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A2 KENTUCKY NEW EM OBITUARIESIN THE NEWS IVESDtf JUNE 27 2004 US DEATHS IN THE MILITARY BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS As of Monday June 26 2006 at least 2525 members of the US military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003 according to an Associated Press count The figure in cludes seven military' civil ians At least 1988 died as a result of hostile action ac cording to the numbers The AP count is nine higher than the Defense De tally last updat ed Monday at 10 am EDT The British military has reported 113 deaths Italy 32 Ukraine 18 Poland 17 Bulgaria 13 Spain 11 Slo vakia Denmark three El Salvador Estonia Nether lands Thailand two each and Australia Hungary Kazakhstan Latvia Roma nia one death each The latest deaths report ed by the military: A Marine died of wounds Monday in Anbar province The latest identifications reported by the military: Army Sgt Benjamin Laymon 22 Mount Ver non Ohio and Army Sgt Justin Norton 21 Rainier Wash died Satur day near Baghdad from small arms fire and an ex plosive assigned to the 1st Battalion 10th Calvary Regiment 2nd Brigade Combat Team 4th Infantry On the Web: or more information visit wwwdefenselinkmilnews Division ort Hood Texas Army Staff Sgt Alberto Sanchez 33 Houston died Saturday in Balad when an explosive detonat ed near his vehicle as signed to the 1st Battalion 68th Armor Regiment 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team 4th Infantry Divi sion ort Carson Colo Army Cpl Ryan Buckley 21 Nokomis Ill died riday in Baghdad when an explosive detonat ed near his vehicle as signed to the 2nd Battalion 506th Infantry Regiment 4th Brigade Combat Team 101st Airborne (Air As sault) ort Campbell Ky Army Pfc Devon Gib bons 19 Port Orchard Wash died riday at Brooke Army Medical Cen ter San Antonio of injuries received April 11 when an explosive detonated near his vehicle in Taji assigned to the 10th Cavalry Regi ment 1st Brigade 4th In fantry Division ort Hood Texas Army Spc Channing Singletary 30 Sylvester Ga died riday in Bagh dad 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Center following a long ill ness Services will be at 1 pm Thursday at Hughart and Beard uneral Home Hop kinsville with the Rev Gary Childress officiating Burial will be in Martin Oliver Cemetery in Trigg County Visitation will be from 4 until 8 pm Wednesday at the fu neral home A native of Lyon County she was born eb 11 1912 the daughter of the late Sanford Dudley and Susan Adelia Litchfield Gray She was a homemaker and a member of the Living Hope Baptist Church Her husband Gilbert Candler died in 2003 A daughter Doris olden Henderson also preceded her in death Survivors include four chil dren Mrs Woodson (Myrtle) Harper Trigg County Mrs Willard (Robbie) Morrow Clyde and Dallas Candler all of Hopkinsville 12 grand children 19 great grandchil dren and five great great grandchildren Memorials may be made to the building fund at Living Hope Baptist Church CAROLYN SHOLAR CADIZ Ky Carol yn Shol ar 57 Cadiz died at 6:57 this morning June 27 2006 at Trigg County Hospital of nat ural causes Arrangements are incom plete at Goodwin uneral Home The New Era publishes obituaries free of charge as a public service Information is provided by funeral homes and occa sionally families Information from fami lies however also must include the name of thefuneral home handling arrangements Obituaries may be edited for length and style BOBBYSKINNER CADIZ Ky Bobby Skin ner 52 Acworth Ga former ly of Cadiz died at 10:45 pm Saturday June 24 2006 at Northside Hospital Atlanta Ga following a long illness A memorial service will be at a later date Goodwin neral Home is in charge of arrangements A native of Trigg County he was born May 19 1954 the son of the late Ricks Skinner Jr and Dorothy Jewell Cheatham Skinner Survivors include his wife Ann Wright Skinner a son Brian Randall Skinner Ac worth two daughters Mrs Lorenzo (Tara) Reyes Geor gia Aimee Skinner Ac worth a stepdaughter Mrs Wayne (Regina) Thacker Ac worth four brothers John ny and Gayion Skinner both of Cadiz Tim Skinner Lan caster Calif Kenny Skin ner Owensboro and three sisters Mrs Wallace (Linda) Choate Mrs Kidell (Brenda) Taylor Mrs Terry (Donna) Allen all of Cadiz ELSEWHERE LACYE DOWNEY PARIS Tenn Lacy Ed ward Downey 89 Puryear Tenn died at 11 am Wednes vday June 28 2006 at Henry County Center of natural 0 causes Sei'vices will be at 11 am Wednesday at McEvoy uner al Home with the Rev Ed Montgomery officiating Bur ial will be in Memorial Ceme tery in Paris Visitation will be from 10 am Wednesday until time for the service He was a World War Army veteran Among the survivors is a daughter Mrs Gary (Susan) Nichols Hopkinsville two grandchildren and one great grandchild 