Flag Poles Honoring Our Vets
A couple of El Reno veterans were honored over the weekend when a group of people showed up and installed flag poles in their front yards and then raised Old Glory while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
March 2020
The Taste of Sacred Heart
The Taste of Sacred Heart annual benefit for El Reno's Catholic school brought in some $133,000 Saturday night. At left, auctioneer Ken Reding with Sacred Heart Principal Shannon Statton and art teacher Sierra Wilson hold auction items. At right, Statton and Father Lance Warren do the same.
El Reno couple under quarantine aboard cruise ship
David and Maribeth VonTungeln are doing fine.
Local students shine at Junior Livestock Show
The 48th Annual Canadian County Junior Livestock Show brought young people from throughout Canadian County to the fairgrounds over the weekend.
Like previous years, it was a full house in the agriculture building.
Walter Ross
Walter L. Ross, 96 years young, was born in Chickasha, Okla., the third of seven children of Henry Ross and Marie Decker Ross. Friends and family called him Wege or Wegie. To his grandchildren he was Grandad or Grandad Boop.
Mary Margaret Murray
Funeral services for Mary Margaret Murray will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in the Benson Memorial Chapel with Pastor Dick Kurtz officiating. Burial will be in the El Reno Cemetery under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.
Mary died March 7, 2020, at her home in El Reno.
James Walter Barker
Services for James Walter Barker will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, March 13, 2020, at Wesley United Methodist Church with Rev. Allen Carson officiating. Burial will follow in the Buena Vista Cemetery under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.
Calvin Sankey
Wake service for Calvin James Sankey will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Concho Community Hall. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church in Geary with Rev. George Akeen officiating.
Tiffany Ann Wise
Tiffany Ann Wise, 43, of Edmond, passed away peacefully at home on Friday, March 6, 2020, in Edmond after a long, hard battle with metastatic breast cancer.
Tiffany was born in El Reno. She was the daughter of Cindy and Zak Elgamal of Marble Falls, Texas, and Scott Fitzgerald of Newalla.
El Reno boys searching for first win
While showing better team chemistry and ball movement than in recent years, El Reno High School’s boys soccer team has yet to find enough goals to get into the win column under new head coach Gabriel Gonzalez.
