{"id":22778,"date":"2019-05-08T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=22778"},"modified":"2019-05-07T23:39:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T03:39:21","slug":"lady-of-the-year-debbie-howell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=22778","title":{"rendered":"Lady of the Year: Debbie Howell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"496\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-05-08-LOY-Howell.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-05-08-LOY-Howell.jpg 496w, https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-05-08-LOY-Howell-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><figcaption>Debbie Howell (left) was named \u201cLady of the Year\u201d during a surprise reception held Sunday. Beta Sigma Phi President Diane Ching (right) presented Howell a plaque in recognition of the honor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BY SUSAN H. LINCOLN  \/<\/strong><em>Special to the <\/em><strong><em>Taco Times <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Debbie Howell rushed her husband, Vance, into the Big Bend\nHospice (BBH) office Sunday afternoon, worried they might be late to honor Jan\nLee and other nurses during the kick-off to National Nurses Week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly after the Howell\u2019s arrival, Diane Ching (who serves\nas president of Mu Omega chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority) welcomed everyone\ngraciously and acknowledged the compassionate care that nurses provide\nyear-round, specifically recognizing Jan Lee for her years of dedicated\nservice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY SUSAN H. LINCOLN \/Special to the Taco Times Debbie Howell rushed her husband, Vance, into the Big Bend Hospice (BBH) office Sunday afternoon, worried they might be late to honor Jan Lee and other nurses during the kick-off to National Nurses Week. Shortly after the Howell\u2019s arrival, Diane Ching (who serves as president of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,123],"class_list":["post-22778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-lady-of-the-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22780,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22778\/revisions\/22780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}