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2 Febuary 2, 2022 News/Obits will end the year in October by through Bella Vita, due to the of knowledge of your ingredi- themselves or with an adult, Round Cooking focusing on Entertaining with Charcuterie. This class is called limited class size. She takes students from 16-year-olds ents, preparation techniques, flavor parings, nutritional bal- are scheduled for Feb. 5th at 10:30 a.m. and Feb. 6 at 1:30 ancing, and good old fashioned p.m. “Fall Feasting” and includes and up. Call or stop by Bella Town Continued from page 1. roll, spicy tuna roll, cu- Spatchcocked Cornish hen, ba- con sautéed brussels and “Melt Vita to check pricing and avail- able spaces. experience. With a new skill taught each month, the series During the class students will learn beginner techniques, seems to be the optimal choice guided creation, along with cumber roll raw rolls maybe in your Mouth” potatoes, and “Heritage cooking is the for beginners and advanced available depending on the stuffed mushrooms two ways. backbone of any great home royal icing recipe and tips. Each February 10 learners. Contact Bella Vita market and demand. Skelton Reservations must be made cook’s skill. It includes a depth will receive their cookies and “Newsies:, ECHS Musi- at 580-303-7325 for finaliza- supplies in a bakery box and 20 cal Presentation - 7 PM tion of dates and times of the percent off while shopping in classes. head and photographs onto sion for Word. She works full- February 12 “Newsies:, ECHS Musi- Gallery the canvas. “ I am working on trying time for the Ellis County Ex- tension Center and continues Tiffanye King of the Sun- shine Cookie Co. will be pre- senting “Love is Sweet” on Bella Vita. Class size was lim- ited, with the children classes filling up first. The deadline cal Presentation - 7 PM to pinpoint when I knew that to take art classes. Currently Continued from page 1. Feb. 5th at 2 p.m. and Feb 6th for registration was Feb. 1st. is what I wanted to do. It was she is enrolled in the Tuscan Elk City FFA Local something I knew as a little Art Academy, taking a class at 4 p.m., these classes are Watch for future events by Livestock Show - Conven- did not think she had a cer- kid. I loved to paint, water col- on color. Her work is not just geared to the adult baker. Kids King and the Sunshine Cookie tion Center Barn. tain style of art, but the sea- ors at first, and draw… I can’t about what one can see in the over eight-years-old, either by Co. soned artist finally convinced remember a time I didn’t want painting, but what is behind Southwest Rustic Mar- her that she did indeed have to do it. I enjoy the first pri- the center of the work or what ket Craft Show - Elk City a style. She said that everyone mary sketches and colors the story the painting tells. Mabel McCord has a good style, and for her it most. I fight with it until I’m Word says she tries to paint Convention Center is a work in progress. about three/fourths of the way everyday, but sometimes life Mabel Lee (Music) McCord, “I know what is a good through. That’s when I have to gets in the way. She continues 90, of Oklahoma City, Okla- February 13 drawing and good in painting, homa was born on November get my head in the game. I have to work with Dodd and learn “Newsies:, ECHS Musi- but I have to have a frame of to have a focus to get it done. more about color. She said that 3, 1931 in Elk City, Oklahoma. cal Presentation - 2:30 PM reference. I use a photograph Jeff would say, ‘are you done?’ she does commissioned pieces, She is the daughter of Goe- to do that. I stick to my own bel Garland and Mae Elizabeth Now I know that I wasn’t fin- too, and loves to do portraits, Southwest Rustic Mar- (Davis) Music. She went to be pictures. I am attracted to light ished, when I thought I was,” usually doing them from a with her Lord and Savior on ket Craft Show - Elk City and how it hits the landscape Word noted. photograph. Wednesday, January 26, 2022, Convention Center or subject. Now, I take a lot of With two or three paint- She has sketched members at Integris Southwest Medical pictures. I never paint