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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1971
Page
13
The Ardmore area reports a wedding at First Baptist Church with Cathy Ganus and Terry Moshier. Residents attend gatherings, church events, and family visits across Muskogee Durant Gaines ville Ada and Lawton. A Vietnam casualty service and senior trips to Galveston are noted amid community life and hospital visits.
Families from Ada and nearby towns vacationed at Lake Texhoma and in Ada visiting relatives. The area hosted wedding guests and a Patr icia Ann Schornick and Dale Allen Cox ceremony at Colbert Church. First Baptist Church held Vacation Bible School with strong attendance and a Sunday school total of 69.
The Nazarene Church reports Sunday School attendance at 31 as Mrs. J W Pierce resigns as secretary treasurer. A June 13 church lawn dinner will climax a campaign led by captains Kenneth Robertson and Leonard Blevins to raise attendance. Former pastors and friends are invited. Alta and Aleta King visited the Brookshires. Betty Garretts trip included Albany California Locust Grove and Paris Missouri. Wacen Morgan recalled a Stonewall High School graduation ten years ago.
Mrs Ola Fraley visited patient Nora Roper at Valley View hospital. Mr and Mrs Roger Cosby and Darren Pickett called on Mr and Mrs Austin Fraley during the same period.
The Golden family and friends join Mrs Roxie Golden and others at the opening of the Lake Konawa Power Plant on Friday. Lynda Golden serves as valedictorian at Vanessa High School. Weekend visits bring Mike Golden and Evert Wall to Galveston. Various relatives gather at Valley View hospital and in Ponca City with Roy Foster and others.
Earnest Lancaster and Harold Long and families visited Mrs. Lizzie Lancaster in Ada with accompanying relatives including Connie Shropshire and Gary Golden. The group included Mr. and Mrs. Billy Delozier and families and Mrs. Shropshire's son.
Terry Richardson joined the Latta senior class on a trip to Tulsa recently. Gaylone Richardson from Latta traveled to Blue River this week. May include Mr and Mrs Matt Richardson and their family with Roger Richardson and children Stacy and Steven Ada and Mrs Car lene McNutt Lisa and Eddie.
Mr and Mrs Charles Coplen and family visited Mr and Mrs Lee Keeling and Mrs Missie Coplen in Ada recently noting a grade graduation at Latta.
Mr and Mrs Albert Crow attended church at Free Will Baptist Oil Center. Several families visited relatives in Moore Ada and Oklahoma City University Hospital where Chriss had surgery and is improving. numerous local visitors to Colonial Estates and Moore with family groups named among the Rhynes Golden Carroll Delozier and Delozier families.
Roff ford and a long list of individuals including Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Tully Stephen Mark and John Mr. and Mrs. Joe Swarb and David Louie Odom Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hatch and Tamma Jack Sanders Mrs. Richard Harrison and Richard and Sam Mr. and Mrs. Toy Harrison and Ty lene Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hisan and Charles Jr. Mr. and Mrs. B. N. Bunyard Mr. and Mrs. Mike McGaha and Clint Mr. and Mrs. Don Hoover D'Ann D'Nisa and Donette appear in a community social notes section.
The Union Hill Baptist Church intermediate class hosted a social at teacher Mrs. Jessie Matheron's home. Attendees roasted weiners and marshmallows while Freddie Holman Wilson and Jennifer Garner played guitars and led songs.
Ada residents are mourned as several obituary notices report deaths in late May. The list includes Charles H. Otto 66 formerly of Ada, Florcree Jeter 68, Robby Duncan 8, Otis G. Webb 59, Joe L. Newberry 49, Martin Jackson Black 64, Steven F. Thomas infant, Herbert W. Evans 69, and Olal Ray 83. Funeral arrangements are shown with respective homes.
Juan V. Corona a 37 year old migrant labor recruiter in Yuba City is charged with 10 counts of murder in a mass slaying of 12 men whose bodies were found buried in Northern California peach orchards. Police say the victims were killed with a machete or heavy knife with wounds to the back of the head.
OG&E marks the dedication of the Seminole Generating Station near Konawa with Gov. David Hall as speaker and a ribbon cutting by Hall and Terry Walker. The plant will have three units totaling 1,650,000 kilowatts, boosting output by 85 percent with tours and public lake recreation at Lake Konawa.
Juan Vallejo Corona a 37 year old Mexican American farm labor contractor is accused of killing transient fruitpickers and burying bodies in shallow orchard graves near Yuba City California. Deputies found his bus marked Juan V Corona Farm Labor Contractor License No FL 22.
Three white youths are jailed on murder charges in the 18 year old Jeretha Collier’s fatal shooting in Drew Mississippi. Jeretha, an honor student, was killed on a city street hours after graduation prompting NAACP leader Aaron Henry to urge federal help.
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