Swatsell, Johnson, Christian Receive RSVP Presidential Award
Polly Swatsell, Pamela Johnson and Linda Christian received the Retired Senior Volunteer Program “Presidential Award.” To qualify for this prestigious award, individuals have to volunteer 4,000 hours of their time. Polly Swatsell volunteered for Meal A Day for many years driving the Como/Pickton Meal A Day meal delivery route. She can be found volunteering her time and talents all over Hopkins County, including with the Hopkins...
Clifford Franklin “C.F.” Randall
Military graveside honors, by the Hopkins County Military Coalition, for Clifford Franklin “C.F.” Randall,age 91, of Sulphur Springs will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, January 14, 2021 at Shooks ChapelCemetery with Bro. Wayne Sweely officiating. There will be no formal visitation. C.F. passed away onSunday, January 10, 2021 at his residence. He was born on June 3, 1929 in Fletcher, OK, the son of W.C. and Nola Smith Randall. He...
Kenneth Ray Jenkins
Funeral Services for Kenneth Ray Jenkins, age 88, of Brashear will be held at 10am on Monday, January4, 2021 at West Oaks Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Ron Jenkins officiating. Military Graveside honorswith the Hopkins County Military Coalition will follow at Reilly Springs Cemetery with Andy Smith, JarrodHam, Manuel Jenkins, Lanny Jenkins, Kevin Jenkins, and Ricky Venable serving as pallbearers. A comeand go visitation will be from...
Sulphur Springs Among 28 Sites Selected To Host The Wall That Heals In 2021
Sulphur Springs has been named as one of 28 sites across the country selected to host the Wall That Heals, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Replica Wall and Mobile Education Center, in 2021. County Judge Robert Newsom at noon Thursday issued a proclamation announcing the honor and encouraging citizens to join the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund in continuing to pay tribute to Vietnam veterans and their families by honoring the legacy of...
2020 Veterans Day Observance In Sulphur Springs
The 2020 Veterans Day observance on Celebration Plaza Wednesday was set to begin at 11:11 a.m. Nov. 11. Veterans Day commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at 11 a.m., the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. Veterans Day observance on Celebration Plaza An invocation with a prayer for departed veterans was given. The Pledge...
Charles Gaylor Oxford
Charles Gaylor Oxford was born 27 October 1936 in the Oak Grove Community of Wood County, Texas. He graduated from this life on 09 October 2020 in Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County, Texas. His parents Leston Boyd Oxford and Verna Lee LaRue Oxford of Mineola, Texas, and his son, Tommy Oxford, of Oklahoma preceded him in death. Charles is survived by his three sisters, Glenda and her husband Bill Scott, Mineola; LaVell and her husband Jay...
Welton Douglas Moore
Welton Douglas Moore went to be with the Lord on October 9, 2020, in Sulphur Springs, Texas at the age of 94. Welton was born in Electra, Texas on September 20, 1926, to Arthur Maxwell Moore and Ora Cheaney Moore. He moved to Hobbs, NM in 1934, where he lived until his Senior Year of High School, when he moved to Wink, Texas. There he graduated from High School in 1945. He entered the Army upon graduation and served in the Army of...
Neal Eugene Rogers
Military graveside services for Neal Eugene Rogers, age 80, of Sulphur Springs, will be held at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, August 19, 2020, at the Dallas Fort Worth National Cemetery with Chaplin Joseph Stanley officiating. There will be a come and go visitation from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, August 18, 2020, at West Oaks Funeral Home. Neal passed away on Wednesday, August 12, 2020. He was born on December 11, 1939, in Downing, WI, the son of...
Veterans Day Observance Slated Nov. 11 Downtown
Hopkins County Veterans Memorial, Celebration Plaza, Sulphur Springs Sulphur Springs and Hopkins County will honor veterans at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 11, at Celebration Plaza at the Veteran’s Memorial in downtown Sulphur Springs. All veterans, their families and the community are invited to attend. Danny Davis, United States Airforce (retired), will be the master of ceremonies. In addition, names of deceased veterans will be read and...
Jacky Payne Allen
Graveside service for Jacky Payne Allen, age 72, of Mt. Vernon will be held at 10:00 A.M on September 14, 2019 at Restlawn Memorial Park with Pastor Keith Abron officiating and John Partain, Michael Partain, Ron Layton, Larry Gamblin, Jimmy Lewis and Chris Burt serving as honorary pallbearers. There will be no formal visitation. Mr. Allen passed away on Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at Carriage House Manor in Sulphur Springs.Mr....
