Memorial graveside services for Dorothy (Dottie) Alzetta Johnson will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 13, 2020, in the Geary Cemetery Pavilion with Rev. Charles King and Rev. Ronnie Jacobs officiating. Services are entrusted to Turner Funeral Home.

Dorothy was born Nov. 24, 1968, to Albert Johnson and Cozetta (Brown) Johnson in Oklahoma City, and went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, May 5, 2020, at the age of 51 at Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City. 

Services for James E. Garrett Jr. were held Monday in the El Reno Cemetery with Chaplain Lonnie Webb officiating. Services were under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.

Mr. Garrett died May 8, 2020, at his home in El Reno. He was born Jan. 8, 1944, in Shawnee. He was president of the Trade and Industrial Club while attending El Reno High School.

After graduating in 1962, Jim served in the U.S. Air Force. He lived in various places including Temple, Texas, and Woodbridge, Va., before returning to El Reno in 1977.

A Mother’s Day parade brought out colorful balloons, fire trucks, a police cruiser and dozens of vehicles decorated with signs telling mothers and grandmothers how much they are loved.

The parade took place Thursday afternoon outside Saint Katharine’s Retirement Center.

Kim Bowles, executive director, said the parade was a way to celebrate Mother’s Day for the residents who have been quarantined since mid-March because of COVID-19. 

This is the first installment in a series looking back at El Reno Public Schools efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Classes for El Reno Public Schools officially ended Friday.

Missing were the normal class parties, hugs, high-fives and gift exchanges between students and teachers. Graduations, the rite of passage to the next higher grade or into adulthood, have either been canceled, postponed or moved to a digital format.

All the things which make the end of school a fun time have been robbed by the COVID-19 pandemic.