Archive - Jul 25, 2011
The Wolf Ridge Golf Club of Poteau would like to
invite golfers to participate in their two man scramble
golf tournament to benefit a young woman in need of
surgery to remove a tumor.
Whitney Spangler, 22, of Poteau, was diagnosed with
a craniopharyngioma tumor in March 2010 and under
went a right frontal craniotomy to remove the tumor.
She was also treated with radioactive materials to stop
the growth of the tumor. That surgery was a success
and it allowed Whitney to return to her job at the Dennis
Bost State Farm Insurance Agency and to return to
Mary Sue Bacon, 103, of Talihina
died Wednesday, July 20, 2011, at the
Talihina Manor Nursing Home.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday,
July 24, at the Talihina Church of
Christ with Phillip Smith officiating.
Burial will be at the Old Talihina
Cemetery under the direction of
Talihina Funeral Home.
Billy Ray Davis, 50, of Talihina
died Wednesday, July 20, 2011.
Graveside services will be held at
10 a.m. Saturday, July 23, at the
Sardis Cemetery with Dennis McClard
officiating. Burial will follow under
the direction of Talihina Funeral
Home.
Word has been received of the
death of Dorothy Jean Kirkley Palmer,
who was born Jan. 9, 1924, in Howe
to Lee and Eula Kirkley.
She was a 1943 graduate of Poteau
High School. In 1944 she married the
love of her life, James Palmer.
Because James was a career Marine,
they most often lived in Oceanside,
Callif., where Jim was stationed in
nearby Camp Pendleton. When her
husband was away during WWII, the
Korean War, and during peacetime
deployments in the Cold War Era, she
would make her home in Poteau and
work at Poteau Food Market.
While her husband fought in the
