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10A local news ELIZABETH SARAH HUGHES Nashville, TN Memorial service will be held 3 Sunday, at The Blakeford at Green Hills. Visit 1:30 2:30 p.m. ED JARED Cookeville, TN Age 80. Funeral 1 p.m. Saturday, Jec erson Ave.

Church of Christ. Hooper- Huddleston Horner, (931) 526-6111; hhhfunerals.com JOHN THOMAS JOHNSON Columbia TN Visit 4-8 p.m. Friday Saturday. Service 2 p.m. Sunday.

Heritage Funeral Home, (931) 840-4750. Mary Teresa (Baltz) Luckett was born in Nashville, TN on September 8th, 1926 to John Phillip Baltz and Annetta Odelia Ross. She was a devout Catholic, wife, mother, daughter, sister. She grew up in the St. Catholic Community in Nashville where her family was very active.

She attended St. College in South Bend, Indiana and graduated from Sienna Catholic College in Memphis Tennessee in 1948, holding the position of Class secretary and prettiest girl in the class. Mary met and married the love of her life, John Richard Luckett. She is preceded in death by her husband, her brother, Reverend John Baltz; her brother, Robert Baltz; and her brother, Bill Baltz. Her children know what a tremendous woman she was and are very proud of what she accomplished.

She was mother to 8 children, 29 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. After untimely death in 1971, Mary went back to school to become a registered nurse and received her degree in Social Work. She is survived by her children, Steven Charles Luckett, Mary Ann Luckett-Schiavoni (Jim), John Richard Luckett, Jr. (Becky), Lauretta Joanne DeMille (Mark), William Thomas Luckett, Annetta (Neene) Stone (Steve), Theresa Marie Burdge (Kevin), Barbara Agnes Shahan (Bruce), and her brother, Edward Baltz. The family will always treasure the special times and memories with Visitation will be held on Monday, June 8th, at Christ the King Church in Nashville from 5 p.m.

to 8 p.m., with the recitation of the rosary at 7:30 p.m. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held at Christ the King Church on Tuesday, June 9th at 10 a.m. The Luckett Family thanks the Brighton Gardens and Adoration Hospice staffs for the care and concern provided to their mother. Visit the online obituary: www.MarshallDonnel- lyCombs.com MARY TERESA BALTZ LUCKETT Nashville, TN MICHAEL JONES Goodlettsville, TN Age 57. June 4, 2015.

Visit 12-8 Sunday and 10-2 Monday. Service 2 p.m. Monday at Cole Garrett, White House (615) 672-3936. WENDELL KELLEY Columbia, TN Age 63, died June 4, 2015. Service 2 p.m.

Sunday. View obit www.oakesandnichols. com; (931) 388-4711. OLA MAI LAMASTUS Kingston Springs, TN Age 86. Visit 1-8 p.m.

Sunday. Service 1 p.m. Monday. White Bluc Chapel of Dickson Funeral Home, (615) 797-3106. VADA LEDBETTER Livingston, TN Age 87, June 4, 2015.

Service 11 a.m. Monday. Visit 5-9 p.m. Sunday. Chapel of Speck Funeral Home, (931) 823-1201.

Miriam Lee, age 87, June 2, 2015. Survived by husband of 68 years, Dr. Martin E. Lee; children, Dr. Linda Lee Bodzy, Lawrence A.

Lee and Lester S. Lee; 2 grandsons and 5 great- grandchildren. Graveside service was held at the Temple Cemetery, at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, June 5, 2015. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the charity of ones choice.

Visit the online obituary: www.Marshall- DonnellyCombs.com MIRIAM LEE Sarasota, FL Died May 13, 2015. Survived by family. Graveside service Monday, June 8, 2015 at 9 a.m., Hills of Calvary Cemetery, Jordonia Station Nashville, TN 37218. TERRELL MARTIN Nashville, TN FRANKLIN MOORE Clarksville, TN Funeral 2 p.m. Sunday, June 7, 2015 at McReynolds- Nave Larson, (931) 6473371.

NaveFuneralHomes. com. MARTHA ANN OWENS Mt. Pleasant, TN Graveside service 4 p.m. Sunday, Santa Fe Cemetery.

Heritage Funeral Home, (931) 840-4750; Tn- Funerals.com FRANCES PHELPS Fayetteville, TN age 80, Funeral services Sunday at 1 PM at Higgins Funeral Home, Fayetteville, TN CHARLES SONNY POND Lexington, KY Graveside Memorial Service 3 Sunday, at Gallatin Cemetery. Alexander Funeral Home, (615) 452-2324. J.D. RANDOLPH Baxter, TN Age 87. Service 1 p.m.

