Duchess & Oakie's NW Corner

Vol 6, Iss 38 Bayfield, Colorado -

Northwestern -- Rediscover the Treasure -- That is what we have been doing all this week. Rediscovering and discovering the treasures of some old Northwestern yearbooks.

NW OK Unsolved Mystery - 13 March 1956

Vol 5, Iss 16 Avard, Oklahoma -

At about 1:45 PM, March 13, 1956, the body of 22 year old Mildred Anne Reynolds was found burning in her 1949 Chevrolet Tudor Sedan, bearing Oklahoma license plate 49-2685. The incident occurred one mile South and two miles and seven tenths West of Hopeton, Oklahoma.

Looking Back ... Early 1900 Baseball & Grandpa Bill

Vol 11, Iss 30 They were known as "Alva the Champions!" The Baseball team pictured on the left played in the Alva, Greensburg and Hopeton area around 1904.

Listed Left to Right, Front Row: George Brannan, Jess Clifton, a dog, Lynn White, Ramsey; Middle Row: A Helena boy, Frank Crowell, Wilhite; Back Row: Museller, Quinlan, Bill McGill, Rolly Wilton, Ross Frazier.

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Naomi Warren Paris Obit

Vol 5, Iss 7 Colorado Springs, Colorado - The photo on the left is Naomi in 1955, playing cards and Paris family gathering in Hopeton, Oklahoma. She Loved Antiques & Cards.

I got a call from my cousins in Colorado Springs, Colorado the beginning of this week. Their mother, Naomi Warren Paris, passed away Sunday night, in her sleep, February 9, 2003, around 10p.m. she is finally resting on a Colorado Springs hillside with her beloved husband, Alvin Riley Paris.

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Looking Back ... Great Grandpa J. R. Warwick

Vol 11, Iss 31 Besides being born April 9, 1857, at Frost, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, John Robert Warwick was later a pioneer citizen of Woods (M) county, Oklahoma Territory.

John R. Warwick came from a long line of fighting stock, and he was never known to be afraid. Panics, hard times, sickness, death itself could come along during his life, but he remained calm. John Warwick lived on the theory that the sun set --but that it later arose!

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L. F. Wilson in Hopeton, Okla

Vol 5, Iss 9 Oklahoma - "I am enclosing an email I received today - an inquiry about a person named L. F. Wilson who may have lived or had a business in Hopeton, Oklahoma in the early 1900s. I wonder of any of your newsletter readers might know something about this?" -- Rodney Murrow, Freedom, OK - Contact: rod@murrow.com [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Woods County Friendship Quilt Names...

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Vada Paris & OkieLegacy Website...

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Albert "Hap" Pearson Obit - 10/7/1907-06/2/2008

Vol 10, Iss 24 Albert Brant "Hap" Pearson, a long time Woods County, Oklahoma resident was born October 7, 1907, in Neodesha, Kansas, to Albert Francis and Elzina (Van Huss) Pearson [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Oakie's NW Corner

Vol 5, Iss 16 OKC, Oklahoma -

Do you believe in Ghosts? There are a few ghosts that haunt a certain location in Avard, Oklahoma. Some say the Old Avard Gym is a portal for those ghosts that haunt that area.

NW OK Marriages 1941

Vol 5, Iss 2 Oklahoma - Miller-Baird - ca. 1940s, Alva, Oklahoma - Miss Lois Miller Becomes The Bride of Kenneth Baird Sunday Morning - A marriage of interest was solemnized Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. in the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Miller, 1031 Eighth Street, when their daughter, Miss Lois Miller, became the bride of Kenneth K. Baird, son of Charles A. Baird, Wichita.

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Pioneer Albert Wesley Lewis - Dacoma, OK

Vol 9, Iss 50 Here is another Dacoma, Oklahoma pioneer from the earlier days, Albert Wesley Lewis. Anyone out there remember Mr. Albert W. Lewis?

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Warwick, Woods & M Questions

Vol 8, Iss 34 One reader asked us, "Where did you get the name Warwick from? Any relation to the Warwick's of Pocahontas County, West Virginia?"

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December 1926 - Frisco Western Division

Vol 12, Iss 3 According to The Frisco Employes' Magazine, page 50, December, 1926, the Transportation Department, Western Division - Enid, written by Cambell and Campbell, reporters, were reporting on the Western Division for the towns along the Western Division of the Frisco Line.

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Brink, Oklahoma

Vol 11, Iss 47 Rod asks, "I was just now looking at the NOAA online weather forecast for Alva and noticed their map - which includes the names Alva, Capron, Noel, Avard, Hopeton, and Brink.

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June, 1955 - Alvan Visits Ranch, Finds Twister Ruins

Vol 10, Iss 25 Alva, June 6 (1955) -- "Gene McGill, Alva resident, Monday learned a tornado had hit his ranch, eight miles north of Waynoka on SH 14 sometime Saturday night [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

1944- Hopeton News

Vol 10, Iss 17 This July, 1944 article in the Woods County News was written by Mrs [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

June, 1955 News- NW Oklahoma Tornado

Vol 9, Iss 33 We found this 1955 news article in the Oklahoman-Times Northwest Bureau, dated June 7, 1955, pg [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Oakie's NW Corner

Vol 5, Iss 10

With March here, is Spring far behind? We were traveling to OKC from Alva the other afternoon, March 3, Monday. Out in the countryside a few miles south of Alva and west of Carmen, Oklahoma a huge gaggle of geese were heading north. When we were getting near Oklahoma City and traveling along the NW highway, a few miles west of OKC, we spotted another, but smaller, gaggle of geese heading northward.

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Eagle Chief Creek Floods

Vol 9, Iss 25 While Eagle Chief Creek was flooding it banks North of Hopeton, Oklahoma, it was also creating havoc in the western part of Woods County, along highway 14 and North of Waynoka, Oklahoma.

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1917 - Northwestern State Normal

Vol 9, Iss 34 If you had glanced the headlines of The Oklahoman, dated May 28, 1917, pg. 4, you might have read: Northwestern Graduates 88 - Largest Class In History of School Finishes Normal Work at Alva.

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Old Avard Road Unsolved Mystery of 1956

Vol 11, Iss 42 Some say about 1956 in Northwest Oklahoma, "This was an innocent time in an unsophisticated community. Death happened, but only by accident or disease. Murder was not known, and really no one knew how to cope with it."

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Missourians On Eagle Chief - 1914

Vol 11, Iss 13 This is a July 19, 1914 view of a bunch of Missourians at the Eagle Chief in Northwest Oklahoma [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Pioneer Porter C. Burge - Hopeton, OK

Vol 9, Iss 51 This is another Northwest Oklahoma Territory pioneer that settled around Hopeton, Oklahoma (about 7 miles South of Alva) [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Dacoma Started Out as Dakoma - 1977 ARC News Article

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Pioneer Romulus Z. Linney, M.D. - Hopeton, OK

Vol 10, Iss 1 Romulus Z [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe