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0 4 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, THURSDAY, AFRIL 13, 1991 IIEUTUCIW DEATHS Martha Willdnson says fshe'd create agencies families Iru for elderly, r. 4 -By GIL LAWSON Staff Writer FRANKFORT, Ky. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Martha Wilkinson announced yesterday llhat she wants to create two ments in the Cabinet for Human Resources that would focus on issues involving the elderly and families i artd children. Wilkinson also said she would 3 'seek 1.000 more Medicaid-funded nursing-home beds during her ad-- fnifiistration, while also promising ttf Work to allow elderly people to remain in their homes. state recently faced a $27 million Medicaid shortfall, but legis-r (ation passed by a special session of the General Assembly is expected to the problem.

a series of news conferences across the state, Wilkinson proposed a Department of Aging Services that would include pro- grams covering personal-care attendants, adult protective services, adult day care and respite care for families of those with Alzheimer's disease. of these programs, with the exception of adult protective services, are currently in a division un-; der the Department of Social ices. Some of the programs serve adults who are under 60 years old, but they would still be included the proposed reorganization. I Wilkinson also said she would in Home. Visitation after 2 p.m.

Friday. OWENSBORO Maltiand B. "Doc" Rice, 83, Morganfield, formerly of Daviess County, died Tuesday in Morganfield. His wife, Opal, survives. Funeral, 11:30 a.m.

Friday, James H. Davis Funeral Home. Visitation after 10 a.m. Thursday. OWENTON Harrison Todd Sr.

died here Tuesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, McDonald Main Street Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m. Thursday.

PADUCAH Mary Ferrell, 85, died here Tuesday. Funeral, 10 a.m. Friday, St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church. Visitation at Roth Funeral Home after 2 p.m.

Thursday. POWDERLY Evelyn Middle-ton, 77, died Tuesday in Madisonville. Her husband, Alvie, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Thursday, Gary's Funeral Home.

RADCLIFF Roy "Pewee" Meyers, 62, died Wednesday in Elizabethtown. His wife, Barbara, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Nelson-Edelen-Bennett Funeral Home, Vine Grove. Visitation after 4 p.m.

Thursday. RICHMOND Cede Comley Armstrong, 80, died here Tuesday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Friday, Curry-Parsons-Collins Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m.

Thursday. RICHMOND William Henry Forbes, 62, died here Wednesday. His wife, Lula, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Curry-Parsons-Collins Funeral Home.

Visitation after 4:30 p.m. Friday. RICHMOND Luclan Hunter, 53, died here Tuesday. His wife, Joyce, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Friday, Curry-Parsons-Collins Funeral Home. Visitation after 2 p.m. Thursday. SCIENCE HILL Newton Price, 70, Somerset, died Tuesday in Lexington. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Friday, Morris Hislope Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Thursday. SMITHS GROVE Earl Williams, 84, died Wednesday in Bowling Green. His wife, Louise, survives.

Funeral, 11 a.m. Friday, Hardy Son Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m. Thursday. SOMERSET Ruby J.

Phelps, 71, died here Tuesday. Funeral, 10 a.m, Friday, Pulaski Funeral Home. Visitation after 7 p.m. Thursday. TOMPKINSVILLE Evle Muse, 66, died here Wednesday, Funeral, 10 a.m.

Friday, Clover Hill Church of Christ near Tompkinsville. Visitation is at Yokley Funeral Home. WARSAW Harry C. Zeskey, 75, died Wednesday in Carrollton. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Saturday, Carlton-Lowder Funeral Home. Visitation after 9 a.m. Saturday. WHITLEY CITY Rebecca Ledbetter, 89, formerly of McCrea-ry County, died Tuesday in Indianapolis. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Friday, Lower Hickory Grove Baptist Church. Visitation at Hickman-Strunk Funeral Home after 3 p.m. Thursday. Illinois doctors warned execution role unethical CHICAGO (AP) Illinois' State Medical Society has declared it unethical for doctors to help in capital punishment in any way, including pronouncing inmates dead. The American Medical Association considers it unethical for doctors to assist in executing inmates.

