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VOLUME 11, NUMBER 7 HUGHES COUNTY, OKLAHOMA 1 SECTION 50¢ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012
Bishops - Brothers In Arms
Three of them landed on Normandy
Patriotism is much more than
just a word to the five Bishop
brothers. It is how they lived
their lives.
Bill, Floyd, Dewey, Sherman
and Herman are the sons of the
late Oliver and Virtie Moore
Bishop. The family moved to
the Atwood/Allen area from
Arizona in 1959.
In recent weeks we learned
about the amazing war record of
the Bishop brothers. Three of
them, Bill Floyd and Dewey all
landed on Normandy in World
War Two.
Bill was with the 10th Mountain Army Division, Floyd with
the 3rd Combat Engineer Division and Dewey with the 30th
Infantry Division.
The two younger brothers
Herman and Sherman, both
served with the 45th Division.
They were twins and both were
members of the elite Sniper Squad. They both
could hit the bulls eye of a target 600 yards away
100 out of 100 times.
At 800 yards both would hit the bulls eye 98
out of 100 times. Because of their talent both
were named Brothers in Arms—Specialist 6.
What made their story even more remarkable is that Sherman and Herman were
only 16 years old when they joined
the Thunderbird Division.
We found a clipping from
the 45th Division newspaper
which read as follows—
With the first three
weeks behind us and
our first parade under our belts, Delta
Company is looking forward to firing for record next week.
We are fortunate this cycle
in having a pair of dead
eyes, Recruits Herman and
Sherman Bishop who pop the
bulls eye with the accuracy of
a Daniel Boone. We are anticipating a very high score from
them during the record firing.
Thanks to the Verde Valley Bugle in Arizona we received three
different interviews that had been given by Dewey Bishop over the
years. It is a privilege to share them with our readers.
BROTHERS AT WAR
RIMROCK VETERAN SHARES EXPERIENCES
There were three Bishop brothers from Gilbert, AZ, fighting
in World War II explained 77-year-old Dewey Bishop of
Rimrock.
Two of the farm boys, he being one, served in
France, Belgium, Holland and Germany; a third
brother in Italy. Luckily all three young men came
home, but to this day, Dewey still remembers.
He says
the nightmares aren’t like they were once upon
a time,
but the horrific memory lives on of those who
survived and those who didn’t.
“There isn’t a day goes by that I don’t think
about
what happened.
In his own words . . .
June and July, 1944
“I lied about my age. I told the U.S. Army I was
18. I was shipped to England in March of 1944 joining
Continued on Page 4
Sherman Bishop
Bill Morgan To Be Inducted Into Journalism Hall of Fame
Hughes County TIMES Publisher in 55th Year
A special thank you to Julie
Morgan of The Hughes County
TIMES for allowing us to publish the following article about
her father.
Owner and publisher of the
Hughes County Times and
Weleetkan newspapers, William
C. “Bill” Morgan, received notification Jan. 9 he will be inducted to the Oklahoma Journalism
Hall of Fame. Morgan, now 81, has worked
in the newspaper field since the
age of 15. While studying journalism at
Oklahoma State University he
worked at the school’s newspaper the O’Collegian. Following
graduation, he returned to his
home in Bartlesville and began his career in the newspaper
business. Morgan worked for the Bartlesville Record learning the ins
and outs of the newspaper business from owners Harry and
Ruth Moore and Art Moore.
During the Korean Conflict
he served on the press corp as
the regional editor for the Pacific Stars and Stripes in Tokyo,
Japan.
Following the war he worked
again at the Record before joining the staff at Leland Gourley’s
Henryetta Freelance. In 1957, Bill took over the
Wetumka Gazette in Wetumka
renaming it the Hughes County
Times to provide news coverage of the entire county. Along with the TIMES he
published the Calvin Chronicle,
Oklahoma Peanut and eventually acquired the Weleetkan. Morgan, a staunch Republican, worked on the political campaigns of Gov. Henry
Bellmon, Senator Dewey Bartlett and Congressman Truman
Branscom. Bill Morgan
From the 60’s to 1990, Morgan was honored by the OPA
(Oklahoma Press Association)
with awards for his columns,
front pages and editorials on
wildlife and soil conservation
and education. Always outspoken and opinionated, Morgan was sued by
Oklahoma treasurer Leo Winters for a 1973 “In Our Times”
column. Winters deemed the
column libelous but the court
had different findings. The “In Our Times” column
ranged in content including
support for his beloved OSU
Cowboys, Republican politics,
love of country and small town wholesomeness delivered with
a succinct edge. Morgan’s IOT
is missed by all readers whether
they are in agreement or not. Until June of 2010, Morgan
was actively writing his editorial
and overseeing the publishing of
the TIMES and Weleetka newspaper. He has spent 66 years of
his life dedicated to newspaper journalism and publishing. Since 1971, the Oklahoma
Journalism Hall of Fame has
recognized Oklahoma journalists who have made outstanding contributions to Oklahoma
journalism. Headed by UCO
professor Dr. Terry Clark, the
honorees are selected by a committee composed of members
of the working press, Society of
Professional Journalists and the
Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony will
be held at the University of
Central Oklahoma campus on
April 26.
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Congratulations to Hughes County TIMES Publisher Bill
Morgan on being selected for the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of
Fame. He is in his 55th year of publishing the TIMES.
Bill and I often disagree politically, but there is not a finer
publisher. Everyone looks forward to reading the TIMES every
week. It is always interesting, at times controversial and never
dull.
He cares deeply about his community and has always supported
any person or program that he believed would help Wetumka.
In recent months, his daughter Julie has returned home to
help with the newspaper and we know Bill is proud of all she is
doing. I have tried to get my sons interested in helping me, but
to no avail.
One thing I know for sure, folks may agree or disagree with
Bill, but everyone loves his wife, Jane. She is a retired school
teacher who has touched many lives in many ways.
She has also put up with a newspaper publisher for many years.
If you think that is an easy task, just ask my wife.
—CC—
As all of you know, Sunday is the Super Bowl. I thought this
would be the perfect time to share one of my favorite football
stories.
Tim Tebow’s Role Model
Have you heard about the quarterback who won the Heisman
trophy and led his University of Florida Gators to a national
championship? The multisport athlete, Florida’s USA Today
Football Player of the Year as a high schooler? The son of a pastor
who always put his faith before football, even while playing in the
National Football League?
Of course we’re talking about Danny Wuerffel, who has served
as a powerful role model for a certain Denver Broncos quarterback
currently making news.
Mr. Wuerffel and Tim Tebow didn’t know each other well
growing up 13 years apart, but Mr. Tebow’s parents made it a point
to introduce the two more than a decade ago, while Mr. Wuerffel
was still playing at Florida. Both players’ families understood
that football provided a platform that could be used to talk about
the most important thing in their life—their faith. Their attitudes
mirrored that of C.S. Lewis, who reasoned that “Christianity, if
false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The
only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
Mr. Wuerffel was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in 1997
and played three years for the team. One day during that tenure he
took a wrong turn leaving the city’s Superdome and drove near the
Desire Street Housing Project in the Upper Ninth Ward. Built on
a garbage dump, the area was considered one of the worst in the
nation for crime, drugs and poverty.
Several days later, he heard of something that would forever
change his life: A family was chased from a burning house while the
fire department showed up far too late in that seemingly forgotten
neighborhood. The family’s youngest child eventually died from
smoke inhalation. Mr. Wuerffel began volunteering with Desire
Street Ministries, which tries to improve the lives of families in
the area by revitalizing neighborhoods—providing assistance to
residents, tutoring children, supporting parents and schools.
After his tenure with the Saints, Mr. Wuerffel played for the Green
Bay Packers, Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins. When the
Redskins looked to re-sign him in 2003, he walked away. He and
his wife, Jessica, found God calling them back to the Ninth Ward
and into full-time ministry with Desire Street.
They say they were inspired by a passage from the book of
Isaiah: “Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise
up the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of Broken
Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.” The Wuerffels felt
this would be better accomplished through full-time ministry with
underprivileged youth in New Orleans than by signing a milliondollar contract to play football.
But Mr. Wuerffel remained a fan, particularly of the Florida Gators
and their dynamic new quarterback, Tim Tebow. He was especially
taken with Mr. Tebow’s work at his own father’s orphanage in the
Philippines and in prison ministries in the U.S. Mr. Wuerffel also
held great respect for the way Mr. Tebow handled the spotlight,
always crediting God with his success, and always surrendering
his disappointments to Him as well.
During one game, Mr. Wuerffel found himself on the Gator
sidelines at Florida Field, watching Mr. Tebow against the rival
LSU Tigers. As a Florida player returned a kickoff, the stadium
went silent when an LSU player made a bone-crushing tackle on
the return-man. Players on the Gator sideline were shocked to see
Mr. Wuerffel jumping up and down in the middle of the Florida
sideline, clapping and cheering on the player from LSU.
The player was Deangelo Peterson, one of the kids to come out of
the Desire Street Ministries program in the Ninth Ward. Mr. Tebow
probably didn’t see any divided loyalties with Mr. Wuerffel’s
outburst. Faith and the friendships it creates transcend even the
bitterest of worldly rivalries. As Mr. Wuerffel says, “When you
care about someone, you don’t care what jersey they’re wearing.”
Such mentoring by Christian men is one of the most inspiring
and least understood stories in sports. Super Bowl-winning coach
Tony Dungy has been lauded—and criticized—for his work with
individuals like Michael Vick, the NFL quarterback jailed for
running a dog-fighting ring. Yet Mr. Dungy, the author of a book
on mentoring, realizes that he gets just as much benefit from the
experience. As the Proverb says, “Iron sharpens iron, so one man
sharpens another.”
This week all eyes will be on the Super Bowl. Few will be
watching Danny Wuerffel, though, as he continues to fight for
the disenfranchised in pockets of poverty in Georgia, Alabama,
Louisiana and Florida. But the crowds are irrelevant: Both men have always played for an audience
of One.
— Michael Flaherty
& Nathan Whitaker
—CC—
Sounds from the “good old days” . . . wouldn’t it be great to hear some of them again? Regina
Crutcher writes:
“There are very few full service gas stations anymore. But the sound of the bell made as the tires
ran over the signal hose is a sound I’ll always remember.
