Ed Hendrickson

Posted on: Feb 21, 2018 at 1:20 PM

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Posted on: Dec 25, 2014 at 7:00 PM

Your place in the Blue Ridge Mountains looks great. I've ridden up there on my motorcycle a few times. Stayed (camped) at the Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds near Hiawassee, GA. What a beautiful place. I've also stayed at the Fontana Village Resort Hotel while riding the Tail of the Dragon and other roads in the area at Deal's Gap. What a beautiful place for retirement.

Posted on: Nov 25, 2014 at 1:25 PM

My wife (Glenda Self Hendrickson - SWHS class of '72), and I have been married since August 1973, so 50 years and counting. We live in the country outside of New Baden, TX. We have one son and two wonderful grandchildren. I worked for the Houston Police Department for almost 37 years and when I retired in January of 2011, I was a sergeant in the Robbery Division. Loved my career with the department and a group of us still get together for breakfast once a month.

We are now enjoying the retired life. We lived in the Katy area from 1977-2016 and still go back there to see family and friends. Glenda and I love to travel and manage to get way on both long and short trips regularly. This summer I completed one of my bucket list items by finally traveling to all 50 states. I started riding motorcycles in 1999 and have also traveled to all but five of the continental states on my motorcycle. In 2015, we traveled to Europe for the first time and visited France, Germany and the Czech Republic. On that trip, our fellow travelers were Tony Gant (SWHS '71) and his wife Margie Lister Gant (SWHS '72), and Billy Peska (SWHS '70) and his wife Hazel. We all traveled to Alaska together in 1995.

My wife and I started playing with a community band in 1986 (Glenda on flute and oboe and me on trombone). We get together and rehearse once a week and played about five concerts a year. We had to stop when we moved to the country.

We are both enjoying life in the country. We are surrounded by deer, cows, and wild hogs, and the wide-open country. I'm almost finished building a chicken coop that I hope to have chickens in for Spring.

We are active at our Church in New Baden where I'm teaching the senior adult men's small group class. Glenda is also active with the garden club in the area.

Just like most of you, my time growing up in the Spring Branch area and going to Spring Woods High School has left an indelible mark on my life. I love hearing about everyone's life since high school and enjoy seeing many of you on Facebook.