Right: Students at Gingerbread Preschool celebrated Circus Day last week.

The Iris Garden Club of Hugo met on March 28 for its regular monthly meeting at Burnside community room. President Harolynn Wofford called the meeting to order and asked Rick Lowrance to open with prayer.

THE CHILDREN, grandchildren and great-grandchildren announce the 66th wedding anniversary of Charles and Gracie Turner. The couple was married on April 12 in Hugo..

The Choctaw Nation Princess and Royalty Program is beginning plans for the 2022-23 princess pageants in each of its 12 districts.

Billie Naomi Greene, age 89, of Lake City, Fla., went to her Heavenly home on April 1, 2022 at Suwannee Valley Care Center. She was born in Elizabethton, Tenn., on Dec. 28, 1932, to the late Vernon Riddle Cordell and Hazel Opal Matherly.

Funeral services for Kent Aurthur Bacon, of Boswell, Okla., will be at 2 p.m. April 15, 2022 at Boswell School gymnasium.

Family-led memorial services for Dennis Charles Smith, of Yale, Okla., will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 16, 2022 at First Assembly of God Church in Valliant, Okla. Dennis passed away April 8, 2022, at the age of 51.

Funeral services for Esther Hill, of Durant, Okla., were held at 2 p.m. April 7, 2022 at Miller & Miller Funeral Home.

Funeral services for Mary Jo Pierce were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at First Baptist Church in Boswel, Okla., with Jim Gentry officiating. Burial followed at Restland Cemetery in Boswell. Mary Jo went to be with the Lord on Saturday, April 9, 2022 in Boswell, at the age of 95.

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