We still have a few typewriters in our office. They are electric typewriters so they still make a bell
sound. But the old manual typewriters really made a lot of sounds.
A sound that I hated manual typewriters to make was when I would press too many letters at one
time and the keys would get stuck together.
When I was the editor of “The Eagle Scream” in high school, we used a mimeograph machine.
That was an amazing copying machine that cranked out as many copies as fast as the person turning
the handle could turn.
The ink stunk though, didn’t it? Wow, you could smell that ink all through the building.
In the days when party lines were in every rural house that had a phone, a distinctive click sounded
when someone from another house picked up the receiver could be heard by those already talking on
the phone.
And a rotary dial on the phone made a cool sound. I still miss that sound. Even though it’s quicker
to push telephone buttons now, I always loved a rotary dial phone.
I don’t know many young ladies who still own a sewing machine; I don’t. But my Mama sewed
most of my clothing until I was in high school so the sound of a sewing machine is a memory I
treasure.
I wonder which sounds my children will cherish when they are nearly 50?”
— Lamesa Press Reporter
—CC—
Math teacher/blogger Dan Meyer wanted to answer a question that has plagued busy people
everywhere. How do you know which supermarket line will move faster?
Should you get in the express line, even if it has more people? Or a regular line, where someone
has a half-filled cart?
Meyer observed and got cash register data, crunched the numbers, and concluded that the shorter
line is often the faster. Each extra person in line adds “48 extra seconds to the line length (that’s
‘tender time’ added to “other time’) without even considering the items in her cart. Meanwhile, an
extra item only costs you an extra 2.8 seconds. Therefore you’d rather add 17 more items to the line
than one extra person!”
—CC—
Liars are not always fully appreciated . . . except in Santon Bridge, England.
In this tiny village last week, Glen Boylan came to spin stories in a local pub, as the English are
wont to do. On a rain-lashed night, Mr. Boylan’s tale involved being offered a mayonnaise and peanut
butter sandwich by a good Samaritan—Prince Charles—who happened to be passing through.
This was no ordinary night of pub banter, however. At the Bridge Inn, Mr. Boylan was competing
in the World’s Biggest Liar competition, the village’s annual celebration of dishonesty. Competitors’
tall tales are judged on imagination, presentation and sheer chutzpah.
But in recent years, the contest’s popularity has attracted more competitors from outside the area to
Cumbria, in northwest England, one of the country’s most remote regions. That has exposed an ugly
truth for Cumbrians: The best fibbers are increasingly coming from other parts of Britain, and even
other parts of the world.
“Anyone from anywhere is welcome at the contest—enter and spin a yarn—they are just not
Continued on Page 3
HOLDENVILLE TRIBUNE—FEBRUARY 1, 2012—PAGE 3
One Pharmacist’s View...by Wayne Bullard, Pharm D
Giving up on Paris.
The French are still being—
French. In 1918, even after
losing 1.5 million men in World
War One they still came out with
an armistice—with a certain
national dignity, But the great
loss of this many young men
in a small population of 40
million had its chilling effects.
It took something away from
that nation—from its Army and
its leadership—something hard
to define—but whatever, it’s
missing.
Country Comments
Continued from Page A-2
welcome to win it,” said Mark Samson, an unemployed construction worker who had come to cheer
on the local lad, Mr. Boylan, a 46-year-old worker at a nearby nuclear-power plant.
Cumbria isn’t alone in trying to protect its local rituals from the outside world. Few countries celebrate
eccentricity like the British, who in various places hold contests for snail racing, bog snorkeling, toe
wrestling and a World Gurning Championship, in which contestants compete to contort their faces
into the most grotesque expressions.
But events that originated in once-isolated villages are attracting ever bigger crowds, and, in some
cases, being commercialized, leaving locals worried about their ties to the regional traditions that
engendered them. In the village of Brockworth, Gloucestershire, some have rebelled over what they
see as the hijacking of an event in which competitors chase an eight-pound cheese rolled down a steep,
grassy slope. The last two years’ “official” contests were cancelled after organizers for the 200-yearold event complained of being threatened and abused for introducing an entry fee of about $30.
In Ashborne, increasing numbers of “tourists” join in the Royal Shrovetide Football Match, a riotous
two-day cross between rugby and soccer that has few rules and uses the entire English Midlands town
as its playing field. But outsiders are discouraged from scoring in a game that has pitted the town’s
south and north sides since the 12th century.
The liars’ competition began in the 19th century as a tribute to local pub landlord Will Ritson, whose
famous fibs included tales of turnips so big that local farmers carved them out to make cow sheds.
Legend has it that one senior church man won the prize after standing up to say he had never told a
lie; some suspect that tale is itself a lie.
The threat of globalization arrived in Stanton Bridge in 2005, when a South African, Abrie Kruger,
won the contest and ushered in a string of wins for non-Cumbrians. After Mr. Kruger was announced
the winner, spectators broke into a chorus of “Rule, Britannia,” a song of British patriotism.
Then, in 2006, London comedian Sue Perkins won with a tale about flatulent sheep causing a hole in
the ozone layer. Ms. Perkins was booed upon winning, but retorts: “If they want to call it the World’s
Biggest Liar, then the world has to be eligible.”
This year, six Cumbrians and five interlopers squared off in a region whose picturesque, hilly
landscape inspired tales of talking rabbits from Beatrix Potter and opium-induced poetry from Samuel
Taylor Coleridge.
The first of the non-Cumbrian competitors was Rebecca Purves, an economist from Cheltenham,
in southwest England. “Women cannot and do not lie,” she said, before telling a fraudulent tale of
shopping and false price tags.
Subdued applause for Ms. Purves made way for the raucous cheers that heralded John Graham, a
local farmer and seven-time winner of this liars’ Olympiad. After 24 contests, the self-styled “Johnny
Liar” said he is “running out of lies.” But he told one that had him flying with sea gulls, swimming
with salmon and shooting a pig he mistook for a ghost.
For Mr. Boylan, appearing on the same stage as Mr. Graham is an honor. “You taught me to lie,” Mr.
Boylan told him later, saying he had learned his trade watching Mr. Graham perform.
Mr. Graham believes the competition has changed as outsiders turn it into more of a professional
comedy show than the “good, honest” lying of old. “They are comedians, not liars,” said Mr. Graham,
the dirt from a day’s farming still under his fingernails.
Two-time winner Howard Christie, a local landlord, laments the passing of an earlier era of fibbing
and believes strong local dialects like Mr. Graham’s put off judges who want broadcastable accents to
increase the appeal of the competition beyond Cumbria.
John Jackson, a regional mayor and one of seven judges, denies there are biases. “I just pick the
best lie,” he said.
In last week’s competition, more controversy was generated when Scotsman Michael O’Rourke was
accused of plagiarizing his routine—about scientists trying to erase the “ginger gene” that “creates”
redheads—from a famous British comedian’s routine. “That’s a lie,” said Mr. O’Rourke.
Then it was Mr. Boylan’s turn. His hair was spiked, his shirt, sweaty. “You are not going to believe
this,” Mr. Boylan said, before telling of how he lost all his money betting on a snail race, despite
following Prince Charles’s advice to remove the snail’s shell to make it more aerodynamic. Finding
him hungry and broke, Mr. Boylan said, the heir to the British throne took pity on him and shared his
lunch of mayonnaise and peanut butter sandwiches.
As the judges deliberated, Mr. Boylan was besieged by jubilant supporters. “It’s coming home, it’s
coming home,” Mr. Samson chanted, aping an England soccer song that bemoans the country’s lack
of recent success at the sport it created.
When the judges returned, the jovial crowd fell silent, a region’s hopes hinging on the sheet of
paper held in the emcee’s hand. The news was good: Mr. Boylan was crowned the winner, and fellow
Cumbrians took silver and bronze. “A clean sweep for Cumbria,” somebody shouted.
Gazing afterward at the large, silver trophy, Mr. Boylan felt emotional. “It’s back in Cumbria, where
it belongs,” he said. “That is where the world’s biggest liars come from.”
That’s not what they thought at Mr. O’Rourke’s table. Mr. O’Rourke “didn’t win it just because he is
a Scotsman,” said Colin O’Brien, a construction worker from Glasgow. “Anyone who says differently
is lying.”
— Alistair McDonald
—CC—
And last of all, when I read the following story about Raymond and Paulette Jones, I thought of
my own parents.
“You lying piece of green Jell-O!” Raymond bellowed across the room to his wife, Paulette.
“What did you say?” Paulette barked, clearly insulted and confused.
Raymond looked a this wife like she’d lost her mind. Paulette popped off the sofa and ran out of
the den in tears.
“What brought that on?” she asked God. “Is this it? Raymond is finally losing his
mind? I know he’s hard of hearing, but this is too much. What if he becomes dangerous?”
Paulette remembered having read about a man who chased his wife of 60 years out of the house with
a butcher knife. He had been failing mentally for months, but then he became violent and she had to
move him to a home for people with dementia. Paulette’s thoughts raced on. Within seconds she was
already planning what she’d tell their children and how their entire life would be turned upside down
if Raymond were seriously mentally ill.
Paulette walked back to the den and stood in the doorway, ready to bolt if her husband lunged at her.
She eyed him suspiciously. She knew it would only make matters worse if she got upset in front of
him, so she controlled herself and asked him to repeat what he said. That would give her a chance to
judge his mental state and decide what to do if he repeated the same phrase.
“You’re lying on the cream pillow,” he restated slowly in a loud voice.
Paulette burst out laughing. She and Raymond had agreed they would not rest their heads on the
new cream-colored decorative pillows they’d bought for their sofa because they didn’t want to stain
them. Raymond was simply reminding her.
When she told him she thought he had called her a “lying piece of green Jell-O,” he nearly fell off
his chair laughing.
“After that my heart clamed down, and I let go of my fantasy of nursing homes and butcher knives,”
said Paulette.
“I’m not the only one around here who’s hard of hearing!” exclaimed Raymond. “Looks like our
next stop is the hearing aid center. I wonder if they have a two for the price of one sale?”
Fast forward to 1940: It took
German troops only 5 days to
make France say: “We give
up.” Historians still marvel
that although the country had
mobilized 5 million soldiers
just the year before, it was still
overrun by a smaller German
army. In fact, the French still
had more soldiers under arms
than the invading Huns had as
French President Paul Reynaul
ran up the white flag on that 15th
day of May, 1940.
