Ron Hensley

Ron Hensley is a character from The Seekers. He parks his RV on the Troyer farm and he is a Vietnam Veteran who often mourns the loss of his brother Mike. He was previously married to Fran, who he divorced and has two children with. At the end of book one, he makes amends with Fran and his children.

Physical Appearance
In the book, Ron has a beard; in the trailer, he is clean-shaven. He wears a Vietnam Veteran baseball cap in the trailer.

Role in Book one
Ron needed a place to park his RV and lied to the Troyers, saying he needed to park it until it was fixed (however, nothing was wrong with it). He interrupted the first cooking class, asking for a cup of coffee, but when Eli saw him he thought he was there for the classes and was glad he wasn't the only man. Ron agreed to stay for the class (because he could look for valuable items to steal).

Throughout the classes, Ron is bitter and rude to people. Heidi overhears him talking to himself one day about his brother, Mike, who died in the war.

Ron hears Eli and Lyle talking about Eli's dead wife. Ron realizes that he killed her, thinking he had run over a deer. He ran away to see a traveling exhibit about the Vietnam war and because he felt so bad for killing Mavis.

He later apologizes to Eli. Eli tells him that he did just run over a deer and that the person who killed his wife had stepped forward.

Ron decides to make amends with his old wife and meet up with his children.