Eleven players from Canadian County were named to either the All-Star by Class or the elusive All-State team in voting by the Oklahoma Baseball Coaches Association.

The OBCA has branched out from under the banner of the Oklahoma Coaches Association to host its own All-State weekend and moved to three games instead of the traditional two.

The games have been moved up a month and will be played June 6 in Enid.

Nick or Grandpa Nick died May 4, 2021, after a lengthy illness. He was born May 11, 1935, to Earnest Nicholas Chechovsky and Laura Lorean Pilgrim in Oklahoma City. In 1955 he married Ruby Waynette Black. Waynette preceded Nick in death in 2018.

In 1956 with a new baby, they returned from California and opened a grocery store in Del City, “Nicks Lucky Dollar.” In 1959 they sold the store and moved to Yukon. Nick was a meat salesman for Harris Packing for over 35 years.

Graveside services for Doris Lavern Thomas (Walker) will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 1, 2021, at the El Reno Cemetery. Come-and-go viewing will be held at Wilson Funeral Home on Saturday, May 29 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Tuesday, June 1 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Doris was born May 25, 1930, in Calumet to Vula and Henry Walker. She had one brother, Louis Walker, and two sisters, Beatrice Walling and Juanita Marie Walker.

Doris married Albert “Junior” Thomas on Feb. 10, 1951, in Kingfisher.

Funeral services for Charles Boyd Sanders will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 1 at New Hope Baptist Church.

Charlie was born June 16, 1929, in Grandfield, and graduated from Cordell High School in 1946. Charlie began his career as an auto mechanic in Clinton and later moved to Oklahoma City where he was employed with Scott’s Chevrolet.

He moved back to Cordell where he owned and operated the Tastee Freeze Drive-In until 1968.