Kingfisher Oklahoma

Kelly Paul Smith, 73, died July 26, 2019, at Legend Assisted Living in Oklahoma City. Services were Tuesday, July 30, in the Benson Memorial Chapel in El Reno with Chaplain Miles Knutson officiating.   Burial was at Holy Trinity Cemetery in Okarche under the direction of Huber-Benson Funeral Home.

Susan Stetson Smith, 89, of Omega, passed from this life to a better one July 25, 2019, in Enid. A service will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, at Grace Mennonite Church in Enid. Sue was born on April 17, 1930, to Lottie and Ezra Stetson in Kewanee, Ill. She was the youngest of six children.

Otto Bernhardt Stover, 97, passed away July 29, 2019, in Oklahoma City. He was born Oct. 5, 1921, to Henry and Kathrine Stover northwest of Piedmont.

Carol James Kerby was born in Cushing on Jan. 24, 1935, to Ray and Florence Culp James and died Friday July 26, 2019, at Hennessey Care Center. She was 84. Services will be 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, at Cordry-Gritz Funeral Home. Graveside service will be at 1:30 p.m.

SIXTH STREET SINKHOLE — Paved and unpaved county roads weren’t the only byways to take a beating from May and June flooding. This surprise sinkhole opened up Tuesday afternoon on the 300 block of North Sixth Street in Kingfisher where the road base had washed away from under the pavement.

Encana has halted well completion activities on a two-square-mile pad development west of Kingfisher after a series of earthquakes rocked that area Wednesday and Thursday.

State and federal assistance to help Oklahomans recover from the recent severe weather between May 7 and June 9, 2019 is now nearly complete, according to a news release issued through Kingfisher city-county emergency manager Steve Loftis.

What started as a beauty shop conversation about the number of local women over the age of 90, turned into a rollicking “Nifty Nineties” party last week organized by Billie Riley of Kingfisher.

House Majority Leader Mike Sanders (R-Kingfisher) this week was named the 2019 Oklahoma Legislator of the Year by the American Legion Department of Oklahoma in recognition and appreciation of his outstanding service and assistance to the organization’s programs and activities.

Joe D. Hall, right, general contractor based in Elk City, was the guest speaker of the Kingfisher Rotary Club last Tuesday.