A decade ago, T. Boone Pickens, through his T. Boone Pickens Foundation, contributed $18.4 million to help start the first hospice and palliative care center in Dallas. Yesterday, the fruits of that contribution were evident in the official opening of that facility now named in Boone’s honor.

The opening was chronicled in a Dallas Morning News story: T. Boone Pickens says he’s ready to meet his maker…as a Methodist