diff --git a/doc/changes/latest.inc b/doc/changes/latest.inc
index 60900fecd09..2eba16bc534 100644
--- a/doc/changes/latest.inc
+++ b/doc/changes/latest.inc
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ Current (0.24.dev0)
 
 .. |Timothy Gates| replace:: **Timothy Gates**
 
+.. |Reza Shoorangiz| replace:: **Reza Shoorangiz**
+
 .. |Evgeny Goldstein| replace:: **Evgeny Goldstein**
 
 Enhancements
@@ -161,7 +163,7 @@ Bugs
 
 - Fix bug with :meth:`mne.Epochs.crop` and :meth:`mne.Evoked.crop` when ``include_tmax=False``, where the last sample was always cut off, even when ``tmax > epo.times[-1]`` (:gh:`9378` **by new contributor** |Jan Sosulski|_)
 
-- Fix bug with `mne.io.read_raw_curry` to allow reading Curry 8 event files with '.cdt.ceo' extension (:gh:`9381` by **new contributor** |Xiaokai Xia|_ and `Daniel McCloy`_)
+- Fix bug with `mne.io.read_raw_curry` to allow reading Curry 7 and 8 event files with '.ceo' and '.cdt.ceo' extensions (:gh:`9381`, :gh:`9712` by **new contributor** |Xiaokai Xia|_, `Daniel McCloy`_, and **by new contributor** |Reza Shoorangiz|_)
 
 - Fix bug with :func:`mne.io.read_raw_nihon` where latin-1 annotations could not be read (:gh:`9384` by `Alex Gramfort`_)
 
diff --git a/doc/changes/names.inc b/doc/changes/names.inc
index 579dbe3cf81..abeeb4be534 100644
--- a/doc/changes/names.inc
+++ b/doc/changes/names.inc
@@ -408,4 +408,6 @@
 
 .. _Timothy Gates: https://github.com/timgates42
 
+.. _Reza Shoorangiz: https://github.com/rezashr
+
 .. _Evgeny Goldstein: https://github.com/evgenygoldstein
diff --git a/mne/io/curry/curry.py b/mne/io/curry/curry.py
index 8e4d7003770..3f1493177e5 100644
--- a/mne/io/curry/curry.py
+++ b/mne/io/curry/curry.py
@@ -411,8 +411,8 @@ def _read_events_curry(fname):
     events : ndarray, shape (n_events, 3)
         The array of events.
     """
-    check_fname(fname, 'curry event', ('.cef', '.cdt.cef', '.cdt.ceo'),
-                endings_err=('.cef', '.cdt.cef', '.cdt.ceo'))
+    check_fname(fname, 'curry event', ('.cef', '.ceo', '.cdt.cef', '.cdt.ceo'),
+                endings_err=('.cef', '.ceo', '.cdt.cef', '.cdt.ceo'))
 
     events_dict = _read_curry_lines(fname, ["NUMBER_LIST"])
     # The first 3 column seem to contain the event information