Joanna Morgan grew up in Nederland, Texas amid lots of noisy Dutch relatives. After escaping to the relative anonymity of the University of Texas at Austin, she graduated with a degree in Economics, and then attended graduate school at A&M, majoring in Computer Science through the School of Business Administration. Her whole career was in Houston, in Information Technology management in multiple industries: manufacturing, retail, oil & gas and in government with Harris County. She and her husband Mike bought weekend property outside of Smithville in 1989, and retired here in 2000. Since living in Smithville, she has served on various boards, including the Chamber of Commerce, the Library Board, the Administrative Council at the Methodist Church and 12 years on City Council, as Council Member and as Mayor. She currently serves as a member of the Smithville Whole Health Partnership and as Treasurer on the Board of the Smithville Workforce Training Center in addition to serving on the Board of the Smithville Community Clinic. She and her husband have a son, daughter-in-law and grandson in Austin.

Ms. Sharlene Scheler was born in San Antonio Texas. She and her husband Nelson are the parents of two daughters Kimberly Ann Scheler and April Scheler Rheams. She has two grandchildren. Sharlene graduated from the University of Texas School of Nursing Health Science Center of San Antonio. After a long history of hospital nursing Sharlene and Nelson moved to Smithville Texas where she is a Methodist Healthcare Ministries Wesley Nurse and practices community health nursing. She serves on the Smithville Community Clinic Board, Lions Club Board, and the Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC), Methodist Church Board. Sharlene is very active in the Smithville community.

Susan Guedry is a lifelong (almost) resident of Smithville. She and her husband, Gary, have two sons, Stephen and Jacob. Susan was an elementary teacher for Bastrop ISD for 30 years, retiring in 2010. She is an active member of First Presbyterian Church in Smithville and also sits on the boards of Bastrop County Long Term Recovery Team and Born Again Emporium.

Susan was born and raised in Houston TX, but spent weekends and summers visiting grandparents in Smithville, TX.

She worked as a Radiologic Technologist for 35 years and has spent the last 19 years working for H&R Block before joining the Smithville Community Clinic in 2022.

Susan moved to Smithville in 2021 and now lives on family property.

Susan has 2 daughters and 3 grandchildren, belongs to several lineage societies and enjoys sewing and quilting. She also loves her cats and horses.

The Reverend Dr. Karen S. Boehk is the Chairperson of the Smithville Community Clinic. In 2003, she was appointed by the Southwest Texas Conference (now the Rio Texas Conference) of The United Methodist Church to serve as the Senior Pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Smithville, Texas. Shortly thereafter Pastor Karen, along with several members of her congregation, caught the vision that a medical clinic was badly needed in the Smithville community to serve those who had no insurance, or were underinsured. Accordingly, Pastor Karen has chaired the Board of Directors since its beginning.

In June of 2017 Pastor Karen retired from pastoring the local church that she might accept the appointment of Assistant to the District Superintendent, Coastal Bend District, on a part-time basis. On July 1, 2023 this appointment was shifted from the Coastal Bend District to the Crossroads District where she now serves as Assistant to the District Superintendent of the Crossroads District on a part-time basis. Since the pastor who followed Pastor Karen at First United Methodist Church decided to retire at the end of June, 2022, Pastor Karen was reappointed to pastor this congregation on a part-time basis. As Pastor Karen puts it, “I totally failed retirement.”

Prior to coming to Smithville, Pastor Karen served as Pastor of the First United Methodist Church in San Benito, Texas (2001-2003), and prior to that she served Asbury United Methodist Church in Corpus Christi, Texas as the Associate Pastor for nine years (1992-2001). She earned her Master of Divinity degree from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She earned her Doctor of Ministry degree from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC.

Pastor Karen’s oldest son, Christopher and his family live in Austin, and her youngest son, Matthew and his family live in Grand Prairie. She has five grandchildren, ages 12-17 (three girls and two boys) with whom she enjoys camping and sharing in their respective activities as time permits.

Pastor Karen lives in Smithville with her three donkeys: Sallie, Samuel and Skeeter; her cat, Coco Charlie; and her little dog, Skipper.

Janice grew up in Lyndhurst, Ohio, graduated from Kent State, and retired as a U.S. Army Colonel after 30 years in communications/ logistics. A Bastrop County resident for 35+ years, she earned a Master’s in Human Dimensions of Organization (HDO) from UT Austin in 2017. From 2013–2023, she was Executive Director of Smithville Community Clinic. She served on Smithville City Council (2020–2024) and CAPCOG’s Executive Committee. In 2024, she became Executive Director of Smithville Workforce Training Center, now Career Tracks. Janice is active in the Rural Whole Health Coalition, the Quad County Skilled Trades Coalition, Smithville Noon Lions Club, and several St. David’s Foundation housing and health equity committees. Janice is married to Gerard Hynes and has seven children (blended family), four grandchildren, and another on the way.

Lenora Holt is a native of West Memphis, AR., the last of twelve children and the Co- Pastor of Abundant Grace Community Church in Smithville, TX; where she proudly serves with her husband and best-friend, Senior Pastor Ronnie L. Holt Jr. Pastor Lenora Holt is the proud mother of Naquasha White Riser and Larry McGarity. She has 2 beautiful granddaughters, Giselle, and Emery Riser. Pastor Lenora Holt is a Registered nurse, she graduated from Galen School of Nursing in San Antonio with her ADN and BSN in nursing, and in August 2023 graduated with her Master’s in nursing education at Texas Tech University Health Science Center. She is an active board member and nurse at the Smithville Community Clinic where she acknowledges and implements the vision to provide hope and healing for those without means.

David Lawrence Herrington. Associate Municipal Judge for the City of Smithville, is a long term member of our Clinic’s Board of Directors and he was instrumental in the hands-on construction of our original medical facility. He is an Elder Emeritus of the Smithville First Presbyterian Church, an appointed member of the Bastrop Historical Commission as a part of the Texas Historical Commission, and a Board Member of the Smithville Heritage Society. Since his retirement from the Texas Department of Transportation, he has been an outstanding volunteer within our community, and accordingly has been awarded the Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year Award and the Masonic Golden Trowel Award.

Doris DeShay Sampson served as a faithful member of the Board of Directors of the Smithville Community Clinic for nineteen years. From its conception in 2004 until 2023.

Doris and her late husband, Gene, were committed to the establishment of a Free and Charitable Clinic in Smithville, Texas and donated the land for this project.

At the Annual Gala held on March 14, 2026, Doris was honored as Board Member Emeritus

Well done, thou good and faithful servant!