Foundation’s Gala Highlights Community’s Uniqueness
December 28, 2023 – Sulphur Springs, Texas – The Hopkins County Health Care Foundation has hosted an annual Gala for eighteen years. It has changed and grown through the years with the Foundation finally settling on a program that suits the crowd. Yes, it is a fun night punctuated with amazing food, fine wines and beers, live music, games, and frivolity. It is also an important night of fundraising for the Foundation...
Durwood “Pop” Smith
Funeral service for Durwood “Pop” Smith, age 84 of Sulphur Springs, will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, December 30, 2023 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Chapel with K.C. Smith officiating. Interment will follow at Restlawn Memorial Park with Ronnie Nix, Laverl Edwards, Dan Petty, Bryan Hawkins, Chris Penny, and Dustin Emerick serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers are Glenn Hamlin, Bailey Davis, Don Petty, and Brennan Rhoades....
Did You Drink ‘Big Chief’ Soda?
December 28, 2023 – While clearing out part of my shop, I came across a collection of old soda bottles. Most of them were Pepsi bottles touting the 1972 Dallas Cowboys, but one was unique. It’s impossible to know what flavors of soda were inside this bottle, but one thing is clear, it’s a ‘Big Chief’. My bottle is from a bygone era when independent bottlers were almost as common as modern fast food...
Brayden Wooten
Funeral service for Brayden Wooten, age 21, of Sulphur Springs, will be held on Saturday, December 30, 2023 at 2:30 P.M. at Shannon Oaks Church with Bro. Jonathan McGraw officiating. Interment will follow at Como Cemetery with Christian Ingram, Dylan Ingram, Kaden Wallace, Wiley Bennett, Braxton Hohenberger, Blayne Hohenburger, Jake Smith and Joseph Pelton serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be Jermond Amos, Straton...
Make Your Reservation Now For Chamber Banquet
December 27, 2023 – From Butch Burney, Chamber President/CEO It is with great pleasure that the 2024 Board of Directors invites you to the 97th Annual Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce Banquet on Thursday, February 15, at 6 p.m. at the Hopkins County Regional Civic Center. We will host a Networking Cocktail Happy Half Hour at 6 p.m. Dinner will be served at 6:30, and the awards will follow at 7 p.m. Please take this opportunity...
Trading Post for December 27, 2023
Linseed oil for decks, $35 per gal. Coleman clean fuel, $25 per gallon. 21″ Pulsar push mower, new, $250. 21″ Troy Bilt Mower, new. $250. 903 335 8666 or 903 951 8547 For sale JD 2550 cab tractor with loader and hay forks. Near Winnsboro, $16,000. 903 717 1194 Seen: two stray dogs. One is a shih tzu, one looks like a Papillon. The Papillon is black and white. The dogs were seen in the area behind Watson Realty Co. For more...
Foundation’s Gala Highlights Community’s Uniqueness
Sulphur Springs, Texas – The Hopkins County Health Care Foundation has hosted an annual Galafor eighteen years. It has changed and grown through the years with the Foundation finallysettling on a program that suits the crowd. Yes, it is a fun night punctuated with amazing food, fine wines and beers, live music, games, andfrivolity. It is also an important night of fundraising for the Foundation since proceeds are usedto fund annual...
Ronny Earl Bailey
Ronny Earl Bailey, age 73, passed away peacefully on December 24, 2023 at his residence in Cumby Texas. Born December 14, 1950 in Sulphur Springs, TX to Roy Lee Bailey and Mary Ann Gafford. He is survived by his two sons, Ronny Bailey, and Jason Bailey; two grandchildren, Daniel Brian Bailey, and Shelby Bailey; two sisters, Sharon Powell, and Brenda Moerbe; and many nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his parents. As per...
Laquita Gay Stanley Howle
Laquita Gay Stanley Howle, age 61, of Sulphur Springs, passed peacefully at her home on December 24, 2023. She was born August 30, 1962 in Ft. Worth, TX to William Cardell Stanley, Sr and Hettie Ellen (Crowley) Stanley. She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Dan and Cory Stanley; and sister, Joyce Miller. Laquita is survived by her husband, Glen Howle. They were devoted to each other for 15 years and were married on...
Joyce “Bonnie” McClain
Graveside service for Joyce “Bonnie” McClain, age 93, of Sulphur Springs, Texas, will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Tuesday, January 2, 2023, at the DFW National Cemetery with Earl Gregory officiating. A memorial service held at the New Beginnings Fellowship Baptist Church will be held at a later date. Mrs. McClain passed away on Sunday, December 24, 2023, in her home. Joyce “Bonnie” McClain Joyce was born to Norman Eugene and Gordon Marie...
