February 2020

Larissa Rose Blevins Jewell

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.
Larissa Rose Jewell_obituary

Nathanial Butler

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.

Loretta Schaefer

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.
Loretta Schaefer_obituary

Gene Ray Griggs

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.
Gene Ray Griggs_obituary

No bark, no bite

Though heavily favored going into last week’s senior night dual with Santa Fe South, upperclassmen on El Reno High School’s wrestling team were taking nothing for granted — a lesson learned from history.
EHS wrestling_Law pulls tight a singleleg takedown

Free-throw winner

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 Witherspoon

Okarche girls win streak halted

Just three days after extending its winning streak to 18 games with a victory over Crescent in the finals of the Coyle tournament, Okarche High School’s girls basketball team was defeated by the same Tigers team.

Tough losses

Redlands Community College’s basketball teams dropped two games Thursday night in Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference action to Murray State College.
RCC men’s basketball_Lyons battles for rebound

Warriors blow out Crescent 70-32

Okarche High School’s boys basketball team seems to have found its late-season scoring groove after hitting 25 baskets last week in a 70-32 blowout of Crescent.