Emily Spears spoke to us about the impact the camp director and co-owner had on so many girls and young women.

Ragsdale, considered the “heart and soul” of the all-girls camp, was among the more than 50 people confirmed dead from the ...

The disaster's total death toll reached two dozen by Friday night, with many people still missing after catastrophic flooding ...

Jane Ragsdale is no more: The catastrophic flash flooding that ravaged the Texas Hill Country on Friday claimed the life of ...

Cynthie “Jane” Ragsdale, co-owner and longtime director of Heart O’ the Hills Camp in Hunt, died July 5, 2025, at age 68, ...

KERR COUNTY, Texas – A camp director was among the people killed after floodwaters swept through the Texas Hill Country on ...

Jane Ragsdale, a TWU alumna considered the “heart and soul” of Heart O’ the Hills all-girls summer camp, was among the more ...

Heart O' the Hills became a summer camp in the early 1950s. Ragsdale met her husband Richard “Dick” Howell Jr. in 1984. A Navy veteran, Howell died in June 2022 at the age of 84. They had one son.

The director of Heart O' the Hills camp was among 59 people killed in devastating flooding that swept through the Texas Hill ...

Heart O’ the Hills became a summer camp in the early 1950s. Ragsdale met her husband Richard “Dick” Howell Jr. in 1984. A Navy veteran, Howell died in June 2022 at the age of 84.

Who was Jane Ragsdale? Jane Ragsdale, who was born in Houston, eventually made Kerr County her home and became the leader of the all-girls Heart O' the Hills Camp.As a child and counselor in the ...