While taking a leading role in the long, successful campaign to bring a VA medical clinic to Statesboro, the late Ray Hendrix set up a van service to transport area veterans to the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center in Augusta. Hendrix, who retired as a command sergeant major after 42 years in the Army and National Guard, was also an official advocate for veterans at the national level. Statesboro’s mayor and council approved a resolution Tuesday seeking to have the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical system’s Statesboro clinic named for Hendrix, who died at age 83 in September 2015.