Rhonda Egle is the new Business Manager at Holdrege Homes. She comes to HMH with decades of experience in bookkeeping including nine years at a skilled nursing facility.
Rhonda recently relocated from Pinedale, Wyo., to Holdrege with her husband, Kenny, to be closer to family. In Wyoming, she worked at the Sublette Center, a facility similar to Holdrege Memorial Homes but smaller. The center operated as a licensed 50-bed skilled nursing facility with two independent apartment units, serving approximately 50 additional residents. Rhonda was responsible for the facility’s billing and managed administrative functions, including financial operations, payroll, human resources, insurance, and audits.
Rhonda has a bachelor’s degree in business administration and management with an emphasis in accounting from Chadron State College. After college, she and Kenny moved to his family farm in Southwest Nebraska to farm, raise cattle and partner in managing a harvesting company. Rhonda also worked as the office manager at Southwest Feeders in Hayes Center, Neb.
When they moved to Pinedale in 2006, Rhonda worked as an office manager at a bookkeeping service and then as an office manager for an electrical contractor. In 2016, she was asked to help part-time at the Sublette Center as the financial director was undergoing cancer treatments.
“I really enjoyed my work with the electrical contracting company but the work was not overly challenging to me and I kept praying that the Lord would give me a place to work out His mission,” Rhonda said. “As the child of older parents, I had always been around elderly people and enjoyed their stories of the 'old days.' The lady I had worked for that had cancer once told me that you are working with a broken system, with broken people and many broken care givers. I’m not sure if I thought of that as a challenge but it certainly sounded like a mission field!”
Rhonda said she is impressed by the remarkable staff longevity at Holdrege Memorial Homes, with many team members having dedicated more than 20 years of service to the organization.
Rhonda and Kenny have been married for 39 years. They both grew up in large families and on farms. They have three sons and a daughter. Their daughter, Erin Heath, lives in Holdrege with her husband, Trenton, and their three girls, Kennedy, Landri and Berkley. Their son, Luke, and his wife, Maggie, live in Greeley, Colo., and are entrepreneurs. Their son, Zachary, flies Blackhawk Helicopters for the US Army and is stationed at Ft. Riley, Kan., and their youngest son, Ethan, is Special Forces for the US Army, and he and his wife live in North Carolina with their son, Wesley.