Melissa Barnes graduated from Angelo State University in San Angelo, on May 16, 2009, with an Associates Degree Nursing-RN. She will be working in the Emergency Room at Shannon West Texas Memorial Hospital in San Angelo. Melissa is a former graduate of Richland Springs High School. She is the daughter of Roger and Nancy Bush of Locker, and granddaughter of the late Oscar Simpson, Bonnie Simpson, and Lou Era Bates Simpson.