A Creek for Our Veterans

Doyle Tampleton U.S. Marine veterai and local leader who championed the naming of

■ Veterans Creek.

After a two-year journey, Hoidcnviile’s unnamed creek 

has an official name: Veterans Creek.

Why name a creek anyway? To honor veterans, Tampleton said, to include Muscogee (Creek) Native Americans employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Holdenville from 1938-1940. He also wants “to …