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Please allow me to introduce Bill Spray. Bill Spray has been a part of the Allen/Atwood area since 1989 when he moved here from Wanette, Oklahoma. He married Rhonda Rinehart in 1990 and they have two daughters. He raised his family in this area until they left briefly to follow his job.
Read more“ . . . the paper is more than a guide to local happenings: It’s a repository of community knowledge. People come to search the archives for birth announcements, obituaries, stories about their families, and businesses that used to be in town. When those stories aren’t written, they’re not kept anywhere. There’s no record.”
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The Blessing Box was created with the idea in mind of “Take what you need, Give what you can.” The box is available for anyone (anyone at all) to drop items in or pick items up form. The Blessing Box is often for those who are not easily able to meet everyday food and personal needs. The box also might stock afterschool snacks for neighborhood kids or that “cup of sugar” you never have when you need it.
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Scenes from the Allen Homecoming Parade
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On October 17, 2021, Freda Mae Ellis Harry went to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. She was surrounded by her loving daughter and son-in-law, Jackie and Robert Harkey, during her last moments on this earth. Freda was one of seven children born to Fred Warren Ellis and Katherine Elizabeth Taby Ellis on October 4, 1947, in a small little house in Coalgate, Oklahoma. She lived with her family in many of the small little communities in Southeast Oklahoma for most of her formative years.
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V.L. Watters age 84 departed this life on Sunday, October 17, 2021 at his home in Sasakwa, Oklahoma. He was born November 30, 1936 in Sasakwa to the late William Jackson Watters and Ivy Augusta Hailey Watters. He attended Rocky Point, Culley and Sasakwa Schools.
Read moreSometimes this old Shakespearean quote applies to us. It sure did to people in Allen in 1938—a tough year for people here in Mustang land. I know it was for the Bullard’s. The business dad worked at in Allen was shuttered and gone. Whipped away by the dusty winds of the Great Depression. Finally, he found a job in Centrahoma. My brother Gerald said, “It had to be the poorest place I’ve ever seen.”
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