Henderson County Retired School Personnel Association

11/14/2025

Members of Henderson County Retired School Personnel Association (HCRSPA) were fortunate to have Candice Roberts, a Licensed Child-Care Administrator with In His Hands Children’s Home located in Trinidad, Texas, as the speaker at their November 12th meeting.

Their “General Residential Operation is a licensed, non-profit, non-denominational charitable children's home for up to 20 girls, specializing in quality residential care of neglected, abused,
and homeless children ages 0-17.“

Candice noted that they always try to keep siblings together; so, their long-term goal is to eventually add a second building to house boys so they can keep brothers and sisters together. Currently, brothers have to go to a different home – a lot of times in Houston.

For more information about this very worthwhile organization and how you can help, please visit their page at In His Hands Children’s Home or their website at www.inhishandschildrenshome.com. They have both short-term and long-term goals listed that you can help them achieve.

10/14/2025

Two Henderson County Veterans were honored in a Quilts of Valor ceremony at the October 8th meeting of Henderson County Retired School Personnel Association (HCRSPA).

Audrey Martens, Coordinator of the Safari Quilter’s Group of the Quilts of Valor Foundation, awarded quilts to Bill Davidson, husband of HCRSPA member Beth Davidson, and Boyd Foster, husband of HCRSPA member Delores Foster. Audrey was assisted in the presentations by Audra Laneri and Roylynn Ormand.

Bill Davidson served in the U. S. Army as an Aircraft Specialist for Helicopter Parts in Nha Trang, Vietnam, from 1965-1966.

Boyd Foster served in the U. S. Army from 1960-1963 and spent his last year and a half in Frankfort, Germany, serving as an Army Specialist with the Corporal Missile Unit.

The mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation is to cover Service Members and Veterans touched by war with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor. For more information about Quilts of Valor please visit www.qovf.org.

HCRSPA meets on the second Wednesday of each month, September – May, at Athens First Methodist Church, currently in the Modern Worship Center. Anyone who is a retired public school employee is invited to join. Any person interested in public education and willing to work to achieve the objectives of TRTA is also welcome to join.

HCRSPA was founded on September 25, 1974, and has been active in Athens and Henderson County as a service organization through its Scholarships, Books for Children and Community Service programs for the past 50 years. For more information about HCRSPA, please email us at hendersoncrspa@gmail.com

Shown in the picture from left are Roylynn Ormond, Audra Laneri, Veteran Bill Davidson, husband of HCRSPA member Beth Davidson, Veteran Boyd Foster, husband of HCRSPA member Delores Foster, and Audrey Martens.

10/08/2025

HCRSPA Treasurer Betty Gore, President Malcolm Quattlebaum and 1st VP Stella Sikes attended the TRTA District 7 Fall Conference on Tuesday, October 7, in Henderson, Texas.

10/08/2025

HCRSPA will be meeting this Wednesday in the Modern Worship Center at Athens First Methodist Church. Refreshments begin at 1:30 and the meeting will begin at 2 pm.

Our program will be honoring all veterans and two Quilts of Valor will be presented to Boyd Foster and Bill Davidson.

All are welcome to attend.

09/06/2025

Our first meeting of the 2025-2026 year will be held Wednesday, September 10, at Athens First Methodist Church in the Modern Worship Center. We will begin with a potluck lunch at 12 noon followed by our meeting at 1 pm. Texas State Representative Keith Bell will be our featured speaker. All are welcome to join us at
our meeting.

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