The Illinois group's policy goes a step further to condemn any participation in the execution process, "except acting as a source of support and solace" to the inmate. JAMESTOWN Lorene Wells Wooden, 85, formerly of Jamestown, died Monday in Jacksonville, Fla. Funeral, 10 a.m. Thursday, H. E.

Pruitt Funeral Home. LIBERTY Wood row Terry, 73, died Wednesday in Lexington. His wife, Mary, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Bartle Funeral Home.

Visitation after 5 p.m. Thursday. LIBERTY Ezra T. Wall, 67, Star Route, Liberty, died here Tuesday. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Friday, Watson Chapel Christian Church. Visitation at McKinney-Brown Funeral Home after 5 p.m. Thursday. LONDON Kenneth Hall, 67, died here Monday. Graveside service, 5 p.m.

Thursday, Owsley Cemetery. There will be no visitation. Bowling Funeral Home is handling arrangements. LONDON Richard Walter Middleton, 84, died here Monday. His wife, Maudie, survives.

Funeral was Wednesday at House-Rawlings Funeral Home. LONDON Sallie Mink, 55, formerly of Laurel County, died Sunday in New Port Richey, Fla. Her husband, Quentin, survives. Funeral, 10 a.m. Friday, Bowling Funeral Home.

Visitation after 7 p.m. Thursday. MANCHESTER Stella Hens-ley, 83, formerly of Manchester, died Tuesday in Sandusky, Ohio. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Britton Funeral Home.

MAYFIELD W.R. Bell, 76, died here Tuesday. His wife, Odean, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Thursday, R.

D. Brown Funeral Home. MAYFIELD Deborah Williams, 35, died here Monday after an illness. Her husband, Wayne, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Friday, Byrn Funeral Home. MCKEE Imogene Hartsock, 56, Route 2, Booneville, formerly of Jackson County, died Tuesday in Lexington. Her husband, Fred, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m. Friday, Lakes Funeral Home.

Visitation after 6 p.m. Thursday. MOUNT VERNON Ruth Hilton Lambert, 77, died here Tuesday. Her husband, James, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Friday, First Baptist Church. Visitation at Dowell Martin Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Thursday. MUNFORD VILLE Louise Barbour Embry, 69, Canmer, died Tuesday in Louisville. Her husband, John, survives.

Funeral, 11 a.m. Friday, Mount Gilboa Baptist Church. Visitation at Hawkins-Brooks Funeral Home after 5 p.m. Thursday, and the church 9 a.m. Friday.

MURRAY Thelma Blalock Parker, 85, died here Tuesday. Funeral, 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Blalock-Coleman Funeral Home. MURRAY Bert L. Williams, 75, died here Tuesday.

His wife, Saint, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Thursday, Blalock-Coleman Funeral Home. NEW HAVEN Charles Edward Benningf ield, 39, died Tuesday in Elizabethtown. His wife, Margaret, survives.

Funeral, 11 a.m. Friday, St. Catherine Catholic Church. Visitation at Joseph L. Greenwell Funeral Home after 9 a.m.

Thursday. ONTON Earl "Plowboy" Austin, 79, died Sunday in Venice, Fla. His wife, Kathleen, survives. Funeral, 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Tompkins Son Funeral Home, Se-bree.

OWENSBORO John W. Dea- son, 77, died here Tuesday. His wife, Louise, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Glenn Funeral Home.

Visitation after 2 p.m. Thursday. OWENSBORO Roy Haynes, 75, died here Wednesday. His wife, Grace, survives. Funeral, 10 a.m.

Saturday, James H. Davis Funeral BARDSTOWN Ernest S. Hamilton, 51, died Tuesday in Louisville. His wife, Dorothy, survives. Funeral, 10 a.m.

Saturday, St. Monica Catholic Church. Visitation at Northside Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Friday. Burial, St.

Dominic Cemetery, Springfield. BEREA Willard Hunter, 67, died here Tuesday. His wife, Mattie, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Reppert Funeral Home.

Visitation after 5 p.m. Friday. BOWLING GREEN Mary P. Nusz, 90, died here Wednesday. Funeral, 10 a.m.

Saturday, Holy Spirit Catholic Church. Visitation at J. C. Kirby Son Funeral Home after 2 p.m. Friday.

