
Donor Stories
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Donor Spotlight – The Palla Family
March 5, 2025Donors Lisa and Steven Palla and family, whose appreciated gift recently named Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Irving’s Rehabilitation Therapy Gym, joined with the staff in September2024 to celebrate the unit’s ranking by Newsweek as a top-three Texas facility for physical rehabilitation centers. This is the second consecutive year that the inpatient rehab […]Learn more Donor Spotlight – The Palla Family -
Virginia Shipp
February 3, 2025Virginia Shipp was one of the nicest people that you likely never knew. She lived a quiet, simple life in her modest home (valued at $39,000) on Carl Road in Irving. She loved giving to help our city’s only charitable hospital…but would never let the foundation’s staff tell anyone about the good she made possible to […]Learn more Virginia Shipp -
Margaret Sutherland
February 3, 2025Margaret Sutherland is part of generations of generosity. For her, giving was a family affair. Margaret was a lifelong Irving resident and a 1953 business graduate of Southern Methodist University. Within a decade of earning that degree, she would serve with her father, Wre Sutherland, on committees to organize and then help open Irving’s only […]Learn more Margaret Sutherland -
Billy Gene Davidson
February 3, 2025We know very little about the late Billy Gene Davidson—except that he said, “Thank you!” to our hospital in a big way. Mr. Davidson was a Grand Prairie resident and former Marine who owned a landscaping business for 30 years. He never made a gift during his lifetime, but when he passed away, he left […]Learn more Billy Gene Davidson