We're Home! Food Pantry Back Up and Running
Posted on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
A Fresh Start: Lead volunteer Lula Finch had the help of students on
summer break Tuesday when the Hospital Food Pantry reopened at
1100 Memorial Drive. Adriana Galano, 20, and Cutter Crosthwait, 13,
have parents who are hospital employees.
The hospital food pantry is home! A Marietta location owned by the hospital opened at 1100 Memorial Drive on July 22. The building, a former car dealership, is roomy enough for clients to drive through and stay in their cars while pantry volunteers put food packages in the trunk.
Cars enter from Memorial Drive and exit the building onto Wanda St. “I am very pleased with how the process went today,” said Lula Finch, head volunteer, who has been with the food pantry from the beginning in 2001. The pantry’s former permanent building on the hospital’s east side was destroyed in last year’s tornado.
The pantry is licensed by the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma. It receives truckloads of fresh, packaged, canned, and frozen foods several days per month. The mission of the pantry is to assist the hungry and food insecure of Love County.
Clients register with the pantry on their first visit. About 400 families, mostly elderly or having young children, are served each month.
Pantry volunteers besides Finch are Jim Ahern, Anthony Brown, Jed Brown, Jim and Joanne Coble, Debra Gaines, Rosann Kelly, Naomi Lornes, Diana Morrison, Cathy Redding and Jessica Smith.