Credentialed Cooperative Director

Mr. Haynes has 23 years of ranching knowledge in the Carta Valley area. His dedication to community service is evident by his many board and committee positions. He served on the Rocksprings ISD Board of Trustees for more than ten years and the Edwards County Appraisal Board. He is currently the President of the Edwards County Appraisal Review Board. Stephen also serves on the Edwards County EMS Board of Trustees. Stephen serves on the RGEC Bylaws, Finance, Policy, board committees.

Credentialed Cooperative Director

Credentialed Cooperative Director

Bill and his wife Rita, have been Co-op members for over 28 years. They first moved to Del Rio about 41 years ago, when he was an instructor pilot at Laughlin AFB. After serving his tour in the USAF, Bill used his B.S. degree in Mathematics to teach high school in Del Rio. He then worked as a Border Patrol agent/pilot until retirement in 1997. He now works as a private pilot for several local ranchers and corporate heads. He is actively involved with charitable/public service organizations including the National Park Service and American Red Cross. The Whites have been married over 43 years, have one grown daughter and one granddaughter. Bill is currently serving on the RGEC Bylaws, Tariff, and Redistricting committees.

Credentialed Cooperative Director

Credentialed Cooperative Director

District 9

Dell City, TX

Frank first moved to Dell Valley in 1949 with his family. His father was engaged in farming in the same area for forty-five years and Frank continues the tradition today. He and his wife Sandy, raise boer goats, and are involved in many organizations in the Dell City area. Frank says, “From the days of no electricity until today, I have seen the progress made by the Co-op.” Frank currently serves on the RGEC Audit, Redistricting, and Finance board committees.

Credentialed Cooperative Director

Credentialed Cooperative Director
 

District 5

Del Rio, TX

Henry spent his childhood growing up on his family’s ranch near Pandale. He is proud to carry on the ranching tradition and that of Co-op leadership. His father served on the RGEC board for many years. He is a graduate of Trinity University, where he received his degree in business administration. He and wife Maxine, moved to Del Rio in 1961, where he owned and operated Mills Feed & Supply. He has served as a director of the Devil’s River Soil & Water Conservation District for over 25 years, is past-president of the Wool & Mohair Warehouse Association, went to England and Spain on a fact-finding mission for the Mohair Council, and has been a member of the Texas Sheep & Goat Raisers’ Association. Henry currently serves on the RGEC Audit,  Bylaws, and Tariff board committees.

Credentialed Cooperative Director

Credentialed Cooperative Director

Ms. Parsons has lived in the Carrizo Springs and Crystal City areas all of her life, except for the time she was attending Southwest Texas Jr. College and Sam Houston State University, majoring in Business Administration. In 2001, Parsons left her position with the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District in the CEI junior high reading lab, to assist her husband with their family business, Parsons & Parsons Conservation Contracting. The Parsons are owner-operators of a ranch seven miles north of Crystal City, where they raise livestock, and offer hunting and recreational opportunities. Ms. Parsons and her husband of 35 years, Johnny, have been members of the Co-op since 1990. She is the mother of a son and daughter, and grandmother of two granddaughters. Priscilla currently serves on the RGEC Bylaws, Policy, GM-CEO/Board Review committees.

Credentialed Cooperative Director

Brackettville, TX

District 7

Fort Davis, TX

James Ray Evrage and his wife, Freddie, own ranches near Crow Flats, and Pinon, NM. The Evrages lived in Artesia, NM and owned and operated the Main Place Inc, Mr. E’s Mens Wear and other businesses. For over 25 years, Mr. Evrage was president of the Main Place Inc., and was involved in many other organizations. He is past president of the Lions Club, past president of the Artesia Business Association, Director of the Artesia Chamber of Commerce, Director of the United New Mexico Bank in Carlsbad and Artesia, plus numerous other organizations. He has been a member of the Masonic Lodge over thirty years and is a 32 Degree Mason. For over nine years, Mr. Evrage served on the board of the Otero County Electric Co-op in Cloudcroft, NM. He is a Certified Director by the National Rural Electric Co-op Association. James currently serves on the RGEC Finance, Redistricting, and GM-CEO/Board Review committees.

As a fourth generation rancher in the Trans-Pecos area, Lowell’s family has depended upon Co-op electricity since 1964.  Prior to that, they used gas or self-generated electricity.  He says, “Co-op electricity has enriched our lives in a rural area that no one else wanted.”

Mr. Woodward previously served as an RGEC director, until term limitations dictated that he go off the board.  In his absence from the board, he and his wife, Carol, continued to serve fellow Co-op members by being on the Alpine Member Advisory Committee.