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Mrs. Saundra Harper passed from this life on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, at the age of 79. Saundra, daughter of late Cecil Dewey and Sarah Agness Strickland was born Nov. 8, 1943, in Dalhart, Texas.

Funeral services for Ronald Keith Baker, Sr., of Hugo, Okla., were held at 2 p.m. Dec.

Jo Thomas, of Hugo, Okla., passed away Dec. 8, 2022, at the age of 77.

Graveside services for Ruth Nell Miller, of Boswell, Okla., were held at 10 a.m. Dec.

Funeral services for Jimmy Donald Setzer, of Lawton, Okla., were held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec.

Celebration of life services for Hettie Harris were held at 11 am Wednesday, Dec. 14th, 2022, at the Oak Grove Baptist Church in Hugo, Okla., with Larry Stevenson and Kyle Cummings officiating. Burial followed at the Baken Family Cemetery in Valliant. Okla.

On Nov. 11 at the Capitol, Public Service Company of Oklahoma External Affairs Manager Arlinda Darst was recognized as the Business Leader of the Year for the Southern Oklahoma Workforce Development Area.

the point Publisher The past few years have unquestionably been a time when our nation and collective states have gone through a number of transformations.

Whatever happened to “All the news that’s fit to print,” and “Democracy dies in darkness,” the respective mottos of the two most influential newspapers in the country, The New York Times and The Washington Post?