Archive - Apr 28, 2011
That’s right, it is time one again to pony up the cash and purchase your purple bow to adorn your business doors, home, cars, gates, mailboxes, fence posts and where ever else you can thing of putting one!
This is one of the biggest fundraisers that the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Pushmataha County did last year and this time they are planning to go bigger and leave no stone unturned and no resident without a purple bow!
Joe Bob Penner, 73, passed from this life on Saturday, April 23, 2011 in Farris. Funeral services were held at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at the Farris Baptist Church. Interment followed at the Darwin Cemetery.
Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Brown’s Funeral Service in Atoka.
Billy Allen DeWitt, 67, of Nashoba, passed away Monday, April 25, 2011 at his residence. Graveside services were held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at Nolia Cemetary in Nolia with Conley Wright officiating.Â
Arrangements entrusted to Clayton Funeral Home in Clayton.
Kenneth Ray Boyett was born March 1, 1950 in Antlers to Everett John Boyett and Ora Lee (Porter) Boyett. He passed from this life on Sunday, April 24, 2011 in Paris, TX. Kenneth joined the Air Force after High School in 1969 and served 4 years. He had his own mobile home set up business in Wichita, KS, was a truck driver, a cement hauler and oil field worker. Kenneth grew up in Rattan and moved back to the area four years ago. He enjoyed fishing and hunting.
Mary Durham was born in Rattan on January 12, 1922 to Parker & Eva Mae Rosenthal. She passed from this life on April 18, 2011 in Mt. Juliet, TN., at the age of 89. Mary married James H. Durham in September of 1943. Mary was of German and Choctaw descent. She worked as a high school teacher, a farm worker and during WWII, she worked in a plant building fighter planes. After the war she raised their children and became her sons' Cub Scout/Boy Scout Den Mother. She was also active in the church as a Sunday School teacher.
Last Thursday's scramble was rained out. But that's OK because the rain really helped out. Definitely something the greens needed. They've grown more in the last week than in the first 4 months of the year.
The scramble will tee off at 6:00 p.m. this week if we don't get rained out again.
Big Randy Dillishaw is the league winner this year. Randy nudged Moe Calder out by 1/2 point. These two guys have been fighting it out all season.
Records show that in February 2011, two of Oklahoma's largest tribal nations made a direct threat to sue over the state's high-profile sale of 90% of Sardis Lakes water rights to Oklahoma City for $42 million last June.
Since then, OKC has continued Sardis Lake development work even after a tribal attorney warned them that it was "profoundly unwise" and could spur a lawsuit that would strike at the heart of a decades-old dispute over water rights in Oklahoma, because tribal nations predate statehood.
Over the past year we have ran many articles about the water rights issues of Sardis Lake and how the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations have joined forces with residents in Southeastern Oklahoma to help fight to protect the water and keep it where it belongs, in Southeastern Oklahoma.
