Gary Duane Jenlink, 72, left this life to meet his Savior on September 18, 2021, at his home of the last 36 years outside Cherokee.

Gary was born on April 19, 1949, in Cherokee, Oklahoma, to Lloyd and Helen Jenlink. His early years were replete with the happenings that any farm-boy would relish – riding the family's horse "Brownie," bursting through snow-drifts on an over-turned car-hood, shooting field rats in the feed-shocks behind Joe Buck's barn, but mostly spending time with his father and grandfather.

He graduated from Lambert High School in 1967. Though an exemplary student, his occasio...