The Bandera County Republican Women met on Thursday, Oct. 1, at the Silver Sage Center in Bandera and heard from two speakers.
Marcy Voss, a retired Boerne Independent School District school administrator and a Gold Star Mother, spoke first about the history of the Gold Star organization and her son Air Force Capt. Mark Tyler Voss, a Boerne High School graduate whose life was lost along with those of two other airmen on his crew during a flight over Afghanistan in 2013.
Voss spoke about the long history of the Gold Star Mothers/Families organization, which was founded by Grace Siebold in 1929.
The ...