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The Williamsons of Wetumka, OK recently released a new recording titled Above Everything. The project was recorded at some of the top studios in Nashville and much of the editing was done at the Williamsons’ own studio in Weleetka.
Read moreFuneral services for Carmen Renee McGirt will be held Friday, April 8, 2022 at 2:00 PM at the Parks Brothers Funeral Home Chapel in Okemah. Interment will follow at the Carson Cemetery. Wake services will be Thursday, 6:00 – 8:00 PM at the Parks Brothers Funeral Home Chapel.
Read moreJohnnie Lee Earls was born March 3, 1953 in Ludlow, OK to Luellen Virginia Earls and passed from this life March 30, 2022 at his home in Dustin at the age of 69. Johnnie was raised and attended school primarily in the Wilburton/Clayton area, but his family moved frequently working in the agriculture industry.
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Charlotte Holcomb Mason Allen was born November 4, 1932 south of Weleetka to Sam Holcomb and Barbara Craig Holcomb and passed from this life April 1, 2022 in Okemah at the age of 89.
Read moreFuneral services were held on Friday, Mar. 25 at Indian Fellowship Church, Tulsa, for Bernice (Harjo) Alexander, 84. She was originally a member of Many Springs, born to Barney Harjo and Annie Cornell. She attended Eufaula Boarding school, Chilocco Boarding School, where she was nominated the “most friendly.” She went to work at Modern Bindery in Tulsa from where she retired.
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Anthony Wayne Drake was born to Selma Drake, Sr., and Essie Mae (Clark) Drake in Clearview, Oklahoma on December 14, 1953. He was the fifth child of nine children. His parents preceded him in death. He was also preceded in death by one sibling, Selma Drake, Jr.
Read moreNo place like home I always say and for sure Allen is my home. I think mom felt that real strong for Allen on one “bad” day in 1938. The day we moved to Centrahoma. The old house dad had rented was in horrible shape. Our new landlord had stored hay in it and now he had rented it to my broke and, as mom put it, “gullible” dad. I remember the giant red-ant bed in the front yard. No drinking water. Had to haul it. The outdoor toilet was hiding out in a dangerous looking sticker patch. No respectable snake would venture out there. For a bit of respectability and as an odor chaser, Mom repapered both rooms (of the house) with Daily Oklahomans using flour and water for paste. After Gerald wept over it, she tore the news print off the walls and repapered with comic strips— cheering my unhappy brother up.
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