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WANDA DEERE IS PICTURED AT THE GRAVE OF HER LATE HUSBAND BENNIE. BENNIE WAS NOT ONLY A VETERAN BUT ONE OF THE FINEST GENTLEMEN WE EVER KNEW, WHO DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO HIS COMMUNITY AND HIS COUNTRY. WANDA IS PICTURED WITH HER DAUGHTER ANGIE AND SON-IN-LAW JOE STEWART. IN THE BACKGROUND YOU CAN SEE THE MANY VETERANS WHO ARE BURIED IN OUR HOLDENVILLE FLANDERS FIELD SECTION.
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Ora “Ann” Madden passed away Thursday, May 21, 2020, at McAlester Regional Hospital in McAlester, Oklahoma at the age of 91.
Read moreBobby (Bob) D. Bunch, a lifelong Holdenville resident, left this earthly realm for the second and final time on Friday, May 22, 2020. Bob loved giving witness to anyone about his death experience that occurred in his early twenties, making him a believer in the afterlife and God. He passed peacefully in his home following an aggressive fight against cancer.
Read moreIt is a good feeling that this “thing” is almost over. COVIC-19 that is. Yesterday Chad Kaminski (Pastor of First Baptist Church) said that we Baptist would start up church on June 7 . He thinks that is when the other churches in town will start up too. It is a good thing to contemplate, getting to sit with your church family at worship. He did say, however, that he would like to sort of segregate us into “family” families. Well OK. I guess. We’ve sort of been isolated together long enough. I feel a need to be close enough to lean over and catch up with my neighbors myself. But will we wear masks?
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Velma Louise Smith passed away Friday, May 22, 2020 at Walnut Grove Living Center in McAlester, Oklahoma at the age of 94.
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You wish there were a term for what just happened here; maybe then you’d understand it better. The “it” in this case involves a kind of spillover from one corner of life to another. It’s an “i” you hope to dot before you move on, even if doing so turns out to be the biggest challenge of them all—and, Lord knows, you’ve faced some real doozies.
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