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For four years, I was unable to attract a single hummingbird to try the sugary red liquid housed in an (expensive) and delicate special container designed especially for the busy little creatures.
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B. Odilee Lee, 86, passed away Sunday, July 25, 2021, in Mount Hope, Kansas. Graveside service will be 10:00 a.m., Friday, August 6 th , in the Holdenville Cemetery, Holdenville, Oklahoma.
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Jon C. Meadors, 84, was born April 1, 1937 in Wetumka, OK to John Cecil and Thelma Meadors. He went home to be with his Lord July 10, 2021 at his home with his four children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren at his side.
Read morePrivate memorial service will be held for A. J. Stanfield who died Tuesday, July 27, 2021, at age 77, at home.
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The African American business and cultural district in Oklahoma City dates to around the turn of the twentieth century. By the 1920s the three hundred block of Northeast Second Street had become known as “Deep Deuce,” “Deep Two,” and “Deep Second.” By day it served as a business district with barbershops, doctors’ offices, beauty shops, clothiers, restaurants, a newspaper office, a cab company, lawyers’ offices, a drugstore, a movie theater, a hardware store, and many other businesses, depending on the decade.
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On July 24 , Shirley Nero led the Tulsa Remote group on their fifth leg of the Thirteenth Incorporated All-Black Towns tour to Tatums, Oklahoma. The group traveled by chartered coach for three hours to arrive and be greeted by Tatums Mayor Ella DeShazer and First Baptist Church Deacon Cedric Baily and many other city officials, former Tatums residents, and guest from Lawton, Ardmore, and Oklahoma City. The group visited the oldest church which is on the National Register of Historic Places, Bedre` Chocolate Factory, and the Chickasaw Nation Welcome Center, and ended the day with a mid-afternoon lunch at Smokin` Joe’s Rib Ranch.
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Cowboy Roy Hall of Wetumka is pleased to announce the release of his first book in a series of three called “The Free Chronicles - Delivered from the Pain of the Past.”
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