July 2022

Employees make sacrifices caring for dying co-worker

Dear Abby: A co-worker has been stricken with multiple stage-4 cancers. We all have been compassionate and caring, supporting him through the challenges of treatment and the side effects. His condition is terminal, in the final stage and deteriorating rapidly. He does have a supportive family, but we don’t have the heart to send him home and take away the only thing that gives him his reason to live -- his work. So we spend our time providing hospice care, something none of us have any training for.

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Doyle Raymond Henson

Doyle Raymond Henson, age 92, of Sherman, TX, passed away on July 20, 2022 at Sunrise Frisco after a brief hospital stay. Doyle, also known as Dad, Daddy, and Grandad, was born on July 13, 1930 in his maternal grandparents’ home between Wirt and Healdton, OK.

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Robert Van Copeland

Staff Sgt. Robert Van Copeland, 76, passed away Tuesday morning, July 26, 2022 in Denison, Texas after a lengthy illness. He was born at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas on July 6, 1946, the son of Maj. Richard Theodore and Viola Agnes (Lloyd) Copeland.

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David Michael Judkins

David Michael Judkins of Sherman, TX passed away at the age of 83 on July 25th, 2022. David was born on December 8th, 1938, in Oklahoma City, OK, where he attended and graduated from Putnam City High School and also participated in football, wrestling and baseball.

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