James (Jim) Edward Warren was born Feb. 20, 1936, in Moodys, Okla., to Sidney A. Warren and Letha M. Warren.
Jim passed away April 2, 2024, in El Reno at the age of 88.
Jim attended school through the eighth grade in Tahlequah. After school, Jim began a career in trucking before he started a 40-plus-year career in the oil and gas industry. He met and married Bonnie Havener in spring of 1974. Throughout his life he enjoyed taking road trips and working outdoors.
These are the Maple March Students of the Month, front row from left, Andrew Bass, kindergarten; Riley McKee, third grade; Kennedy Bonilla, first grade; and Olivia Tredway, pre-kindergarten; back row, Ryder Striegel, fourth grade; Jacob Bugaj, sixth grade; Landy Giesbrecht, eighth grade; Addison Brandley, fifth grade; and Wager Ferguson, second grade. Not pictured: Quinn Charmasson, seventh grade.
Steven William House, 68, was born March 17, 1956, in El Reno and passed away April 6, 2024, in Oklahoma City.
There will be no services at this time.
Arrangements were under the direction of Wilson Funeral Home.
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Running into a pitching buzz saw by front-runner Carl Albert, El Reno High School’s baseball team suffered its first league losses of the season at the hands of the Titans.
El Reno was a no-hit in the 11-0 setback to Carl Albert at the Hub Reed Complex, then managed just two hits in a 10-1 loss in Midwest City a day later.
It was the first series sweep allowed by El Reno this season, which slipped to 13-8 overall after having its three-game win streak halted. The Indians dropped to 6-2 in the District 5A-1 standings and into fourth place.
Guthrie scored three unanswered goals in the second half to defeat El Reno High School’s boys soccer team 3-0 in a key District 5A-2 match at Memorial Stadium.
The win kept Guthrie in the fourth spot in the league standings at 2-2, while El Reno slipped into a fifth-place tie with Western Heights and Del City at 1-3.
The Indians emerged from the district cellar with a 5-3 overtime win over Midwest City ahead of the loss to the Bluejays. El Reno is 3-6 on the season with the two-match split.
Back-to-back offensive explosions has kept El Reno High School’s girls soccer team locked in a three-way tie for first place in the District 5A-2 standings.
El Reno defeated Midwest City by an 11-0 margin and backed that up with a 6-0 home defeat of Guthrie to improve to 4-0 in the league standings tied with Southeast and Carl Albert.
The 17-goal blitz lifted El Reno to a positive 16 in the tiebreaker points, which is first ahead of Southeast (15) and Carl Albert (14). Only fourth-place Guymon (2-2/1) is on the positive side.
Despite being a player short, El Reno High School’s girls golf team placed seventh overall at the 2024 Carl Albert Lady Titans Invitational with a season-low round.
Played on the John Conrad Golf Course in Midwest City, El Reno shot a 381 for its second straight sub-400 round. The Indians were nine shots out of the top five.
The event also served as the 2024 Suburban Conference Girls Championship with Carl Albert taking both titles with a 319. Guthrie was second in both with a 350, while Elgin (379) was sixth overall and third among conference schools.
A stout field at the 2024 Guthrie Lady Bluejays Invitational pushed El Reno High School’s girls tennis team out of the top 10 in all four divisions.
The highest finish for El Reno was Delanda Robb at No.1 singles, taking 13th with a bye and default win over Putnam City's Raim Sui. She opened with a straight sets loss to Guthrie’s Emma Poupard, followed by a loss to Durant’s Hadley Perrin (6-0/6-1).
El Reno High School’s track teams headed north on the longest road trip of the season, a 260-mile round-trip jaunt to Ponca City for the 2024 Jerry Runyan Relays.
The boys team earned four points from a fifth-place finish by its sprint relay team of Phoenix Whiteshirt, Elijah Fisher, Malachi Nicholson and Kaleb Blackwolf with a time of 45.69 seconds. The junior varsity team was eighth at 47.53 seconds.
The same varsity lineup ran the 4x200-meter event in one minute, 37.69 seconds to place sixth. The JV team was sixth at 1:41.53.
