Kingfisher Oklahoma

Duane John Fike was born Sept. 26, 1934, in Okeene. He passed away Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020, at his home in Kingfisher at the age of 85. He served in the Korean War from 1954-1956 and received an honorable discharge from the Marines. He worked at Western Electric for 31 years as an installer.

Joy Ellen Canon was born Sept. 3, 1931, near Calumet, the daughter of Edward Loy and Edith (Andersen) Spear. An elementary school teacher, her career took her to Hutchinson, Kan., and later, while working for the Department of Defense Dependent School System, to Okinawa, Japan, and Ulm, Germany.

On a night when Kingfisher High School honored its softball seniors, it was a sophomore who provided the early spark before the upperclassmen made sure the victory was complete.

Kingfisher’s eighth grade football team got dramatic in its first game of the 2020 season. Trailing Chisholm by a score for much of the second half, the Jackets’ Daniel Guerrero found Payton Burnham for a 78-yard touchdown play late in the fourth quarter.

Kingfisher Golf Course will host the 25th annual Sts. Peter & Paul Knights of Columbus Golf Tournament next weekend. The four-person scramble will have an 8 a.m. shotgun start Sunday, Sept. 13. Cost is $200 per team.

Betty Triplett of Kingfisher was born July 31, 1926, and died Sept. 4, 2020, at the age of 94. Services are pending with Sanders Funeral Service.

Another Hennessey COVID-19 death, the town and county’s second, was reported Tuesday in the Oklahoma State Department of Health statistics, but the number of active cases was down significantly.

Local sports photographer Russell Stitt has captured a number of dramatic shots in the Yellowjacket football stadium, but typically they include actual athletes and fans and don’t look like the opening scene of a horror movie.

Kingfisher County commissioners accepted the low bid of Haskell Lemon Construction Co. to pave the Omega Road at their weekly meeting Monday. The five mile project includes a section on NS 2700 plus paving on EW 790 leading to the Omega Cemetery and EW 780 to the town of Omega.

The Kingfisher Emergency Medical Service District (522) has received a clean audit for the 2019 fiscal year, State Auditor and Inspector Cindy Byrd has announced.