September 2022

Funeral services for Felecia Kearney of Chickasha will be held at 11 a.m. Sept. 29 at Shepard Street Christian Church, under the direction of Brown-Thomas Funeral Home in Chickasha.

Felecia passed away Sept. 19, 2022, at Grady Memorial Hospital, Chickasha. She was born July 22, 1954, in Oklahoma City.

She was an LPN for over 45 years. She worked for 33 years at Parkview Hospital in El Reno and retired from nursing at Grady Memorial Hospital in 2018.

She was a member of Mount Moriah Baptist Church, El Reno.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Logan Phillips, R-Mounds, on Thursday praised the Oklahoma House and Senate Joint Committee on Pandemic Relief Funding for their focus on addressing broadband issues through projects they advanced.

The projects advanced during the joint committee’s meeting will now be considered when the Legislature reconvenes its special session to appropriate American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) dollars.

“We have not seen this type of investment in Oklahoma since the 1920s when we initially built out electricity to rural areas,” Phillips said.

Southwestern Oklahoma State University (SWOSU) in Weatherford will host a free “Oklahoma and The Cuban Missile Crisis” symposium on Thursday, Oct. 27, featuring SWOSU history professors Dr. Becky Bruce and Landry Brewer.

The event coincides with the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Bruce and Brewer will speak in the Stafford Center, Room 104, at 7 p.m.

Bruce is a diplomatic historian who will discuss the Cold War in general and the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis in particular.

Merilyn Senn Scott passed away Sept. 20, 2022, at her home in Prairie Village, Kan. She was born in Okarche in 1933. Merilyn grew up on a farm in Concho and graduated from El Reno High School in 1950.

After years as a full-time mother to seven children, she returned to school to complete her associates degree in medical records from Penn Valley Community College in Kansas City.

Merilyn was a devout Catholic and worked as a Communion Minister at the church and for the homebound and hospitalized.

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After three straight road games and an open week, El Reno High School’s football team will be back inside Memorial Stadium Friday night for a homecoming district battle with Noble. And that’s just what head coach Russell Cook is expecting from Noble, a battle.

“I know they have a good quarterback and they beat Piedmont, so it’s going to be a battle,” said Cook.

ELGIN – Two special teams errors and a sluggish start on offense coming out of bye week proved costly for El Reno High School’s football team in its District 5A-1 opener.

Elgin turned both first-period miscues into scoring drives and added a third touchdown in the opening stanza as all three possessions started at midfield or inside El Reno territory.

The Owls rode the 21-point first period to a 47-8 win over El Reno, which slipped to 0-4 on the season.

Sophomore pitcher Kaydence Pawnee struck out the final batter with the tying run on base as El Reno High School’s softball team stunned Noble 8-7 to garner a split with the Bears in District 5A-2 play.

El Reno improved to 11-15 on the season and 7-6 in district play, leap-frogging Guymon into fourth place. Noble remains in third but only a half game ahead of the Indians.

After a straight games loss to No.16 Santa Fe South, El Reno High School’s volleyball team jumped back into the win column with a 3-0 victory of Noble.

The 25-20/25-23/25-1 win over the Bears left El Reno with a 10-13 overall record, coming two days after a 25-23/25-23/25-19 loss to the St. Bernards.

Trinity Black led El Reno with 22 kills for the two matches, followed by Jewell Graham with seven kills and four each from Qyra Jones and Emma Patswald.

Pauline Black-Harmon and Madison Patswald had three kills each, while Savannah Robinson had two kills.

CALUMET – While its offensive output looked like that of Las Vegas long shot, Calumet High School’s baseball team left no question about being a solid bet to make the Class B State Championships.

The third-ranked Chieftains used a 50-1 scoring blitz to sweep past Erick and Dover last week to win the District 3 Championship. Calumet, now 22-3 on the fall season, heads to the regional round with a shot at state on the line. The top two teams in each of the four regional sites, to be announced Monday, earn state passes.