Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky (2024)

August 10, 1984

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Lexington Herald-Leaderi

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Lexington, Kentucky

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Friday, August 10, 1984

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24

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B12 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEAOER LEXINGTON KV FRIDAY AUGUST 10 1984 Obituaries formerly of Nichoiasville a retired service station attendant and husband of Alene Prather Dickinson died Wednesday at Good Samaritan Hoapi tal after a short illness Services will be at 10:30 am Saturday at Oldham Roberts and Powell Funeral Home Richmond Visitation is after 3 pm today Judith Gay Laird Flaherty 43 of 743 Lakeshore Drive wife of Rich- In Lexington Hobart Juatt Burch 11 72 of Elm Tree lane operator of Helen's Grocery Store on Elm Tree Lane died Wednesday at the store Services will be at 10 a Saturday at Kerr Broth ers Funeral Home Visitation Is from 7 to 9 today Henry Russell "Shorty" Dickinson 73 of 1891 Bowen Court and author Walter Tevis dies charge of arrangements PINEV1LLE William Allan Pattaraon 61 of Chicago formerly of Puteville husband of Sandra Patterson died July 30 in Chicago Memorial services will be at am Aug 18 In Pineville Memorial Cemetery Durham Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements Contributions are suggested to Pineville First Christian Church RICHMOND Clara Alloa Wilton 64 of Cincinnati formerly of Owen County mother of Frances Pin-eur of Richmond died Monday in Cincinnati Services will be at 10 am Saturday at Turpin Funeral Home Visitation is after 4 pm today SOMERSET varan Lova-lasa 99 of 311 White Street a retired farmer died Wednesday at Sunrise Manor Nursrng Home Services will be at 2 pm Saturday at Somerset Undertaking Co Visitation is after 5 pm today STAMPING GROUND Lillis Hall Sutherland 81 of Mulberry Street who had operated Beauty Shop wife of Isaac Sutherland died Wednesday at King's Daughters Memorial Hospital after a short illness Services will be at 2 pm Saturday at Stamping Ground Baptist Church Visitation is after 11 am today at Harrod Brothers Funeral Home MAYS LICK James Gilmore Jr 70 of West Union Ohio formerly of Mays Lick a former Ches apeake Ohio railroad employee died Wednesday al Eagle Creek Nursing Home West Union Services will be at 2 pm Saturday at Palmer Funeral Home Visitation is after noon Saturday PAINTSVILLF Justin David Zlk infant triplet son of Robert and Kami Zlk of Route 40 Davis Branch Road died Tuesday at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington shortly after he was bom Services will be at 10 am loday in Lexington Cemetery Fayette County Whitehall Funeral Chapel in Lexington is in charge of arrangements PARIS -Martha Lawrence Raad 80 of 225 Brooks Street a retired employee of the old Electric Steam Radiator Co widow of William A Reed died yesterday at Bourbon General Hospital after a short illness Services will be at 3 pm Saturday at Lusk Funeral Home Visitation is from 4 to 9 pm today PIKEVILLE Draxla Williams 78 of Shelbiana wife of John Williams died Wednesday at Mountain Manor Nursing Home Services will be at 11 am Sunday at Greasy Creek Regular Baptist Church Visitation is after 11 am today at the church Justice Funeral Home here is in attack Services will be at 2 pm Saturday ai Mathers Gaunce Funeral Home Visitation is after 4 pm today CORBIN Geraldine Gregor Ich Droasart 94 of Green Bay Wis formerly of Corbin wife of Rog er Droasart died this week in Green Bay Services will be at 10 am Saturday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church There will be no visitation Vanlurfc Funeral Home is In charge of range menu DANVILLE France Toomba Brant 72 Of 4X2 RU Street former coowner of Brant's Grocery and Bluegrass Restaurant died yesterday at Ephraim McDowell Memorial Hospiul Services will be at 2 pm Saturday at Preston-Pruttt Funeral Home Visitation Is from 3 to 5 pm and 7 to 9 pm today FLEMINGSBURG Raymond Wallingford Mlneer 97 of Dayton Ohio formerly of Flemingsburg a retired factory worker died Wednesday at St Elizabeth Memorial Hospital in Dayton after a long illness Services will be at 10:30 am Saturday in Fleming County Cemetery Visitation Is after 5 pm today at Denton Funeral Home FRANKFORT Emma Louis