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.

Dale Steven Baker, Yukon, expired tag, $165.

Sharon Kay Ferree, Oklahoma City, failure to obey traffic control device, $165.

David Nathaniel Walker, El Reno, speeding, $195.

Juan D. DeLaTorre, El Reno, speeding, $165.

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. He grew up in Robert Lee, Texas, where he played several sports and was active in debate and FFA. Jerry was baptized in 1954, at the age of 11, in the Robert Lee Baptist Church.

After high school he attended Texas A&M University in College Station where he earned first his bachelor’s degree in agronomy and then his Ph.D. in genetics.

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. Willie was a graduate of Booker T. Washington and Central State University, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in psychology.

He served in the U.S. Army and was employed 31 years with the U.S. Postal Service.

Willie spent a lifetime mentoring youth even after retirement at the Juvenile Detention Center 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.

For many years she was employed as a telephone operator with AT&T and later worked in other positions. She lived most of her life in Oklahoma City.

Bobbie was an avid reader, excelled playing Trivia Pursuit and volunteered at the Learning Center teaching English.

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. She worked for Central State University before becoming a school nurse at Roosevelt Junior High and finishing her nursing career at Western Heights Public School where she retired.

Orvella is survived by her children, Charla Wilkes, Perry Hahn and Scott Hahn; brother, Don Vance; seven grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

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. He said the plan is to have the pickup completed by Nov. 22.

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. He did say the power in the area around the city cemetery as well as at the El Reno Regional Airport did not have electricity.

As for limb removal, Sandidge said the process was running well as trailers and trucks lined up to dump the limbs at a designated area on the northwest side of Lake El Reno.

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.

This first-time homebuyer had been approved for a loan, but the loan process raised a lot of questions.

“Obviously, your lender understands the process and the terminology. They start asking you to sign paperwork and write checks for the appraisal fee and other things,” Orozco 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.

The food will go to The Lord’s Harvest, a local food bank ministry that has been involved in helping the community for about three decades.