Saturday. Baxter Chapel of Hooper Huddleston Horner, (931) 858-2134; hhhfuner- als.com MARY ALICE RAY Murfreesboro, TN Age 99. June 4, 2015. Visit Monday, Jennings Ayers. Graveside 3 p.m.

Monday, Evergreen Cemetery; (615) 893-2422. CLYDETTE RICKARD Elmwood, TN Age 68. Funeral 2 p.m. Sunday. Visit 2-7 after 11 a.m.

all at Bass Funeral Home, Carthage (615) 735-1212; bassfh.com MARY ANN WINTERS ROGERS Bon Aqua, TN Age 79. Service 9 a.m. Monday, at Middle TN Veterans Cemetery. Williamson Memorial, (615) 794-2289. Age 75.

Born June 10, 1939; passed away June 4, 2015. Survived by granddaughter, Jana Sanders; great-granddaughter, Charlee Sanders and grandson, Jacob Bradford; sister, Margaret Ferguson; brothers, John A. Hobbs, Kenneth (Liz) Hobbs; special friends, Bobbie and Jerry Bradford, and Pickle Horton; many nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by husband, Mitchell Sanders of 30 years; son, Charlie Sanders; parents, John P. Hobbs and Mary C.

Hobbs; brother, Paul C. Hobbs and sister, Patricia Williams. Services will be held 10 a.m. Monday, at St. Ann Catholic Church, with Father Philip Breen officiating.

Interment to be held at Woodlawn Cemetery, with nephews serving as Pallbearers. Visitation with family Sunday from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., at Hibbett Hailey Funeral Home. Rosary will be held 6 p.m. Sunday by Father Joseph Patrick Breen at Hibbett Hailey Funeral Home.

In lieu of owers, donations may be made to St. Jude or charity of your choice. JOANN HOBBS SANDERS Donelson, TN GERALD SKINNER Murfreesboro, TN Age 60. Service 11 a.m. Monday.

Visit 5-8 p.m. Sunday, at Williamson Memorial, (615) 794-2289. JUDY SMALL Murfreesboro, TN Age 65. June 3, 2015. Visit 4-7 Monday and service 7 p.m.

Graveside 11 a.m. Roselawn. Jennings and Ayers, (615) 893-2422. BOB STOCKWELL Lebanon, TN Graveside service was 2 p.m. Friday, June 5, 2015 at Mt.

Juliet Memorial Gardens. Ligon Bobo, (615) 444-2142. PEGGY DICKENS SULLIVAN Nashville, TN Age 82, June 3, 2015. Visit Saturday, 11 a.m. 1 p.m., at Woodbine Hickory Chapel, (615) 331-1952.

ANN SUMMERS Smithville, TN Age 81. Funeral Service 2 p.m. Sunday, June 7, 2015. Love-Cantrell Chapel, (615) 597-5275. HUGH L.

THOMAS Parsons, TN Age 91, died June 4, 2015. Service 3 Saturday. Visit 9 a.m. til service. Oakdale Funeral Home Decatur (731) 847-3200.

Anne Hassett Zelle, age 82 of Nashville, Tennessee and long time resident of Gulf Stream, Florida, died June 4, 2015. She is survived by her brother, William L. Hassett (Mary Lee) of St. Louis, Missouri. She was preceded in death by her parents, Anne Pearce Carrick Hassett and William Lawrence Hassett of St.

Louis, Missouri; the love of her life, husband, Robert K. Zelle, and their son, Robert K. Zelle, who died in 1972. She was the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.

William B. Hassett of Lewiston, NY, and the late Dr. and Mrs. J. C.

Carrick of Lexington, KY. Mrs. Zelle attended Mary Institute in St. Louis and was graduated from Fairfax Hall, Waynesboro, VA. She attended Holton Arms School in Washington.

Mrs. Zelle moved to Nashville with her husband in 1956 when he became Executive Vice President of the Life Casualty Insurance Company of Tennessee. She became active in Nashville social and community ae airs. A graveside service will be held on Monday, June 8th at 10 a.m., at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville. Memorials may be made to Darlington School in Rome, Georgia for the Zelle Fine Arts Center.

Visit the online obituary: www.MarshallDonnel- lyCombs.com ANNE HASSETT ZELLE Nashville, TN TOMMY THOMASON Lynnville TN Visit 4-8 p.m. Sunday, June 7th. Service 2 p.m. Monday, June 8th. Williams Funeral Home, (931) 388-2135; www.williamsfh.com MARGARET TOMLIN Nashville, TN Age 85, June 3, 2015.