cieo 55 of Sullivan Line died Tuesday at the University of Kentucky Albert Chandler Medical Center Services will be at 11:30 am today in Greenhill Cemetery Harrod Brothers Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements FRANKFORT Vlollc Couch 65 of 226 Logan Street a World War 11 veteran father of Peggy Ann Bolton of Center Ala died Tuesday at King's Daughters Memorial Hospital Services will be at 10 am today at Harrod Brothers Funeral Home FRANKFORT Frank Scott 76 of Louisville and formerly of Frankfort a retired engineer for South Central Bell Telephone Co and husband of Jean Scott died Wednesday at Hospital Louisville Services will be at 2 pm today at Rogers Funeral Home HARRODSBURG Maggie Jane Louallen 80 of 253 West Lane died here Wednesday apparently of cancer Services will be at 2 pm Saturday at Ransdell Funeral Chapel Visitation is after 2 pm today HARRODSBURG John Russell 68 of 538 Mooreland Avenue a retired carpenter husband of Margaret Tyler Russell died yesterday at his home Services will be at 2 pm Saturday at Deep Creek Baptist Church Visitation is after 2 pm today at Alexander and Royalty Funeral Home and after 1 pm Saturday at the church ard Flaherty wax dead on arrival Wednesday at Good Samaritan Hoapi tal The Fayette County coroner1 office ix investigating the death Aikinx-Farmer Funeral Home in Metropolis IU is ui charge of arrangements which were incomplete last night Doris Fell Iliac 97 of 119 Merman Drive a former Stewart's department store and Undie Box employee wife of William Ltzer died Wednesday at Central Baptist Hospital after an illness of several years Services will be at 10 am Saturday at Whaley-McCarty Funeral Home Cymhiana Visitation is from 3 to 9 pm today Anne Tevner James McCty-monds of 138 South Hanover Avenue a former president-general of the the California Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy widow of William Hamilton McCiymonds died Wednesday at her home Services will be at 10 am Saturday at WR Milwaid Mortuary Broadway Visitation is from 2 to 4 pm today Contributions are suggested to the Garden Club of Lexington for the Ashland garden or the American Heart Association JD Reeves 63 senior vice president for public relations at First Security National Bank Trust Co son of Kitty Bush Reeves died Wednesday Services will be at 3 pm today at Southern Hills United Methodist Church Visitation is after 10 am today at the church WR Mil ward Mortuary Southland is in charge of arrangements Baird Henry Rice 57 of Route 4 Lancaster a mechanic for the Lex-ington-Fayette Urban County Government husband of Elizabeth Preston Rice died yesterday at St Joseph Hospital Services will be at 10 am Monday at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home Visitation is from 3 to 5 pm and 7 to 9 pm Saturday and Sunday Jan Bozarth Ritchie 48 of Evansville Ind formerly of Lexington died Tuesday Services have been changed to 11:30 am Saturday at WR Milward Mortuary Southland Visitation is from 2 to 4 pm and 6 to 9 pm today In Kentucky ALBANY Ida Upchurch Dlcken 84 of Route 4 died Wednesday at Clinton County War Memorial Hospital after a long illness Services will be at 2 pm today at Sewell Funeral Home BARBOURVILLE Kathleen Fultz 65 of Walker Park Road died Wednesday at Knox County General Hospital Services will be at 11 am Saturday at Hopper Funeral Home Visitation is after noon today Richard Deacon co-star of Van dies there "He knew his strengths and he knew his weaknesses and he'd talk about them with equal detachment "He knew he was erratic He knew he had a certain brilliance to him used to say to him somewhere there's a school in this country that you would just be a brilliant success in if you could find Thomas Stroup a retired UK English professor who also taught Tevis said: "Walter had two or three courses with me The funny thing was that Walter never got to class very often so when he came up for an examination in my Milton class I told him he couldn't attend the exam He said he attended the class more than any other class" Tevis had to take the class over and he earned an A Stroup said Award-winning author AB Guthrie another former Lexington resident recognized talent very early and urged him to send his material to an agent in New York Mrs Tevis said His first work to be published was a short story that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post she said According to Billiards