Obituaries

Yolanda Rae Jackson passed away June 12, 2021, in Oklahoma City. She was born Aug. 15, 1986, in Clinton. Yolanda grew up in California and attended Ventura High School. She was a member of the Pentecostal Church in El Reno.

Funeral services for Doris Jean McBee, 89-year-old Oklahoma City resident, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 22, 2021, in the Resthaven Funeral Home Chapel, with burial to follow in Resthaven Cemetery, Oklahoma City.

Funeral services for Dr. Col. Virgil Jerry Shepherd will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 19 at Bethany Assembly of God. Dr. Shepherd died June 11, 2021, at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. He was born Dec. 2, 1931, in Seminole County.

Gloria Kathrine Bleigh passed away June 9, 2021, at the age of 86. She was born to Talbert and Ella Grimes on Nov. 11, 1934, on Kickapoo Street in Tecumseh. Gloria and her family moved to El Reno when she was 7.

Gary Dean Stokes, 74, died June 10, 2021, at SSM Health, St. Anthony Hospital-Midtown, Oklahoma City, after tests revealed multiple disease processes following an Ischemic Stroke.

Memorial services for Jerry Parker of El Reno were held Friday, June 11 at Wesley United Methodist Church with Rev. Allen Carson officiating. Jerry passed away in the comfort of his home on June 7, 2021. He was born Feb. 9, 1946, to William and Carmen Parker in Oklahoma City.

Funeral services for Celena Jean “Jeanie” Karty were held Monday in the Benson Memorial Chapel with Thomas Cannon officiating. Burial followed at the Indian Mennonite Cemetery in Canton under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.

Memorial service for George Ray Mosher of El Reno will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at First Assembly Church of God with Pastor Mike Moss officiating. Ray died June 7, 2021, in El Reno. He was born June 28, 1966, in Okarche, and attended El Reno High School.

El Reno - On Saturday morning, June 5, 2021, Mark Oubrey Woolard Jr. entered his new life in heaven surrounded by his Savior Jesus Christ, brother, Jack, sister, Mary, and his beloved grandmother, Mrs. W.B. Woolard. Mark was born in Durant, Oklahoma, on November 28, 1939.

Cindy Phillips (nee Ayers) went home to be with her Lord on June 2, 2021. Cindy was born in Santa Monica, Calif., on Sept. 26, 1955, to Emsley and Hope Ayers. The baby of the family, Cindy was very close to her older sisters.