Again, let’s fast forward to the
present. France was honoring
its NATO Treaty commitments
by placing 3,600 troops in
Afghanistan. Last week four
of them were gunned down
by a “Taliban sympathizing”
Afghanistan soldier. French
President Nicolas Sarkozy
immediately stated, “We didn’t
send those troops over there to
be shot at by Afghan troops.”
Of course, NATO officials
hadn’t foreseen that they would
have to guarantee French troops
freedom from gunfire before
committing troops to a war
action. Now Nicolas is ordering
his troops to be pulled out
throwing the NATO Alliance
into a tizzy. British PM David
Cameron says Britain will stick
it out, basing its withdrawals
only on the situation on the
ground and will keep its 9,500
troops in place. So will Italy,
Germany and Spain. You have
to wonder what kind of outing
Sarkozy had in mind when he
sent in those troops—a Sunday
school picnic?
Oh well, don’t worry. Other
countries looked after French
interests in the 1940s, helped
them to freedom and back to
prosperity. I guess we can
do it again although we may
seem a bit tight lipped about
it this time. You see we have
been trying to keep the peace
in the Middle East to prevent a
world-wide economic collapse
(for France and everyone else)
since back in the early 90s and
have lost a few thousand of
our own favored youth in the
process. Somebody had to be
the grownups in the world—be
the world’s policemen some
like to say—to keep freedom,
peace and prosperity in the
world. It has cost America a lot
of treasure and blood to do this.
While the world has enjoyed
the fruits of our labor, we have
taken a lot of guff and backtalk
from some of these who might
well be called our dependents—
criticisms instead of “attaboys.”
Backbiting that may historically
speaking be very ill advised.
The USA is a strange place, as
places go. Every kind of creed,
race and person is here but all
in all we get along pretty well.
2012 is one of those election
years here—a time we pick out
new leaders, or not. We voters
are influenced by what we hear
and read about in the papers,
knowing a lot of it is biased
reporting or may be incorrect
to some extent but all in all we
do pretty good most of the time
electing people who reflect our
needs and values. When we
goof up we elect someone else
and see how they do under our
carefully constructed and fairly
well-working
constitutional
government. In some ways this
election may affect some of you
foreign entities more than they
will us. How’s that you ask?
Well, we’ll get by and look after
ourselves. Always have and
always will. Most experts say
North America will become a
net exporter of oil by 2020 and
the Middle East will become
just another place in our kid’s
geography books and a footnote
in our long and colorful history.
But I don’t know how much
longer we will choose to look
after the interests of places like
France—a country that will still
be looking to the Arabs for their
oil in 2012.
Have a good week in Allen,
Oklahoma and don’t neglect
attending your church this
Sunday.
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Bishops - Brothers In Arms
Three of them landed on Normandy
Continued from Page 1
the 30th Infantry Division, 119th
Regiment Anti-tank Company.
We landed in Normandy on DDay plus three.”
(Ground troops, like his,
fought their way toward St. Lo
and Vire, France under constant artillery fire, complicated
by the impassable hedge rows
along the French countryside.)
“About the first of July, I was
standing on the roadside. My
brother Floyd was in the 234th
Combat Engineering Division.
I knew his outfit and told my
squad leader my brother was
close. My platoon leader, Lt.
Stone, heard me talking. He
and his jeep driver left and came
back with my brother in his jeep.
I almost cried. He didn’t know
that I was in Normandy. The
lieutenant said there is a barn
full of wine and cider. ‘You
have one hour; drink all you
can. Take a guard with you,’”
(About a month into the fighting, the Americans began saturation fighting along the front
lines where Dewey was located.
They hit not only Germans but
Americans as well. Dewey said
it knocked out their truck, their
big gun, killed the truck driver
and bazooka loader 10 feet from
where he stood. The bombing
lasted from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. It
was an extremely frightening
time, he remarked.)
“I gave up because I thought
I was dead.”
July through September,
1944
“After the break out at St. Lo,
we continued through France
and then through Belgium and
Holland almost without stopping, about 300 miles. There
was no gas, so we had to wait.
Around Mortain, France, the
Germans tried to break through
to the sea surrounding much
of our division for two straight
weeks.
They finally gave
up. There was lots of fighting
around Aachen, Germany.”
(His outfit attempted to take
that town during a time of in-
DEWEY DURING WWII
BILL
tense house-to-house fighting,
he explained.)
November, December, 1944
“There was lots of talk about
going home by Christmas; the
war would be over. They would
put our names in a hat. If they
drew your name, you got R&R
to Paris for three days. I was
lucky; my buddy and I were
selected.
Around December 1st, we went to Paris and
had one hell of a good time.
We didn’t want to go back to the
front, but we did.”
“The Germans broke through
on Dec. 16th, in Belgium, the
Battle of Bulge. Because of
the intensity of fighting and the
snow no one went home. We
went down there, moved into a
little town at night by the name
of Stoumont in Belgium. The
next morning, the Germans
kicked us out. My sergeant
said, ‘Bishop get your bazooka
and loader and go up there—get
in those pines. When the tanks
come around the bend, shoot
them in the side.’
“We went. I told my buddy
we are dead; he agreed.”
(Bishop explained that their
equipment couldn’t touch the
powerful German tanks and
they were far outnumbered.)
“We could hear the tanks
coming, the big Royal Tiger
German tanks. We then heard
our sergeant holler, ‘Come
back; we are leaving.’ General
Leland Hobbs, commander of
the 30th Division, was there with
three big guns to take our place.
When the tanks came around
that bend, his guns knocked out
three of them and blocked the
road—stopped that spearhead
cold.
“Gen. Hobbs saved my life
that day.
“We pushed on to a town
FLOYD
DEWEY
The five Bishop brothers served our country valiantly.
called Malmandy and found 85
dead American soldiers. The
Germans had machine-gunned
them down as prisoners of war.
After that no Americans who
heard about it surrendered.
January, 1945
“We went on to a town called
St. Vith where we had an artillery observer, Bill Clayborn,
from Broken Bow, OK, who
became a good friend. He
was good at his job but was hit
while observing. We finally
went back up north to the Roer
River.”
February, 1945
“We crossed the Roer River.
The next day I looked up and
my brother Floyd was coming
up the road to see me. A reporter approached asking for news.
He later published something
about the brothers in combat at
the Roer River in the Phoenix
Gazette.”
March—May, 1945
“The next time we saw each
other, my brother gave me a
pair of combat boots. Our division all wore canvas leggings.
We crossed the Rhine River and
kept going till we reached the
Elbe River. We had to stop; that
is where we met the Russians
and the was for us ended[in
Germany, May, 1945].”
Dewey and Floyd Bishop met
during the war for the last time
in Magedburg, Germany, on
the Elbe River, 50 miles from
Berlin. Neither boy saw their
third brother Bill, who was with
the 10th Mountain Division in
Italy, until after the war ended.
All three were honorable discharged and returned to Gilbert.)
NORMANDY TO THE
ELBE: DEWEY BISHOP’S
WAR
HERMAN & SHERMAN
German Tiger tanks destroyed by Anti-tank Company of the 30th Division in which Dewey was a member.
The plan worked, but the
30th Infantry would pay a high
price—some of it inflicted by
forces on their own side.
Pvt. Dewey Bishop landed
on Omaha Beach on June 9th,
D-Day plus 3.
He was lucky. He had missed
the worst that Normandy’s
beaches had to offer. He would
remain lucky, but he wouldn’t
miss much else that Hitler’s
Germany had to offer.
His unit, the 30th Infantry
Division, would follow in the
footsteps of the 29th Infantry
Division as they crossed Omaha, but it wouldn’t follow much
of anybody after that.
Before Bishop returned to the
states in the fall of 1945, he and
the 30th would fight their way
eastward from Normandy to
Germany’s Elbe River. There
they would meet up with the
Russians who had fought westward from Moscow.
The 30th would return as one
of the most decorated division
in the war and the one declared
by U.S. Army historian S.L.A.
Marshall (and 35 other U.S.
Army historians for that matter) to have been the “Finest infantry division in the European
theater of operations.”
No surprise. The 30th, known
as Old Hickory, was a direct
descendent of the 1st North
Carolina Infantry, famous for
Gen. George Pickett’s ill-fated
but courageous charge at Gettysburg.
Bishop’s journey to Normandy, and on to the Elbe, began in
Arizona.
Now a resident of McGuireville, he joined the service in
1943 while living in Gilbert.
He was 17 years old. Like just
about every other red-blooded
American boy at the time, he
had a score to settle.
He would do so many times
over.
Originally trained in a pioneer
company, one that swept for
mines, Bishop found himself in
England in 1944 attached to the
30th Infantry’s anti tank battalion, manning a 57mm anti tank
gun.
For the most part, the 30th
was composed of National
Guard units out of the Carolinas and Tennessee. As Bishop
puts it, “It was a hillbilly outfit
and they were proud of it.”
“I was from Arizona, and for
some reason they just accepted
me as a fellow hillbilly.” Said
Bishop. “They were the greatest bunch of guys I ever met,
but when they weren’t fighting
the Germans they were fighting
with each other.”
The morning Bishop came
ashore at Normandy, the allied battleships, cruisers and
destroyers were lined up along
the coast shelling the area beyond the beach.
“By then the Americans were
three or four miles inland, but
German artillery was still landing on the beach,” said Bishop.
In spite of the artillery, Bishop said he wasn’t in any rush to
get to the front.
K”I was taking it slow up,
lagging behind, until I came to
a place that was covered with
dead Germans. They were laying everywhere. That scared
me enough that I picked up the
pace,” he said.
As soon as all the untested
troops of the 30th were ashore,
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HOLDENVILLE TRIBUNE—FEBRUARY 1, 2012—PAGE 5
Bishops - Brothers In Arms
Three of them landed on Normandy
It was a warrior’s complement,
equating the 30th to Germany’s
own elite SS divisions.
On the morning of Aug. 6, Hitler launched Operation Luttich,
a plan to split the American first
and Third Armies and drive west
to the French coast. To make the
plan work the Germans knew
they needed control of the road
network centered in Mortain.
Hitler’s only problem was that
the 30th was holding the roads
out of town and their artillery
had the high ground.
The German offensive captured Mortain, but they never
seized control of the high ground,
nor the roads they so desperately
needed.
