Obituaries

All-night wake services for Jerrie Zelda Warden-White Buffalo will be held at the Concho Emergency Response Center starting at 7 p.m. Monday, April 6.Funeral services will be held at the same venue at 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 7.

Carol Lynn (Shoemate) Pitts embraced eternal peace on March 29, 2026.

Funeral services for Winona June Goodbear Blossom will be held at noon Friday, April 3 at the Concho Emergency Response Center, followed by burial at the Concho Cemetery.

Alan Dale Akeen died March 24, 2026, at Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City. He was born Dec. 15, 1986, in Lawton.

Michelle Rene Acuff, beloved wife, mother, daughter, sister and aunt, passed away peacefully on Sunday, March 22, 2026, at Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City.

Services for Ernest Lee McMullen were held Thursday, March 26 at First Baptist Church in Minco, with burial following at the Evergreen Cemetery. Services were under the direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home.Ernest was born in Minco on April 15, 1935, to Roy and Lola McMullen.

Services for Gary Leon Hartley will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, March 23 at Huber-Benson Funeral Home.Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. prior to the service. Burial will be at Red Rock Cemetery in Calumet.  Mr. Hartley died March 16, 2026, at his home in Traskwood, Arkansas. 

Funeral services for John “David” George Jr. of Oklahoma City will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 28 at Moore Funeral and Cremation.David passed away March 8, 2026. He was born June 30, 1965, in Oklahoma City. He was raised in El Reno and graduated from El Reno High School.

Florence L. Barber 81, of El Reno, passed away Jan. 24, 2026, surrounded by her loving family. Florence was born Aug. 30, 1944, in El Reno, the daughter of Ruth Mildred Derrett and Laurice Reagans, both deceased.

On July 14, 1929, Marie Elizabeth Dittmer was welcomed into the world, the seventh of eight children born to Herman and Murl (Roberts) Dittmer.She had, despite arriving at the beginning of the Great Depression, an idyllic childhood at Cardinal Crest, the home her father built to raise his large...