Billy (Bo) Fite
Funeral Services for Billy (Bo) Fite, age 58 of Sulphur Springs will be held Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home with Dr. Jimmy Henry officiating. Interment will follow at Bright Star Cemetery in Wills Point with Jimmy Fite, Ricky Fite, James Fite, Jason Fite, John Emigh, John Moore, Garrett Dougnolle and James Pickel serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers are Richard Tires, Mike Riley, Tobby...
Edward Jones and Fidelity Investments Top Rated in 2016 by Temkin Experience Ratings
WABAN, Mass., May 31, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Edward Jones and Fidelity Investments deliver the best customer experience in the investment industry, according to the 2016 Temkin Experience Ratings, an annual customer experience ranking of companies based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers. Edward Jones and Fidelity tied for the top spot out of 13 investment firms in this year’s ratings, each earning a score of 64%. While...
Country Road 1445 Closed; Alternative Routes Announced
With public safety and emergency services as a top priority, Precinct 1 Commissioner Beth Wisenbaker has closed County Road 1445 Wednesday morning, June 1, due to concerns that would endanger life safety. Alternative routes are available to the highly traveled roadway, according to Wisenbaker. She said this county road serves a heavy traffic flow in her precinct. The road is closed due to a large tank car being underlined by flowing...
Fingerprints Return Felon to Hopkins County
Using a different name, Juan Octavio Chapa, 45, was found in Davidson County Jail in Nashville, Tennessee under the name Francisco Renteria-Escamilla. His fingerprints placed on the national data base for wanted felons by Hopkins County Sheriff’s Communication Administrator Ron Lowrie enabled the find. He is now back in Hopkins County Jail having been transported from Davidson County. Chapa was wanted in Hopkins County for a 2004 case...
Dorothy Whittington
Funeral services for Dorothy Whittington, age 86, of Sulphur Springs, will be held Sunday, June 5, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. at Tapp Funeral Home Chapel with Jerry Savage officiating. Interment will follow at City Cemetery with Jim Thompson, Sanford Whittington, Jr., Fielder Whittington and David Whittington serving as pallbearers. . Dorothy passed away, May 31, 2016 at Advanced Healthcare and Rehab Center in Garland. She was born the...
Faye Robinson one of 9 Ms. Hopkins County Sr. contestants
Fay Robinson of Brashear, Texas is a mother of 5, grandmother of 10 and a great-grandmother too! She may be 92 but she greatly enjoys her life, her church, her friends and her hobbies. Her Philosophy of Life is to keep a positive attitude amidst an unsettled world, and to have a smile and pleasant word for everyone she meets, because everybody needs a smile! Fay’s talent is singing. She will join 8 other contestants in this...
John D. Norris Jr., DVM
Funeral services for John Dee “J.D.” Norris, Jr., DVM, age 77, of Sulphur Springs will be conducted at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, June 4, 2016 at the First Baptist Church of Sulphur Springs with Dwayne McMeans and Rev. Fred Lewis officiating. Visitation will be from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Friday, June 3, 2016 at West Oaks Funeral Home. Pallbearers will be Darrel Coble, Chuck McCord, Lee Pogue, Tommy Lee, Doug Jordan, Dwight Bell, John Powell...
Flash Flood Watch Issued Through 7 p.m. June 2
A flash flood watch for Hopkins County and all of North and Center Texas has been issued through 7 p.m. Thursday, June 2 according to the National Weather Service in Fort Worth. Several rounds of showers and thunderstorms are expected across the area through Friday. Many areas have already received 1 to 3 inches of rain since yesterday. Conditions will be tropical-like with thunderstorms producing very heavy rainfall in short periods...
Flash Flood Warning for Hopkins, Hunt, Rains Counties
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR… SOUTHERN HOPKINS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS… SOUTHERN HUNT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS… RAINS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS… UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 438 PM CDT…DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. THIS RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO EXCESSIVE WATER RUNOFF AND CAUSE FLASH FLOODING....