Digest the book and movie of The Hustler were probably more responsible than anything else for the image of pool In addition to his wife survivors include a daughter Julie Tevis McGoiy of Columbus Ohio a son William Tevis of Amesville Ohio a sister Betty Tevis Eckdahl of Lexington and three grandsons Funeral arrangements had not been made as of last night From Page B1 message here that he was out of the country The two men had been friends since they were youngsters They played pool at Kavanaugh's home and watched hustlers play at the old Phoenix Hotel when they were teen-agers Tevis also worked briefly in Kavan-augh's poolroom other novels include Mockingbird The Queen's Gambit and The Steps to the Sun He also wrote a book of short stories titled Far From Home In addition to the University of Kentucky he had taught at Southern Connecticut State College in New Haven He also taught at Ohio University in Athens where he held the title of distinguished professor from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s He had lived in New York the past six years "He was said William Ward a retired UK professor who taught Tevis was always very fond of Tevis We used to have conversations together He was the sort of fellow who is different from most people know what to say so surprised and taken aback by his death "He was the sort of student that was a bit erratic but highly capable of doing the Ward said Tevis could make an A or a failing grade with equal ease was a very colorful character He and I would talk about him as if he were somebody else somewhere Ward said would talk about him as if he were the third person sitting Gold said death was of natural causes" possibly a heart seizure A examination is scheduled for today was a said Robert Prete manager for the last five years had no history of that condition" Deacon's bald pate black-rimmed glasses and stern demeanor made him a natural for portraying stuffy bureaucrats in more than 100 films and hundreds of television shows Associated Press LOS ANGELES Richard Deacon the actor whose comically pompous roles included parts on television's "Leave It to and "The Dick Van Dyke Show" died unexpectedly at 62 the office said yesterday Paramedics were called to home in West Los Angeles and took him to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 11:07 pm Wednesday spokesman Bill Gold said Grant County man 61 dies after being stung by bees Richard Burton buried in quiet Swiss village about five minutes after the incident she said Mrs Fryman said that Stephens had a lung ailment which might have contributed to his death Stephens was a retired employee of Mayflower Van Lines He was the husband of Thelma Watts Stephens Services will be at 3 pm Saturday at WR Milward Mortuary Broadway in Lexington Visitation is from 3 to 5 pm and 7 to 9 pm today teacher dies Daughters of the American Revolution She had been a deaconess and the choir director at Union Church Surviving are several cousins Services will be at 2 pm today at Union Church Visitation is before 1 pm today at Winkenhofer Funeral Home and after 1 pm today at the church CORINTH A 61-year-old Grant County man died Wednesday after he was stung by bees The victim was Franklin Harrison Stephens of Route 2 Corinth said Grant County Deputy Coroner Linda Fryman Stephens was cutting grass on his property His riding mower traveled near a beehive and the bees swarmed around him and stung him in the face He was stung at least six times the coroner said Stephens went into his house where he collapsed and died Berea music BEREA Elizabeth Lucille Stephens a retired piano and voice teacher who also had been active in a number of organizations died Wednesday at Berea Hospital Miss Stephens of 210 Chestnut Street was 74 She had been a member of Berea Business and Professional Club Berea Club and the United Neighbors Homemakers She also was a 50-year member of the Berea Laurel Ridges Chapter of the HAZARD Edna Combs 76 of Upper Second Creek mother of Reba Jackson died yesterday at her home apparently of a heart attack Services will be at 2 pm Saturday at Upper Second Creek Baptist Church Visitation is after 1 pm today at the church Engle Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements LANCASTER Della Mae Hamilton 78 of Nichoiasville formerly of Garrard County died Wednesday Services will be at 2 pm today at Ramsey Funeral Home LONDON William Chester Bennett Sr 79 of