Hopkins County Genealogical Society to Hold Next Lunch & Learn July 24th
Lunch & Learn will be held this coming Wednesday, July 24, 2024, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. at 611 North Davis St., Sulphur Springs, Tx. The Hopkins County Genealogical Society invites anyone who wants to learn more about doing genealogical research to join us. Bring your sack lunch, salad or drive-through meal and your tablet or laptop, if you wish. We are...
Dinner Bell for July 24th, 2024
If you are a farmer, a rancher or “country living is just for you”, Texas Farm Credit is able to help!!! Farm Credit Bank of Texas is part of the Farm Credit System established in 1916 by Congress to support rural agricultural communities. It consists of cooperative banks and associations who provide credit to individuals and businesses throughout the United States. The FCS assist the rural community and...
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 July 10th, 2024
The Dinner Bell is pleased to Honor Grocery Supply Company and Fidelity Express for many years of contributions and personal involvement with its ministry. Grocery Supply Company was founded in 1947 in Mt. Vernon, Texas by Curtis McKenzie, Kenneth McKenzie and Woodrow Brittain. In 1953 it moved to Sulphur Springs on Oak Avenue at the train tracks. Presently the operation is located at the corner of Hillcrest Drive N and Main Street....
Dinner Bell for July 3rd, 2024
LET’S CELEBRATE OUR COUNTRY’S INDEPENDENCE!!! The Dial Study Club was organized in 1951 when the Junior Waverly Club realized the need for an additional study club for young women in Sulphur Springs. Gretchen Dial was their sponsor and naming the new club after her was in recognition of her many community activities. The young ladies in Dial believed then as they do now in community improvement and involvement...
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An East Texas town wants to revolutionize how the state cares for people living with memory loss
By Jess Huff and Stephen Simpson, The Texas Tribune June 19, 2024 QUITMAN — Addy Lois Dunn’s memory became a concern after she began running red lights and forgetting well-worn routes. She would soon be diagnosed with dementia, and her family, including her son, Randy Dunn, would rally to her care. That was more than 20 years ago. Addy is now gone. She died in February 2012 at 74. Yet, her battle inspired Randy, who is now the mayor...
Hopkins County Genealogical Society to Hold Next Lunch & Learn June 26th
Lunch & Learn will be held this coming Wednesday, June 26, 2024, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. at 611 North Davis St., Sulphur Springs, Tx. The Hopkins County Genealogical Society invites anyone who wants to learn more about doing genealogical research to join us. Bring your sack lunch, salad or drive-through meal and your tablet or laptop, if you wish.We did not have time...
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 19th, 2024
The Lions Club was organized in Sulphur Springs in 1937. Since early 2000 it has sponsored the FAMOUS CHRISTMAS PARADE of LIGHTS, the seventeenth one on December 1, 2023. It is part of an international service club known for fighting blindness. Locally the club provides vision screening and corrective glasses (if needed) for those students financially unable to cover those costs. The Lions Club has been a Community Partner a number of...
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...
