Shortly before her death, she bequested $719,389.00 to the DeWitt Medical Foundation for construction of a new Women’s Center at Cuero Community Hosptial, a memoriam honoring her mother, Belle Terry Elder, her aunt Dora Elder Wallace and neice Peggy Elder Miller - A gift by a woman, in honor of three women, to benefit the health of women in the community.

“Receiving Mrs. Clifford Elder White Grahman’s generous and heartfelt bequest for the building of a Women’s Center has been very exciting and meaningful to the Foundation and Cuero Community Hospital.” said Sharon Weber, DeWitt Medical Foundation Director. “We currently have an area for mammography and bone densitometry, but both are in a very cramped and shared space. To have a center that is warm and soothing, a place where difficult news to hear is met with comfort and understanding, and an educational area where patients, family and friends can go to research and read about their diagnosis, is a dream we have had for our hospital for many years. Mrs. Graham’s decision to make this dream a reality is a gift from her heart . . . one gift that will keep on giving.”

Radiology Director, Brian Olsovsky states, “The Belle Terry Elder Women’s Center for Cuero Community Hospital has been designed around the most recent developments in digital mammography and bone densitometry imaging techniques. Our goal is to provide comfortable services in a warm environment thus reducing the anxiety level for your diagnostic or screening mammogram procedure. We are very excited about many of the design elements of this Center because it will reflect the warmth and hospitality that Cuero is known for.” The design by Rawley McCoy & Associates, pictured right, shows the final plans for the Center. Construction on the project is expected to begin within the next several months and will be located near the clinics at the hospital where the current Mammography Diagnostic area resides.

"A Gift by a Woman, In Honor of Three Women,

to Benefit the Health of Women in the Community"