them as ings going at a time, she is able of her family, but has not com- Center in Oklahoma City, Okla- February 14 good as the picture, but start to focus, so if one of the paint- pleted a portrait of them. She homa. Valentine’s Day with a sketch,” Word said. ings gets stale, she can set it and her husband, Brad Word Mabel Lee played basketball She begins with a nine by aside until she can figure it out. have five children. They are at Highway High School. Mabel twelve color study and then “If I am two/thirds of the Meredith Musser, Ashley Deer, Lee was crowned the High- February 15 way High School Basketball thinks about the colors, study- way through and I get frus- Cristian Word, Anania Word, Oklahoma Blood In- Queen, enjoyed Barrel Racing ing it. Word said that her brain trated, then I will put it upside and Micah Word. stitute Blood Drive. First is always thinking about the and was crowned the Elk City Graveside services will be down so I don’t see it or focus Her work will be on display Baptist Church Activity painting and how to capture Rodeo Queen. Mabel Lee was held at 3:00 p.m., Saturday, on it for a while. Then, when I in the Education Building. Her a senior in high school when Center. the colors. She relies on her January 29, 2021 at Ural Cem- come back to it.. it will all fit card and information is avail- one night after church, she photography, and wishes she etery, Elk City, Oklahoma. Ser- and I can finish the project,” able if someone is interested in was introduced to a blue-eyed February 19 vices have been entrusted to understood her camera better, Word commented, purchasing one of her pieces or cowboy named Dave Wheeler the care of Richard and Tammy Hearts for Hearing Fun- in order to get better photo- Painting is a part-time pas- would like to commission her McCord. Approximately a year Dugger and the staff of Martin- draiser. Daddy Daughter graphs. The ability to capture after Mable Lee graduated from Dugger Funeral Home in Elk Dance, Convention Center. accurate colors seems to be a Highway High School, on June City, Oklahoma. 14, 1950, Dave and Mabel Lee key to getting what is in her Monty Brinkley were married in the 2nd and Cherishing her memory is her two sons, Dave Wayne Mc- Adams Church of Christ, in Elk Cord and his wife Melissa Kay Chelmer Williams III Monty Gale Brinkley, 66, of Canute, Oklahoma was born on City, Oklahoma. While living in Elk City, McCord of Columbia, South October 24, 1955 in Elk City, Carolina, and Kim Music Mc- Chelmer Lonzo Williams Oklahoma, Dave worked in the Oklahoma. He is the son of Cord, of Oklahoma City, Okla- III was born November 14th, oil fields and Mabel Lee main- Melrose Quincy and Mary Beth homa and three grandchildren, 1978 in Yuba City, California tained their home. By October (Vaughn) Brinkley. Monty went Ryan Martin McCord, of Tulsa, to Barbara Gale (Cavasos) and 27, 1952, their first son Dave to be with his Heavenly Father Oklahoma, Justin David Mc- Chelmer Lonzo Williams, II. Wayne McCord was born. They on Thursday, January 27, 2022 continued to live in Elk City for Cord, of Dallas, Texas, Julie He passed away in Oklahoma at Great Plains Regional Medi- Anne (McCord) Payne and her a couple more years later they City, Oklahoma at the age of 43 cal Center, Elk City, Oklahoma. husband Leslie Erwin Payne, moved to Rattan, Oklahoma, years, 2 months and 12 days. He married his soul mate, of Booker, Texas; three great- where they lived and worked a Chelmer grew up in Wheat- Rita Kay Gunter on August 29, grandchildren, Alyssa Danai small family ranch. By April 8, land, California where he at- 1975 in a ceremony held north McCord, of Norman, Okla- 1957, she and Dave welcomed tended school graduating in of Clinton Lake. homa, Christin Kay Payne and their second son, Kim Music 1997. After graduation, he trav- Monty was a Firefighter Lilly Jo Payne, of Booker, Texas. McCord. Mabel Lee and Dave eled around the state working for the Canute Fire Depart- Preceded in death by her Wheeler moved to Oklahoma in underground construction. ment and a First Responder City, Oklahoma, the summer husband, Dave Wheeler Mc- His favorite place