The fighting at Mortain lasted
for six days, much of it at close
quarters.
And while the 30th held on,
Allied fighter, bombers, artillery
and tanks decimated two of Germany’s finest armored unites,
the First and Second SS Panzer
Divisions.
Bishop’s friend and neighbor
Bill Clayborn was attached to
one of those artillery units. They
were often so close to the enemy
they were firing their howitzers point blank at the German
tanks.
Bishop’s anti tank battalion
would receive a presidential
commendation for its actions.
The division would receive
three more unit citations from
Roosevelt.
Some historians consider
Mortain the most significant battle of the war in Europe outside
of Normandy. Following the
war the German high command
claimed that Mortain was the
turning point in their battle for
the Western Front.
After the battle there was no
place left for the Germans to go
but back to Germany.
The Normandy campaign,
which had begun as an infantry
battle fought by the yard in the
hedgerows, turned into a cavalry
charge, fought with tanks and
measured by the mile.
The 30th would set a record for
modern warfare, advancing 125
miles in a single day.
The Normandy Campaign
was over and the Campaign for
Northern France had begun.
Bishop and the 30th would go
on to become the first Allied Division to set foot in Belgium and
the first Allied Division to cross
the Dutch border.
They would also be one of the
units that captured the first major
German city of the war, Aachen.
They would also fight valiantly in the Battle of the Bulge and
eventually cross the Rhine River
in February 1945.
Dewey Bishop’s war and
that of the 30 Infantry Division
would end at the Elbe River near
the town of Magedburg, 50 miles
from Berlin.
As for Bishop, he considers
himself, at 81 years old, to be the
luckiest man alive. Through all
the combat, and after 10 months
of almost constant danger, he
came home without a scratch.
“I can’t count the times I knew
I was going to die within five
minutes,” said Bishop. “Then
something would happen, and I
didn’t. I can’t explain it. Just
lucky I guess.”
RETROSPECTIVE:
SLAUGHTER AT A BELGIUM
CROSSROADS
LOCAL VET REMEMBERS
MALMEDY MASSACRE
Anyone with an interest in
World War II knows the name
Malmedy.
Just outside of the Belgium
village, at a place know to the
locals as Baugnez crossroads,
116 American POWs, having
just surrendered to lead units of
Germany’s “Bulge” offensive,
were herded into a field and
shot.
Many of those who survived
the first round of machine fire
were subsequently clubbed to
death or shot as they feigned
death in the snowy field. Within
15 minutes, 85 of them lay dead
or dying.
The day was Dec. 17, 1944.
The bodies would lie in the
field until troops of the 30th
Infantry Division secured the
crossroads on Jan. 14, 1945.
Then the story would be told
around the world.
One of those men of the 30th
who witnessed the carnage
that winter 63 years ago was
McGuireville resident Dewey
Bishop.
His story of the events spanning Christmas, New Year’s
and January, began the day before the men of Battery B, 285th
Filed Artillery Observation Battalion, were slaughtered.
“On Dec. 16, I was pulled off
the front line in Germany and
sent to Paris for some R&R,”
Bishop said. “What I remember most about Paris was how
it was all lit up. Where I had
come from, if you lit a match
you risked having a sniper blow
your head off.”
When he returned, he remembers being happy to see that
none of his buddies had gotten
killed in his absence. He also
couldn’t help noticing that the
war was still going on.
Throughout the fall of 1944
the Army brass had been telling
the troops that the war would be
over by Christmas.
Little did anyone know, the
Americans were about to take
their worst beating of the war at
the hands of Germany’s best SS
divisions.
The day Bishop headed back
for Paris, the Germans mounted
their last great offensive of the
war, known to history as the
“Battle of the Bulge.”
As soon as he returned from
his shortened trip, his unit, the
30th Infantry Division, was
sent south to Belgium to attack
the Germans on their northern
flank.
The 30th took a beating at the
first town, Stoumont. The next
day they took the town.
The next town, Stavelot, was
just as bad—hand-to-hand fighting for the infantry and the artillery batteries firing point blank
at the oncoming enemy. The
30th took it, also.
Next came Malmedy where,
soon after arriving, the 30th retook the town. That same day
American planes, unaware that it
was in American hands, bombed
Malmedy.
The 30th had the ignoble distinction of having been the only
infantry division to be bombed
twice by their own aircraft.
Bishop was also underneath the
bombs the first time they rained
down outside St. Lo during the
Normandy breakout.
“I remember thinking they
had missed me twice, and hoping they didn’t try it again,”
Bishop said.
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they were sent directly to the
front to be thrown up against experienced, battle-hardened German units, in terrain that worked
more to the advantage of the defenders.
“It was the start of the hedgerow country—one, two, three,
five acre plots surrounded by
six-to 10-foot tall hedges,” said
Bishop. “It was the worst place
in the world to have a fight.
“A hundred yards in a day was
an accomplishment. Basically
it meant you had made it to the
next hedgerow,” he said.
In one 15-day period in early
July 1944, the 30th suffered more
than 3,900 casualties—a loss of
25 percent of its total strength
and almost 90 percent losses
among its rifle regiments.
Bogged down and dying for
over a month, the 30th would
eventually fight itself to the outskirts of St. Lo, Normandy’s
third largest town.
There on the morning of July
24th, they waited on the front line
for the beginning of Operation
Cobra, the Allied plan to break
out of Normandy. The plan
worked, but the 30th would pay a
high price—some of it inflicted
by forces on their own side.
“That morning, the air corps
sent thousands of Allied bombers against the German lines.
But then the red smoke from
shells our artillery was using to
mark the enemy positions started drifting over our line,” said
Bishop.
The bombs would follow.
“One wave of bombers dropped
their load about 500 yards in
front of us. The next one fell a
hundred yards in front. I looked
up and the next wave of bombers was opening their bomb bay
doors directly above us.
“A 500 or 1,000 pound bomb
can kill you with just the concussion. If you weren’t below
ground the shrapnel would kill
you. And if you were they could
bury you in your foxhole.
“I remember the ground shook
like an earthquake,” Bishop said.
“I knew it was my day to die.”
By the time the bombs stopped
falling, 24 were dead and another
128 wounded—all from the 30th.
The bombs would destroy
Bishop’s anti tank gun and the
truck used to haul it.
“I remember the driver of the
truck screaming over and over
for his daddy. Both his legs had
been blown off. Another guy
who was a bazooka loader in our
squad lay on the ground, dead
and blue. I cried,” said Bishop.
Cobra was called off for the
day.
The next day the bombers
would return. When the bombs
stopped falling on the 25th, another 64 men from the 30th were
dead, 324 were wounded, 60
were missing and another 160
were sent to the rear with battle
fatigue.
In spite of the tragedy, the 30th
regrouped and spearheaded Operation Cobra, creating a hole in
the German lines Wide enough
for Gen. Patton’s Third Army,
and the rest of the American
forces, to blast their way out of
the hedgerows for good. After a
brief rest, the 30th fought its way
to the front again, this time to
the strategic crossroads town of
Mortain. Here, Bishop and the
30th would have their finest hour,
the one that would earn them a
nickname from the Germans,
“Roosevelt’s SS Troops.
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The next day his anti-tank
gun crew was sent to guard the
Baugnez crossroads.
“Malmedy was down in a valley,” Bishop said. “We went up
the other side from where we
had come and there was a crossroads. We set up our guns to
cover it.
“In the center of the intersection was a concrete block and on
it was a life-sized statue of Jesus
nailed to a cross. Somehow, it
was still standing.
“Across the road from us was
a field covered in snow. And in
that field were all these lumps.
We walked over and kicked off
the snow to see what they were.
They were dead American soldiers. I learned later that they
were POWs that had been shot
by the Germans.”
Bishop’s unit cleared and secured the Malmedy area over
the next few weeks, eventually
being relieved at another town
down the road, St Vith.
The 30th would return north
and cross the Roer River in February, the Rhine River in March
and numerous other waterways
that drained central Europe, on
its way to war’s end at the Elbe
River.
“When I get up yonder . . . or
down yonder,” Bishop said, “I
just hope there are no more rivers to cross.”
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Service Thursday For Betty Collins
A Celebration of Life Service for longtime
Hughes County resident Betty Jo Collins will be
held at 2:00 P.M., Thursday, February 2nd, at
East Main Church of Christ, Holdenville,
with Robert Teague and Terry Newell
officiating. Services are under the
direction of Hudson-Phillips Funeral
Home, Holdenville.
Serving as pallbearers will be
Travis Reese, John Reese, Aubie
Keesee, Mike Turner, Gene
Holliman,
Randall
LaValley.
Honorary bearers will be Jim Allford,
Monroe Sumter, Jack Chapman, Ken
Orsburn and Jerry Gaskins. Burial
will follow at Calvin Cemetery.
Betty died on Monday, January 30 2012,
at Oklahoma Heart Hospital in Oklahoma
City at the age of 76.
Betty was born August 25, 1935 in Stuart,
Oklahoma to Joe and Mabel (Bannon) McDonald.
She married Arlis Lewis “Bill” Collins on January
24, 1955 in McAlester, Oklahoma.
Betty began her banking career at First National
Bank in Holdenville. They later moved to Midland,
Texas and Betty worked at Midland National Bank.
In 1960 Betty and Bill moved to Lubbock, Texas
where she worked at Lubbock National Bank for
17 years. They later moved to Amarillo, Texas and
Betty worked at Western National Bank where she
retired as Vice President of Operations in 1995.
Betty and Bill relocated back to Hughes County to
enjoy their retirement years.
She was a member of the East Main Church of
Christ and was also very active in Holdenville
General Hospital Pink Ladies Auxiliary where
she served as President for two years. She
was instrumental in obtaining the notfor-profit tax-exempt status for the
organization and organized numerous
fund raising efforts including the golf
tournaments. She was a longtime
active member of the Iris Garden
Club and received the ESA Diana
Award in 2009. Betty was also a
census taker for the US Census in
2000 and 2010.
She loved spending time outside
gardening and working in her flower
bed. Betty also enjoyed shopping with
her daughter, Mitzi.