1 dead in Elks Club building collapse CLINTON Mo (AP) Rescuers saved nine people trapped in the rubble of a three story building that partially collapsed during an Elks Club dinner but the leader was found dead early today about 12 hours after the roof fell in officials said Tony Komer the 32 year old ruler" of the Clinton Elks Lodge had been on the top floor preparing to give a speech when the century old brick building began to collapse Monday night Clinton Police Lt Sonny Lynch said early today that crews were trying recover body but part of the building would have to be taken down before searchers could remove him The nine survivors were trapped for several hours as rescuers tried to shore up the brick building to prevent further collapse The first was slowly re moved shortly after mid night and the last was car ried out about 5:30 am Officials said most in juries were consistent with being stuck in the debris such as cuts and bruises a crushed wrist and a bro ken leg About 50 people had beetl on the second floor for an1 initiation dinner when the roof suddenly tipped onto the third floor which then collapse onto the diners be low around 7:30 pm Mon day officials said was standing there and literally the ceiling fell and everything fell into a said Lee Pierce the Elks Lodge manager who had just finished cooking for the gathering when the building began crumbling anything was standing there and literally the ceiling fell and everythingfell into a Lee Pierce Elks Lodge manager to think about It was just get Most managed to escape with minor injuries but 10 people were trapped as the floor below them began to give way Komer had gone to the third floor to memorize a lengthy paragraph that he was to recite at the initia tion Lynch said Kansas City Mo ire Chief Smokey Dyer who was co ordinating rescue efforts said rescuers were never able to establish contact with the victim after the collapse About 200 emergency personnel worked outside the aging clothing store building sandwiched be tween a law firm and phar macy on the main street A specialized rescue team from Whiteman Air orce Base crane opera tors and an urban search and rescue team joined the effort and rescuers were using camera and sound devices and canine rescue dogs to locate those trapped inside US DEATHS IN THE MILITARY JEREY HARBERS SEATTLE Jeffrey Harbers who was one of Mi crosoft first employees and was instrumental in de veloping early versions of its successful Office business software died in a single en gine plane crash in Montana a coroner said He was 54 Harbers owned a ranch near Big Timber and also lived in the upscale Seattle suburb of Medina Wash near Mi Redmond campus The aircraft was registered to venture capital firm JMH Capital LLC in Medina Wash according to a ederal Aviation Administra tion database In the 1980s Harbers led en gineering and development of Office the immensely popular software for word processing spreadsheets and presenta tions Office continues to be one of most successful products raking in billions of dollars in profits for the com pany Harbers left Microsoft in the early 1990s to pursue ranching and other interests Prior to working at Mi crosoft Harbers also had worked in Alaska and at a re search center in Antarctica He graduated from the Uni versity of Washington in 1974 with a degree in mechanical engineering the university said flight was in structional said James Struh saker an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board However Struh saker said Harbers was a fully qualified pilot The aircraft had dual controls and Struh saker said he did not know who was piloting the plane when it crashed Also killed was pilot Jason Barton 31 of Oklahoma ARI MARDIN NEW YORK (AP) Arif Mardin the legendary Gram my Award winning producer who worked with stars includ ing Aretha ranklin Chaka Khan and Norah Jones died Sunday after a battle with pan creatic cancer his publicist said He was 72 Born in Turkey Mardin came to the United States in 1958 after a meeting with Dizzy Gillespie and Quincy Jones convinced him to make music his career He attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston graduating in 1961 Mardin started working at Atlantic Records in 1963 and subsequently became a pro ducer and arranger and ulti mately a senior vice presi dent He left in 2001 and start ed working at the restarted Manhattan Records label later that year He retired in 2004 The list of artists Mardin worked with was extensive including The Young Rascals Dusty Springfield Hall and Oates Bette Midler The Bee Gees Roberta lack Barbra Streisand and Jewel Mardin won numerous Grammy Awards including producer of the year in 1975 and 2002 LYLE STUART ORT LEE NJ (AP) Lyle Stuart who published one of the modern book greatest hoaxes in Came