Reba McEntire
Jun 14, 2010
Starstruck/Valory Music Co. artist Reba McEntire recently cut the ribbon at her new Reba's Ranch House at the Texoma Medical Center. The facility was made for families of hospital patients battling serious illness.
"It's a wonderful thing that the community has done," she told the Denison Herald Democrat Newspaper. "Everybody has put in so many hours ... to make sure that [guests] are welcomed when they come from the hospital needing a place to stay. I get to bounce in here and stand at the podium and look like the power child, but I'm just the person that gets to come say thank you to all the folks that work all year long and for many, many years. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for continuing to allow me to come down here to say thank you to you all. I'm honored to be associated with you."
Reba opened the original house in 1992 and said credit for the new home goes to many people. Reba's Ranch House has housed more than 24,000 guests representing over 8,800 families since the original house opened.
"In a way it seems like yesterday when we did the ribbon cutting over at the first, original Reba's Ranch House," she said. "Here we are at this beautiful facility that so many people have given their hours, their time, their dollars to make sure that this has been done in the beautiful way that it is being presented. I just pray with all my heart that the folks that are going to be walking through these halls, going through these front doors receive exactly what has been represented in the past 20 years at the original Reba's Ranch House."
For more on Reba's Ranch House, including a wish list of items that are still needed, visit www.texomamedicalcenter.net/Hospital-Services/Rebas-Ranch-House. For more on Reba, check out www.reba.com.
By Karen Goodner