Survivors include her loving husband Bill of
the home; daughters, Mitzi Jo Perry of Holdenville
and T.J. Lafosse of Houston, Texas; her son, Kevin
Andrew Collins and wife Kimberly of Quincy,
Illinois; grandchildren, Ashley McCoy-Reese and
husband Travis, J.C. McCoy and wife Heather,
Stormy Jo Perry, Joshua Collins, Kaelan Collins;
great-grandchildren, Roy Douglas McCoy and Wyatt
Dean McCoy; six brothers, Woodrow McDonald,
Ben McDonald, Ed McDonald, Ronnie McDonald,
Robert McDonald and Dan McDonald; two sisters,
Modean Beck and Neda Broege; numerous nieces
and nephews and a host of other family and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents and one
sister, Mary McDonald.
John Thomas Tatum, Sr. passed away in
Ardmore, Oklahoma on Friday, January 27, 2012,
at the age of 78 years.
John was the son of Emmett and Rachel (James)
Tatum, born on August 15, 1933, in
Valliant, Oklahoma. In his younger
years, he lived in Oklahoma,
Oregon, and California.
He
married Joella Wilson on his 19th
birthday, August 15, 1952, in
Nipoma, California.
John worked in the oil fields,
painted cars and raced cars,
operated a bulldozer and worked
in construction. He worked for
Hughes County District #3, where
he was employed for 32 years
before retiring in 1989. For many
years, he taught Sunday School as
well as served as Sunday School
Superintendent at the Free Will
Baptist Church of Non, Oklahoma.
He served for eleven years on the
Calvin Board of Education. He loved to fish, hunt,
ride horses, farm, and raise cattle. Most of all, he
loved his Lord, his wife, and his family.
John is preceded in death by his parents, Emmett
and Rachel Tatum; four brothers, Emmett Jr.,
Oscar, Allan and Billy Wayne; four sisters, June,
Jeanette, Joyce and Letta Mae.
Survivors are his beloved wife of 59 years, Joella
(Wilson) Tatum, of the home; his three children, Jo
‘Tochie’ Cates and husband Bill, of Atwood, John
Tatum Jr. and wife Donna, and Joyce Searcy and
husband Jim, all of Gerty; four
grandchildren, Jason Tatum, Janet
Woodell, Jessica Janes and Lesley
Sturm; eight great grandchildren,
Logan, Donley, Rheagan, Austin,
Brayden, Brittany, Sarah and
Eliana;
one brother, Clifford
Tatum and wife Twila; one sister,
Joy Evans; and a host of nieces
and nephews, other relatives and
many friends.
Funeral services were Tuesday,
January 31st, 2:00 p.m. at Bethel
Free Will Baptist Church in Allen,
Oklahoma. John was laid to rest
in the Gerty Cemetery. Rev. Earl
Scroggins and Rev. Buddy Drake
were the officiating ministers.
Pallbearers were Bruce Woods,
Sheldon Tatum, Cameron Miller, Charlie Bob Evans,
Ryan Colbert, and Nick Janes. Honorary pallbearers
were Coy Woodall, Ed Colbert, Vincent Tatum, Alton
Tatum, Benny Miller, Johnathan Cates, and Leonard
Iker.
Services were under direction of Fisher Funeral
Home of Holdenville. www.fisherfh.net
Service Held For John Thomas Tatum, Sr.
Thank You
A special thank you for all your prayers during the
tragic loss of our loved one, Janet Long.
Your calls and your cards have been so comforting.
Thank you for your contributions made to Jackson’s
college scholarship fund.
There are no words to express our heartfelt thanks
to all of you. Holdenville will always have a special
place in our hearts.
Elbert & Irma Clark
David & Jackson Long
Denton & Samantha Long
Dustin & Amber Long & Family
Brent, Paulette & Ross Mynhier
Service Saturday
For Jason Tatum
Jason Tatum of Gerty passed away on Sunday, January 29, 2012.
Funeral services have been set with Fisher Funeral Home of Holdenville
for Saturday, February 4th, at 2:00 p.m. in the Bethel Free Will Baptist
Church of Allen. Burial will follow in the Gerty Cemetery.
Service Pending For
James McGirt
Funeral service for James McGirt, 77 of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
is pending with Hudson Phillips Funeral Home. He died on Tuesday,
January 31, 2012, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Service Held For Ralph Capps
Capps, Ralph Samuel, Veteran of World War II and retired Tool
Coordinator for Cessna Aircraft Company passed away on Tuesday,
January 24, 2012 at the age of 97. He was born February 27, 1914
in Holdenville, OK to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Capps and raised by
grandparents Lige and Jenny Yandell. After graduating high school
in 1933 from Holdenville High School, Ralph received a football
scholarship from East Central State Teachers College in Ada, OK
and never lost his love for football. Clearly, OU football was in his
DNA. He moved to Wichita to take a job at Cessna Aircraft Company and was married to Virginia “Ginny” Cox on December 12,
1943. Ralph enjoyed bowling and he and his wife Ginny bowled
in many different leagues over the years. After Ginny’s death in
2002, he continued bowling until the age of 93. He was an avid
hunter and fisherman and spent many years traveling to Minnesota
annually to fish, alongside his wife of nearly 60 years. He was
able to enjoy 30+ years of retirement before his death. Ralph was
preceded in death by his wife Ginny, his parents, his grandparents,
brothers Floyd and James and his Aunt Cecile. He is survived by
seven nieces and nephews and a host of great-nieces and nephews. Funeral Service 10am, Mon. January 30, 2012 at DeVorss
Flanagan-Hunt Chapel. Memorial to INCOR, 210 East Okmulgee
Ave., Muskogee, OK 74403. Condolences may be offered at www.
devorssflanaganhunt.com.
HOLDENVILLE TRIBUNE—FEBRUARY 1, 2012—PAGE 7
The Year Was 1948
HHS CAMPUS CHATTER
By Kathryn Brock
Congratulations to Zelma
Stallings who has been elected
Band Queen for ’48, and her
attendants Earlene Custer and
Carolyn Caldwell, who were
chosen by popular vote of the senior high band. Zelma’s escort
will be Richard Huser, drum major. These three girls have been
members of the band since the
seventh grade. Zelma plays the
clarinet, Earlene, the bass clarinet and Carolyn has first chair in
the flute section.
PARKING SPACE IS AVAILABLE DUE TO METERS
63 Tickets Handed Out First
Day By City Traffic Officer
Parking space on Main street
is conspicuous by its availability
today and also yesterday when
the city’s new parking meters began operating for the first time.
For the first time in a long
time, maybe since horse and
buggy days, it’s possible to find
a choice parking space curing
“office” hours on Holdenville’s
Main street.
Traffic officer A.C. Fare handed out 63 tickets for traffic violations yesterday—just about 98
per cent of them to motorists who
forgot to insert the all-important
pennies, nickels or dimes that
make parking meters click with
civic pride and joy.
“But after all—63 tickets
aren’t so many when you realize
that yesterday was the very first
day in the history of Holdenville
that parking meters were used,”
traffic office Fare said. “Most
people just honestly forgot about
it being the day to start paying
the meters.
Fare has no idea how much
was collected by the meters yesterday because collections are
not made daily.
Mayor Clyde Busey reminded
city drivers that their honesty
and cooperative spirit would
save them a great deal of trouble if they should happen to be
“tagged” for overtime parking or
non-payment of the fees.
The mayor said the offending
driver could bring the ticket to
city hall and pay the regular fee
owed by the driver, plus an additional charge of five cents an
hour for any overtime parking
and all would be forgiven.
“If people who have received
a ticket will cooperate by voluntarily coming to the police
station and paying the regular
parking fee, plus the small fee of
five cents an hour for their overtime parking, it will mean that
no offending driver will have to
pay anything but an insignificant
amount,” the mayor explained.
“But on the other hand, if they
ignore the ticket and do not voluntarily come to the police station it will mean that we will be
forced to enforce the law, and this
we shall do with all the power at
our command.”
The mayor emphasized his
statement by explaining that traffic court would be held at regular
intervals and violators would be
brought to court.
Busey pointed out that most
drivers have sought parking
space on the side streets. Monday
and today, Broadway, Seventh,
Creek and Oak streets are now
bearing more than their share of
the parking load. This has inconvenienced businesses and houses
on these streets, but the problem
will be remedied when meters
begin operating on these streets,
he explained. Meters on Creek,
Broadway and Seventh Streets
will be put into operation as
soon as the sidewalk repair project is completed, he said. Coins
of one-cent, five cents, and 10
cents may be used in the meters.
One cent pays for 12 minutes
parking, five cents pays for one
hour’s parking and 10 cents pays
for two hours parking. Motorists
will be required to deposit coins
from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday
through Friday, and from 9 a.m.
to 9 p.m. on Saturday. No parking fee is required on Sundays
and holidays.
LOCAL MEMBERS OF
TEACHERS
SORORITY
HOSTS AT LUNCHEON
Holdenville members of
Sigma chapter of Delta Kappa
Gamma, teachers’ sorority, entertained with a luncheon Saturday at 1 p.m. at Bartlett’s café.
Sigma chapter is composed
of teachers in Seminole and
Hughes counties.
Mrs. Lucy Beach, president of
the chapter, was in charge of the
program which was held at the
Holdenville high school. Mrs.
B.C. Mackey gave several accordion selections, and a book
review. “Eyes to See” by Margaret Stroh, was presented by
Mrs. Varner.
Refreshments were served to
members Mrs. Beth Robinson,
Mrs. Lena Midkiff, Mrs. Agnes Jenkins, Mrs. Thomas, Mrs.
Florence Nelson, Mrs. Mattie
Hofmeister, Mrs. Jannie Ross
Adair and Mrs. Marion Williams, Seminole; Mrs. Mamie
Brown, Dustin: Mrs. Mildred
Craton, Bowlegs.
Mrs. Beach, Mrs. Ruby Thomas, Cromwell; Mrs. Adelaide
Andrews, Miss Fern Hill and
Miss Mary Alice Nail, Wewoka;
Mrs. Varner, Mrs. Ruth Barlow,
Mrs. Ether H. Reed, Mrs. Marie
Hillis, Miss Christine Provence,
Miss Vivian Davis, Miss Isabel
Elliston and Miss Willie Belle
Adams, Holdenville and guests,
Mrs. Mackey, city and Mrs.
Dorothy Jones, Dustin.
