An icon in Central Texas and across the U.S. military known as the "hug lady" died on Christmas Eve after a battle with cancer. Elizabeth Laird, 83, passed away on at Metroplex Hospital in Killeen, ...
Elizabeth Laird was known as the hug lady because she met every deployment — coming or going — from Fort Hood and gave each soldier a hug. She... Elizabeth Laird, Who Gave Hugs To Soldiers At Fort ...
Killeen Daily Herald: Elizabeth Laird memorialized at site of where she became ‘Hug Lady’
Killeen Daily Herald: Hug Lady spends holiday with family, out of hospital
Elizabeth Laird, Fort Hood’s Hug Lady, spent Thanksgiving surrounded by family, according to her son Rick Dewees. Dewees posted an update on Thanksgiving Day to the GoFundMe site he created to help ...
CBS News: "The Hug Lady" hugs every single deploying and homecoming soldier at Fort Hood
"The Hug Lady" hugs every single deploying and homecoming soldier at Fort Hood
FORT HOOD, Texas – Elizabeth Laird, known to Fort Hood residents as the 'Hug Lady,' has been hospitalized at Metroplex Hospital in Killeen. Her son Rick Dewees told KVUE's news partner KCEN she was ...
KILLEEN, TX (FOX NEWS) - The "hug lady" of Fort Hood, whose embrace boosted the spirits of thousands of American soldiers over nearly a decade as they shipped out for Iraq and Afghanistan, died ...
Fort Hood’s seriously ill “Hug Lady” Elizabeth Laird was out of ICU Wednesday and some of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who received hugs from her were lining up to return the gesture while ...