As Kanokla celebrates 75 years of service, we're taking time to recognize some of the customers who have been part of that journey for decades. Among them is our longest-standing business customer, Kelle Oil Company in Braman, Oklahoma. Kelle Oil has been a Kanokla customer since 1956, but the company's story began much earlier. Founded in 1925 as Kelle Bros, the business has been serving the community for 100 years. Over the last century, Kelle Oil Company has seen a lot of

In November of 1955, at just 18 years old, James started his telephone service with Kanokla. Nearly 70 years later, he remains a valued customer and a living connection to the early days of rural telecommunications. James remembers a very different time in communication. He shared stories of his parents traveling into town to make long distance calls through switchboard operators and recalled the days of crank phones, where different long and short rings signaled who the call

At 93 years old, Erine has witnessed nearly a century of change in rural America. In December of 1955, at just 22 years old, he started telephone service on his farm with Kanokla. Nearly 70 years later, he remains one of our longest-standing customers. During a recent visit, Ernst shared stories from a different era. He remembered the days of party lines and proudly recalled being line number three. He laughed as he talked about how his wife and sister-in-law would switch to