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October 2, 2021 News/Obits Average amount of financial Average amount of financial Guide Tuition and fees: $50,232 Meals ‘Average amount of financial aid: $16,190 aid: $14,999 Round aid: $37,628 Application deadline: Feb. 1 Application deadline: Aug. 1 Application deadline: Rolling University of Science and Arts ‘The University of Texas Texas A&M University Location: Austin, Texas Town Continued from page 1. of Oklahoma Location: College Station, Tex- Location: Chickasha, Okla. Distance from Elk City: 6 ‘The University of Kansas Along with a new route and Distance from Elk City: 2 as hours, 50 minutes/441 miles Location: Lawrence, Kan. October 2 dining room coordinator, the hours/120 miles Distance from Elk City: 6 Number of majors: 75 Distance from Elk City: 6 Number of majors: 30+ hours, 52 minutes/429 miles Tuition and fees: $40,032 “Clue” Red Carpet Com- organization also has a new Tuition and fees: $8,160 Number of majors: 93 ‘Average amount of financialhours, 56 minutes/426 miles cook who started the first of ‘Average amount of financial Tuition and fees: $40,087 aid: $14,855 munity Theatre. Number of majors: 100+ August. Cheri Lane says that aid: $9,245 ‘Average amount of financial Application deadline: Dec. 1 she worked at Bell Avenue Application deadline: Aug. 30 aid: $12,682 Tuition and fees: $28,034 Elk City Flea Market, nursing home for four years Application deadline: Dec. 1 University of North Texas Average amount of financial where she started as a cook be- University of Tulsa Location: Denton, Texas Ackley Park. fore advancing to the position Location: Tulsa, Okla. Texas Christian University Distance from Elk City: 3 aid: $9,757 of dietary supervisor. Lane ex- Distance from Elk City: 3 Location: Ft. Worth, Texas hours, 59 minutes/241 miles Application deadline: Aug. 16 plains that she has always had hours, 51 minutes/239 miles Distance from Elk City: 4 Number of majors: 72 October 3 a special place in her heart for Number of majors: 64 hours, 12 minutes/259 miles Tuition and fees: $24,234 the elderly. She also says that Tuition and fees: $44,838 Number of majors: 65 Average amount of financial Wichita State University “Clue” Red Carpet Com- she really enjoys the people Average amount of financial Tuition and fees: $51,660 aid: $17,884 Location: Wichita, Kan. munity Theatre. with whom she gets to work. aid: $48,256 Average amount of financial Application deadline: Aug. 1 Distance from Elk City: 4 Lane shares that she knows Application deadline: Jan. 15 aid: $26,595 Application deadline: Feb. 1 Kansas hours, 16 minutes/252 miles that people may have gotten Elk City Flea Market, Texas Number of majors: 63 burnt out on the meals that Texas Tech University Kansas State University Ackley Park. they offered but says that she Baylor University Location: Lubbock, Texas Location: Manhattan, Kan. Tuition and fees: $18,166 really wants to encourage theLocation: Waco, Texas Distance from Elk City: 3 Distance from Elk City: 6 Average amount of financial community to give them an- Distance from Elk Cit hours, 51 minutes/241 miles hours, 12 minutes/376 miles aid: $14,162 Octoberfest Square other chance. Lane explained hours, 23 minutes/341 miles Number of majors: 71 Number of majors: 250+ that they release a monthly Number of majors: 125+ Tuition and fees: $24,092 Tuition and fees: $26,342 Application deadline: Rolling Dancing held at the Elk menu and that everything they make is homemade - the fried City Convention Center. chicken is the bone-in kind, the hot beef sandwiches are made Wes and Karen Magill family make first gift to October 16 with roasts that they cook in- house and their chicken pot pie SWOSU Hodge Pharmacy Scholarships challenge G&S Gun Promotions, is scratch-made. She also says that if anyone would like to previously during his boyhood. 100 Campus Drive Elk City Civic Center. see something on the menu, to “The reality is that if Ralph Weatherford, OK 73096 let them know because they'll hadn’t decided to attend Gifts may also be made to the SWOSU pharmacy school, Hodge Pharmacy Scholarships ‘ ‘| try anything once. You can October 17 Wes’ family might not be in Challenge using credit/debit find Elk City Meals on Wheels Weatherford today,” the Ma- cards or direct bank account G&S Gun Promotions, on Facebook or call them at (580)225-5821. gills added. “And if Karen’s sis- debit via calling the SWOSU Elk City Civic Center. ter hadn't decided to come to Office of Institutional Ad- pharmacy school at SWOSU, vancement/SWOSU Founda- } Karen certainly wouldn’t be tion, Inc. offices at 580-774- SWOSU Saturday Weatherford area philanthropists and longtime here, and our family would