Lynette Garza, RN, CHPN
Executive Director
Lynette grew up in Early and has been a hospice nurse for twenty-four years. She still makes first visits to many families herself.
Our people
Meet our team
Nurses, aides, a chaplain and a social worker who drive the farm roads of five counties.
Our team
The people behind the care
Dr. Raymond Childers
Hospice Medical Director
Practiced family medicine in Brownwood for thirty years. Board certified in hospice and palliative medicine.
Stephanie Vaughn, RN
Director of Nursing
Stephanie leads our nurses and still covers patients in Mills County every week.
Rev. Thomas Okafor
Chaplain
A Methodist minister who has served Brown County churches for fifteen years and visits families of every faith.
Elena Martinez, LMSW
Medical Social Worker
Elena helps with Medicaid, VA and advance directives in English or Spanish, and leads our Tuesday grief group.
Marcus Bell, RN
On-Call Nurse
Marcus covers nights and weekends. Families know his voice on the phone and his headlights in the drive.
Wanda Pruitt
Volunteer Coordinator
Wanda trains our forty volunteers and records life stories herself. She's interviewed more than three hundred patients.
Sample family reviews
Letters to the editor
Wanda sat with Daddy for three afternoons and recorded his stories about the pecan orchard. The little book she printed is the most precious thing we own.
We live twelve miles of gravel past Zephyr. Marcus came out at 2 a.m. in a thunderstorm and never once complained.
Mama was a Church of Christ woman all her life. The chaplain sang with her a cappella, just the way she liked it.
Elena explained Medicaid to my father in Spanish and got everything filed in a week. He finally relaxed.
Dr. Childers came to the house twice and explained exactly what was happening. We were scared, and then we weren't.
The volunteer fiddler played 'Faded Love' for Grandpa. He tapped his hand on the blanket the whole time.
They held a pinning ceremony for my husband, a Vietnam veteran, in our living room. He cried, and so did we.
A year later I'm still going to the Tuesday group. Those people are family now.
Let's write the next page together.
Call or text with any question. A hospice nurse will answer, and nothing happens until you're ready.