November 2020

MUNICIPAL COURT Reese Elizabeth Hardy, El Reno, speeding, $165. Christopher Wayne Grider, Moore, improper equipment, $105. Caleb Joseph Condit, El Reno, failure to stop at stop sign, $165. Samuel Marcus Watson, El Reno, speeding and driving under suspension, $560.

Jerry Quisenberry, 77, of Ballinger, Texas, passed away peacefully at home while surrounded by family and friends on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. Jerry was born Aug. 7, 1943, to J E and Imogene Quisenberry in Quanah, Texas.

Memorial services for Willie Vern Frazier Sr. of El Reno will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 7 at Jenks Simmons Field House. Willie passed away Nov. 1, 2020, at the VA Hospital in Oklahoma City. He was born May 13, 1941, in El Reno.

Roberta J. Keena Curtis died Nov. 1, 2020, in El Reno. She was born Oct. 21, 1943, in Sioux Falls, S.D., and was raised in El Reno, graduating from Sacred Heart High School. Roberta received a master’s of Business Administration degree from the University of Central Oklahoma.

Orvella Mourine Hahn passed away Oct. 30, 2020, in Henryetta. She was born April 2, 1933, in Erick, and had attended school in El Reno. Orvella was a nursing student at Mercy Hospital.

Crews have begun canvassing El Reno neighborhoods collecting limbs that are placed at the curb, Mayor Matt White said on Thursday. White told the El Reno Live audience the city has contractors collecting limbs lost from the recent ice storm.

Steve Jensen defeated Jacqueline Stevenson Smith to win the Ward 1 El Reno City Council seat. The vote was 591 to 567

While limb removal was running smoothly, a number of areas in and around El Reno remained without power Monday morning. City Manager Matt Sandidge said the city did not have specific numbers from OG&E and other utilities concerning outages in residential areas.

El Reno resident Ariana Orozco had decided renting was a waste of money. “From a financial standpoint, I realized that I wanted to own a home instead of paying rent. Paying rent is like throwing money away. When you own a home you build equity,” she said.

El Reno Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts will be canvassing neighborhoods on Saturday hoping to collect canned and non-perishable food items as part of the annual Scouting for Food campaign.