Our dear, sweet Larissa Rose Blevins Jewell peacefully slipped into eternity Sunday morning, Feb. 2, 2020, at 2:20 a.m. Larissa was born in Oklahoma City on Dec. 14, 1995, to Larry and Vanessa Blevins.
She was preceded in death by her maternal grandfather, Thomas N. Sharp.
Funeral services for Nathanial Randolph Butler were held Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, at Red Buffalo Hall in Carnegie. Services were under the direction of Ray and Martha’s Funeral Home, Carnegie.
Nathan passed away Jan. 28, 2020, at the age of 44 years in Carnegie. He was born Jan. 6, 1976, in Midwest City to Allen Ray Butler and Tommie Louise Doyebi. Nathan was a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma and descendent of the Otoe-Missouria Tribes and Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
Prayer service for Loretta Margaret Schaefer was held Sunday at Holy Trinity Church, with Mass of Christian Burial on Monday at Holy Trinity with Rev. Cory Stanley and Deacon Max Schwarz officiating. Burial was in the Holy Trinity Cemetery under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.
Gene Ray Griggs, 82, passed away Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020, at Homestead Assisted Living in Bethany. He was born April 10, 1937, in Calumet. Gene grew up in Calumet, graduating from Calumet High School. He married Georgia Ruzicka on Sept. 15, 1963, sharing over 56 years of marriage. They established their home northwest of Yukon and became proud parents to Patricia and Del.
Gene was a service manager at Goodyear Tire and then became service manager for a Chevrolet dealership for many years until his retirement.
El Reno’s Noah Witherspoon recently won the title at the district level in the 2020 Elks Lodge National Hoop Shoot Competition. The district level was held in Kingfisher, with Witherspoon hitting 17-of-25 free throws to win the 12- to 13-year-old boys division. Noah now moves on to the state level to be held Feb. 8 in Enid at Chisholm High School. If he wins a state title, Noah would represent Oklahoma at the regional level in Dallas in late March. A win in Texas sends him to nationals in Chicago in April.
Redlands Community College’s basketball teams dropped two games Thursday night in Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference action to Murray State College.
