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Teresa Diann (Carpenter) Welch, age 63, passed away August 31, 2020 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Teresa was a resident of Holdenville, Oklahoma. She was born October 26, 1956 in Coalgate, Oklahoma to parents Albert Carpenter and Grace (LeFlore) Carpenter. She graduated from Coalgate High School. Teresa married Troy Dewayne Welch on May 23, 1974 in Coalgate, Oklahoma.
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Family and friends are mourning the loss of longtime Spaulding and Holdenville resident Joseph H. Marquis, who died at age 83 on Sunday, September 13 , 2020, at his home after a long illness.
Read moreFuneral services for Patty Jean Brown were held Monday, September 14, 2020 at 10:00 AM at the Parks Brothers Funeral Home Chapel in Wetumka, Oklahoma. Interment followed at the Wetumka Cemetery.
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Vonda Kaye (Frye) Sanders was born in Weleetka, Oklahoma to Vernon Frye and Violet (Ellig) Frye on March 12, 1940. She passed away on September 11, 2020 in Oklahoma City. She was the wife of Ronnie Sanders. They shared over 55 years of marriage together, where they lived the last 40 years in Dustin.
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Jonathan Kirt Herrod was born July 13, 1971 to Jonathan Herrod and Darlene Louella Wilbourne in Claremore, Oklahoma. He passed from this life in Tulsa on September 10, 2020.
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What is in a name? When you see a name on a building, a street, a road, a highway, or a monument, do you ever stop and wonder why that name is there? Who or what does that name represent, what is the history behind the name? For decades, Murray Hall and North Murray Hall have been fixtures on the OSU campus but not anymore. On June 19, 2020, the Oklahoma A&M Board of Regents unanimously voted to remove the name “Murray” from Murray Hall and North Murray Hall on Oklahoma State University’s campus. The buildings were named after Oklahoma’s ninth governor, William H. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray, who had a record advocacy for racist policies including segregation and the promotion of Jim Crow laws, which in effect stripped many Back Oklahomans of their right to vote.
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According to William W. Savage Jr., professor emeritus in the department of history at the University of Oklahoma, history is clear, Murray was a terrible bigot.
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