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121 N Weenonah Ave, Claremore, OK 74017
Lifetime Claremore Resident, Businessman, and Historian Rob Melton reflects on growing up with a bustling Main Street spanning 1950's to the 1970's.
VERNA VIERHELLER
Story written by Steve Robinson for the Claremore Museum of History in conjunction with Women’s History Month at the MoH 2024 along with excerpts from Mrs. Vierheller’s obituary and input from her granddaughter, Michelle Vierheller Johnson.
Verna Vierheller was born to George W.…
Story written by Steve Robinson for the Claremore Museum of History in conjunction with Women’s History Month at the MoH 2024 along with excerpts from her obituary written by Pat Reeder for the Claremore Progress.
Ocie Mayberry’s name was synonymous with club work. She was…
Story written by Steve Robinson for the Claremore Museum of History in conjunction with Women’s History Month at the MoH 2024 with excerpts from Fall 2011 Surrey Magazine.
Kimberly Teehee was born on October 13, 1968 and is an attorney, politician, and activist on Native…
State representative and Will Rogers Memorial Museum Director
Biography
Tad was raised in Claremore, Oklahoma and graduated from Oologah High School. He went to Westside Elementary in Claremore and Oologah for Middle and High School. He played football, basketball and baseball for Oologah. After high…
Long time educator and former Will Rogers Memorial employee
Biography
Life has changed for Andy Hogan, an educator more than 30 years. After retiring as an elementary school principal, he says his interests are long distance running, bow hunting and anything to do with Will…
Long time Claremore businesswoman and ordained minister
Biography
Joanne Green was born in 1950 in Claremore at the old Franklin Hospital to Junus and Gussie Bentley. She was raised with 5 siblings on a farm north of Claremore near the Round Mound. Joanne…
Claremore High School Teacher and Coach
Biography
Noah Grimett graduated from Claremore High School in 2018. He earned an Associates Degree in Arts at Seminole State University. He is now in his last year at RSU where he will earn a BA in Communications in Radio…
Telling the history of Claremore one story at a time
This story was written by Pat Reeder in March, 2024 as part of the Claremore Museum of History’s HERstory campaign during Women’s History Month.
Carlene Burkhard Webber never forgot the devotion to her native Arkansas,…
Federal judge on senior status with the US District Court
Biography
Born in Claremore, Oklahoma, Judge Darnell Jones received an Artium Baccalaureus degree in French from Southwestern College in 1972, and a Juris Doctor from the American University Washington College of Law in 1975.
He…
Lifetime nurse and hospital volunteer
Biography
Betty Ruth Brown Oldham was born on June 17, 1932, at the Brown farm 13 miles northwest of Buffalo, Oklahoma. She was the second child out of six children born to Halbert and Nadean Brown. Betty has 4 brothers…