Obituaries

Memorial services for Herbert Atkins, former El Reno resident, are pending with Huber-Benson Funeral Home. Herbert died March 14, 2020, at Select Specialty Hospital in Oklahoma City. 

A memorial celebration for Keith Edward Schemmer of Kingfisher will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, March 20, 2020, at the Federated Church at 400 W. Fay Avenue in Kingfisher. Services are under the direction of McNeil’s Funeral Service, Mustang. Mr. Schemmer died at home on Feb. 18, 2020.

Jeannie (Loyall) O’Neal was called home to the Lord on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. She passed away at her home in Mustang that she shared with her loving daughter, Kimberlie, and grandson, Preston “P.” Jeannie was a lifelong resident of El Reno, born March 7, 1944, to Gerlenas and Henry Loyall.

Funeral services for Patricia (Pat) LaFoe were held Friday at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Weslaco, Texas. Pat died March 9, 2020, in Ria Grande Regional Hospital in McAllen, Texas. She was born Oct. 2, 1944, in El Reno. Pat was a lifelong resident of the Calumet area.

Graveside services for Ruby Faye Garrett were held Tuesday in the Yukon Cemetery. Ruby passed away March 4, 2020, at 88 years of age. She was born in Mustang. Ruby was a former El Reno resident and still owned a farm in El Reno. She is survived by her daughter, Linda Wright of Lindsay.

Walter L. Ross, 96 years young, was born in Chickasha, Okla., the third of seven children of Henry Ross and Marie Decker Ross. Friends and family called him Wege or Wegie. To his grandchildren he was Grandad or Grandad Boop.

Funeral services for Mary Margaret Murray will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in the Benson Memorial Chapel with Pastor Dick Kurtz officiating. Burial will be in the El Reno Cemetery under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home. Mary died March 7, 2020, at her home in El Reno.

Services for James Walter Barker will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, March 13, 2020, at Wesley United Methodist Church with Rev. Allen Carson officiating. Burial will follow in the Buena Vista Cemetery under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home. 

Wake service for Calvin James Sankey will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Concho Community Hall. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church in Geary with Rev. George Akeen officiating.

Tiffany Ann Wise, 43, of Edmond, passed away peacefully at home on Friday, March 6, 2020, in Edmond after a long, hard battle with metastatic breast cancer. Tiffany was born in El Reno. She was the daughter of Cindy and Zak Elgamal of Marble Falls, Texas, and Scott Fitzgerald of Newalla.