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August 12, 1933, to May 29, 2025In Loving Memory...Catherine Marie Williams was born August 12, 1933, in Geary, OK, to Clyde “Snap” and Freda Ruth (Hiney) Smith. She passed away on May 29, 2025 at St ...
Grace was born on January 7, 1942, in Oakwood, Oklahoma, to Troys James “Frosty” and Ida Myrtle (Swagerty) Black. Grace Lee Phillips Wallace, a longtime resident of Greenfield, Oklahoma, passed away ...
August29, 1940, to May 29, 2025In Loving Memory...Leroy Bautista Lovato was born August 29, 1940, at Canjilon, New Mexico, to Isidore Lovato and Thelma Snow, and passed away Thursday, May 29, 2025, at ...
In 1964, Tom and Judy Love spent $5,000 on an abandoned service station in Watonga. They named their company Musket Corporation. Over the next eight years, Musket opened 40 additional gas stations.
High school sports bring excitement, teamwork and resilience to students’ lives. Yet, when serious injuries or fatalities occur, they leave lasting impacts not only on the students involved but on ...
The Watonga Republican is running candidate profiles.Ward #1 and Ward #2, both four year terms, are featured this week. WARD # 2 Deborah McGee, 77, is a candidate for Watonga City Council Ward #4. She ...
Jan. 3, 2024 Mercy Clinic in the person of Kristy Hock and the City of Watonga discuss whether the city would renew Mercy’s lease on the clinic property on Weigle Avenue. The city’s point was the ...
If you had one of only six similar structures in the state, you would want to showcase the building. Blaine County will do exactly that at 6 p.m. January 28 at the Watonga Public Library when Michael ...
TThis little fellow is suffering from all hat, no goat during the Little’s Scramble Saturday night at the Watonga Ranch Rodeo. .
Some of you may have noticed I did not write a column this week. That was for two reasons. One, I was crunched for time. We essentially had to put out the paper in a day. Two, I wanted some more time ...
OKLAHOMA CITY— Starting today, travelers nationwide must present a REAL ID-compliant license or another TSA-accepted form of identification to board domestic flights or enter certain federal ...
News outlets from Oklahoma City to New York City had it almost right. The headlines read the entire Geary police force quit, which is close. There was a vacancy from an officer’s resignation a month ...