Helen Diane Olsen Shafer passed away on May 14th, 2023. She was born on August 8, 1944 in Ponca City, OK, the second of three children born to John William (Bill) and Edna Mae Barton Olsen and grew up on her family’s cattle ranch near Hardy, Oklahoma. She went to Consolidated 106 for grades 1-8 and then graduated from Newkirk High School where she met and dated her husband Dick before going to Oklahoma State University. She majored in Home Economics Education and was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority. She and Dick married in August 15, 1965 and she graduated early and started teaching in rural schools while Dick finished his degree in Veterinary Medicine. From Stillwater, Dick and Diane travelled the world together for 24 years while Dick was in the Air Force. At each new station, once she got everything unpacked and settled into the new home, Diane would find a new job. When they were stationed in Okinawa Japan (77-80), Diane enrolled in classes for her Masters in Secondary Sch
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One Kay County town kicked up centennial festivities a notch with its celebration of, as Oklahoman state correspondent Jim Etter reported recently, one of the most unusual events during Oklahoma s centennial : the horse liniment that made Newkirk famous.
Held Sept. 8 this year, the annual Charlie Adams Day in the small community near Bartlesville is named for Charles Francis Adams, a Kansan who set foot in the area then Oklahoma Territory in 1889, Etter reported. Adams claim to fame there? Creating a medicinal rub for his horses suffering from harness sores.
Adams patented the elixir as Good Luck and later saddled his best racing horse with the name. The appellation apparently held true according to the Oke, the horse won more than $13,000 by 1949.