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Services for Lequita Estalene Jackson, 92, of Coalgate were 2:00 p.m. Friday, November 1, 2024, at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel; Mr. Wendell Ingram officiated. Burial followed at Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Stonewall.
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Memorial services for Kathlean Haworth, 76, of Coalgate are 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at First Baptist Church in Coalgate; Pastor Jim Lewis will officiate. Mrs. Haworth passed away Thursday, October 31, 2024 at her home. She was born June 21, 1948, in Ada to Floyd and Ruby Marlow Watson. She was a cosmetologist until her retirement.
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A graveside memorial service for Miller Durrett Collins, an Ardmore, Oklahoma, resident, will be held Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. with Pastor Lyle Shipley officiating. Brown’s Funeral Service of Coalgate is in charge of arrangements.
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Funeral services for Roy Lynn Burkhalter, a lifelong Atoka County resident, were held Saturday, November 2, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. at Brown’s Funeral Chapel in Atoka with Rev. Roger Brown and Bro. Paul Silvers officiating. Burial was in Green Meadows Cemetery in Atoka with Brown’s Funeral Service of Atoka in charge of arrangements.
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After a lengthy period of dwindling membership and inactivity, Coalgate VFW Post 1198 is working hard to revive the post. Patrick Jackson is the new commander.
Read moreI hope by the time you read this we all have had some rain. Or as the saying goes, “Boy, I never seen it so dry.” Well, actually we have had some timely rains this summer and driving back from Tulsa on Sunday I noticed that the vegetation looked pretty green. But even in our generation we can remember things such as the great draught, the terrible dust bowl of the 1930s. This dust bowl helped introduce America to the “Great Depression.” A worldwide economic calamity that caused governments to fall and introduced us to the Nazi’s and even World War II.
Read moreEarly voting began today, Wednesday, October 30, and will end on Saturday, November 2. The hours are: Wednesday, October 30 – Thursday, October 31, and Friday, November 1, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; and Saturday, November 2, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Coal County Election Board.
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