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Dallas Family Pathways: Francheska Dixon
Francheska Dixon fled her home after it was vandalized and she lost everything. She ended up in Dallas and soon discovered Buckner Family Pathways, where she has...
Double service: Parkway Place veteran teaches patriotism
Fighting in one world war would be plenty for most people. One military branch too. But Aaron Mendoza is not like most people. The 92-year-old Parkway Place...
On behalf of a grateful nation
On May 10, 1944, a 19-year-old ball turret gunner from Longview, Texas, sat in the rear of a B-24 aircraft, just 17 days away from his 20th...
National Adoption Month: Meet Mom and Dad McCarthy
Last week we introduced you to the McCarthy family, a sizeable crew of twelve. Today, you’ll meet Mom and Dad McCarthy. Mom April, who previously homeschooled three...
Catching spies, keeping peace
Joe Erwin isn’t someone you want to cross. The Buckner Westminster Place resident is a retired U.S. Army Intelligence member, a certified lie detector and has led...
Volunteering from the heart
When Robert Buelna and Janeth Wilson first began volunteering with Buckner, they had no idea the impact it would have on their lives. They wanted to change...
Just keep working: creative hobbies maintain brain agility
Stitches carefully woven into a colorful quilt. Wooden slabs painstakingly carved into miniature cars. Yarn spun into dozens of tiny caps. What if these weren’t just evidence...
Adoptive family speaks to Good Morning Texas
Buckner foster and adoptive parents Marcus and Tamasan Murph speak to Good Morning Texas about their journey to foster-to-adopt four children, including a sibling group of three,...
Rio Grande Valley family sees bright future constructed just outside its doorstep
PEÑITAS, Texas – Maria Luisa Morales’ future was so close, it was right outside the front door of the aging one-room travel trailer that currently serve as home for...
Faith Focus: Do you have the courage?
New to Peñitas, Texas with few friends, Abigail Garcia didn’t know what she was getting herself into when she followed a classmate’s recommendation to go to the...