Chamber Connection – Sept. 19, 2019
The Chamber is celebrating a big day!!! We are hosting our very own Ribbon Cutting Celebration on Tuesday, October 1st at our new location, 110 Main Street in Sulphur Springs. We will host an Open House from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. with our ribbon cutting at noon. Please make plans to come celebrate with us! I have some more very exciting news! The Chamber of Commerce is currently selling our 2019 Hopkins County Christmas ornament. This...
Grand Jury Signs 51 Indictments During September Session
September 9, 2019 – The Hopkins County Grand Jury signed at least 51 indictments during the Sept. 5 court session. At least 30 people were named in the charges, including 10 people accused of more than one offense. Charges ranged from criminal negligence, sexual assault of a child, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, assault of a public servant and attempting to take a weapon from an officer to fraud, forgery, money...
Truman B. Therwhanger
Graveside services for Truman B. Therwhanger, age 99, of Sulphur Springs, will be held at 10:00 a.m., Friday, September 6, 2019 at Rockdale Cemetery. There will be no formal visitation. Honorary pallbearers will be the Men’s Radio Bible Class. Truman passed away on Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at Rock Creek Health and Rehab. He was born on January 27, 1920 in Weinert, TX, the son of George Browder and Eula Smith Therwhanger. He served...
Vonie Thompson
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, August 28th at 3pm at the Sulphur Springs Church of Nazarene on 1300 S. League Street for Mrs. Vonie Thompson, 82 of Winnsboro. Formal visitation will be held Tuesday night August 27th from 6-8pm at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home in Sulphur Springs. Vonie was born April 21, 1937 in Mississippi to Melvin and Ethel Buffington-Varner. She married the love of her life Claude Thompson January 8th ,...
Bill Bassham, Sr.
Graveside service for Bill Bassham, Sr., age 85, of Sulphur Springs, will be held at 10:00 A.M Monday, July 1, 2019 at Nelta Cemetery with Bro. Tommy Morgan officiating. Pallbearers will be Ronnie Parris, David Gulley, Jimmy Price, Danny Argenbright, Ricky Godbolt, David Reagan, and Tony Tanton. Honorary pallbearers will be Darrell Gentry, Red Fuller, Charlie “Red” Smith, Wayne Moore, Lanny Moore, Ricky Godwin, and Jimmy Beck....
Grand Jury Signs More Than 50 Indictments in June
The Hopkins County Grand Jury during the June court session signed more than 50 indictments, pushing those cases forward for prosecution. Half of the charges were for drug and alcohol offenses. The rest ranged from continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 years to engaging in organized criminal activity and stolen vehicle or evading arrest in a vehicle charges. However, half of the cases were for drug and alcohol related offenses....
The Hopkins County Ice Cream Contest Winners Are…
Top honors in the Hopkins County Ice Cream Contest were awarded to Kim Dillard for her butter pecan ice cream. Dillard received a trophy and $100 check for having the first place Super Scoop entry. She also went home with the $250 Visa gift card. Earning second place honors in the Super Scoop with a creamy strawberry ice cream was James Ross. He received a $50 check. Tonya Ross earned second place honors in the Big Dip Classic...
James (Jim) Taylor Simmons
James (Jim) Taylor Simmons was released from this earth to go home on May 13, 2019. Jim was born on December 18, 1940 in Avinger Texas and died on May 13, 2019 sitting in his favorite chair next to the picture window that looks out on Lake Fork. There was never any doubt in the minds of those who knew him that he was a Texan. The loves of his life in order were his God, his country, his wife and family, and then fishing and hunting;...
William Jerry Mercer
Funeral service for William Jerry Mercer, age 83, of Sulphur Springs will be held at 2:00 P.M on, Wednesday, May 1, 2019, at Central Baptist Church with Bro. Kenneth Rhoades officiating. Interment will follow at Memoryland Cemetery, Greenville with Robert Lee, Ricky Godwin, Doyle Starrett, Juan Harrison, Glenn Friddle, Glenn Nicholson and Donald McQueen serving as Pallbearers. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service. Mr....
Warren Eugene Chancellor
Warren Eugene Chancellor, age 94, passed peacefully from this Earth to his God’s Heavenly embrace on Monday, February 18, 2019, at his home in Austin. He was born on March 11, 1924, in Cooper, Texas, the son of Walter Eugene and Daisie Chancellor. At age 17, following his graduation from Cooper High School, he accepted a job at Miller’s Pharmacy as a clerk and “soda skeet” while awaiting the wartime draft. It was there...
