Services for Loretta Fay Lemke will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14 at Trinity Lutheran Church with Pastor Jeff Klade officiating. Burial will follow in the El Reno Cemetery under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home. 

A woman held in the Canadian County Jail since January of 2016 on charges she killed the child she was baby-sitting has died, Sheriff Chris West said.

West said Lesley Hendrix collapsed while taking a shower at the jail Sunday evening. She was taken by ambulance to a hospital.

“She expired at the hospital,” West said.

The sheriff said Hendrix collapsed at 2:30 p.m. He said an ambulance was called at 2:39.

Hendrix was 32 years old when she was charged with the death of Isabella Little Elk, the 23-month-old child she was caring for at her home.

Rose Witcher Learning Center was shuttered Wednesday night after a teacher tested positive for COVID-19.

The school houses El Reno Public Schools first and second grades.

The building was closed on the recommendation of the Oklahoma State Department of Health. It was the third school building closed since the district returned to in-person classes in August.

Guthrie has long been a magnet for filmmakers looking for fresh scenery away from the bright lights and big-city buzz of Los Angeles.

But El Reno is starting to nudge its way into the Oklahoma film scene as it has now hosted a fourth movie since May, when the state reopened from its COVID-19 lockdown.