July 2020

LAWSUITS Carla Dickensen, individually and as mother of Jimmie D. Dickenson III, a minor vs. Cecil R. Hodge and Bobbi J. Taylor for $71,848.88 as compromise settlement.

Funeral services for Jimmie Jack Smith were held Saturday, July 25, 2020, at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Okarche with Rev. Cory Stanley officiating. Burial was in the Geary Cemetery. Services were entrusted to Turner Funeral Home, Hinton.

Clifford Wayne Hall was born Feb. 20, 1940, to Guy and Pearl (Ingram) Hall in Lookeba, and went to be with the Lord on July 23, 2020, in Oklahoma City. Wayne graduated from Galena Park High School in 1958.

Memorial services for Roy Vincent will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Bible Baptist Church with Adam Pearson officiating. Burial will be in the El Reno Cemetery under the direction of Wilson Funeral Home. Mr. Vincent passed away July 20, 2020, in Arkansas.

Graveside services for Nelda Pearce will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 29 in the El Reno Cemetery with Pastor Ray Idell officiating. Services are under the direction of Wilson Funeral Home.   

The El Reno Regional Airport is about to get a major makeover and throw a party to celebrate what’s coming up. Members of the city council signed off last week on a plan to build a new $1.3 million control tower at the airport.

This feathered water fowl took to the air to get a better view of the Smoke on the Water Drag Boat Races held recently at Lake El Reno.

Through all the craziness of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city of El Reno has something positive to cheer about when it comes to professional sports.

An internal White House report about states in the so-called red zone for COVID-19 includes Oklahoma and recommends mandating masks and closing bars and gyms in localized areas where infections are spreading rapidly.

A former Yukon resident was executed last week for his role in the 1996 torture and murder of a family in Arkansas. Daniel Lee Lewis was put to death at 7:08 a.m. July 14 at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind.