Few Spaces Left for Free Mammography Clinic
Few Spaces Left for Free Mammography Clinic October 6, 2023 – Sulphur Springs, TX – The available appointments for the Hopkins County Health Care Foundation’s Free Mammography Clinic are filling up. Only a few openings are still available. If you are an uninsured woman over 40 years of age that lives in Hopkins County you are eligible for a free mammogram through this program. The staff of the Ruth & Jack Gillis Women’s...
Bobby Lynn Jackson
A family led celebration of life for Bobby Lynn Jackson, age 63, of Sulphur Springs will be conducted at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, October 7, 2023 at Oaklawn Cemetery with Bro. Neal Cochran officiating. Bobby passed away Thursday, September 21, 2023 at Christus Mother Frances Hospital in Sulphur Springs. Bobby was born on July 4, 1960 in Sulphur Springs the son of James Sidney Jackson and Freda Mae Lee Jackson. Bobby was from a big family...
Sitting Pretty at the Gardens at Memorial
September 14, 2023 – Sulphur Springs, TX – In 2006, the project of the very first Hopkins County Health Care Foundation Lights of Life Gala was to fund the establishment of the Gardens at Memorial. The gardens were intended as a quiet place for patient families to sit or walk the meandering pathway in order to think, pray, reflect, or just relax. It took two years and two Galas and other fundraising projects to pay for the...
Appointments are Now Open for the Annual Free Mammography Clinic
September 14, 2023 – Hopkins County Health Care Foundation and Christus Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs Partner for their Annual Free Mammography Clinic Sulphur Springs, TX – The Hopkins County Health Care Foundation and CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs are once again partnering to offer a free mammography clinic for uninsured women in Hopkins County. This year, the clinic will be...
New Nurse Honor Guard Commemorates Deceased Fellow Nurses in East Texas
September 7, 2023 – (East Texas) – At a recent memorial service, a group of nurses dressed in a traditional nurse’s uniform – white scrubs, white shoes, white cap, and blue cape – approached the casket.A burning candle led them down the aisle where they delivered a card to the family, extinguished the candle, read a tribute and placed a rose on the casket. The ringing of a triangle followed the saying of the deceased...
Sponsor the Hopkins County Health Care Foundation’s Annual Gala
Whether you attend The Hopkins County Health Care Foundation’s Annual Gala for fun or to support local healthcare (or both), your sponsorships are needed to make the night a success! Sponsorships start at just $1,000 and go up to $30,000 or more, depending on the donors preferred amount of support. Each level of sponsorship provides a set number of tickets to the event as well as various marketing perks. A lead donor for An Evening in...
Pam Schonard
Pam Schonard, age 72 of Alba, Texas passed away on August 15, 2023 at Christus Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs. Pam was born in Ft. Worth, Texas to John Robert Schonard Sr. and Emma Joyce (Woodard) Schonard. She earned her bachelor’s degree in education at Texas Women’s University. Pam worked in several fields throughout her life, most recently as a hospital admissions administrator. She is survived by her sister, Pat Byrd;...
Hopkins County Chamber Connection August 8th
New Intern at Chamber The Chamber of Commerce would like to welcome home a native son who has a distinguished and decorated military career for more than three decades. We welcome Joel Newsom to the team here at the Chamber, where he will serve as an intern for the next three plus months. A native of Hopkins County, Joel graduated from Como-Pickton High School in 1990 and joined the US Army. After serving as an infantry officer in...
Juan Hernandez-Ruiz Charged with Murder
A Sulphur Springs resident was arrested at 4:40am early Sunday morning, August 6, 2023 after a report of a man covered with blood in the 700 block of Texas St. Sulphur Springs police officers responded to the scene at 4:10am to find Giovanni Lopez in the street bleeding from his injuries. Juan Hernandez-Ruiz, 2023 During the investigation, officers learned that the victim had been in an altercation earlier in the evening with a...
Dinner Bell Menu For August 9, 2023
Christus Mother Frances Hospital yearly sets goals to benefit the citizens of Sulphur Springs and Hopkins county. One of its goals is to improve food insecurity. To satisfy that goal Christus is a Community Partner giving monetary support to Dinner Bell five times a year. August 9 is its fourth appearance at the feeding ministry. Associates of the hospital further their commitment by preparing the food boxes and distributing them to...