to travel and and when he was not doing daughter, Monica Brinkley and before Dave Wayne started the Cord. work was Yosemite National what he loved, fighting fires Lonnie Gunter of Canute, Okla- second grade. Soon, after their Memorials can be made to Park where his company sent the 2nd and Adams Church of and drinking his favorite drink, homa; one brother, Mel Gene move, Mabel Lee started work him quite often. Chelmer also ethic second to none and was Christ, in Elk City, Oklahoma. obtained his underwater weld- Dr. Pepper, he worked at TLC Brinkley of Elk City, Oklahoma; at Liberty National Bank. She a husband and father that any- We invite you to leave a mes- ing certification and held vari- Rentals in Canute, Oklahoma. three sisters, Deborah Tripp continued to work there until one would be proud of. sage of condolence, expression ous other titles and certifica- Monty was a very giving and and her husband, David of Elk her sons graduated from high He was preceded in death of sympathy or perhaps share tions. In 2004 he moved to Elk loving person who would do City, Oklahoma, Sheryl Dosh- school. During that time, she by his father, Chelmer Lonzo a memory of Mabel at www. City to work for Jack Slaughter. anything for his Canute Com- ier and her husband, Larry of and Dave Wheeler built a new It was on March 1st, 2005 he Williams, II; father-in-law, Ron house, the same house that she martin-duggerfuneralhome. munity Family and all he met. Newalla, Oklahoma, Trena met a young woman by the Baker, Sr.; grandmother, Nina and Dave would spend the rest com <http://www.martin-dug- He would fix breakfast for the Brinkley of Canute, Oklahoma; name of Misty Baker. Their re- Cavasos; aunt and uncle, Mike of their lives. gerfuneralhome.com> seniors and the kids, he would mother-in- law, Doris Louise lationship grew and they were and Fran Roberts. give kids at school a ride in the Gunter; brother-in-law, Larry eventually married on Septem- Chelmer is survived by his fire truck, and just loved serv- Gunter; sister-in-law, Linda ber 11, 2006 in Wheeler, Texas. wife, Misty; children, Jeremiah ing the community. The nieces Hoffman; numerous nieces, Being the worker that Chelmer and Jaylee, all of the home; his mother, Barbara “Bobbie” Wil- and nephews called him “Uncle nephews and other family was, he and Misty’s “honey- Handsome”. Monty loved his members and friends. liams; his very special “Poppy” moon” consisted stopping at wife and family including his He is preceded in death by James Earl Cavasos and a host Flying J for a piece of cheese- of Misty’s family, The KOA fam- dogs with all his heart. He will his parents, Melrose and Mary cake. Together they made ily, cousins in Oregon, other ex- be missed by all that knew and Beth Brinkley, one brother, their home north of Elk City. tended family and friends. loved him. Ranny Brinkley. Chelmer began his career in The family ask that in lieu He was an active member of Memorials can be made the oil field with BM Powerup of flowers, memorial donation the Elk City Church of God. to the Canute Volunteer Fire and continued until present. can be made to the funeral Funeral services will be Department in care of Martin- But Chelmer was one to sit idle home to help offset the funeral held at 10:00 a.m., Wednes- Dugger Funeral Home, P.O. with his current job. He could arrangements. day, February 2, 2022 at First Box 707, Elk City, Oklahoma often be seen at the KOA with Memorial services will be Baptist Church, Elk City, Okla- 73648. Misty managing the operation held at a later date. Arrange- homa. Rev. Joe Thompson will We invite you to leave a out there and Keeping up the ments are under the direction officiate. Interment will be at message of condolence, expres- maintenance on the facilities. of Chris Whinery and the staff Fairlawn Cemetery, Elk City, sion of sympathy or perhaps He would help Misty’s family of Affordable Cremation Ser- Oklahoma. Services have been share a memory of Monty at with any project they had going vice-West. Condolences can be entrusted to the care of Rich- www.martin-duggerfuneral- on. 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