  In 2010, Kh. Hessami Pilehrood and T. Hessami Pilehrood introduced generating
function identities used to obtain series accelerations for values of
Dirichlet's $\beta$ function, via the Markov--Wilf--Zeilberger method. Inspired
by these past results, together with related results introduced by Chu et al.,
we introduce a variety of hypergeometric recurrences. We prove these
recurrences using the WZ method, and we apply these recurrences to obtain
series acceleration identities. We introduce a family of summations
generalizing a Ramanujan-type series for $\frac{1}{\pi^2}$ due to Guillera, and
a family of summations generalizing an accelerated series for Catalan's
constant due to Lupa\c{s}, and many related results.
