Haskell County

No pre-1940 qualifying band record was directly verified in the sources reviewed. The earliest strong local evidence located is the 1985 Stigler High School yearbook, which documents a functioning high-school band program with a director, drum major, beginning band, concerts, and a named roster. (strong evidence)

The 1985 Stigler yearbook states that Fred Queen directed the band. It identifies Jennifer Pruner as drum major and provides a named band-member listing that includes Tina Dillon, Amy Martin, Katie O’Brien, Angie Welch, Jamie Cossey, Steven Fioretti, Andrea Mouser, Bob Burch, Tony Porter, Paul Sanger, K. Sturgess, Mel Matthews, David Shrum, Stacy Burch, Mike Bender, John Garland, Kelley Coni Livesay, Shelly Hall, Kelli Holt, Ladonna Clyma, Kim Parker, Stephanie Martin, Mike Helton, Jamie Pruner, Dean Powell, Greg Janeway, and Mike Buntin. (strong evidence)

The yearbook also documents senior band members John Garland, Mike Bender, Jennifer Pruner, Tina Dillon, and Andrea Mouser. (strong evidence)

The 1985 yearbook documents a high-school band playing at an American Pop Concert, a beginning band performing at a spring concert, band participation in a Christmas Concert, and a band performance at a homecoming ceremony. (strong evidence)

This establishes multiple ensemble levels and public performance settings, although the yearbook does not provide complete programs, dates, or instrumentation. (strong evidence)

Andrea Mouser’s senior biography records 1984 Oklahoma State University Honor Band participation, 1984 and 1985 Oklahoma All-Star Band participation, a McDonald All-American Band nomination, and membership in band and stage band. Tina Dillon is identified as an All-District Band alternate. (strong evidence)

These records show the school band serving as a pathway to broader honor-band and stage-band participation. (strong evidence)

Stigler High School yearbooks are indexed for 1915, 1920, 1923, 1946, 1952, 1956, 1962, 1966, 1970-1979, 1980-1982, 1985-1989, and 1996. The 1985 volume is openly available through the Internet Archive and is the strongest directly inspected source in this report. (strong evidence)

The early indexed Stigler volumes from 1915, 1920, and 1923 are important follow-up targets for identifying an earlier band. (strong evidence)

Kinta High School yearbooks are indexed for 1939, 1940, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1962, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, and 1979, with additional volumes through 1999. No page-level Kinta band record was recovered in the sources reviewed. (strong evidence)

McCurtain High School yearbooks are indexed for 1946 and 1991-1999. Keota has a 2004 yearbook listing, outside the historical cutoff. No qualifying pre-2000 band page was directly verified for these schools. (strong evidence)

No separate band record was recovered for Whitefield, Enterprise, Hoyt, Tamaha, or rural Haskell County schools in this sources reviewed. (moderate evidence)

No separately named Haskell County municipal, civic, veterans, military, or adult community band was directly verified before 2000. The Stigler evidence is a school-based instrumental program. (strong evidence)

The 1985 record should nevertheless be treated as a likely source of adult musicians who may later have played in community ensembles. (moderate evidence)

The 1985 Stigler yearbook documents homecoming, spring, Christmas, and American Pop Concert settings. It does not name all venues or provide complete dates. (strong evidence)

The yearbook documents honor-band and all-star-band recognition for Andrea Mouser and an All-District Band alternate designation for Tina Dillon. No concert-band contest rating or marching contest result was directly verified. (strong evidence)

Fred Queen is directly identified as Stigler’s band director in 1985. No earlier director or full tenure was established. (strong evidence)

The 1985 yearbook documents high-school band, beginning band, and stage band. It does not provide an instrument-by-instrument roster. The photographed captions and roster establish band participation but not exact instrumentation. (strong evidence)

The 1985 Stigler roster and biographies provide the first substantial Haskell County musician-name set for family-history work. The names should be cross-referenced with later newspapers, alumni records, obituaries, and adult community-band records. (strong evidence)