BROWDER Virginia Dale Knight Poole, 67, died Wednesday in Madisonville. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Tucker Beechmont Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Fri-day.

BURKESVUIE Beatrice Gill, 82, died here Tuesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Thursday, Ballou Funeral Home. CADIZ Charles D. Dlggs, 67, died Tuesday in Hopkinsville.

His wife, Zepherina, survives. Gamble Funeral Home, Hopkinsville, is handling arrangements. CAMPBELLS VILLE Nita Poe, 64, died here Wednesday. Her husband, Ralph, survives. Parrott Ramsey Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

CAMPBELLS VILLE Gene Sanders died here Saturday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Parrott Ramsey Funeral Home. Visitation after 2 p.m. Thursday.

CAMPBELLSVILLE Goodlup S. Stayton, 91, died Tuesday in Russell Springs. Funeral, 1 p.m. Friday, Lyon-DeWitt Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m.

Thursday. CLARKSON Marie Kipper Bailey, 86, Leitchfield, died Tuesday in Elizabethtown. Funeral, 11 a.m. CDT Friday, St. Paul Catholic Church.

Visitation at Rogers Funeral Home after 1 p.m. CDT Thursday. COLUMBIA Dora Fudge, 86, Breeding, died Tuesday in Glasgow. Funeral, 10:30 a.m. Friday, Grissom Funeral Home.

COLUMBIA William B. Rose, 60, died here Tuesday. Funeral, 1 p.m. Thursday, Stotts-Phelps-McQueary Funeral Home. FLORENCE Opal Masters Wallace, 59, died here Friday.

Her husband, Frank, survives. The funeral was Monday at Stith Funeral Home. GEORGETOWN August William Mauer 76, New Carlisle, formerly of Georgetown, died Wednesday in South Bend. His wife, Rhoda, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m.

Saturday, Tucker-Yocum-Wilson Funeral Home. Visitation after 2 p.m. Friday. HARLAN Dorothy Barker, 69, Baxter, died here Wednesday. Funeral, 1 p.m.

Saturday, Mount Pleasant Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Friday. HAZARD Bud Collins, 72, Stormking, died there Wednesday. His wife, Eva, survives.

Funeral, 1 p.m. Friday, Engle Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Thursday. HAZARD Mae Golden Vires, 79, Bulan, died here Tuesday.

Funeral, 11 a.m. Thursday, Glen Mag-gard Funeral Home. Burial, Harden Cemetery, Jackson. HOPKINSVILLE Nina Ang. lin, 103, died here Wednesday.

Funeral, 1 p.m. Monday, Babbage Funeral Home. Visitation after noon Sunday. HOPKINSVILLE The funeral for Edwin Owen Monroe, 62, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Fuqua-Hin-ton Funeral Home.

Visitation after 4 p.m. Wednesday. He died Tuesday. Businessman's trial begins in alleged scheme to kill horse for insurance money I "fi tihr iiHi imm -1 V1, UMifciiilff il 1 fi ii niTi tii crease state reimbursements to personal-care homes, ask the state's banks and the Kentucky Housing Corp. to develop programs to help senior citizens retain their homes, and hire an additional 50 workers for adult protective services.

The changes would cost $5 million to $6 million, Wilkinson said. The new nursing-home beds would cost $1.9 million in state funds each biennium and would be matched with $4.6 million in federal funds, Wilkinson said. Her announcement came the same day the Commission for Health Economics Control in Kentucky approved 1,116 new nursing-home beds while rejecting applications for 3,470 beds. When asked whether the 1,000 beds would be needed, campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Street said Wilkinson believed the need was based on the growing population of older citizens. Street said the money for the proposals would come from "contemplated growth" in the General Fund and a surplus of about $100 million when Gov.

Wallace Wilkinson's term ends this year. Wilkinson also proposed creating a Department of Family and Children's Services, but Street said details would be presented later. Information for this story was also gathered by staff writer Cynthia Crossley. Corp. was general partner, and Minsky was its chairman.

