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The flower girl for the 2022 Homecoming ceremonies was Attlee Mykal Allen.
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Charles Akin was born in Holdenville on March 15, 1943 To Robert Hensley Akin and Nora Lee Byerly Akin. He married Deborah Dawn Wilkerson on February 24, 1997 in Las Vegas. He passed away quietly in their home on October 1, 2022.
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A poet, a professor, and an essayist, Melvin B. Tolson liked to tell people that he was born in Moberly, Missouri, one of four children, in 1900 to Rev. Alonzo Tolson, a Methodist minister, and Lera Ann Hurt Tolson, a seamstress of African-Creek ancestry and Lera Ann Hurt Tolson. Nevertheless, convincing evidence has surfaced that 1898 was a more accurate date. Alonso Tolson was also of mixed race, the son of an enslaved woman and her white master. He served at various churches in the Missouri and Iowa area until settling longer in Kansas City. Reverend Tolson studied throughout his life to add to the lim-
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Jeanette Diane Harjo was born December 29, 1947 in Holdenville, Oklahoma. She passed away on September 28, 2022 at the age of 74.
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We received the following letter from our good friend Tom Adams. It was great!
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