not 3267. exist. We owe so much to these For more information, please two very special SWOSU phar- contact Patti Harper at 580- SWOSU macy graduates!” benefactors Wes and Karen Magill (middle) have gener- 774-3190, patti.harper@ is October 9 100% of contributions made swosu.edu or Clarke Hale at ously made the first contribution to the Hodge Pharmacy to the Hodge Pharmacy Schol- 817-707-6795, _ clarke.hale@ Scholarships Challenge. Accepting for the university are arships Challenge will be en- swosu.edu. (left) Garrett King, assistant vice president for institu- dowed solely for the benefit of tional advancement at SWOSU and (right) Patti Harper, providing financial assistance The SWOSU Hodge Pharma- director of the SWOSU College of Pharmacy alumni and to students enrolled in the cy Scholarships Challenge is development office. SWOSU College of Pharmacy. coordinated by the SWOSU Contributions may be made by Foundation, Inc., which was Southwestern Oklahoma State on the Weatherford Industrial visiting _ www.HodgePharma- established in 1977 to promote University (SWOSU) has an- Trust and is a Deacon at the cyChallenge.com. philanthropy and distribute nounced an exciting new phil- Weatherford Church of Christ. Donors may make contribu- funds to support the activi- anthropic opportunity—the Wes and Karen were married tions via check made payable ties and programs of SWOSU. Hodge Pharmacy Scholarships in 2004 and are the proud par- to “SWOSU FOUNDATION” Located on the Weatherford Challenge—and Weatherford ents of Charlie and Porter. with “HODGE CHALLENGE” campus in the historic Burton area philanthropists and long- “We are delighted to contribute noted in the memorandum House, the Foundation cur- time SWOSU benefactors Wes to the Hodge Pharmacy Schol- line; checks should be mailed rently stewards over $36 mil- and Karen Magill have gener- arships Challenge. Though we to: lion in assets for the benefit of ously made the first contribu- do not directly practice phar- SWOSU Foundation, Inc. SWOSU. tion to the challenge. macy, we have been powerfully ‘The Hodge Pharmacy Scholar- impacted by the SWOSU Col- ships Challenge invites contri- lege of Pharmacy through our Vinita Powell butions of all sizes and scopes family's ties and history there,” Vinita Powell, beloved from donors across the spec- said the Magills. “This con- SWOSU SATURDAY trum of giving with the goal of tribution honors two people creating a new $500,000 schol- (Karen’s eldest sister and Wes’ mother, grandmother and ¢great-grandmother passed into SWOSU Saturday, an event SWOSU campus. Todd Boyd, arships endowment to benefit paternal grandfather) whose her heavenly home on Septem- for prospective students and director of the SWOSU En- SWOSU College of Pharmacy direct impact on our lives is ber 28, 2021 in Oklahoma City, their family members, is fast rollment Management Office, students. immeasurable. We hope other Oklahoma. approaching on Saturday, Oc- said registration can be done ‘The funds provided by the Ma- SWOSU supporters will step Vinita was born in rural gills and future donors will be up and join us in investing to- Elk City on December 30, 1926 tober 9. at: https://swosu.edu/swosu- to WP. and Lucinda Dallas. used to match $500,000, which wards a stronger future for the ‘The annual event is held each SWOSU College of Pharmacy.” She attended and graduated saturday was donated this past June by year on the Southwestern SWOSU alumnus and benefac- Karen’s sister, Kelly Elise from Canute High School. She Oklahoma State University The day begins at 10:30 a.m. tor Jerry Hodge of Amarillo Stovall, is a 1995 alumnae of married Wendell Powell in campus in Weatherford. Please contact the Admissions (TX) and his wife, Margaret, as the SWOSU College of Phar- 1945 and they became proud and Recruitment Office at macy. Stovall currently prac- part of their historic $5 million parents to Tommy and Susan. ‘The event gives high school philanthropic investment. tices pharmacy as owner/man- In her work life, she was juniors/seniors as well as 580.774.3782 or admissions@ “Wes and Karen Magill have ager of Anson Plaza Pharmacy, the credit manager of Mont- Funeral Home in Elk City, college transfer students an swosu.edu for additional in- kicked off our Hodge Phar- which celebrated its 20th year gomery Ward, bookkeeper for Oklahoma. opportunity to preview the formation. macy Scholarships Challenge serving Anson (TX) and the Powell's RCA/Whirlpool and Cherishing her memory is in a spectacularly generous surrounding areas. Kelly chose ultimately became Volunteer her two children, Susan Powell and thoughtful way,” said to attend SWOSU in the Fall of Director of Great Plains Medi- and her husband, Richard