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CECIL COCKMAN RECENTLY CELEBRATED HIS 90TH BIRTHDAY. Due to the Coronavirus, the family could not have a party, but members of his family and his neighbors came over to enjoy the cakes. Pictured seated at left are Cecil and his wife Beverly. Standing are Gina Speir, daughter Cindy Roby and her husband Jack. At right, Cecil is pictured with his pastor and neighbors Claude and Raynette Butler. Cecil is a dear friend and one of the finest gentlemen we’ve ever known.
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For registered voters in Hughes County to apply for absentee ballots to be mailed to them for the November 3rd General Election, County Election Board Secretary Brandy Davis said today.
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Read moreWhen I was a young teenager living in Holdenville, OK I would visit and hang out in Sims Grocery Store. Here Charlie Sims and his wife would sell groceries on the credit, buy furs, and buy pecans. In the large storage area in the back of the store I would sit on the one hundred pound sacks of pecans and listen to the old men and Native American Indians tell stories of the past. These were stories about the depression days, the dust bowl, WWI and my favorite stories were about bank robbers and of course I took it all in like a sponge.
Read moreIn 1939 my best friend Lewis Blackwell, who was fourteen at the time, had the good fortune to land a steady Saturday job with our local general store. Although there may have been dozens of similar jobs for boys in small towns throughout Southeastern Oklahoma back then, it’s doubtful that even one could be found nowadays.
Read moreI Didn’t Vote for Trump in 2016, But I’d Craw Over Broken Glass to Vote for Him Now
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