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The 43-year-old worked as an IT professional and “loved his job and the people he worked with and for,” according to his obituary posted on a El Dorado, Kansas funeral home. A native of the ...
"Alva Pioneer" – Alva, OK, weekly, September 22, 1893, through July 9, 1897; merged with "Alva Republican" into "Alva Pioneer Republican." It was the first newspaper in Alva, Woods County, Oklahoma Territory, September 1893; W. F. Hatfield started gathering news, selling subscriptions with the assistance of Oscar Haberlein who worked at the ...
The following notable deaths in the United States occurred in 2025.Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth and subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, year of birth (if known), and reference.
Alva is a city in and the county seat of Woods County, Oklahoma, United States, [1] along the Salt Fork Arkansas River. The population was 5,028 at the time of the 2020 Census , [ 6 ] up from 4,945 at the 2010 census . [ 7 ]
The Burnham site in Woods County is a pre-Clovis site, that is, an archaeological site dating before 11,000 years ago. [4] The region of Woods County, Oklahoma, was home to the Antelope Creek Phase of Southern Plains Villagers, a precontact culture of Native Americans, who are related to the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes.
A post office was created there in 1895 [4] while the area was still Oklahoma Territory. A 1902 Woods County Directory indicates the town had daily stage service to Alva. [5] Casual mentions of Winchester can be found in Renfrew’s Record, the newspaper in Alva, from at least 1902 to 1921.
The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Alva, Oklahoma. Pages in category "People from Alva, Oklahoma" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
J. L. Parks, 90, American basketball player (Oklahoma State Cowboys). [328] Dave Ragan, 82, American professional golfer. [329] Nora Schimming-Chase, 77, Namibian politician and diplomat, member of the National Assembly (since 2000), ambassador to Germany, Austria and Tanzania, cancer. [330] Aldo Tarlao, 91, Italian rower, Olympic silver medalist .