Museum Director, Radio Broadcaster and Local Sports Historian
Biography
Wayne McCombs’ family moved to a farm south of Claremore in 1958. In the ninth grade he began working at the local radio station, KWPR. The station was a 500 watt, AM daytime station at the…
Journalist - Long time Claremore Progress writer and Will Rogers Memorial Public Relations Director
Biography
Born and raised on a rocky hillside of her father’s Cherokee allotment, overlooking the Verdigris River bottom, northeast of Nowata Oklahoma, Patty Reeder was the daughter of Jim and Juanita…
A fifth generation Cherokee whose ancestors came here on the Trail of Tears.
Biography
Curtis Rohr's life and family history belong to the town of Verdigris as much as they belong to the man. Rohr is a fifth generation Cherokee, whose ancestors came here…
Hall of Fame Athlete, Business man and local Black historian
Biography
Gerome Riley was born October 18, 1934in Chelsea, Oklahoma to Sylvester and Georgie Riley. Gerome was reared and educated in Chelsea at Paul Lawrence Dunbar School through the 8th grade, prior to transferring to…