United Way Drive Underway
A $160,000 goal is motivating volunteers as well as companies and individual donors in the 2015-2016 Hopkins County United Way drive now underway. Wednesday at noon, lead donors, company executives, and United Way committee-persons lunched at the Sulphur Spring Country Club to hear the inspiration of a letter written in 2001 by one of the county United Fund organizers, Bill Bradford, and guest speaker for the occasion, 1991 SSHS...
Bobby L. Williams
Funeral services for Bobby L. Williams, age 78 of Sulphur Springs will be held at 12:00 p.m. (Noon) on Thursday, October 1, 2015 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home with Rev. Charles Rawlinson officiating. Interment will follow at Bethel Cemetery near Winnsboro with John F. Doyle, John M. Doyle, Kevin Nolen, Joe Wilson, Robert Dyer and Bill Campbell serving as pallbearers. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the...
Margene Saxon Bell
Funeral services for Margene Saxon Bell, age 91 of Winnsboro, will be at 2pm on Thursday, October 1 at Winnsboro’s Walnut Street Baptist Church (Brother David Taylor officiating) with burial following at Caney Cemetery, in Pickton, Texas. Visitation will be from 6-8pm on Wednesday, September 30 at Beaty Funeral Home in Winnsboro. Mrs. Bell passed away on Monday, September 28, 2015 at Autumn Wind Assisted Living in Winnsboro. Born in...
Autumn Trails Begins
This Weeks’ Autumn Trails Activities: October 2-3 October 2- *Photo and Art Contest –Kids are encouraged to participate! Early drop offs can be made at the Winnsboro Center for the Arts. They will be on Display at the Autumn Trails Ball, Winnsboro Civic Center– Several Divisions- Cash Prizes *Autumn Trails Grand Parade- 4pm- Leaves from the Water Tower-Sign up online at www.winnsboroautumntrails.com This is for anyone and...
Delma V. Nichols
Funeral services for Mrs. Delma V. Nichols are Monday, September 28, at 3 p.m. at Beaty Funeral Home in Winnsboro. Visitation will precede the service from 2 p.m. until 3 p.m. Interment will follow at New Pickton Cemetery. Mrs. Nichols passed away on Friday, September 25, 2015, at the age of 95. She was born on April 7, 1920, to the late Dave Ratliff and Laura Pierce Ratliff. Mrs. Nichols was self-employed as a beautician; member of...
Miranda Lambert’s Red 55 Winery Continues Growth
Red 55 Winery in Lindale, Texas began when recording artist Miranda Lambert was approached by a company to brand a wine. Lambert was not 21 at the time, so she asked her parents what to do. Her parents decided to begin their own winery. They approached Susan Jones who had begun her work as a vintner as a hobby. The Lambert’s were introduced to Jones in 2003 by Casey Musgraves. Jones started a vineyard and worked with it part...
Jetta Marie Mattix Russell
Jetta Marie Mattix Russell, age 69, beloved wife and mother, passed away peacefully in her sleep at her home in Winnsboro, on Saturday, September 5, 2015. Born Jun14, 1946, she lived most of her life in the Dallas area and worked for Dal-Mac Construction and Team Worldwide Logistics in Winnsboro. She graduated from Monterey High School in Lubbock, and is survived by her husband, Robert, brother Marvin Lunsford, sister Mary Schmedieke...
Laura Totten Cassady
Funeral arrangements for Laura Totten Cassady, age 61 of Winnsboro will be held at 1:00 p.m., Thursday, August 27, 2015 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home with Dr. Joel Tiemeyer officiating. Interment will follow at Shady Grove Cemetery in Winnsboro with Shane Barnett, Jim Worster, Jerry Lucas, Kyle Barnett, Seth McNeal and Jacoby Smith serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers are the 1972 Class of Sulphur Springs High School. ...
Ruby Whitehead
Memorial services for Ruby Whitehead, age 52 of Sulphur Springs will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, August 28, 2015 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home with Pastor Bruce Stinson officiating. There will be no formal visitation. Ms. Whitehead passed away on Sunday, August 23, 2015, at Trinity Mother Frances in Tyler. She was born on June 24, 1963, the daughter of Willis Teen, Jr. and Nellie Joyce (McCown) Whitehead in Dallas, Texas. She...
Hopkins County Courthouse Anniversary Revives Story of Pete the Mule
On July 2, 1994, at what was then called Heritage Square, now called Celebration Plaza, Alma Ellison handed to KSST’s Bill Bradford a handwritten note that included a summary of a story told by her father, Paul Braden. At age 99, Mr. Braden had told how as a teenager he had watched the building of the Hopkins County Courthouse in 1895. Copies of the 1994 letter by Alma Ellison are now kept in Judge Newsome’s office in the...