HENS NIP WOLVERINES
27-26
CHARITY TOSS WITH 28
SECONDS LEFT DEFEATS
HOLDENVILLE
Henryetta lived up to their
early season tag as the “Darkhorse” team in the Sooner Star
Conference, when they toppled
the previously undefeated Wolverines 27-26 in a game on the
local court Tuesday night.
Vernon Van Meter, the Hens
football ace, came through with
a charity toss with 28 seconds
left to play to give the visitors
the winning tally after Holdenville had fought from behind to
knot the count.
With the exception of a three
minute period following the
intermission, the local quintet
was colder than the proverbial
“dog’s nose”. The Wolverines
took more shots at the basket
but not only missed from the
field but muffed several setups
throughout the contest.
Holdenville scored first to
take the lead, only to have Henryetta fight back to a 6-4 advantage at the end of the opening
period and widen the margin to
15-10 at the intermission.
At the opening of the third
quarter, Holdenville bounced
back to score nine points in less
than three minutes while holding the visitors scoreless to take
a 19-15 lead. It appeared the
city high school cagers were off
to their eleventh win, but Henryetta battled back to take the lead
before the end of the period.
Coach John Daugherty’s club
was trailing 23-19 going into the
final stanza, and were behind
26-22 at the officials’ time out
(three minutes left to play).
Tommy Littrell hit a jump
shot and Bill Coffman followed
with a long shot for two points
to knot the count at 26-26 with
one minute left to play. After
VanMeter hit the winning charity toss, the Wolverines rushed
the ball down-court but missed
from the field as well as dropping three follow shots as the
game ended.
Holdenville was plagued with
bad passes, poor judgment on
backboard play and the usual
better-than-average
shooting
from the field was considerably
below average.
Benny Leonard, Henryetta
guard, set the game scoring pace
with six field goals and two charity tosses for a total of 14 points.
Littrell led Holdenville in scoring with 10 points.
Tuesday night’s loss marked
the Wolverines’ first loss this
season in 11 starts. It reduced
the club’s chances of a basketball championship, but with
a win Feb. 10 at Ada the Wolverines can still take the Sooner
Star hoop crown.
HOLDENVILLE JUNIOR
HIGH CAGERS TAKE TWO
VICTORIES FROM BYNG
Coach Bob Slavin’s junior
high school basketball candidates turned in one of their best
performances Tuesday afternoon
and night to take two games
from Byng.
In seventh grade the local club
took a 14-10 victory. While the
junior high came from behind
in the closing minutes to take a
32-30 win in a preliminary game
Tuesday evening.
Dale Lowder, freshman center, poured in six points in the
final three minutes of play in the
junior high game to boost his
team ahead.
In the seventh grade contest,
Jackie Vandergriff set the scoring pace with three field goals
for a total of six points.
BETTYE WASHINGTON,
BRIDE-ELECT OF TODD
DOOLY, IS HONORED
Mrs. T.D. Ramsey and daughter, Miss Ruth Taylor Ramsey,
were co-hostesses Saturday afternoon at a linen shower honoring Miss Bettye Washington.
Bridge served as entertainment for the afternoon with Miss
Christine Lucas winning high
and Mrs. Fred Hyde, second.
The refreshment table covered with a lace tablecloth, was
decorated with a centerpiece arrangement with white candles.
A cake, made in the shape of two
interlocking hearts and topped
with pick flowers, was served by
Mrs. Iola Dooly. Mrs. Isabelle
Washington Poured.
The invited guest list included
Mrs. Joe F. Lucas, Mrs. Frank
Roberts, Midwest City, Mrs.
Dale Gaston, Beggs, Mrs. Jack
Hilton, Jr., Oklahoma City, Miss
Shirley Washington, Miss Lillie
Fotenopulos, Miss Christine Lucas, Mrs. Darrel Whitten, Mrs.
George Chesnutt, Jr., Mrs. Bill
Foster, Mrs. Fred Hyde, Mrs.
Owen Rives, Mrs. Walter Dickinson, Mrs. Eloise Bilby Wilbanks, Mrs. G.R. Stirman, Miss
Shirley Akins, Miss Mary Panos,
Mrs. Gene Lyons, Mrs. Tony
Jack Lyons, Miss Jennie Fotenopulos, Mrs. Isabelle Washington, Mrs. M.L. Waggoner, Mrs.
Dooly and the honoree.
Miss Washington will exchange wedding vows with
James Todd Dooly February 13
in the First Baptist Church.
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LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE DISTRICT COURT
OF HUGHES COUNTY
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
No. PB-10-67
In the Matter of the Estate of DAISY MARSHALL, a/k/a DAISY BEAVER MARSHALL,
Deceased.
NOTICE OF HEARING FINAL ACCOUNT AND PETITION FOR DISTRIBUTION
AND DISCHARGE IN THE ESTATE OF DAISY MARSHALL, a/k/a DAISY BEAVER
MARSHALL
Notice is hereby given that Lola Fields, Personal Representative of the Estate of
Daisy Marshall, a/k/a Daisy Beaver Marshall filed in this Court her Final Account of the
Administration of said estate, and her Petition for Distribution of said estate and for final
discharge of said Personal Representative, the hearing of the same has been fixed by
the Judge of said Court for 9:00 o’clock a.m. on the 27 day of February, 2012, at the
Courtroom of said Court in the Hughes County Courthouse in Holdenville, Oklahoma,
and all persons interested in said estate are notified then and there to appear and show
cause, if any they have, why the said account should not be settled and allowed, the
heirs of Daisy Marshall, a/k/a Daisy Beaver Marshall, deceased, determined, and said
estates distributed, and the Personal Representative discharged.
Witness my hand this 27th day of January, 2012.
s) B. Gordon Allen
Judge of the District Court
Joel D. Butterworth, OBA#12590
104 N. Broadway
PO Box 955
Holdenville, OK 74848
(405) 379-9891
Attorney for Petitioner
(Published in The Holdenville Tribune on February 1 and 8, 2012)
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT
OF HUGHES COUNTY
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
Case No. PB-2012-8l
In the Matter of the Estate of ALBERTI
BULMAN MACKEN, s/p/a ALBERTI
LUCILLE MACKEN, Deceased. JUDITH
ANN ARRANT, Petitioner.
COMBINED NOTICE TO CREDITORS
AND NOTICE OF HEARING
TO: All persons interested in the Estate
of ALBERTI BULMAN MACKEN, s/p/a
ALBERTI LUCILLE MACKEN, Deceased.
You are hereby notified that on the 1st
day of February, 2012, the Petitioner, Judith
Ann Arrant, Address of the Petitioner, 3216
Squireswood Dr., Carrollton, TX 75006,
filed in the District Court of Hughes County
a Petition for Summary Administration. The
Petitioner has alleged that Alberti Bulman
Macken, s/p/a Alberti Lucille Macken, age
94, died on May 19, 2011, domiciled in and
a resident of Dallas County, State of Texas,
and that the total value of the Decedent’s
property in Oklahoma is approximately
$76,545.00. Attached to the Petition is
an instrument purporting to be a certified
copy of the last will and testament of the
Decedent. The Petitioner has asked that
this court admit the will to probate and order
summary proceeding pursuant to 58 O.S.
Sec. 245, et seq.
In an Order for Combined Notice
entered herein, the court found that it
should dispense with the regular estate
proceedings prescribed by law and order
notice to creditors and issue an order for
hearing upon the Petition for Summary
Administration, the final accounting and
petition for determination of heirs, legatees
and devisees and distribution.
Pursuant to the Order for Combined
Notice, all creditors having claims against
Alberti Bulman Macken, s/p/a Alberti Lucille
Macken, deceased, are required to present
same, with a description of all security
interest and other collateral, if any, held by
each creditor with respect to such claim,
to the Petitioner, Judith Ann Arrant, 3216
Squireswood Dr., Carrollton, TX 75006, on
or before the 5th day of March, 2012, or the
same will be forever barred.
Notice is hereby given that a hearing will
be held on the 16th day of April, 2012, at
9:00 o’clock a.m., at the Hughes County
Courthouse in Holdenville, Oklahoma,
before Judge B. Gordon Allen. At the
hearing the Court will decide whether
to approve the Petition for Summary
Administration and the petition for admission
of will to probate and the final account
and the petition for determination of heirs,
legatees and devisees and distribution
of the Petitioner. The final account and
petition for determination of heirs, legatees
and devisees and distribution will be filed
on or before the 19th day of March, 2012.
You are hereby advised that you must
file objections to the Petition for Summary
Administration and the petition for admission
of will to probate and the final account
and the petition for determination of heirs,
legatee and devisees and distribution at
least ten (10) days before the hearing and
send a copy to the Petitioner’s attorney,
Joel D. Butterworth, Box 955, Holdenville,
Oklahoma 74848, or you will be deemed to
have waived any objections. If you have
no objections, you need not appear at the
hearing or make any filings with the Court.
If an objection is filed at least ten (10)
days before the hearing, the Court will
determine at the hearing whether the will
attached to the petition shall be admitted
to probate, whether summary proceedings
are appropriate and, if so, whether the
estate will be distributed and to whom the
estate will be distributed.
B. Gordon Allen
Judge of the District Court
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Holdenville, OK 74848
Attorney for Petitioner
(Published in The Holdenville Tribune on
February 1 and 8, 2012)
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The Pastor Ponders
Question: Why is gossip like a photograph?
Answer: Because it comes from something negative that has
been developed and enlarged.
The Bible has denounced gossip from the beginning. In the
Levitical Law Code we read, “Do not go about spreading slander
among your people.” (Leviticus 19:16a) The Ten Commandments
make it loud and clear, “Do not bear false witness against your
neighbor.” (Deuteronomy 5:20)
False witness is nothing less than gossip. It comes out of making
statements about others that are not grounded in fact.
The church is a gathered community of people who exist through
trust and love. To spread false witness or give negative criticism
is destructive to the community of faith In that the gathered
community becomes the tattered community,
In 1752 a group of men, including John Wesley, the founder
of the Methodist movement within the Anglican Church, signed
a covenant which every man might hang in his home. The six
articles of the covenant included the following:
1) That we will not listen to or willingly inquire after
ill concerning one another.
2) That, if we do hear any ill of each other, we will not
be forward to believe it.
3) That as soon as possible we will communicate what
we hear by speaking or writing to the person concerned.
4) That neither will we mention it, after we have done
this, to any other person.