Service Saturday, 11:30 a.m., at Woodbine Funeral Home, (615) 832-1948. JOE STANLEY WEST eld, TN Age 61. Funeral 2 p.m. Sunday, June 7th at Antioch Baptist Church. Visit 2-6 today, at Crowder Funeral Home, (615) 384-7984.

JAMES MIKE WHITE Lebanon, TN Age 57, May 31, 2015. Survived by wife. Cindy; son, Eric; mother, Dot; grandson, Landon. Visit Thursday, 5-8. Sellars, 444-9393.

MARGARET WILBURN Columbia, TN Service 2 p.m. Monday, Graymere Church of Christ. View obit at oakesandnich- ols.com; (931) 388-4711. Hermitage babysitter guilty of child rape AHermitage woman faces at least 40 years in rison after a jury found her guilty Thursday of aggravated rape of a child, child abuse and child neglect. Becky Burlison, 42, was the babysitter, and according to Assistant District Attorney Alyssa Hennig, was a trusted family friend.

But in April 2012, police said Burlison inserted a hair brush handle into the rectum and it broke, etting stuck in his body and causing evere injuries. She said she was trying relieve the constipation, police said. They said the woman who also cared for other children waited 45 minutes to take him to a hospital. Burlison is set for sentencing July 10. Barchenger, Gallatin fire chief changes mind, declines job Gallatin will remain without a fire chief for the foreseeable future after the Indiana man chosen for the position last month suddenly opted out of the job.

Greg Main, district chief for the Evansville Fire Department in Evansville, decided not to accept the job, two weeks after he was chosen. think a lot of his concern is related to feeling like he was coming into an environment where some changes were needed, how accepting the fire service employees may be to those changes and then how the council would react if there was a lot of Mayor Paige Brown said Wednesday. I think he had fears that he have the support. I can understand Main could not be reached for comment. City Council members had been divided on who should lead the fire department after Chief Bill Crook retired in March.

Interim Fire Chief Tommy Dale will remain in the position until a new fire chief is chosen. Cross, Gannett Tennessee Students get glances at aviation careers Dozens of high school students who want to take to the skies got a weeklong introduction to aviation at a Middle Tennessee State University summer camp that ended Friday. Potential pilots, air traffic controllers and airplane engineers were taken through aviation-based labs, flight simulators and live flights during the day camp split between the Murfreesboro Municipal Airport and MTSU. is something people get excited about, but most people know how to get said Wendy Beckman, the director and an aerospace professor at MTSU. About 30 local and out-of-state students took part.

The camp provides overviews of several aerospace-related fields and gives students a firsthand view of flight. learned more in one week here than nine weeks at said Jacob Richardson, a rising junior from White House, Tenn. Each student manned the cockpit of a Diamond imulator and practiced fundamental maneuvers with a 180-degree picture of in-air surroundings. Wilson, Gannett Tennessee AREA BRIEFS JOHN A. GILLIS GANNETT TENNESSEE Kenzie Ohlin of Charleston, S.C., sits in the seat in a Diamond fight simulator at Murfreesboro Municipal Airport on Friday.

The high school student participated in he Intro to Aviation camp sponsored by Middle Tennessee tate University. Burlison East Nashvillians take great pride in their part of town, but many worry they be able to live there much longer. READERS REACT Property value hike worries E. Nashville HOW THE READERS REACTED Richard Price: The tax on these properties have become ridiculous. Nashville residents are merely subjugated working stock to support a massive corporate police state and have allowed the city to turn them into another form of economic slavery.

Most do not have a clue that their tax rate is several thousand percent higher than it should be and that they are being forced to support a nearly useless and greedy government who will soon demand everything. Ron Slimmin Hall: Nashville is so backwards. It wants to be a modern city yet fights the AMP, it wants to be classy like East Nashville and yet fights rising property values, it wants businesses here and yet fights incentives to bring and keep them here. You want a classy East Nashville, learn to pay for it, if not, complain! Daniel Hiller: Property values increasing for current home owners has nothing to do with affordable housing. Government taxes force the current owners out.

Reduce government and taxes! Problem solved! start with the police, fire, parks, sidewalks, green space, etc. TODAY! Michael Robinson: It seems to me that this be an issue if the first wave of gentrification being adversely affected by tax increases and change. Now the matters? Suck it up or move to Antioch. Jerry Vandiver: The problem is the influx into Nashville making the demand for housing in the urban core so high. Developers are demolishing affordable starter houses and building ridiculous duplex mansions with prices of $400K and higher.

Diversity rents more than owns and the demise of these smaller homes makes for an extremely tight rental market that affordable. Meanwhile the developers (usually not from East Nashville) collect their profits and move one, not caring about the area. You can join the discussion by following us on Facebook at Facebook.com/Tennessean.