Wendel Eugene Helm

Wendel Eugene Helm was born May 6, 1950, in Chandler and died Monday, December 28, 2020. He was 70 years old. The son of J.M. Helm and Naoma (Dollison) Langwell, he was married to Betty Bowen and in 1984 married Janice Fleharty.

Carol Jean Sedlacek

Carol Jean (Morris) Sedlacek of Prague was born December 25, 1946, in Stroud. She died Monday, December 28, 2020, in Shawnee, Okla., at the age of 74 years. Sedlacek, a Prague High School graduate, worked at the Prague Hospital and the Sac and Fox Nation’s Contract Health Department.

Agnes Marie Shinn

Agnes Marie (Gregor) Shinn was born October 28, 1928, in Kiowa, Okla., and died Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020, at her home in Harrah, Okla. She was 92 years old. Shinn, the daughter of Frank and Annie Gregor, married Vernon Grant Shinn on November 18, 1944.

Imogene “Jean” Goodmon

Imogene “Jean” Goodmon was born on January 25, 1936 at home in Love Co, Okla. She went to be with the Lord on January 1, 2021 at the home of Rick and Mary Jackson in Stroud.

Barbara Ann Condict

Barbara Ann Condict was born December 20, 1948, in Okemah, Okla. She died Wednesday, December 30, 2020, in Oklahoma City at the age of 72 years. Condict was preceded in death by her parents Dale and Roxie Ryan, her husband Marvin Condict, two brothers and one infant grandson.

Pott County officers

Pottawatomie County officers sworn in for new terms on Monday include, from left, County Clerk Raeshel Flewallen; District 2 Commissioner Randy Thomas; Sheriff Mike Booth; Court Court Clerk Valerie Ueltzen; and District Judge John Canavan.

Charges filed in Meeker abduction

An Oklahoma City man faces four charges, two felonies and two misdemeanors, following an alleged abduction of a Meeker woman in early December who also reportedly was pushed from a moving vehicle. Curtis Leumell Cole, 32, was formally charged last month on Dec. 21 in Lincoln County District Court.

Ring of memories

I was looking for something in a drawer a week or two ago and came upon my FFA ring from high school. This is a vintage This is a vintage 1966 ring, ordered my freshman year, as I recall, along with my FFA jacket. It’s a simple affair, with the FFA owl-on-a-plow inside an ear of corn.

Town Talk

Well, Christmas break is over so it’s time to get back to work. I woke up this morning thinking about projects I would like to complete between now and May.

Stroud Arts: Moving forward!

This is the Sixty-Second article in a semi-permanent column for Stroud Arts that appears in the Stroud American. The mission of these articles is to inform, educate and inspire you, the reader, to Make Art Happen in your life and the life of our community.