Brown owed Minsky about $100,000 for another horse but could not afford to pay the debt. The group that owned McBlush was losing money because the horse had not developed into a runner. Minsky told Brown he would forgive the debt if Brown would kill the horse by giving it a lethal dose of insulin while it was stabled at Gleneagles Farm in Woodford County. McBlush was insured by Lloyd's of London for $100,000. McBlush died Nov.

4, 1987. Defense attorney Marvin Segal told the jury that the checking account balance did not reflect the total value of the partnership. Segal said the partnership owed Minsky about $50,000, but Minsky would have gotten his money whether the horse had lived or died. Segal said Minsky could just as easily have sold McBlush. Trevey said Brown would testify he gave the insulin to McBlush.

Such an injection might go undetected because insulin levels are rarely tested in horse autopsies, said Dr. Suzanne Neu, a veterinary pathologist at the University of Kentucky. Neu, who examined McBlush, said during cross-examination that she thought the colt died of severe colic. Lloyd's of London, thinking the horse died of natural causes, paid a $100,000 death benefit to the partnership in February 1988. After learning about the alleged insulin injection, underwriters for the insurance firm filed a lawsuit in Fayette Circuit Court two months ago against Minsky, Brown and West.

sell 77 acres main properly signed last week, but a deed transfer has not been filed, he said. The papers had not come before Calumet's board of directors for approval, said Don Sturgill, attorney for Bertha Wright, whose family owns Calumet. The buyer is a group Robey identified as Omega. "It is my understanding John Sikura is a principal the deal," he said. Sikura is a Canadian who buys and sells horses.

The sale of the 77 acres comes as the farm is heavily in debt, including two mortgages that total $64.75 million. winners named Hoiardj Timothy E. McNally, Scott High, Covington; Rhonda A. Jenkins, Ellzabethtown Senior High; Kasey L. Huck, St.

Henry High, Erlanger; Dovld J. Bertasso and Robert T. Carlisle, Highlands High, Fort Thomas; Gloria Jiang, Western Hills High, Frankfort; William Truelove, Fronklln-Simpson High, Franklin; Nell H. Knowl-ton III, Henderson, Reitz Memorial High, Evans-vllle, Michael W. Combs, Hopklnsville High School; Leroy N.

Sparks Grayson County High, Leitchfield; Brian M. Lutmer, Madison-vllle-North Hopkins High; Jennifer L. Bowman, Grant County High, Dry Ridge; and Timothy A. Sublette, George Rogers Clark High, Winchester. Louisville area: Keith W.

Cushlng, Trinity High; Jonathan S. Morris and Amy L. Pemberton, duPont Manual High; and Tyson L. Oberg, Oldham County Senior High, Buckner. Associated Press Ky.

A horse part-jnership was nearly broke in the months before the thoroughbred McBlush was allegedly killed in an insurance scheme, according to a witness at the federal trial of a Con- necticut businessman. The partnership had $279 in its checking account in October 1987, jsalflC prosecution witness Laura Crawford, a paralegal who kept the group's financial records at the time. Crawford testified Tuesday, the first day of testimony in Gerald L. iMinsky's trial in U.S. District Court.

Minsky, 46, of Westport, is accused of plotting to kill the colt at a Woodford County (Ky.) farm in 1987. He was indicted Nov. 7 by a fed-J eral grand jury in Lexington on charges of conspiracy, and mail and -wire fraud. The trial was moved to Ashland because of pretrial publicity. fTwo others have pleaded guilty in the' case: Dr.

Joseph J. Brown, a Wright dentist who once lived An Shelby County, and Robert T. -West, a bloodstock agent from Mid-Way. (West is not the Robert West who owns Millford Farm in Woodford County.) and West pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy in March 1990, but neither has been sentenced. Both are expected to testify against Minsky.

U. S. Attorney Robert F. Trevey alleged during opening statements that: McBlush, the 3-year-old colt by Blushing Groom, was owned by a group called Shannon Brook Farms Partnership VI. Worldwide Equine Calumet Farm to across road from Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky.

Calumet Farm will sell 77 acres of the historic 850-acre horse farm, the farm's general counsel said. The property consists of two non-adjoining tracts that are separated fjrbm the main farm by New Circle pic-ad, lawyer Lyle Robey said Tuesday night. He said the land is not needed for Calumet's breeding operation. main tract has not been offered for sale. That's not to say at some future point it will not be," jiobey said.

