October 2021

Graveside services for William “Corky” Schulte Jr. of El Reno will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9 at Holy Trinity Cemetery in Okarche with Father Lance Warren officiating. Services are under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.

Bill or Corky, as he was known by many, was born March 8, 1949, in Oklahoma City. He passed away Oct. 4, 2021. Bill attended Sacred Heart School in El Reno, St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., New Mexico Military Institute, University of Oklahoma, where he played football, and graduated from Redlands Community College.

Graveside services for Larry M. McNeil were held Wednesday at the Concho Cemetery, under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.

Larry died Sept. 30, 2021, at Southwest Medical Center in Oklahoma City. He was born Aug. 29, 1940, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

He was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He worked for the Salt Lake Tribune and was a retired printing press operator. He was Grand Master of Beadwork and was an accomplished silversmith and artist.

He was a Native Straight Dancer and member of the Four Corners Gourd Dance Society, Salt Lake City Chapter.

GIRL – Joy and Eric Vandergrift of El Reno are parents of a girl, Martha Ruth, born Aug. 21 at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City. She weighed 8 pounds and measured 20.5 inches in length.

Martha has a sister, Grace.

Maternal grandparents are Elroy and Valora Unruh of Meno.

Paternal grandparents are Larry Vandergrift of Yukon and the late Bernadette Vandergrift of Lawton.

Maple September Citizenship Award winners, front row from left, Remi Story, pre-kindergarten, Daxton Gatz, second grade, Korbyn Penick, third grade, Jack Hunt, first grade, and Eli Ritch, kindergarten; back row, Colsen Blagg, fifth grade, Payton Blagg, seventh grade, Alice Park, sixth grade, Candice Barker, eighth grade, and Grady Menz , fourth grade.

In 1930, Mrs. E.A. Jackson, a local piano teacher, called about 12 of her musician friends to meet in her home to discuss the possibility of organizing a ladies music club. It would afford them an opportunity to keep in practice, performing for each other and thereby being supportive of the music arts in El Reno.

DUNCAN – El Reno High School’s softball team will have to take the long road back through the consolation bracket to make the state tournament after dropping a 2-1 game to host Duncan in the Class 5A Region 2 Championships.

El Reno went 1-1 on the first day of the regional, defeating Ardmore 13-5 in the first round before losing to the Demons on the championships side.

The Indians took a 16-15 overall record into a day two elimination game against Ardmore, which knocked out Western Heights.

The winner of that game must defeat Duncan twice in order to make state.

In a top 15 Class 5A battle, seventh-ranked Piedmont played the spoiler role with a 3-0 win over El Reno High School’s volleyball team on senior night.

The 25-20/25-10/25-18 loss to the Wildcats ended a three-game win streak for 11th-ranked El Reno, which closed out the regular season with a 20-12 record.

The Indians finished Suburban Conference play with a 2-3 record with the setback.

El Reno had an off serving night against the Wildcats, going 40-of-49 from the line for 81.6 percent. The team logged an ace each from Qyra Jones, Avery Peffer and Bri Barksdale.

After snapping a 15-match on-field losing streak, Redlands Community College’s soccer team suffered its second double-digit loss to Rose State College for the 2021 season.

The Cougars fell to the Raiders 18-0 at Memorial Stadium as Rose State outscored Redlands 37-1 in the two meetings this fall.

The setback dropped RCC to 2-5 in NJCAA Region 2 action.

Redlands was limited to only two shots, one each from sisters Yalexy and Yesenia Rodriguez.

Cougars goalie Kalie Winstead faced 35 shots on goal, allowing all 18 of the Raiders scores but logging 17 saves.

While El Reno did not have a female runner at the recent Edmond Pre-State Cross Country Meet, the Indians did field a full team for the boys Class 5A Division.

The Indians placed 16th overall in the final team standings, completing the 5-kilometer (3.1-mile) course with a total time of one hour and 43.60 minutes. The top five runners, who set each school’s overall score, had an average time of 20:47.92 for El Reno.

The youth deer gun season is a perfect time to get youngsters into the woods for a great hunting experience when the weather is a bit warmer than during regular deer gun season.

The season’s young participants will also be the first hunters in Oklahoma to get the chance to harvest a deer with a firearm this fall. The season will be Oct. 15-17.