TFCCF - Key Persons
Bill Snelson grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, graduated from Abilene Christian University with a degree in Business Administration, entered the U.S. Naval Officer Candidate School and spent almost four years as a gunnery officer aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer and as a senior patrol officer on river patrol boats in the rivers and canals of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.
After the service, Bill moved to Houston, married his beautiful wife, Sandy, and went to work as a marketing rep for Mobil Oil based in Beaumont. While here, he fell in love with the beauty of Southeast Texas. Four years later he moved to Jasper to start a wholesale tire business. Forty-five years later, he and his wife own three tire businesses in Southeast Texas.
Bill and Sandy have two daughters, one of whom lives in Tyler. Their younger daughter and her husband now manage the business.
Being from a small town, Bill has had the opportunity to serve on many boards, including the Jasper Hospital District, First Bank & Trust and am currently serving as Vice President of the Jasper Economic Development Corp. He serves as an elder in his local church and is passionate about golf.
Job Titles:
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Member of St
Buddy Zeagler is a member of St. Cyprian's Episcopal church and served as Vestryman, Sr. Warden and Chair of its Outreach and Worship Committees.
He is married to Julie Johnson Zeagler and have 3 children and eleven grandchildren.
David Chadwick was raised in Center, Texas, and graduated from Center High School. He then
David Chadwick began his career with Farmers State Bank in 1970 and was elected to the Board
of Directors in 1981. In 2017 Mr. Chadwick was then elected President and CEO and still serves
David Chadwick is married to Deborah Chadwick and they have two daughters. He is a member
Job Titles:
- Memorial Foundation Trustee - Current
Jim McReynolds has been serving the people of East Texas in a variety of ways for the past half-century. He served as a teacher to East Texas children in public schools and taught history at Stephen F. Austin State University for a decade. He served as a scoutmaster for a number of years and created job opportunities for training and employment in his land service business. He was given the honor of serving the citizens of six East Texas counties for 14 years in the Texas House of Representatives where he carried major legislation particularly benefiting the folk of East Texas. Jim holds degrees from Abilene Christian University, Lamar University and a doctorate in history from Texas Tech University. He and his wife Judy have been married for over a half-century and have two sons, Jeff who is a captain in the Lufkin Fire Department, and Jack who is a scientist and entrepreneur. Jim and Judy have been blessed with five grandchildren. Currently, Jim is enjoying serving on the Burke Center board, the Family Crisis Center of East Texas board, and the Texas CASA board. He looks forward to his service as a board member of the Texas Forest Country Community Foundation.
John F. Anderson was born 1943 in Houston, Texas. Of John's lifetime, he has lived in 56 years of it in the middle of the Texas forest Country. He graduated from Lufkin High School and attended Stephen F. Austin State University graduating with a B.S. degree in Political Science. He is married with two adult children and one grand-daughter.
His areas of responsibilities created a work experience as an insurance company President, and Director of a local bank and a manufacturing business. He was also responsible for the creation of several non-profits which have allowed philanthropy to grow and thrive in the Texas Forest Country. A few of his numerous years of service he devoted to benefiting the East Texas Forest Country were as President of the Museum of East Texas, Chairman of the Texas Council on Economic Education, President of the Pineywoods Foundation, Chairman of the East Texas Community Health Services, the charter Treasurer for SFASU Foundation, Inc., and other philanthropic projects.
Job Titles:
- ADVISOR
- Partner, Axley & Rode LLP
Millard Fillmore Zeagler, Jr., Son of Millard F. and Marjorie Perry Zeagler, "Buddy" Zeagler was born in 1946 in Lufkin, Texas. He graduated from Lufkin High School in 1964. Attended University of Texas and Southwestern University and graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1969. He served two years in the United States Air Force with honorable discharge. He then pursued higher education and graduated from Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University in 1978.
For more than 40 years, Buddy Zeagler pursued a career in trust administration, investment management, and private foundation management. He joined the TLL Temple Foundation in 1989 and served as the Executive Director until his retirement. Through his work with the Temple Foundation, he was actively involved with its mission to support organizations and institutions devoted to enhancing the educational, community, civic, health, environmental and physical qualities of life that serve the human condition. Upon his retirement in 2016, he was honored by the foundation when it funded a permanent endowment to create the Buddy Zeagler Professorship in the Graduate School of Social Work at Stephen F. Austin University.
He was honored as an inductee into Buckner International's Good Shepherd Society.
In 2016, he was honored as a recipient of the Community Service Award by Concerned Black Men of Lufkin.
R. Gene Nethery was born and raised in East Texas. As a high school graduate with some college, he completed a military obligation from 1956 through 1964. Gene is married to Ann Davis Nethery and has 4 children, 7 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. He enjoyed a career with Brown and Root Inc. that spanned over 38 years, during which he was promoted to an officer of the company in 1983 and spent over 12 years as Vice President of Operations. Gene Nethery retired from Brown and Root Inc. at the end of 1996. Upon retirement returned to Sabine County, and was elected as Pct. 4 Commissioner. Gene has also served on numerous Boards and served twice as President of the Texas Forest Country Partnership. Gene Nethery has also been an Ordained Deacon in the Baptist Church for over 35 years.
A. Travis Mast, III, M.D. was raised in Nacogdoches, Texas and graduated High School from the Sewanee Military Academy in Sewanee, Tennessee. He attended the University of the South in Sewanee and then Stephen F. Austin State University, graduating with a BS degree in Biology and a minor in Chemistry. After graduating, he taught the ninth grade in Texas City, Texas for four years. Travis left teaching and attended the Universidad de Autonoma de Guadalajara, Mexico where he obtained his M.D. degree; and married Maria-Guadalupe Aranda, and they have four adult children. He completed his residency in Pediatrics at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas. After leaving Houston, he practiced Pediatrics in Nacogdoches for twenty-five years and retired in 2007. He was president of the Nacogdoches Treatment Center and Chief of Staff of Medical Center Hospital for two years. Travis was a Director of the Stephen F. Austin State University Foundation from 2008-2017. Since retiring from medicine, he has worked in the Land and Timber and the Oil and Gas business in Nacogdoches.
George (Trey) Henderson III, graduated from Lufkin High School and attended Texas A&M University graduating with a degree in Agricultural Economics. He is married to Brigettee Carnes Henderson and has 2 sons and 2 grandsons. He is the owner of Henderson Mineral Inc. and currently serves on boards for Angelina College Board of Trustees, Southside Bank, Overseas Hardwood Company, George H Henderson Jr. Expo Center and The Pineywoods Foundation. He previously served on the Governor's Task Force on Evacuation, Transportation and Logistics in 2005, Memorial Health Systems of East Texas, The Texas Ethics Commission and The Texas Parks & Wildlife - Private Land Advisory Board.