The Baxter Regional Medical Center recently welcomed four new members to the Baxter Regional Hospital Foundation Board of Directors. The new members include April Fowler, Steve Litty, Heather Knight Loftis, and Audiologist Matthew Taylor.
As an Arkansas native, April Fowler moved to Mountain Home in 1990 and graduated from both Mountain Home High School and Arkansas State University at Mountain Home. Fowler has since been in the banking industry for 12 years, having served the last eight at U.S. Bank. After 11 years as Branch Manager, she transitioned to the U.S. Bank Home Mortgage department last year. In her spare time, Fowler likes to spend time on Lake Norfork with family and friends. She also serves on the Schliemann Center for Women’s Health Education Advisory Board.
Steve Litty is a graduate of Mountain Home High school and attended the University of Arkansas, where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. Litty spent 20 years working in the landline telephone industry before joining a financial institution ten years ago. He currently works in the Mountain Home branch of West Plains Bank and Trust Company. Litty also owns 2L Cattle Company with his brother Kevin and serves as a part-time officer with Mountain Home Police Department.
Currently, Litty is on the Arkansas State University at Mountain Home’s Business Advisory Council, has been a Rotarian for 27 years, and is a Paul Harris Fellow. He has also served on the Mountain Home City Council, the Baxter County Quorum Court, and the Peitz Cancer Support House Advisory Board. Litty and his wife Shonda have two children, Caroline and Brad, and he and his family attend First Baptist Church in Mountain Home.
A Mountain Home native and 1995 graduate of Mountain Home High School, Heather Knight Loftis earned a Bachelors of Business Administration in Marketing from the University of Central Arkansas. Loftis spent ten years working in healthcare philanthropy, first in Arkansas Children’s Hospital Foundation as Director, Children’s Miracle Network, before moving back home to serve as Director, Annual Giving, for Baxter Regional Hospital Foundation in 2004. She joined the family business, KTLO, Classic Hits 101.7, and The Boot in 2008 as Sales Manager
A member of the Mountain Home Rotary Club, Loftis currently serves on the board of directors for Twin Lakes Community Foundation, Arkansas State University at Mountain Home’s Development Council, and the Baxter County Library Foundation Advisory Council. She is an Advisory Member of Twin Lakes Community Foundation Future Fund and is on the Mountain Home High School Athletic Hall of Honor Committee. Loftis has also served on the boards of Mountain Home Chamber of Commerce, Serenity, Inc., and the Donald W. Reynolds Library serving Baxter County.
She and her husband Chris own Bookworms Cafe at the Library. They have two children, Mia and Zane.
Audiologist Matthew Taylor is a graduate of the University of Florida and Kent State University. Dr. Taylor currently serves on the Mruk Family Education Center on Aging Advisory Board, Rotary Club of Mountain Home Board of Directors, and Parish Council at St. Peter the Fisherman Catholic Church. He is the Audiology Representative to the Arkansas Board of Hearing Instrument Dispensers and is the owner of Taylor Hearing Centers in Arkansas and Tennessee.
He and his wife, Tricia, have called the Twin Lakes Area their home for 21 years after previously living in Ohio. They have two children, Gianna and Jacob. When Taylor isn’t working in tune with an ear, he likes to spend time outdoors on the lake with his family, gardening, going on missions with the Starkey Hearing Foundation, attending area sporting events, and being a “Prop Dad” for his children, who dance competitively with Studio H dance Company in Mountain Home.
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