Bowman Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn. com Have you ever walked down the sidewalk, determined to be friendly and cheerful that particular day, and looked up to see someone coming toward you, but you couldn’t figure out whether to say “Good morning, sir” or Good morning, miss?” Bluntly put, you couldn’t tell if you were speaking to a male or a female.

Funeral services for Rosella Staggs McClure, of Valliant, Okla., will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb.

Services for Naomi Jeanne Moore, of Hugo, Okla., are under the direction of Miller & Miller Funeral Home. Naomi passed away Jan.

Funeral services for Randy Lee Himes, of Fort Towson, Okla., were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb.

Tamara Leighann (Higgins) Stevens & Kayden Stevens Tamara Leighann (Higgins) Stevens was born on June 19, 1987 in Sherman, Texas. Tamara met Richard Stevens in Atoka, Okla., in December 2013 and together they raised their two wonderful boys.

James Lester Neeland, 80, passed away Jan., 30, 2025. He was born July 30, 1944, in Los Angeles, Calif., to Lester and Theda Neeland. He was raised in Kingfisher, Okla., and graduated from Big Four High School. He served in the National Guard before graduating from Central State College in Edmond, Okla. He married Linda VanHorn and they had two daughters: Lisa and Jennifer. In 1993, he married Jo L. Mabry in Hugo, Okla. This marriage blessed him with a bonus daughter, Donna. He has five grandchildren: Allison, Rachel, James, Matthew and AJ and one great-grandchild, Charlotte.

The Oklahoma Mission of Mercy (OkMOM) partners are pleased to announce that its annual two-day free dental clinic will take place Friday, Feb. 7 and Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025 at the Exchange Center at Expo Square in Tulsa.

Three postdoctoral researchers at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation have received American Heart Association fellowships to continue studies of cardiovascular disease. The recipients are Marcella Datilo, Ph.D.; Liang Gao, Ph.D; and Hina Nizami, Ph.D.

RFK Jr.: “When I was a 10 year old boy, my uncle was in the White House. The chronic disease among American children was 2%. Today, it’s 66%. The cost of chronic disease to our country when my uncle was president was zero. There were not even treatments for chronic disease at that time.”

Still getting a ton of questions on confirmation timeline for the cabinet: 1) Per Senate rules: cabinet secretary nominees can only be processed ONE at a time, with 30 hours of debate for each one — unless that time gets waived.