SWOSU President Dr. Diane 1991. Karen, a thirteen-year- cal. White of New York City, Tom Send obituaries to Lovell. “We are so grateful for old in the seventh grade at She was a long-time Powell of Killeen, Texas; one all that the Magill family does the time, decided she wanted member of the Elk City United brother, Franklin Dallas of classifieds @ecdailynews.com for SWOSU and are so proud to move to Weatherford with Methodist Church and helped Phoenix, Arizona; two grand- her sister. They share a special of their distinctive and storied to form the OCU scholarship children, Linda and Kevin; six Monday by 9 a.m. for Wednesday heritage here on the Hilltop.” bond from those days where fund. In 1987 she became great-grandchildren. Thursday by 9 a.m. for Saturday Karen (Ashworth) Magill is an Kelly would drop Karen off at president of the Meals on Preceded in death by her owner and real estate broker Weatherford Middle School ‘Wheels Program of Elk City. parents, Lucinda and WP. Dal- with Magill Insurance & Real on her way to classes on the Vinita was lifetime member las, her brother, Lando Dallas Estate. A 2002 SWOSU alum- SWOSU Hilltop. of the Red Carpet Community and her three sisters, Aileen nae, Karen currently serves as Wes’s grandfather, the late ‘Theatre and was instrumental Camp, Dorma Lee Johnson chair of the Board of Trustees (Norval) Ralph Magill, went to in raising funds for the renova- and Billie Sue Gowdy. of the Weatherford Area Eco- work for Albert Eaton at Eaton tion of that theatre. Her faith, her love and her nomic Development Founda- Drug in Weatherford during After retirement, she independent spirit will endure tion, Inc. and as chair-elect of his boyhood, and, following his moved to Oklahoma City for generations. the Board of Directors of the marriage to Priscilla Fay Por- where she especially enjoyed Vinita’s family is eternally (USPS # 173-020) Weatherford Area Chamber of ter in 1946, he completed his the fellowship of dear friends, grateful for the loving staff of 580-225-3000 Commerce. studies at the SWOSU College ski trips, theatrical produc- Heritage Point of Oklahoma Wes Magill is an ownerand vice of Pharmacy in 1950. Ralph tions, concerts and great City and the angels of Human- Is published twice weekly by Be cham County Media, LLC president of Magill Insurance and one of his sisters were Mexican Food. Her proud- ity Hospice. 109 W. Broadway, Elk City, OK 73644-4736, & Real Estate. He completed first-generation college stu- est achievements were her Memorials can be made to Periodicals Postage Paid at Elk City, OK 73644 his undergraduate studies at dents. Ralph managed phar- children whom she supported the Elk City Meals On Wheels both SWOSU and Oklahoma macies in Crockett (TX), Di- in all their endeavors and in care of Martin-Dugger Fu- POSTMASTER: Send address changes to 109 W. Broadway, Elk City, OK 73644 State University and his MBA boll (TX), Altus, Shawnee and celebrated their success with neral Home, RO. Box 707, Elk at Oklahoma State University. Oklahoma City before return- great joy. City, Oklahoma 73648. SUBSCRIPTIONS Josh Umholtz He is a past chair of the Young ing to Weatherford where he Funeral services will be We invite you to leave a Deliverd by mail: Publisher Agents of the Independent operated Magill Drug and, lat- held at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, message of condolence, expres- Amy Loynd Insurance Agents of Oklaho- er, Magill’s East Side Pharmacy October 5, 2021 at United sion of sympathy or perhaps $75/yearly ma, past chair of the Board of until retiring in 1993. Ralph $50/six months Consultant and “Pris” were longtime Main Methodist Church, Elk City, share a memory of Vinita at Trustees of the Weatherford Oklahoma. Rev. Scott Rogers www.martin-duggerfuneral- No refunds on subscriptions. Neva Pyatt Area Chamber of Commerce, Street figures where Magill will officiate. Interment will home.com. Advertising Director past treasurer of the Weath- Drug was a popular commu- be at Fairlawn Cemetery, Elk ‘The family would like to editor @ecdailynews.com D’Ann Brasuell erford Area Economic De- nity staple frequented by pa- trons for nearly three decades. City, Oklahoma. Services have invite all that cannot attend sports @ecdailynews.com Production Manager velopment Foundation, Inc., Magill Drug was located in the been entrusted to the care of to watch the service live on [email protected] Burgundy Lee Hanrahan and past member of the OSU Richard and Tammy Dugger Martin-Dugger Funeral Home Alumni Association Leader- same building where Ralph and the staff of Martin-Dugger Facebook page. classifieds @ecdailynews.com Staff Writer ship Council. He presently sits went to work so many years