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John C. McNeely

March 12, 1948 – November 10, 2023 Services November 18, 2023 Follower of Christ Baptist Church, Okahoma City, OK Services under the direction of McKay-Davis Oklahoma City, OK 73111 Interment Northfork Cemetery - Clearview, Oklahoma

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Ellen C. Black

February 7, 1948 – October 26, 2023 Services - November 18, 2023 Robinson Rentie Cemetery Henryetta, Oklahoma

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Around Town......by John Bill Martin

Too much spare time

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Family Talk

DITCH THE HELICOPTER

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“DON’T PUT FLOWERS ON THEIR GRAVE”

Here’s what happens so often. A person becomes an adult, marries, has children, grows ill or old, and dies. Then the family of the deceased comes together to grieve, and to then plan the funeral. The flower shop gets notified to send flowers, and they all attend the service where the bouquets are usually on display. Afterwards, they often follow the casket to the burial site and watch attentively as the flowers they ordered are placed on the grave. Then the family slowly and mournfully walks away, to grieve and attempt to somehow get on with their lives again. Putting the pieces back together somehow, so they can begin living day to day. But without the one they lost.

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Missing the “older Christmas”

Well, once again the Christmas season is upon us. It seems we hardly get through the Fourth of July before the stores are hawking Christmas items nowadays. In October I went into a department store to buy some Halloween candy and was confronted with a mechanical Santa waving and ho, ho, ho’ing to customers as they walked through the door.

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Commissioners’ Proceedings

HUGHES COUNTY COMMISSIONERS REGULAR MEETING HOLDENVILLE, OK. December 4, 2023

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