Route 3 a retired farmer died Tuesday at his home apparently of a heart attack Services will be at 2 pm today at Bowling Funeral Home BARBOURVILLE Eula Maxine Smith 68 of Route 1 died Wednesday at Knox County General Hospital Services will be at 2 pm Saturday at Roadside Baptist Church Visitation is after 9 am today at Hopper Funeral Home CAMPTON Mechell Renee Campbell 1 6 a Wolfe County High School student daughter of Jack and Eudella Campbell died yesterday at her home apparently of a heart attack Visitation is after 2 pm today at Shackelford Funeral Home Funeral arrangements were incomplete last night CARLISLE Elizabeth Sosby 66 of Route 2 wife of Vemice Sosby died Wednesday at the home of a son in Georgetown apparently of a heart Associated Press CELIGNY Switzerland Actor Richard Burton was buried in this peaceful Swiss village yesterday with a sealed envelope and a rose from his wife Burton 58 died Sunday of a brain hemorrhage After the private funeral service in a 400-year-old Protestant church he was buried a few hundred yards away in old cemetery At the gravesite Sally Hay 36 wife of 13 months stood grim-faced but diy-eyed for the final prayers She placed a sealed envelope and a rose on her coffin before it was lowered into the ground The contents of the envelope were not made public Elizabeth Taylor who was twice married to Burton did not attend Graham Jenkins 56 one of brothers said Miss Taylor planned to attend a memorial service for Burton on Saturday in his hometown of Pontrhydyfen Wales In the church daughter Kate read Not Go Gentle Into That Good Welsh poet Dylan eulogy to his father Burton had bought a cemetery plot in Celigny and stipulated that he should be buried there Miss Hay was accompanied at the funeral service and burial by three brothers and three sisters of Burton as well as two of his daughters Kate and Maria and Liza Todd the daughter of Miss Taylor and producer Mike Todd Funeral Notices Information furnished by mortuaries Local nieces Mrs Maty Ireland Lexington and Mrs Nancy Overall Elizabethtown 7 great-nieces and nephews Services 10:00 am Saturday at the WR Milward Mortuary-Broadway with Dr Glynn Burke officiating Burial Lexington Cemetery Bearers will be Jim Holmes Dennis Young David Overall Robert James II Don McKelvey Kirk Kemper Richard James Friends may call from 2-4 pm today Memorials to the Garden Club of Lexington for the Ashland Garden or the American Heart Association 2356 Harrodsburg Road with Rev Donald Herren officiating Burial Lexington Cemetery Active bearers will be William Faulkner Will Rouse Troy Seale Ben Elkin Julian Beard Frank Barker Quinton Walker Jr Neilan Thurman Honorary bearers will be Frank Ham Robert Gorham John Adams Bill Cornett Joe Hall Jerry Claiborne Robert Dorris Henry Weaver Larry Ivy Harry Lancaster Fran Curci and the officers and directors of First Security National Bank Trust Company Mr Reeves body will lie in state at the church from 10:00 am until service time Memorials are suggested to the Memorial Fund of Southern Hills United Methodist Church the daughter of the late George Thomas and Martha Kate Setters Lawrence and a member of the Paris Church of Christ Survivors are a son Louis Emmons Jr Paris daughter Bessie Graves Presley Lexington three grandsons AJvin Louis Emmons III Paris Louie Graves McKee and Douglas Graves Lexington three step-grandsons Roger and Robin Dufresne both of Paris Steve Presley Lexington four step-granddaughters Melody Von Man-del Miami FL Kim Dufresne Paris Rene Robbins Lexington and Sharon Wilhoite Largo FL two sisters Rena Ewing Paris and Nannie Lawrence Paris Services 3:00 pm Saturday at Lusk Funeral Home Burial Paris Cemetery Friends may call from 4-9 pm today Wednesday afternoon at his residence retired employee of Mayflower Van Lines Bom in Garrard County KY son of Mrs Lillie Doolin Stephens Lexington and the late Harve Gallen Stephens member of Thompson Road Baptist Church and the Moose Lodge Other survivors are a daughter Mrs Judith Lynn Pope Jupiter FL a son Thomas Gallen Stephens Helena MT three sisters Mrs Robert (Ruby) Hail Blountstown FL Mrs Geneva Turner Hudson Lexington and Mrs George (Una Mildred) Waddell Indiantown FL three grandchildren Funeral services 3:00 pm Saturday at the WR Milwani Mortuary-Broadway by Rev James Hamilton Burial Blue Grass Memorial Gardens Casket bearers will be Kenneth Ronnie Raymond Watts Jimmy Doolin Harvey Turner