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Karen Sue Strong Knock passed away Friday, August 13, 2021, in Friona, Texas. Graveside services are scheduled for 2:00 P.M. Saturday, August 21 , at Memorial Park Cemetery in Dalhart, Texas with Kurtis Abla, officiating. Inurnment will follow.
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Services for Marion Joe Odom, 54, of Stonewall are 10:00 a.m. Monday, August 23 , at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Rev. Aaron Finney will officiate. Burial will follow at the Franks Cemetery near Fittstown. The family will receive friends from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Sunday at Criswell Funeral Home.
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Queston Dwight Yarbrough passed away Saturday, August 14, 2021 at Mercy Hospital in Ada, Oklahoma at the age of 70.
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Denver Clayton ‘Denny’ Wilbanks passed away in McAlester, Oklahoma on Wednesday morning, August 11, 2021, at the age of 81 years.
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Jimmy Dwayne “J.D.” Gray, age 80 and a resident of Konawa, Oklahoma, passed away at his home, Saturday, August 14, 2021.
Read moreDayna and I have been with the Advocate for 39 years. I was visiting with Eric Pierce recently about how quickly the time has passed. Eric bought the Allen Food Center just a few months prior to our purchasing of the newspaper. In fact, he took over ownership on Christmas Day 1981.
Read moreAs the old Bible King, Solomon said in Ecclesiastes (which many of you will remember is in our recent Sunday school lessons) “what goes around, comes around.” Seems like this Covid stuff is sure trying to do just that. It’s back. Some of our “experts” are saying this strain could be worse than the earlier one. But I doubt it. Since at least half of our population has been vaccinated against this dangerous pest that means to me that at least the half of us who did get vaccinated are unlikely to catch it at all, or at least, if we do it should be an attenuated case because those already shot will have some antibodies to it. Unless you are just one of those who don’t believe the shots work. Well, that’s your problem.
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