Blair and Brooke Harber, ages 13 and 11, died after being swept 15 miles from their grandparents’ home in Hunt, Texas, last summer. Their grandparents, Mike and Charlene Harber, were also found dead after the Fourth of July floods.
“The thought of losing all your children at that age – and your parents – is so unimaginable that I choke every time I think or talk about it,” Maguire wrote in an email. He has been a member at St. Rita Catholic Parish for 27 years, the church where the Harber family attends, and where the girls attended school. St. Rita honored the Harbers with a memorial rosemary on July 3, 2026.
Renny’s is hosting a lunch and dinner series from now through July 12, 2026. Inspired by Restaurant Week, an annual food event during which restaurants create fixed menus and give a percentage to charity, Renny’s fundraiser will follow a similar framework. Customers can order a 3-course meal at Renny’s for $49. From each, $10 goes to blairandbrooke.org.
Course one includes the choice of a summer salad with strawberries, coconut shrimp or arancini with basil pesto aioili. In course two, customers pick grilled Alaskan halibut, grilled pork or beef tenderloin with crab meat. Dessert is either berries with Grand Marnier sabayon or a cast iron skillet with Blair Harber’s favorite chocolate chip cookie.
The restaurant will also sell boxes of Mexican vanilla chocolate chip cookies, a recipe from Blair, who was an aspiring baker. The suggested donation is $10 for each box of four large cookies, and 100% goes to the family fundraiser.
Maguire and his wife have been hard at work baking cookies to keep up with demand. They made 50 boxes initially and sold out on the first day, he said.
Renny’s is close in proximity to St. Rita, which made it an easy decision for Maguire to create an event to support their friends in need. He said Mike and Charlene Harber dined at the restaurant “just a few days prior to the flood” last year.
Renny’s Bar & Grill is at 11611 Preston Road (near Forest Lane), Dallas. The coursed menu benefiting the Harber family is available for lunch and dinner and runs until July 12, 2026. The restaurant is closed July 4 and July 6, 2026.