Linda Jones, Miss Lawton 1979

Portrait of Linda Jones, Miss Lawton in 1979.
Date: 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0230.0127]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Clownin' and cowboyin' go hand in hand for rodeo stunt man Raymond Griffin."
Date: 1979
Creator: Argo, Jim
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0355.0122]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lawton's new multi-million dollar downtown regional shopping center-Central Mall-is nearly 50 percent completed."
Date: 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.1010]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Geronimo guardhouse, formerly known as 'The Geronimo Hotel,' is a popular attraction at the Fort Sill Museum."
Date: 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0564]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rescuers frantically struggle to pull Arkia gas Co. employee Wayne kothe, Ponca City, free from the wreckage of this mobile home at a Lawton trailer park."
Date: 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0565]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jay Hale Edwards, who was not at home when a tornado roared through his Lawton home at 111 Lee Blvd."
Date: 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0571]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Hiding under an overturned couch, in background, Toni Christenson and her two children escaped injury from Tuesday's tornadic winds in Lawton."
Date: 1979
Creator: Thompson, Michal
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0575]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "United States and Oklahoma flags at Lawton's Lincoln Elementary School fly at half staff in mourning for the victims of Tuesday's tornadoes that killed scores of persons in Oklahoma and Texas."
Date: 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0578]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. E.A. Hansen peers from her stairs at what was her attic minutes before."
Date: 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0579]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Workers sift through the rubble of an auto body shop near the intersection of 2nd Street and Lee Boulevard where the body of garland Newsome was found Tuesday night following a tornado which wrecked a 20-block area of Lawton earlier in the day."
Date: 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0580]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lawton residents survey the wreckage of Hills Foods, 1102 S Second, following Tuesday night's tornado."
Date: 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0582]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Longtime Lawton grocer Kelly Hills took one look at his store Wednesday and knew it was time to 'call it quits."
Date: 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0587]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An unidentified woman leaves her demolished Lawton home at 2nd and Lee Boulevard after a tornado ravaged her neighborhood."
Date: 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1273.0288]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "District Attorney Dick Tannery, with the help of a New York psychic, has a preliminary sketch of a person who may be the killer of two little girls suffocated in refrigerators in abandoned houses, and is in contact with a possible witness to one of the abuctions."
Date: 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1355.0280]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "It was Christmas Eve of 1959 when the Frisco men stopped their passenger train at the house of Lela Rae Watson and unloaded what was probably the most wonderful Christmas Lela, her brother, four sisters and mother ever had."
Date: 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1436.0073]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It's an unpleasant chore, but many Oklahoma farmers ranchers, like Kenneth Zacharias, are having to tote hay to cattle because of the state's recent winter siede."
Date: 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1279.0032]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Donna Dobberfuhl shows her relief sculpture Wednesday to State Sen. Al Terrill, D-Lawton."
Date: January 10, 1979
Creator: Klock, Roger
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1205.0526]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Deers are at the Sportmans complex at White Wolf Crossing at Fort Sill."
Date: January 11, 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1205.0528]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Whitetail deer stretch their legs at the Sportman. s Complex at White Wolf crossing at Fort Sill."
Date: January 11, 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1219.0385]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This funny looking snowman stand a good 15 feet tall-higher than the porch on the house it's guarding near downtown Lawton."
Date: January 15, 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1273.0282]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Dick W. Tannery-Lawton attorney & candidate for District 5 DA"
Date: January 18, 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1273.0283]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Dick W. Tannery-Lawton attorney & candidate for District 5 DA"
Date: January 18, 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0355.0407]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Downtown Lawton's only designated historical site is languishing as a pigeon roost."
Date: January 19, 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1219.0386]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Thirteen year old Bryan Kinderman of Lawton finds no lack of snow to roll up giant snowball after Saturday's sudden snowstorm replenished the area's supply."
Date: January 21, 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History