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Born Clara Ann Fowler on November 8, 1927 in Claremore, Oklahoma, Patti Page became a pop music legend, selling in excess of 100 million records over a career that spanned seven decades. From humble beginnings as one of eleven children born to a railroad…
One of three in the first graduating class at Claremore High School following integration and Oklahoma Department of Human Services employee
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Ms. Mary Alice (Brown) Snoddy was born in 1938. She graduated in 1956 from Claremore High School as part of the first class…
Claremore Coach and CPS employees; Long time First Baptist Church members
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John Smith was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on May 11, 1932, to Ada Gazelle and John Hartley Smith. He and his mother moved to Claremore after his father’s passing when he was two.…
Pioneer family member and long time resident of Claremore
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Alice Cline Farbro was born on December 17, 1929, the year of the big depression. When the stock market fell, people committed suicide, and many Oklahomans left the state of Oklahoma to try to find…
Dot’s Café owner and long time resident
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Melinda Kay Washom Knight was born July 26, 1955 to Robert and Dorothy Washom. She was born on the family farm in Claremore, Oklahoma where she was still living until the flood of 2019. Robert was a…
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A pioneering public official and true servant to her community and fellow citizens.
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Norma. Eagleton is known for many accomplishments including first female Tulsa city commissioner and Oklahoma corporation commissioner.
Norma was the first woman elected to a voting position on the…
Journalist - Long time Claremore Progress writer and Will Rogers Memorial Public Relations Director
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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…
Business woman, wife and mother. A pioneering Claremore business owner’s wife.
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Born December 11, 1914 in Perkins, Oklahoma to Robert and Ethel (Hedrick) Webb, Jessie was reared and educated in Pryor, Oklahoma. She graduated with the class of 1933, and in 1934 Jessie married…
Black Fox Nuclear Plant Protester
An unlikely activist, she educated herself about nuclear energy and risked everything to stop the Black Fox Plant.
When Carrie Dickerson first saw a newspaper headline about the electric company’s plans to build a nuclear power plant near her…