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In 1969, Andy Massey and his family moved to Holdenville when his father, Elmer Massey, was hired as the High School principal. Andy graduated from Holdenville High School in 1973. He later married his high school sweetheart, Lisa Treadwell, and they made their home in Tulsa, raising their son and daughter.
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Dick Glass, born to Creek and Negro Freedman parents in the Creek Nation, became the most noted outlaw of the Indian Territory to hang out in the Arbuckle Mountains during the 1880s. By 1880, when Glass and his gang wasn’t hiding out in the Seminole or Creek Nation, he often took refuge in a large black community on Wild Horse Creek near Ft. Arbuckle.
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To celebrate Black History Month, the Oklahoma History Center and the Smithsonian Channel are excited to present a screening of Seizing Justice: The Greensboro 4, followed by a panel discussion about the Oklahoma sit-in movement. This screening will be held on Saturday, February 5, from 1 to 3 p.m., and is included with paid admission to the Oklahoma History Center.
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Congratulations to Donavin Evans for earning first place in power lifting in small schools in the 145 lbs. class at the Strother Yellowjacket Powerlifting Meet on January 21, 2022. Donavin is a 10 grader at Okemah High School. Also, congratulations to Tia Neal on being selected Okemah Upper Elementary Student of the Month for January. Tia is a 5 grader at Okemah. Donavin and Tia are siblings and grandchildren of Dr. Claud and Elaine Evans and children of Kelli Neal of Okemah.
Read moreFor the past two years this has been the question. Will this covid thing ever end? We can look back to the 1940s and 50s for guidance. Back then another viral infection was terrorizing the world. In a one-week period (1947) during the polio epidemic two children died in Stonewall. I knew them both and it certainly got my attention. One was a boy, my age who, healthy and riding his bike around Stonewall one day, died in his sleep that next night. Chocked to death by a paralyzing virus called polio. The next Sunday, a pretty teen girl went to Sunday School at the First Baptist Church with a sore throat.
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Graveside services for Melba Jean Mansfield, Wetumka resident, will be held Saturday, January 29, 2022 at 2:00 PM at the Wetumka Cemetery in Wetumka, Oklahoma with Vernon Cooley officiating.
Read moreDoris (Summer) Lewis passed away at her home in Yukon, Oklahoma on Saturday, Janu-ary 22, 2022, at the age of eighty-eight years.
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