El Reno High School’s volleyball team kicked off preseason workouts last week at the Jenks Simmons Field House Annex. Head coach Kristen Koehler said her varsity players self-quarantined for two weeks prior to starting drills to ensure they were not exposed to the COVID-19 virus. “We wanted to make sure we could get started,” said Koehler. The Indians are set to have a preseason scrimmage Aug. 4 and open the season Aug. 10.

LAWSUITS

Leon and Kimberly Taylor vs. State Farm Insurance Company Inc. for an amount in excess of $75,000 for alleged actual and punitive damages.

Kelly Hill, individually and as parent of B.H., a minor vs. Shannon Brown, Nicole Chaney and Eric Goettsch for an amount in excess of $75,000 for injuries and damages alleged to have occurred during an automobile accident.

Martha Jane Mulanax passed away July 13, 2020, in El Reno at the age of 94.

Martha was born in Chickasha on April 29, 1926, to Floyd and Grace (Smith) Mulanax. As a teenager, her family moved to El Reno where she attended and then graduated from El Reno High School in 1944.

Afterwards, she returned to Chickasha where she attended the Oklahoma College for Women and became a member of Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society. She graduated with a B.A. in Education degree in 1950.

Louis “Lou” John Ernest Holtorff left his home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, July 21, 2020.

Lou was born Feb. 18, 1936, in Elmhurst, Ill., to Ernest Louis Holtorff and Lydia Wilhelmina Brockmann Holtorff. At age 4, when his mother died, Lou stayed with Opa and Oma Holtorff, and visiting their summer house in Mercer, Wis., became a very special memory.

About age 6, Lou, his dad and new stepmother, Louise Bolt Holtorff, moved to a farm in Warsaw, Ind. Louise and her family were a great blessing in Lou’s life.