Archive for the 'Retirement Services' Category

By Analiz G. Schremmer
AUSTIN—Dr. Lillian Brown can’t sing with her voice, so she does it with her piano.
Brown, 89, said that when she moved to Buckner Villas in Austin, she had nowhere to place her piano, so she donated it in memory of her father, Rev. E. E. Wheeless, who had served as pastor at [...]

SAN ANGELO, Texas – Leaders of Dallas-based Buckner Retirement Services, Inc. and Baptist Memorials Ministries in San Angelo signed an affiliation agreement today at the Baptist Memorials campus. The affiliation positions the two Texas senior living providers to offer a combined seven senior living communities in Texas, serving an estimated 2,200 elders annually.
Buckner and Baptist [...]

By Analiz G. Schremmer
(DALLAS)—Buckner Hearts in Action, a group of military supporters from Buckner Retirement Village, spent their morning giving out candy, camouflage skull caps and hugs to a group of military men and women flying out of DFW International Airport on Nov. 1.
“They do this on the first Monday of every month,” said Alicia [...]

By Analiz G. Schremmer
Buckner International
(AUSTIN, Texas) — The Texas Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (TAHSA) named Doyle Antle, Buckner Villas Administrator in Austin, administrator of the year.
Antle has worked at Buckner Villas for 11 years, first as director of nursing and eventually as administrator beginning in 2002. He said that his team [...]

(HOUSTON, Texas) — Parkway Place, a Buckner senior living community in West Houston broke ground July 1 in preparation for construction of a $2.5-million wellness center to be located on its campus.
The groundbreaking came 55 years to day that Buckner opened the Buckner Haven retirement community in Houston on July 1, 1954.
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(DALLAS, Texas) – The boards of two senior living providers with Texas Baptist ties have given the green light for the organizations to affiliate in 2010, say leaders for the respective institutions. Dallas-based Buckner Retirement Services Inc., which owns and manages five senior living communities in Texas, is exploring an affiliation with Baptist Memorials Ministries, [...]

By Analiz González
Buckner International
(DALLAS, Texas) — Ray Perkins, 92, isn’t one to get involved in a lot of activities at the Buckner Retirement Village where he lives.
Alicia Russell, executive director, said that other residents told her she would never succeed at getting him involved at all. But when the old military veteran heard about the [...]

By Analiz González
Buckner International
(AUSTIN, Texas) — A total of 133 people have submitted their deposits to live in the soon-to-be built GreenRidge at Buckner Villas retirement community in Austin. 84 of them met for brunch in Round Rock, Texas on Nov. 12.
“We are virtually building a new campus,” said Dr. Pearl Merritt, president of Buckner [...]

Hurricane Ike raged up the Texas Gulf Coast, but Buckner Retirement Services staff kept their cool when forced to evacuate one community and brace for destruction at another.
Story by Jenny Pope and Russ Dilday
(DALLAS, Texas) — It’s 1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 11 and Alicia Russell, executive director at Buckner Retirement Village in Dallas, [...]

DALLAS, Texas – 09-22-08 – 9:00 a .m. – Buckner Retirement Services has announced that it is safe for independent living residents to return to Calder Woods in Beaumont, although full services will not be available until Wednesday. Assisted living, nursing and dementia residents who evacuated with Buckner staff will return on Tuesday.
Buckner is asking [...]