Memorial service for former El Reno resident Ada Foster Fisher will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Huber-Benson Funeral Home with Rev. Dick Kurtz officiating.

Ada passed away Feb. 16, 2021, at her home in Shawnee. She was born Nov. 29, 1930, in Piedmont and moved to El Reno in 1975. She was an administrative secretary at Park View Hospital and a member of Trinity Baptist Church.

Ada is survived by her daughter, Tammy Powers of Shawnee; seven grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

Carrie G. (McAfee) Sinyard was born April 3, 1931, in Shawnee, Okla., to Thomas Joel McAfee and Viola Orr, and went to be with her Lord and Savior on Feb. 13, 2021, in Oklahoma City.

Carrie moved to El Reno in 1942 and graduated from El Reno High School in 1949. She loved her home where she lived for 56 years. As her health became where she was unable to live at home, she moved to St. Katharine Drexel Retirement. She enjoyed her time there and made many new friends, she will be missed at St. Katharine.

Statement from the City of El Reno

El Reno experienced one of its coldest, if not record-setting, periods of winter weather last week as a wave of Siberian air brought sub-zero temperatures and double-digit snowfall totals.

According to meteorologist Phillip Ware with the National Weather Service in Norman, El Reno received between 7 and 8 inches of snow with the first storm that rolled through Saturday night and into Valentine’s Day.

“These are public reports but Calumet had 7 inches and there was an 8-inch total in Piedmont. So it’s safe to say El Reno got somewhere between those totals,” said Ware.