About Us
Coffee Memorial Blood Center was charted as a nonprofit corporation in the State of Texas as the Potter County Memorial Blood Center on December 23, 1949, under the auspices of the Potter-Randall County Medical Society. The first unit of blood was collected from a donor, whose name has been lost to history, on February 8, 1950, in the office of T. P. Churchill, M.D. The first permanent site of the Blood Center was a building built and equipped by the Golding-Meadows Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars adjacent to the Post on West Eighth Avenue. The cost of that five-room building was $14,000 and was leased to the Blood Center for $1.00 per year.
