Destructive flooding triggered by unrelenting rain that rapidly overwhelmed the Guadalupe River has killed at least 100 people across central Texas.

The camp issued a statement, saying that Ragsdale was present when the floods occurred and was unable to escape to safety, even though Heart O' the Hills was not in session at the time.

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.

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Houston-born camp director Jane Ragsdale among at least 59 dead in catastrophic Kerr County floods By Rebekah F. Ward, Shakari Briggs, Staff writer Updated July 5, 2025 7:59 p.m.

Jane Ragsdale, the beloved director of Camp Heart O' the Hills in Kerr County, is dead after the region was hit by catastrophic flooding, the camp said.

A camp director was among the people killed after floodwaters swept through the Texas Hill Country on Friday.

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In her final months, lifelong Girl Scout Carole “Alfi” Ackerman frequently visited her “happy place,” Camp Furnace Hills in West Cocalico Township.