Last week, Llano lost a beloved citizen and a true educator with the death of Doris Barnes Revada, who taught school for a total of 37 years, the last 15 of which she taught the fifth grade in Llano after the schools integrated in 1955.

Revada’s chosen career was never an easy one for her, but follow it she did and never looked back. Prior to joining the Llano Independent School District, this dedicated educator spent 22 years in sacrificial service to black children, teaching them wherever she could—in her home, in black schools in other Texas counties, in outlying Llano County communities and in Doolittle Chapel, a humble one-room building—now gone—which served as Llano’s only school and church for blacks.

Revada herself attended Doolittle Chapel through the eighth grade (which was as far as students could go there), after which she completed high school at Dunbar, a black high school in Temple. She then attended Paul Quinn College, a black college in Waco, for two years, after which she began teaching. Later, she completed her education at Paul Quinn and received a degree in education in 1953.

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