And now we look back upon 2021 and try to put the second American and world-wide China virus (COVID) year into perspective. The two elements that stand out in our minds focus upon “uncertainty,”...

Funeral services for Nicki Jo Reeder, of Howe, Texas, will be at 2 p.m. Dec.

Celebration of life services for Sharon Carol Rhodes were held at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 17, 2021 at the Prater-Lampton-Mills & Coffey Chapel with Mike Mussett officiating. Burial followed at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Hugo, Okla. Sharon went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021, in Hugo, at the age of 70.

Years ago, songwriter Mac Davis penned the lyrics to a song about a tiny orphan girl who evidently longed to experience being loved. In the song, “WHOEVER FINDS THIS, I LOVE YOU,” she writes a note containing those words, and it into the wind. A lonely old man eventually found the note among the autumn leaves and read her plea for love. That was the beginning of a beautiful and warm friendship that both of them desperately needed.

DURANT –– Although COVID prevented the usual pomp and circumstance, the Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority (CNHSA) held a ceremony to celebrate the Indian Health Service awards achieved by several departments for 2020 and 2021 along with service anniversaries for associates who have been with the Nation for 20 years or longer.