said.
The day of the accident
North Texas temperatures dropped to around 13 degrees on Sunday. Faye said her husband was “determined to break the ice up so the cows could drink” — something he had done many times in the winter during the 20 years they lived at the home.
“Just this one time he slipped, and the outcome wasn’t as good,” she said.
Faye said she thinks her husband fell and hit his head and had a large laceration. “That’s probably what put him in the water.”
She thinks he probably was unconscious at that point. Faye said she doesn’t know how long he was in the pond. She tried to get to him but couldn’t, and that’s when she called 911.
Faye said she had surgery in December which required her to carry a portable oxygen machine on a walker. She tried to get through the slushy ice, but the fence was frozen, preventing her from getting out.
She had to leave the walker, and when she stepped out, she fell on her side and strained a muscle trying to get back on her feet, she said.
Colleyville police officers and firefighters responded about 10:30 a.m. to the Alldredges’ home, where they found that Faye had fallen in the back pasture and could not get up.
When firefighters picked her up, she asked, “What’s going on?” She said they told her that her husband had been pulled from the water, and she knew then “things were going to look bleak.”
When Blake got the call about his father, he said, it was a “pretty big shock because he would always be out working hard, and he was always OK but this time he was not.”
A deadly winter storm
The bitter cold weekend in North Texas resulted in at least seven other fatalities due to the inclement weather. Two people in Fort Worth died outdoors due to the cold, Fort Worth police have said.
Two 16-year-old girls died following a sledding accident in Frisco after the sled being pulled by a Jeep hit a curb and then collided with a tree. And mom lost her three sons who drowned when they fell through the ice into a pond in Bonham.
Faye Alldredge’s message to people who lost loved ones in this winter storm is to “rely on their friends and on God and just take each day as it comes.” She added that friends and their church “lift you up and keep you going.”
“Life is fragile, at the end of it you really see what kind of relationships you had in times like this,” Blake said. “Value those relationships with friends, family, neighbors and co-workers.”
In lieu of flowers, the family is asking for donations to First Baptist Church of Hurst or to Doctors Without Borders.
“He was a caring man and a good doctor and a good husband, a good father — he was just a normal person that did the best he could,” Faye said in memory of her husband.
This story was originally published January 29, 2026 at 5:54 PM.