Dinner Bell for July 17th, 2024
Texas Heritage National Bank (the 141st largest bank in Texas) is “Large Enough to meet your needs yet small enough to care”. It was chartered as The Bank of Daingerfield in 1889 but converted to a National charter in 1892 becoming The National Bank of Daingerfield. It has operated continuously since its inception weathering both the Great Depression and the banking crisis of the 1980’s. Its headquarters is in...
Dinner Bell for June 26th, 2024
The Mother’s Culture Club is the Community Partner for June 26, 2024. The Mother’s Culture Club was established September 20, 1929 for the mutual improvement of “our children, ourselves and our homes”. Fund raisers have included bake sales, golf tournaments, charity auctions, cookbook sales, and the yearly much loved Father-Daughter Dance plus many more. Amounts raised each year are in the multi thousand dollar...
Dinner Bell for June 12th, 2024
Christus Mother Frances Hospital became a Dinner Bell Community Partner in 2017. One of its goals for the Hopkins County area is fighting food insufficiency. Since that year volunteers from the administrative staff and other areas of the hospital help prepare the menu for distribution and “hand out” the meals. Multi times yearly personnel from the hospital put words into action at Dinner Bell. GRAB and GO with a meal from...
Ash Borer Confirmed in Four More Counties
June 3, 2024 – The invasive emerald ash borer (EAB) has been confirmed in Collin, Franklin, Johnson and Red River Counties. EAB is an invasive wood-boring pest of ash trees that has killed tens of millions of trees across 35 states since its arrival to the United States in 2002. EAB was first detected in Texas in 2016 in Harrison County in northeast Texas. It has now been detected in 24 Texas counties, including positive...
Mary Undene Thomas Ross
Funeral Service for Mary Undene (Thomas) Ross, age 88 of Sulphur Springs, TX, will be conducted at 11:00 A.M., Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at Morning Chapel Missionary Baptist Church. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service. Interment will follow at Restlawn Memorial Park. Pastor H.B. Nash Sr. will be officiating with Rev. Jason Lindley reading the eulogy. Mary Undene Thomas Ross who was affectionately known as “Sue” a...
Dinner Bell for April 24th, 2024
Alliance Bank, its Board of Directors and shareholders, officers, employees and account holders, has supported the Dinner Bell feeding ministry many times yearly since 2016. Chartered on June 13, 1927 as Sulphur Springs State Bank, the name was changed to Alliance Bank as it began operations beyond Hopkins County in October of 1996. Presently it operates locations in the six different counties of Hopkins, Hunt (Greenville, Commerce,...
Dinner Bell for April 17th, 2024
The City National Bank, its shareholders, officers, employees and account holders, support the Dinner Bell Ministry, feeding those who need a meal, multiple times yearly since 2016. The City National Bank headquartered in Sulphur Springs is the 75th largest bank in Texas. It was organized in 1889 making it the oldest still operating banking institution in Hopkins County. It has 18 branches in Hopkins, Wood, Rains, Van Zant, Gregg,...
Dinner Bell for April 10th, 2024
The Kiwanis Club of Sulphur Springs is part of the Texas Ramp Project and constructed more then 50 wheelchair ramps for all ages with restricted mobility in Hopkins County in 2023. What the Kiwanis Club is famously “known for” is the Pancake Breakfast held each year at the Civic Center. A Pancakes Breakfast of pancakes, sausage and bacon with milk, coffee and juice is the fundraiser that supports the charitable programs of...
Mary Bonham
Mary Bonham, age 96, of Sulphur Springs passed away peacefully at her home on March 27, 2024 surrounded by her family. A memorial service will be held Monday April 1st at 2:00pm at West Oaks Funeral Home, 500 Hillcrest Dr., Sulphur Springs, Texas. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service starting at 1:00pm. Mary Louise Spencer Bonham was born February 15, 1928 in Hopkins County to Johnny and Annie Kitts Spencer. The 3rd...
Dinner Bell for March 27th, 2024
It is our Easter Meal with Community Partner Clayton Homes!!! Clayton Homes has been a Community Partner with the Dinner Bell Ministry every year since the Easter meal in 2018, even donating the hams that are the centerpiece of the meal. Locating in Sulphur Springs in January, 1977 in a temporary office, the first family homes rolled off the production line in August. In 27 years, Clayton Homes has become one of the major...
