About Texas Financial and Retirement
Our Staff has about 100 years of experience helping to meet people's financial and retirement dreams! 

We are a full-service financial firm committed to helping people pursue their financial goals. We offer a wide range of financial products and services to individuals and business owners. We believe you will be better able to identify your goals and make sound decisions to help reach them by our providing sound fiancial information.

James Holloway has over 30 yrs experience working with retirees in various capacities.  James' simple to understand old fashioned approach makes it easy for retirees to be able to explore THEIR OWN specific circumstances and to understand all their options  You won't find any fancy charts or graphics!

Scheli Holloway (pronounced, Sheila), James' lovely wife, has owned several businesses over the years, most recently the "Mail Boxes Etc" stores here in Tyler (now the UPS Stores).

Scheli is our workshop coordinator and also has the essential job of maintaining our huge library of third-party articles that James finds so helpful when explaining problems and solutions to workshop attendees and clients.   Scheli's sweet nature is such a blessing to all who know her.

James Jr. and Erin Holloway
Junior partners




Ann Hammack has over 20 yrs experience.  She worked as a church secretary for 17 yrs in Shreveport, LA prior to moving to Tyler and joining our staff. 

Ann functions as our Receptionist and she specializes in the detailed and efficient handling of our Client Service Requests as well as Workshop Coordination with a heart to serve!

Karen Turner has over 20 yrs experience most recent of which in the Textile Industry coordinating client services for hundreds of active customers.  Karen returned to Texas following her husband's retirement from the U.S. Army.  Their last duty assignment was in Tampa, Florida. Karen's organizational skills and her commitment to excellence makes her a welcome addition to the family.

Monica Harris
Client Services Coordinator

Please call us if you have any questions about our firm or the range of financial products and services we provide. Our firm has a relationship with a variety of financial services companies, so if we don’t have a product or service, we know a group that does.

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