El Reno Masons and Mobile Meals joined in holding a recent pancake breakfast, resulting in a $5,000 donation.
Mobile Meals volunteers sold tickets and gathered a huge silent auction for a successful event.
Jake was called home March 8, 2025, at Integris Baptist Hospital. He was born in El Reno on March 14, 1982, and graduated from El Reno High School. Following his passion, he went to WyoTech in Wyoming and graduated as a mechanic in 2002. Later he earned his General Motors Master Mechanic Certification. After college he came back to El Reno.
In 2004, he met the love of his life, Carrie. In December 2004, Carrie became Jake’s wife and in June 2005, they welcomed their son, Dalton, and started their life in Union City. Dalton is Jake’s pride and joy and built-in best friend.
LAWSUITS
Wilmington Savings Fund Society vs. Zachary Parker and Venus Parker for $109,504.75 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees and foreclosure of mortgage on Lots 25-28, Block 10, Boynton Heights Addition, El Reno.
Oklahoma Hazmat and Remediation LLC vs. Alliance Concrete Pumps Inc. for $72,219.50 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.
Justin Turner vs. Justin Shireman and Shanna Shireman for an amount in excess of $75,000 for alleged injuries and damages.
At home in Moore, Okla., early on Dec. 23, 2024, Karol Ann Cecil, age 81, was absent from her body and present with her Lord and Savior. She was born March 20, 1943, in El Reno, the second of twin girls to Valdo Watson and Oneida Lee Cox Watson. She was later adopted and raised by William Hubert and Oneida Cecil.
Karol graduated from El Reno High School in 1961 and married her high school sweetheart.
OKLAHOMA CITY – El Reno had its shots to advance in the 2025 Class 5A Boys Oklahoma State High School Basketball Championships, they were just falling every other way but through the rim.
Making its 41st state tournament appearance and the ninth trip to the Elite Eight under head coach Rodney Haydon, El Reno missed 42 shots in a 65-57 loss to Tulsa Memorial.
The setback ends El Reno’s season at 25-4 as the Indians were trying to advance to the semifinals for the first time since 2019 and the 25th overall.
El Reno High School senior wrestler Matthew Snyder recently signed with Kansas-based Baker University.
Baker is coached by former EHS head coach Tyrone Lewis.
El Reno High School will be hosting the 2025 Oklahoma Powerlifting Coaches Association’s state meet and the Indians will have a shot at another team title.
Entering as the Northwest Regional champions, El Reno will have seven lifters in the high school division at state. Two of those are regional champions, Latin Everheart and Armando Sauz-Gonzalez.
Everheart (132) won all three categories with a deadlift of 425 pounds, a squat of 370 pounds and a 245-pound bench press for a 1,040 total.
El Reno High School’s soccer teams opened up a two-match road swing recently with a pair of losses to Class 4A powerhouse Weatherford.
The El Reno girls dropped to 1-1 on the season with a 4-0 shutout loss to the Eagles, getting three shots each from Madison Rochdi and Conley Knapp.
The Indians were out-shot 16-6 by Weatherford.
Yaneth Moran-Flores was in net for El Reno before suffering a shoulder injury, logging four saves.
Paced by freshman Radley Miller, El Reno High School’s girls golf team opened up the 2025 season with a ninth-place finish in the 2025 Bixby Showcase.
Playing the Southlake Golf Course in Jenks, El Reno carded a 402 to finish eight shots back of Piedmont for eighth place.
The Indians, the lone Class 5A squad in the 15-school field, were 19 shots better than Deer Creek and 31 ahead of Bartlesville.
The grueling road trip to the Oklahoma panhandle did little to cool the offense for El Reno High School’s baseball team in a two-game district sweep of Guymon.
El Reno moved to 5-0 on the season with an 8-1 victory and an 11-0 shutout over the Tigers. The Indians improved to 4-0 in the District 5A-1 standings and remain tied with Carl Albert, Noble and Guthrie for first.