the and the controversial Anarchist died Saturday af ter a heart attack his wife told The New York Times He was 83 Stuart born in Manhattan became a muckraking jour nalist in the 1940s founding publications such as Expose and The Independent In 1969 he published Came the a sex novel whose dust jacket claimed it was written by a Long Island housewife In fact the book was the work of more than two dozen re porters at Newsday and Stuart was in on the joke The novel was a best seller both be fore and after the hoax was ex posed The next year Stuart went against the wishes of the staff at his publishing house Lyle Stuart Inc and published William Anar chist a notorious tome with instructions on how to make homemade bombs It is well for us to remember that America is what it is today because alone of all the countries of the world we have grown under those twin beliefs of political and economic freedom UNERAL HOMES Meet us on our website at: wwwhughartbeardcom EU acknowledges transfer of suspects STRASBOURG rance (AP) The European top justice official said today that suspected terrorists had been transferred to US intel ligence agents on European territory but he added that it was not known whether these actions were illegal EU Justice and Home Af fairs Commissioner ranco rattini called for thorough national investigations into all reports of questionable ac tivities by foreign intelligence agents and collusion in possible human rights vio lations rattini spoke after Eu leading human rights watchdog the Council of Eu rope voted to continue its in quiry into alleged CIA secret flights and prisons in Europe and called for safeguards to prevent human rights abuses by foreign intelligence agents The council vote also en dorsed the findings of a seven month investigation by Swiss Sen Dick Marty who earlier this month reported circum stantial evidence of several renditions on European terri tory rattini acknowledged it as a that such incidents oc curred on European territory since the Sept 11 2001 attacks on the United States but said it was not clear whether gov ernments were aware of them or cooperated and it was sim ilarly unclear whether the renditions were legal He said it was up to national authorities to investigate all reports of questionable CIA activities on their territory Only then would the EU be able to take action should col lusion or breaches of interna tional human rights stan dards by EU member states be proven he said extremely premature to draw consequences from the elements so far available What we must do is make sure that national authorities un derstand that they have not only the power but the duty to carry out judicial investiga rattini said have the duty to es tablish national committees I am determined to encourage to put political pressure if nec essary on the home affairs ministers so that we get re sults (of the inquiries) Once you have a court decision only than you can claim you had a valid piece of he said In his report Marty alleged European nations aided the movement of 17 detainees who said they had been abducted by US agents and secretly transferred to detention cen ters around the world Some said they were transferred to the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay Cuba and others to alleged secret facili ties in countries including Poland Romania Egypt and Jordan Some said they were mistreated or tortured report showed facts Several such facts did happen impossible to draw legal judgments Now up to na tional authorities to draw con rattini said Bosnia has acknowledged handing six Algerian terror suspects over to US authori ties in 2002 ignoring a ruling by the highest court ordering their release All six five of whom had Bosnian citizenship ended up at the Guantanamo facility Sweden let US agents han dle the extradition of two Egyptian terror suspects in 2001 Lawmakers and human rights groups harshly criti cized Sweden for letting the suspects be sent back to Egypt where they were im prisoned on terrorism charges Macedonia and Germany have denied any wrongdoing in connection with the alleged abduction of a German na tional by US intelligence agents to a secret prison in Afghanistan in 2003 German lawmakers questioned Lebanese born Khaled al Masri about the case on June 22 rattini said it was vital for European countries to clearly define the powers of secret services He also called for clarification of international air traffic rules to ensure that no aircraft used in military customs or police operations avoids the obligation to obtain special authorization to land The European Parliament has accused EU member states of breaching an inter national treaty governing air traffic regulations by allow ing secret CIA flights with a police mission to land freely on European territory.