Family, friends and colleagues gathered inside the Spartanburg Medical Center chapel Thursday morning for a Service of Remembrance.  

Part of Healthcare Appreciation Week, the gathering honored and memorialized past associates, physicians, board members or volunteers who passed away in 2024. 

Names were read one by one as a bell rang, and flowers were handed to each loved one who attended as a representative. 

“Our lives have been forever changed by the ones who have lived and died,” said Chaplain Nancy Anderson during the service. 

System Chief Operating Officer-Hospital Group Phil Feisal shared hopeful sentiments as an introduction before chaplains led the attendees through a time of solace and reflection. 

“We take this time to remember folks who were very important to a lot of us in our lives, our work lives and our home lives,” Feisal said. 

Nineteen names were spoken in total. 

After comforting words and prayers were shared, attendees made their way to the Family Memorial Tree in the lobby nearby where those names had been etched into leaves added to branches. 

The memorial tree was first dedicated in 2013. 

Earlier in the week, Cherokee Medical Center held its own Service of Remembrance and shared two names that were added to a Family Memorial Tree there. 

The Spartanburg Medical Center names were: 

• Julia Lyons Brooks 
• Barbara J. Bryan 
• Mayita Sanchez Cocio 
• Luciano G. Cont 
• Harnetha Renee Dean 
• Dr. Michael “Micky” Enright 
• Denise Foster 
• Mitchel E. “Mitch” Fowler 
• Clarisa Giles 
• Louise Henderson 
• Sarah Caroline Broyles Henson 
• Denise Wood Jones 
• Rebekah “Becky” Keyser 
• Vincent Krydynski 
• Eva Rector 
• James Baker Romine 
• Carlton Smith 
• Deloris Smith 
• Sandra Lee Wheeler 

The Cherokee Medical Center names were: 

• Brittany Harris 
• Mary Duncan