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Funeral: 10 a.m. Thursday, St. Polycarp Catholic Church, 7718 Columbine Drive. Visitation: Ratterman's-Southwest, 4832 Cane Run Road, after 8:30 a.m. Thursday.

Damon Lamont Johnson, 20, of 1216 Quest Drive. Funeral, 1 p.m. Friday, Green Street Baptist Church, 519 E. Gray St. Visitation: A.

D. Porter Sons Funeral Home, 1300 W. Chestnut after 9 a.m. Thursday and at the church after 9 a.m. Friday.

John Edward Kruger, 60, of Mount Washington. Funeral: 1 p.m. Friday, Arch L. Heady Okolona Funeral Home, 8519 Preston Highway. Visitation: after 1 p.m.

Thursday. William W. Lamping, 61, Bra-denton, formerly of Louisville. Funeral: 10 a.m. EST Friday, Dill-man-Hunter Funeral Home, Har-dinsburg, Ind.

Visitation: after 6 p.m. Thursday. Lewis Edward Love 52, of Floydsburg Road, Crestwood. Funeral: 10 a.m. Friday, St.

Aloysius Catholic Church, Pewee Valley. Visitation: Stoess Funeral Home, Crestwood, after 3 p.m. Thursday. Geneva Mabel Pearl "Sally" Macy, 78. Memorial Mass: 4 p.m.

Wednesday, Most Blessed Sacra ment Catholic Church, 3509 Taylor Blvd. Arch L. Heady Southern Funeral Home handled arrangements. Kittye McFarland. Funeral: 2 p.m.

Thursday, Highlands Funeral Home, 3331 Taylorsville Road. Harry O'Bannon, 80, of 3213 W. Kentucky St. Funeral: 11 a.m. Friday, G.

C. Williams Funeral Home, 1935 W. Broadway. Visitation: after 7 p.m. Thursday.

Mary Louise Rogers, 75, of Jefferson Manor Nursing Home. Graveside service: 11 a.m. Friday, Cave Hill Cemetery. There will be no visitation. Arch L.

Heady West-port Road Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Joyce Miles Rune, 58, of Hen-Lane. Graveside service: 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Cave Hill Cemetery. Pearson's is handling arrangements.

Herbert St. Clair, 77, of Good Samaritan Center, a native of Campbellsville. Funeral: noon Thursday, Nunnelley Funeral Home, 4327 Taylor Blvd. Lois Jean Taylor, 60, of San Antonio, Texas, formerly of Louisville. Funeral: 1 p.m.

Friday, G. C. Williams Funeral Home, 1935 W. Broadway. Visitation: after 7 p.m.

Thursday. Philip P. Ash, 93. Funeral: 1 p.m. Thursday, Embry-Bosse Funeral Home, 2723 Preston Highway.

Visitation: after 10 a.m. Thursday. Nan McCoy Ballou, 47, of 3634 Stanton Blvd. Funeral: 11 a.m. Thursday, Melbourne Heights Baptist Church, 3728 Taylorsville Road.

Arch L. Heady Hikes Point Funeral Home is handling arrangements. James S. Bradley, 68, a native of Hardin County. Funeral: was Wednesday at Arch Heady Crescent Hill Funeral Home.

Bernard W. Braltllng, 84. Funeral: 11 a.m. Thursday, St. Raphael the Archangel Catholic Church, Lancashire Avenue and Bardstown Road.

Ratterman's-Bardstown Road is handling arrangements. Bobby Hughes Brlnley, 48, of 4417 Hopewell Road, Jeffersontown. Funeral: 2 p.m. Thursday, Hopewell Baptist Church, 4305 Hopewell Road, Jeffersontown. Visitation: the church, after 10 a.m.

Thursday. Boone-Nickell Funeral Home in Fle-mingsburg is handling arrangements. Wade Hampton Freeman 82. Funeral: 10 a.m. Thursday, St.

Martha Catholic Church, 2825 Klondike Lane. Highlands Funeral Home is handling arrangements..