RONNIE HOEINGHAUS

The following bio was taken from page 238 of the book entitled "Rusk County History" compiled and edited and used with permission of the Rusk County Historical Commission.

Transcribed by Shirley Koym

Submitted by Gloria Briley Mayfield, Cemeteries of Texas

Although Ronnie and I are both native Texans, our Rusk County history is all rather recent.

Ronnie’s job brought us to Henderson in 1976. That same year, we began work on our present home in the Shiloh Community. In 1974, we had purchased the acreage which includes our home site, hoping for the opportunity to build and live here. Our first home in Rusk County was a mobile home rented from Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church of Henderson. We lived there for about a year and a half while we built our house.

Ronnie and I met shortly after my family moved to Teague, Texas, in Freestone County. My parents are Royce and Virginia Sanders, who presently still live in Teague. My only sister, Ginny Sanders Evans, lives with her husband, James, and two sons, Justin and John Lindsey, in Groesbeck, Texas. Ronnie’s parents, Oscar and Hazel Hoeinghaus, presently live in Pasadena, Texas, but were residing in Fairfield, Texas, at the time Ronnie and I became acquainted. They still own a home and property there. Ronnie does not have any brothers or sisters.

Ronnie was born April 12, 1949 in Fort Worth, Texas. I was born February 10, 1950 in Jacksonville, Texas. Our history together began in the summer of 1968 when we met through mutual friends. We were married August 23, 1969, in Teague, Texas, by my father, who is a Baptist minister and pastor of Eighth Avenue Baptist Church there in Teague.

After a short time away in school at the University of Texas at Arlington, Ronnie and I moved back to Teague in 1970. Our daughter, Heather Ann, was born March 31, 1973 while we were still living in Teague. Our son, Ryan Cody, came along June 11, 1979, since our coming here.

We have begun to put down roots of our own right here in Rusk County. The people we have met here and have come to know and love as our neighbors have made us feel as much at home as if our history here dated back many years instead of just a few.

Submitted by Brenda Hoeinghaus