5) That we will not make any exception in any of
these rules unless, we think ourselves absolutely obliged
in conference.
Another story gets to the heart of the matter. A four-year-old
boy decided that he would make an attempt at reciting the Lord’s
Prayer that he had heard in church and said, “Forgive us our trash
baskets, as we forgive those who trash basket against us.”
The next time you are tempted to be negative in your criticism
of someone or gossip, remind yourself that you are a member of
God’s family where mutual love and respect must prevail for the
harmony and growth of the church family.
If you do not have a church to call home, join us this Sunday
for Bible-centered worship at 11am. For additional teaching, join
me on Sunday at 12:30pm at www.tenacityradio.com for “Biblical
Principles For Kingdom Living” or you canl isten to previously
aired messages through the Archives.
Dr. Dan Eischen
First United Methodist Church of Wetumka
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RONNIE STRINGFELLOW
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It is not always easy to be a guest at a new church but we want you to
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It is our desire that you have an encounter with God that will affect
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Game Night News
We had 17 “Moon” players
Monday night. They were so quite
and serious about their games that
it was almost scary! At table #1 were Geraldine
Ingram and Linda Davy playing
against Cheryl Stinnett, Rusty
Jones and Arjean Williams. Wait
a minute! Isn’t that three against
two?? Actually, Arjean had to
work late and we had already started when she got there and Cheryl
also had to work long hours so she
was tired and left after two games
and Arjean took her place. Chery
and Rusty won 1 game and Rusty
and Arjean won 4 games and Linda and Geraldine won 2 games.
At table #2 - Loita Sharp and
Jean Phillips played against Glenda Smith and Sue Wood. There
was a lot of noise at this table.
Someone said that Jean was getting mean in her old age; she
wanted to hit Sue not once, but
twice! I think that Jean has been
watching “Steel Magnolias”! But look at the scores. Loita and Jean
won 3 games. Glenda and Sue won
4 games! Glenda shot the moon
and made it! Yea, Glenda! But
then someone took Jean a cookie
and she was her sweet self again. It must have been chocolate! The
world is a better place when there
is chocolate!
At table #3 - Sharon Dilday
and Lynn Marquis played against
Naomi Tomlinson and Marie
Grimes. Lynn had had eye surgery and didn’t really want to go,
but after talking to Sharon, she put
on her dark sun glasses and went.
Sharon was so excited that she
shot the moon twice and won both
times. Yea, Sharon! Lynn was really glad that she went as she and
Sharon won 7 games and Naomi
and Marie got skunked! I guess
they didn’t eat enough chocolate! Lynn may start wearing her shades
every time she plays moon if that
means she will win all of the time!
But don’t kid yourself. There was
the time that she didn’t realize that
they were 19 and she bid 5 and
went set! So they had to play two
more rounds to win the game! But
that is what makes each round a
challange!
At table #4 - We had a new
player, Lisa Rogers. Lisa and
Reba Lovelace played against JaniceEller and Norma Summy. Lisa
is a fast learner as she and Reba
won 4 games to Janice and Norma
winning 3 games. Lisa said that
she loved the game and that she
would be back! Glad to have you,
Lisa!
A big “Thank You” to Marie for
the cookies and chocolate minicupcakes and Sue for the chocolate donuts! See, chocolate and
love are what makes the world go
round!
Come and join us! See ya next
week!
1944 OR 1945 - CAPITOL HEIGHTS 5TH GRADE - MRS. CARTWRIGHT­— A special thank you to Melvin Sherrin and Mike Shockley for helping us
to identify this picture that we ran on January 11th. Left to Right - Front Row: Norma Lee Harris, Betty Lou McBride, Anna Shockley, Modine Johnson,
?, Bertha Swope, Shirley Jennings and Jean Clopton. Second Row: Mrs. Cartwright, Mildred Allen, Mary Norton, Babe Larney (she was the queen of
Little Olympics that year), Herman Aguirre, Larry ?, Paul Hoover, Troy Norton and Mr. R.L. Herring. Third Row: Bobby Drawbaugh, Kenneth Hill, Larry
Lee, Eugene Lee, Duncan Clements, Bobby Morris, Lavone Myatt, Melvin Sherrin and Jimmy Keefer.
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from
Dayna’s Desk
Bill visited with our good friend
Melvin Sherrin last week. He has an
incredible memory and identified
the students in the Capitol Heights
school picture we ran a couple of
weeks back. The picture was taken
in 1944 or 1945.
Last summer Melvin came to
Holdenville as did his good friends
Joe and Betty Champion. Bill and
I joined them at the home of Gary
and Ricki Sullivan for one of the
most enjoyable evenings I have ever
had. Joe and Gary are incredible
musicians and Melvin has a great
singing voice.
We spend several house visiting
and singing. There was not one
request that Gary and Joe couldn’t
play!
I also learned that Melvin is
learning to play the organ. Bill
believes that Joe, Gary and Melvin
should go on tour!
Hopefully, Melvin and the
Champions will be able to return to
Holdenville this summer. We would
love to see them again.
—DD—
Recently Bill and I were visiting
about our friend the late Clemmie
Harjo. In WWII his brother
Johnson was killed at Bastogne. We
have tried to find some additional
information about Johnson but so
far have been unable to do so.
Over the years we have done a
lot of research about our veterans
but frequently we come across a
new name that served our country
and made the ultimate sacrifice.
Our desire is to make sure our
veterans are never forgotten.
—DD—
It was Christmas and birthday
all in one for Bill, Friday. Our good
friend Bob Cleghorn, who lives in
Pawnee, came by to visit us.
He brought me a beautiful
checkbook cover and brought Bill
an item that he has wanted for
several years and has been unable
to find. It was a Double Cola! Bill
was ecstatic!
Some of you may remember
when there was a Double Cola
bottling plant in Seminole. They
bottled Double Cola, Ski and
Suncrest. They were Bill’s favorite
sodas.
Double Cola is no longer
available in Oklahoma. In
December Bob was in Atwoods and
found three bottles of Double Cola
and brought Bill one of them.
Bill is saving it for a special
occasion and I know better than to
ask for a drink of it!
We really did enjoy our visit
with Bob. He doesn’t get down this
way very often. He does plan on
attending the Salt Creek wild onion
dinner in March.
—DD—
Gary Brinlee was by the office
Friday and he and Bill started
talking about local pool halls during
the “good old days”. The Turf Club
on South Broadway fwas one of the
most popular places. Gary believes
that Otis Witcher was the person that
first opened it. Later, Lloyd Porter
owned it. Lloyd’s wife, Nora was a
long time local beauty operator and
they had a son, Marvin, who was a
1951 HHS graduate.
Later, Sam Boyce and Jack
Morris owned the Turf.
The Turf and the Sports Club
wer two of the most well known
gathering places for many years.
I have heard Meredith talk bout
both of them and how when he
was working in the oilfield he
and several of his buddies always
enjoyed meeting there.
He said they gathered there so
if someone needed help they would
be easy to find.
Bill always told Meredith he
believed there may have been a few
other reasons!
—DD—
We ran across two very
interesting stories this past week.
Both happened in 1940.
Our readers know that we talk
about veterans often. I believe that
this may be the first time we have
ran across an item that talks about
area veterans that served on the
Mexican border in 1914-1915.
November 1940
VETERANS OF OLD CO. G
HOLD REUNION
Experiences on Mexican
Border and Later In France Are
Recalled
Experiences during their service
on the Mexican border in 191415, and later in some of the major
battles in France during the World
war, were re-lived by veterans of
old Company G, First Oklahoma
Infantry at their annual reunion.
Louie Fowler, local printing shop
owner, was toastmaster at the
banquet, attended by Frank Afton,
city and Roley Buck, Wetumka.
They are among the few surviving
members of the original company,
organized in Holdenville and later
transferred to Wewoka.
Maj. Gen. W.S. Key became
captain again for a night when
he clasped hands with the
fast diminishing group of the
original 250 men in the company
commanded by him, and lived over
with them the experiences of those
years.
Luther Harrison of Oklahoma
City, whose brother, Richard
Harrison, a lieutenant of the
company, was killed in France,
was a speaker on the program. The
Wewoka American Legion post was
named for the deceased officer.
The original unit became known
as Company F, 142nd Infantry when
it was mustered into active service
during the World war.
Harrison, in his address,
declared, “The regiment of which
this company was a unit advanced
farther under fire than any other
regiment in the national army in
France.”
It was the first state unit to be
sworn into active duty and was the
last to be discharged from service
after close of the last war.
The second story concerned a
dear friend of ours, the late Kate
Boyd
MRS. KATE BOYD ACTIVE
IN ALL COMMUNITY LIFE
CALVIN, DEC. 26—Next
Tuesday night when the books are
closed on the year of 1940, Mrs.
Kate Boyd of the Bear community
northeast of here, will be able to
look back on 12 busy months.
Far from being a person of
“Single track” activities, Mrs.
Boyd has taken part in a variety of
community and home programs.
She has a three-year perfect
attendance record for church and
Sunday school and has served as
Bible class teacher for the adult
class and Bible instructor for the
Young People’s league.
During this time she has read
the New Testament through.
One of the most enthusiastic
members of the Spring Creek home
demonstration club organized
this year, she was a the head of
promoting the Saddle Mountain
Round-up at Calvin last May. The
event met complete success.
Attending every club meeting
in 1940, she served as vice
president, was chairman of the food
preservation committee and was a
member of the finance committee.
The 676 quarts of food she
canned more than filled the budget
prescribed by the club and is valued
at $142.15. Carrying out a bedroom
improvement project, with the
cooperation of her landlord, she
made a grade of 100.
Two hundred chickens she
hatched and raised brought enough
to pay her ice, magazine and
newspaper bills. She cared for 125
turkeys and sold $122.14 worth
with $50 worth yet to sell. First rule
of her poultry and turkey raising
program is to keep her breeding
stock up in good shape.
In the county vegetable and
flower show Mrs. Boyd won first
place on collards and second on
pole beans, the Spring Creek exhibit
competing with 16 other clubs.
Spring Creek members, proud of
their record of having more money
than any other club in the county,
sent Mrs. Boyd to represent them at
annual Farmers’ Week in Stillwater
last spring
It is always so enjoyable to find
news items about people you know
in the “good old days”.
—DD—
It was so good to see June
Cramblet back in church Sunday..
