Moises Galvan
A funeral service of Christian burial for Moises Galvan, age 35 of Dike, will be conducted at 12:00 noon, Saturday, January 9, 2016 at St. James Catholic Church with Father Juan Carlos Sardinas officiating. Interment will follow at Richland Cemetery with Gabriel Galvan, Mike Galvan, Joel Reyes, Jose Martinez, Sam Barcenas, Calletano Jr. Hernandez, Andrew Morales and Eduardo Castaneda serving as pallbearers. A visitation will be...
Mark Bolton
Funeral services for Mark Bolton, age 59 of Kilgore will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, December 26, 2015 at First Baptist Church of Danville in Kilgore with Rev. Freeman Pierce officiating. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the church. Graveside services will be held after the service in Sulphur Bluff at 3:00 p.m., at Sulphur Bluff Cemetery with Michael Bolton, Gary Bolton, John Ballard, Steven Hutson,...
SSHS Wins UIL Sweepstakes In Invitational Meet
Twenty-one schools competed in the Sulphur Springs High School UIL fall Academic Invitations Meet this past weekend. SSHS won first place sweepstakes as well as both the Overall Journalism and Overall speech awards. Mesquite High School won second place sweepstakes. In the small school division, Trenton High won both first place sweepstakes and the overall Journalism award while Caddo Mills won both second place sweepstakes and the...
Tree Lighting Thursday To Celebrate Lights of Life 20th Anniversary
The 20th Anniversary of Lights of Life Tree Lighting will take place Thursday at 6 p.m. in The Gardens of Memorial. The public is invited to attend. Funds raised go to the Hopkins County Memorial Hospital Health Care Foundation that provides extras for the hospital. The lights on the tree are in honor or in memory of those who have remembered one through a donation to Lights of Life and the Memorial Hospital Foundation. The family...
Herman “Bud” D. Bryant
Funeral service for Herman “Bud” D. Bryant, age 88, of Emory, will be held 11:00 am, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015 at the Church of Christ in Emory. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service, at 10:00 am, at the church. Burial will follow in Emory City Cemetery. Mr. Bryant died Sunday afternoon, Nov. 22, 2015, at Hopkins County Memorial Hospital, in Sulphur Springs. Mr. Bryant was born July 24, 1927, in Point, to...
CHRISTUS Affirms Commitment to Partner With Memorial Hospital
A meeting with CHRISTUS Heath, at their request, on Thursday November 5th assured Memorial Hospital CEO Michael McAndrew and Joe Bob Burgin, a member of the local hospital district board, that CHRISTUS is still very committed to developing a partnership with the local district. The discussion also focused on some of the issues that have slowed the pace of progress for the partnership. Lawyers on both sides are actively working on...
COMMENTARY: I Trust Hopkins County Memorial Hospital by Jim Rogers
I go on Medicare January 1. That being said, the problems at our local hospital are personal. The hospital gave care to my dad instead of our having to travel to Dallas constantly for medical care at the veteran’s hospital there. Chuck Jones saved his life once. Dad died at home at age 87. My mom has had emergency care when she broke first one leg, then a shoulder, and later the other leg. Mom lives on our farm in the county. Senior...
Memorial Hospital Survey Results; Reactions
Hopkins County Memorial Hospital has been notified that on November 6th of this year, they will no longer qualify for Medicaid or Medicare payments. The hospital administration is working to head off termination of their agreement to participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs by November 6 due to failure to meet minimum health and safety standards uncovered in CMS surveys. A meeting with CMS officials will take place Tuesday,...
Hospital Makes Necessary Equipment Purchase; Meeting Today Set to Resolve Issues with CMS
The Hopkins County Memorial Hospital Board voted to purchase some non-budgeted equipment for the Operating Room due to a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services survey critical of the hospital. Some of the equipment will sterilize hospital operating instruments better and faster. It was noted that the equipment was not all the OR needed but it was a start, Hospital CEO Michael McAndrew’s CMS Update was moved to the closed...
Saltillo Varsity Wins District 24A Cross Country
DISTRICT 24A 2015 CROSS COUNTRY VARSITY BOYS TEAM RESULTS: 1ST SALTILLO 15 2ND SULPHUR BLUFF 66 3RD UNION HILL 68 4TH YANTIS 86 VARSITY BOYS INDIVIDUAL RESULTS: 1 LYLE BENCH SALTILLO 18:57 2 ADAM VALENZUELA SALTILLO 19:11 3 LANE BENCH SALTILLO 19:19 4 ...
