Frances Tinney Baskin, 95, of Sallisaw has had many adventures as she has traveled through life. “I grew up in Gans during the depression and went to school there until my freshman year when we mo...
Just Folks Sue Cullum, 64, of Sallisaw said when she graduated from college, she got on her first airplane, went to New Mexico, got sworn in to a government job, was driven out to the middle of the desert an...
Just Folks David Hanna, 50, loves the outdoors. “Anything to do with the outdoors, when the sun is out I am there,” Hanna said. “We spend a lot of time on Lake Tenkiller. We do a lot of skiing, boating, sw...
Just Folks Levi Sims, a senior at Webbers Falls High School, is pretty excited about graduating. “This year has really flown by. It seems like just yesterday I was a freshman,” Sims said. Sims said he is t...
Just Folks Love will find a way. Kathy Jordan, 52, of Sallisaw and her husband, Pat, were high school sweethearts and planned to get married after graduating. “We were madly in love but we decided we were t...
Just Folks Katie Tipton, 15, a sophomore at Muldrow High School, loves to play softball. “I have been playing softball since I was four. I have played every summer. It is my life basically,” Tipton said. “I...
Just Folks Josh Stock, 16, a sophomore at Sallisaw High School, loves hunting and archery. “When I was about seven years, old my grandma bought me this little tiny compound bow and brought it over to the ho...
Jennifer Davidson, 55, of Sallisaw grew up in Schotten, Germany, a small village about an hour from Frankfurt. “My dad had a riding stable and as a kid I rode horses all the time,” Davidson said....
Ed Wilson said he was born in his grandma’s log cabin in Marble City down by the cemetery. “That was what I was told,” Wilson said. “According to my dad a train would come by every day between 2...
Wanda Cash, 76, of Muldrow said she was born in what is now the center of Kerr Lake. “It was a place in the river bottom between San Bois River and the Arkansas River. My dad was a farmer in Blai...
“I like to read mysteries. It not a good book unless someone dies in the first chapter,” Jennifer Partain of Muldrow said. “I have always loved to read,” Partain said. “I remember the old librar...
Nick Scoggins and his children, Titan, 6, and Sicily, 4, are torn between going to Chucky Cheese and Incredible Pizza in Tulsa for the New Year. “If something should happen and they are not open, ...
Jan Townsend, 54, of Sallisaw loves Christmas. This year she is sharing her love of Christmas with area families who need a little help with Christmas cheer. “This year besides the regular holida...