For over 15 Years, Cynthia Ferrell has worked, ridden, and run to help adults with special needs in the Rockdale community.

Cynthia Ferrell does a lot to help our community’s adult population with special needs. She is the co-director of MARC, the Milam Adult Resource Center, which services adults with special needs from 9am to 3pm, Monday through Friday, where she helps organize activities such as bowling, swimming, a bingo potluck party, and even a week-long nature camp at Down Home Ranch. She’s also a member of the Bad to the Bone motorcycle group, which over the past 20 years has raised more than $400,000 to benefit adults with special needs though an annual charity auction.

Cynthia directly helps by tagging and organizing the donations for the auction the night before the event, but also is setting up shirt sales, registration of riders, and selling raffle tickets at 8am the next day. In addition to her work with MARC and Bad to the Bone, Cynthia has been a part of the Buddy Oney Toy Run since 2006, an event whose proceeds provide toys for Christmas Roundup benefitting children who are in Child Protective Services around Milam County.

“When people in our community plan an event to help organizations or individuals, Cynthia is one of the first people they contact because she is willing to work to make the event a success,” said Ann King, the Director of MARC. “Planning a successful event is not an easy chore. Cynthia has the ability to bring different personalities together to work as a cohesive unit.”

All of Cynthia’s efforts are spurned on from the special place that Cynthia has in her heart for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as well as children whose families are in need. This special place turns her efforts into a sheer force that makes sure everyone completes their tasks for events to ensure events run smoothly and successfully.

When she isn’t volunteering, Cynthia and her husband Neal stay busy turning donated wooden fiber cable spools that would otherwise be discarded into furniture, flowerpots, and other items that are then donated to various benefits around Milam County to continue raising funds to help the community.