She has been unable to attend for
several months because of health
problems. June and Doc are two of
our favorite people and have been a
blessing to so many. Keep them in
your prayers.
—DD—
Speaking of church, During
Sunday school Bill’s uncle, Elbert
Langdon was talking about some of
the jobs he had held over the years.
One of them was working for H.D.
Maloy at the John Deere dealership
in Holdenville. He told how much
he enjoyed working for Mr. Maloy
and I am sure many of our readers
IT WAS A COUSINS CONVENTION AT WESTERN SIZZLIN SEMINOLE THIS PAST
WEEK when members of the Abernathy clan gathered for food, fun and fellowship. Pictured are Melba Abernathy Griffin, Tommy Bowman, Janie Abernathy Clendening, Dan
May, Saundra May, Brenda Abernathy Guest and husband Larry. See Dayna’s Desk.
will remember H.D. Maloy. It was
located at 111 S. Creek and their
telephone number was 555.ß
—DD—
I ran into our good friend Chris
Brinlee at the store recently. She
told me that her husband Curtis has
had cancer and recently underwent
surgery. She said he had been
having a really tough time with
recovery and would like for us to
pray for him. We will certainly be
keeping you in our prayers, Curtis,
and hope that you feel better very
soon.
—DD—
Our dear friend Alice Olivo was
by the office recently. Her husband
Snooks has been very sick and has
been in the hospital and the VA
center for over a month now. He
has been wanting to come home, so
she was getting ready to bring him
back to Holdenville. Please keep
this family in your prayers. This has
been a very difficult time for them.
—DD—
I had a letter from our cousin
Sandra May this week. Dan has
been going through some major
health problems and she sent us
an update. She also had a reunion
with some of the Abernathy cousins
and shared this with us. It is always
good to hear from Dan and Sandra.
We are still praying for both of
you!! Here is her letter:
I hope ya’ll are doing well, and
most importantly, Bill is getting
enough to eat these days! 
Well, we just brought Dan home
from the hospital in OKC again a
few days ago. I think I told you,
but back in late November he was
diagnosed with Colon Cancer. We
went to a surgeon in Oklahoma City
that has done my surgeries, and we
just love and trust her. We saw her
on a Tuesday and she operated on
the following Friday. Well, anyone
who knows Dan knows that when
he gets a chance to take a nap,
he takes full advantage of it. He
didn’t want to wake up after the
surgery. They had quite a time
with him. After they finally got
him awake, they had a problem
with his blood. Anyway, they put
him in ICU from Friday until about
12:30 AM Monday morning. Then
they transferred him to Critical
Care. They finally released him
the following Thursday. He had a
“wound vac” machine on him as
they had to leave a good portion of
the wound open. We have had Home
Health coming in every other day to
change the canister and dressing on
the wound vac. Well, a week ago
last weekend, the nurse said she
was going to call the doctor because
she thought there was infection. We
had another doctor appointment in
the city on Monday, so we were
up there. The nurse called us and
told us to go to the ER. We did
and they did a CT scan and found
that he had a pocket of infection
down below the incision site. They
admitted him and began antibiotics
and waited for the surgeon to come
in the next day and see him. They
weren’t sure if they were going to
open him up again or not. They
did many tests, etc., and wouldn’t
let him eat anything but clear
liquids, and finally on Wednesday
evening, they took him down to do
an ultrasound and draw the fluid
out with a needle. The ultrasound
couldn’t find it!! So back to the
CT room and they did finally get it
drawn out with the CT scan guiding
them. We brought him home on
Thursday. He still has home health
coming in everyday to change the
dressing. We are praying that there
is no more infection. Poor guy has
had his round with this!!
On a happier note – Some of
“the cousins” did a spur of the
moment get together at the Western
Sizzlin in Seminole on Saturday. I
think that did Dan more good
than anything! Brenda and Larry
Guest, Janie Clendening, Tommy
Bowman, Melba Griffin, and
Dan and I all met for lunch. We
got there first. I went to the very
back and got a big table. I told the
waitress – “We will probably be
here a while and we will probably
get loud! We like to have fun!” We
had the best time telling old stories
each one remembered and talking
about everyone! ;-) I think we
spent about 3 or so hours there. We
all decided we need to do it again
– REAL SOON. We will rotate
places we meet so no one always
has to drive too far. I told Dan that
I am getting a tape recorder before
we meet again. SOMEONE has to
get some of these old stories down. I remember listening to Walter,
Fate, Bonnie, Gertrude, Matt, Inez,
etc. all tell old stories that were
fascinating, and I truly wish now
that I had a recorder back then! Some of those are gone forever. I
am going to attach pictures we had
the waitress take. You’ll have to
pick which one you think is best. Thanks for listening, and keep
Dan in your prayers and don’t
forget to feed Bill! Love ya’ll! Sandi
—DD—
Here are some more notes from
our subscribers. Thank you so
much for your kind words. We love
to hear from you and appreciate
you taking the time to write us.
Please extend my subscription
to the Holdenville Tribune. I look
forward to receiving the paper each
week. It is such a good way to keep
up with my hometown.
Enclosed is the payment for one
year.
Thanks, Judy Adams Spurgeon
***
Happy New Year Bill & Dayna,
Jan 11 Tribune had my favorite
kind of puzzle in it. I completed it
and had fun doing it, but I missed
my favorite part of the paper—
Dayna’s Desk. Glad it was in the
next paper and thanks for Lamar’s
photos. My Great Granddaughter
let her eye be covered, otherwise
it would have been a nice picture
of her. Thank you for publishing
them.
I am still hoping to visit you
sometime, maybe in church.
Love, Molinda Cox
Hi Bill and Dayna:
Just a note to renew my
subscription. I feel like I know you
both personally and I love reading
the newspaper each week. It brings
back memories of my youth. I was
born in Holdenville, OK and went
to Park View grammar school
through the second grade when we
moved to Bakersfield where my
dad, A.T. Lemon worked in the oil
business.
I regret not being able to grow
up in Holdenville. I loved the smalltown atmosphere. I remember
taking 10 bread wrappers from
the Baker and going to the Dixie
Theatre every Saturday watching
westerns starring Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy, Lash LaRue some
serials, etc.
My mother was a Vandigriff and
came from a large family of eight
children. There are two children
left, R.L. and William. Both still
live in Bakersfield, California. My
mom’s name was Barbara Pearl
Vandigriff.
Bye for now and keep up the
good work.
Don Wayne Lemon
Bakersfield, CA
—DD—
We had some special visitors
recently. Keith and Amy Klossner
and their precious daughter Rosa
came by to visit. They were passing
through on their way to Keith’s
brother’s home in OKC to have
Christmas with his family.
They are still the most precious
people on earth. They are still in
the full-time ministry and have
touched the lives of many people
along the way – even if they are not
in their church. I know they have
helped our family many times in
many ways.
I can’t believe that Rosa will
be 13 in February. She is a beautiful
young lady and is a brilliant student,
making A’s and B’s at the Christian
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from
Dayna’s Desk
Continued from Page 10
school she attends.
What a blessing it was to see
them and enjoy and wonderful visit.
We pray that God will continue to
bless them in the coming year.
—DD—
We had an email from our good
friend Bill Burchett last month
and he shared some interesting
information about a website that
you can look up penny postcards
from Holdenville. This is really
interesting and we sure appreciate
Bill sharing this with us. Here is
what he wrote:
Dear Bill and Dayna
I don’t know if you have been
to this internet site where you can
look up penny postcards from past
years, I have included a post card
listed there of Holdenville long
time ago, also is the site you can
click on and look up this one I have
added here or any others you might
be interested in.
Also I do not know if or when
my subscription expires, expired or
how much money I may owe you,
would you be so kind and e mail
me this bit of information please.
One other little thing if you
have ever have a little time to
waste could you e mail the picture
you published of Miss Nichols,
Central first grade class, the young
man next to her on the first row
happened to be me.
Sometime back you had
something about Jess Brewer, when
Mr. Brewer retired he was working
with my dad’s shop, Ray’s Barber
Shop, I remember when everyone
was telling him goodbye.
What did your town look
like according to Penny Postcards?
Check out your old stomping
grounds during the times
of
the
penny
postcard.
Click on the state and then on
the county name to see old penny
picture postcards from that area...
pretty neat.
This is the link it took me to
when I looked at it:
Rev. Keith and Amy Klossner and the beautiful daughter Rosa visited the TRIBUNE office this
week. What a nice surprise to see these wonderful friends
that we miss so much! See Dayna’s Desk.
http://www.usgwarchives.org/
special/ppcs/ppcs.html
ALSO, CHECK WHERE
YOU HAVE BEEN. AMAZING
HOW THINGS LOOKED BACK
THEN.
Best Regards
Bill Birchett
—DD—
I found out this week that the
Mrs. Riddle that Jim Keefer told
us about last week was actually
Anita Riddle’s great-aunt, not her
grandmother. Her grandparents
were Mr. and Mrs. Van D. Hays.
—DD—
Our good friends Don and Nina
Hassell were by the office this past
week. We started talking about
Don’s mother, Verna. Bill said
she was one of the finest Christian
ladies he had ever met. She was
also a beloved schoolteacher that
former students still talk about.
Don told about when she taught
at Hulsey. It was a two-room
country school and at times she
was the teacher, janitor, coach and
cook.
Her load may have been heavy,
but you never heard her complain.
She always had a smile.
Mrs. Hassell and Bill’s aunt,
Kit Abernathy Eberhart, were
dear friends and had so much in
common.
I wish that some of their stories
about the “good old days” had been
written down. They would have
been so interesting not only to us,
but also to future generations.
People like Mrs. Hassell and
Kit had such a positive impact on
so many and that is why they are
still remembered and talked about
to this very day.
She was also a neighbor to
my grandparents, J.P. “Pat” and
Elsie Leewright, in the 800 block
of N. Hinckley. She was such a
wonderful neighbor to them.
A LUCKY MAN
There’s a man in this town that really
doesn’t know how lucky he is. He has
a family that’s stronger than nails. Two
beautiful girls, and three other kids that
love and adore him, even though they’re not
his. Just to hear his voice puts a smile on
my face and a warm feeling in my soul. But
he’ll never know how truly a lucky man he
is.
Travis Barker, you’re the one luckiest
man I’ve ever met and one that I’ll never
regret knowing.
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