and Bobby Payne Friends may call from 3-5 and 7-9 pm today erland 81 a resident of Mulberry Street Stamping Ground will be 2:00 pm Saturday at the Stamping Ground Baptist Church Mrs Sutherland died 8:05 pm Wednesday at Kings Daughters Memorial Hospital Frankfort after a short illness She will be buried in the Stamping Ground Masonic Cemetery A native of Owen County she owned and operated Beauty Shop in Stamping Ground for 46 years She was a member of the Stamping Ground Club the Baptist Missionary Society the Philathia Sunday School class and the Stamping Ground Baptist Church Survivors are her husband Isaac (Ikey) Sutherland Stamping Ground a son Edward Darrell Gardner Richmond VA three daughters Mrs Coleman (HenryEtta) Johnson Stamping Ground Mrs Sam (Marjorie) Plummer Oldham County LaGrange and Mrs Eileen Norton Louisville 10 grandchildren 13 great-grandchildren Mrs Sutherland was the daughter of the late FE amd Izetta Wilev Hall The Rev James Fuller and Rev Dan Crawley will officiate Honorary bearers will be Roy Hester Carl Campbell CT Lee Gene Douglas Wiley Porter Roby John Bratton Active bearers will be Edward Darrell Gardner Jr Phil Gardner David Edward Norton Gale Plummer Larry Johnson and Jack Musick Friends may call at Harrod Brothers Funeral Home after 11:00 am today CARR Mrs Alma Carr Funeral services 2:00 pm today at the First Baptist Church Maddoxtown Rev Frank Jackson Sr Pastor and Lie Charles Walker officiating Burial at the Church Cemetery Cunningham Funeral Home in charge of arrangements COLLINS John Maurice Collins of Lexington died Friday July 27 1984 at Good Samaritan Hospital The family requests expressions of sympathy to Lafayette Christian Church Memorial Fund A memorial service will be held at the Lafayette Christian Church on Saturday August 11 at 2:00 pm Rev Harold Tackett officiating McCLYMONDS Anne Tavner James McCiymonds 138 South Hanover Avenue widow of William Hamilton McCiymonds died at her residence Wednesday A Lexington native she was a daughter of the late David Hunt and Annie Gay James She was educatedat Sayre College and was a member of Central Christian Church Club of Central Kentucky Garden Club of Lexington and a former president-general of the California Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Survivors include two nephews John James and Robert James both of Lexington two State PERRONE Gilbert Cullen (Gib) Perrone 87 1486 Tates Creek Road died Tuesday He was bom in Cincinnati OH the son of the late Felix and Hannah Carlisle Perrone He is survived by his wife Irene Perrone a daughter Patricia Thomas Louisville a sister Teresa Short a niece Mrs Carl Nater both of Rancho Sante Fe CAGra-veside services 11:00 am Saturday at the Evergreen Cemetery South Gate KY Friends may call at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home from 3-5 and 7-9 pm today Contributions may be made to Hospital or a charity of your choice REED Martha (Mamaw) Reed 80 225 Brooks Street Paris widow of William A Reed died Thursday at Bourbon General Hospital A native of Bourbon County she was RITCHIE Mrs Jan Bozarth Ritchie Funeral services 11:30 am Saturday at the WR Milward Mortuary-Southland by Rev Steve Wyatt Burial Lexington Cemetery Friends may call from 2-4 and 6-9 pm today Contributions may be made to Shriners Crippled Hospital 1900 Richmond Road Lexington KY 40502 or the American Heart Association or the Cullen Avenue Christian Church Evansville STEPHENS Franklin Harrison Stephens 61 husband of Mrs Thelma Watts Stephens Route 2 Corinth and formerly of Lexington died A REEVES James Doyle Reeves 63 3368 Ti-dale Drive husband of Margaret Ambrose Reeves died Wednesday He was senior vice-president-public relations for First Security National Bank Trust Company Bom in Winchester he was the son of Kitty Bush Reeves Lexington and the late Asa A Reeves Other survivors include two daughters Mrs Patrick (Cathy) Crawley and Mrs William A (Dedee) Clarke a grandson Jason Patrick Crawley all of Lexington an aunt Mrs JW Cooper Winchester Services 3:00 pm today at Southern Hills United Methodist Church REED Diane McKinny Reed Funeral services 3:00 pm today and Betts West Funeral Home with the Rev Larry Owens officiating Burial Maple Grove Cemetery Bearers will be Logan Smith Jimmy Waller Jack Bobby Kenny Wayne and Ronald Howard Reed SUTHERLAND Services for Mrs Lillis Hall Suth.

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