Titus County Veterans Service Officer (Douglas Pille), with an Assistant at the Veterans Resource Center

The office. Douglas Pille, Veterans Service Officer, Titus County Courthouse, 100 W 1st Street, Mount Pleasant, TX 75455; 903-572-0382 (the directory adds extension 470); [email protected]. "Please call to schedule an appointment. I typically do not have time to handle walk-in appointments." The page says the officer reports to the Commissioners Court and that "There is no charge for our services"; the office files VA and State claims under Government Code chapter 434 (see the Texas entry). TexVet's county list names the same officer. How it is run. Pille works full time in the County Attorney's office, which supervises the post, and has been paid $500 a month for it since he started in 2025; the County Attorney told the Court on June 8, 2026 that the office had served every veteran who asked. Pille told the Court he had seen 51 separate veterans in the last quarter, apart from calls and walk-ins. An assistant at the resource center. On February 9, 2026 Kellye Cooper of Ministering Our Military, a Mount Pleasant ministry, told the Court the group had bought the old Tribune Building at 1705 Industrial for a veterans resource center, leasing space to veterans organizations (the American Legion post among them), and asked the county to place a service officer there part of the time. On June 8, 2026 the Court unanimously appointed Bob Hourahan, a retired Air Force veteran and commander of American Legion Post 210, as Assistant Veterans Officer, to be trained and paid $500 a month from October 1, 2026, working through the County Attorney's office; Pille stays the officer at the Courthouse. On September 28, 2026 the Court's agenda asked it to authorize two more volunteers, Rick Leonhardt and Stephon Rockwell, to seek Texas Veterans Commission accreditation and serve unpaid; the minutes of that meeting are not yet posted. How the county funds it. General Fund department 405, "VA Office", is $17,476 in the FY2026-2027 budget adopted September 2, 2026 (the county's year runs October to September; the document heads the column "Requested 2027 Budget"), against $8,808 for FY2026: $12,000 for the "V A Officer" line (up from $6,000, two stipends of $500 a month), $744 of Social Security, $174 of Medicare, $1,458 of retirement, $100 of office expense and $3,000 of travel and seminars.