Kathi Edwards

Kathi Edwards grew up in Callahan County and graduated from Clyde High School. She received a Bachelor of Science in Business Education from Texas Tech University in 1975. After living in California for a number of years, Edwards and her husband, Murray, returned to Texas with their two young children, having purchased Alderman-Cave Feeds, a livestock feed manufacturing company in Winters. In 1992, Edwards began volunteering with Hospice of Abilene, later to become Hendrick Hospice Care, after the death of her 32-year-old brother-in-law, David Edwards, from kidney cancer. She continued this work for 16 years as a patient care volunteer, and eventually as a volunteer chaplain, before entering Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University, where she received a Master of Arts in Christian Service in 2011. Edwards was consecrated to the Order of United Methodist Deaconess and commissioned by the Northwest Texas Annual Conference to serve in hospice ministry. She became a board-certified chaplain (B.C.C.) through the Spiritual Care Association. Upon completion of this process, she was employed as a staff chaplain with Hendrick Hospice Care until her retirement in January of 2021. She has been a lifelong member of the United Methodist Church.