Mickey E. E.

Elbert Gladney Clark of Pauls Valley, Oklahoma was born to JD and Mable (Cummins) Clark on April 4, 1939 in Yeager (Holdenville), Oklahoma and passed from this life into the arms of his Lord on July 18, 2022 in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma at the age of 83 years.

Wolverines to rely on strong pitching This should be a rebuilding year for the Wolverine fast pitch softball team, but Head Coach Rick Scott is optimistic that it will be more of a reloading year. Coach Scott is expecting a lot of young players to step up and fill the gaps left when the team takes the field at Bethel on August 8th.

FELONY Bradley Wayne Anderson—waiver of extradition DIVORCE Myrtie Classteen Shipman vs. Larry Shane Shipman CIVIL Bank of America, N.A.

Grace M. Pickens Library and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church have announced sponsorship of a new book club for Hughes county, to be called “Pageturners,” which will feature works of fiction and non-fiction alike, as club members so choose. The first meeting will be held Thursday, July 21 at 6:30pm in the Library conference room.

December 20, 1931 – July 9, 2022 Harrell Price was the Price family Honorary “Chairman of the Board” for his wisdom, knowledge and understanding of the family, which consist of six boys and one girl (youngest), sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, plus children and children that adopted our family. The family was divided by older children for farm work and younger children for house and garden work.

Edith Jolene Lambert passed away at her home in Holdenville on Sunday morning, July 10, 2022, at the age of 81 years. Edith was born on July 20, 1940, in Dustin, Oklahoma to her parents, Basil and Clara (Padgett) Woods. She attended school in Dustin and Hanna and a short time in California.

There are few things scarier to a city than losing its water supply. Last week Holdenville’s towers, along with every line from Holdenville to Lamar, ran completely dry. Two days prior to the city running out of water, the water superintendent noticed he was having trouble holding water in Jackson Hill Tower, which he knew meant there was a leak somewhere. So, the search began. Normally, they could see 100’s of 1000’s of gallons running out into a street or even field, but they could not locate it anywhere in town. The mayor and water superintendent pulled out the waterline maps and began to search every part of town with a buried line. Monday afternoon as the mayor was walking near Airport Road, he just happened to smell chlorine which meant there was treated water somewhere in the area. In the field across from Central Metal Finishing (the old Seamprufe building) the mayor discovered a small pond into which the leak was draining. They followed a small flowing creek of treated water north from the pond where they discovered an 8-inch line with a 4-foot gash emptying the last of Holdenville’s water supply onto the ground.

Like so many of us, I have a lot of my family and friends’ birthdates in my phone’s calendar, and I have it set to notify me when a loved one’s birthday is on the horizon. I prefer to tell myself that “I have so many family members now, and combined with all my friends, I can’t possibly remember all those birthdates anymore.” But truthfully, probably just getting too lazy and too dependent upon my phone reminding me. Tend to take the easy way out when it is available.

Here’s something I’ll bet you haven’t spent much time thinking about: how do you greet people? Or to put a finer point on the pencil, how do you greet family members? Years ago, when I was a little kid, I would often see my Dad pull his car in the driveway at the end of his workday. I would run to the window near the back door he always entered and as he started to pass by, I would rap twice on the glass.