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I THE COURIER-JOURNAL DEATHS REGION SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1996 A 13 LOUISVILLE AREA DEATHS Man pleads guilty in scheme to defraud Angus cattle breeders By DEBORAH YETTER Staff Writer A Hurstbourne man charged with defrauding about 40 cattle breeders of $2 million in an elaborate scheme to buy purebred Angus show cattle pleaded guilty yesterday to 35 counts of money laundering and five counts of wire fraud. Kenneth Ray Clark, 47, of the 600 block of Bedfordshire Road, entered his plea a day after his trial started in U.S. District Court in Louisville. Yesterday Clark admitted to the scheme in which he told breeders from about a dozen states, including Kentucky, that he was acting on behalf of a group of anonymous wealthy investors. He bought the cattle on credit.

But instead of selling the cattle to LOUISVILLE Mildred J. Bentley, 91 Eula Black, 76 Rebecca C. Blunk, 81 Marguerite O. Borders, 82 Eli Brown 95 Harry Mahlon "Mick" Brown, 61 Kenneth Thomas Burd, 86 John H. Cockrell, 66 Jo D.

"Nicey" Coleman, 42 Evangeline S. Crandell, 83 Roger B. Douglas, 85 Ella Walters Goodman, 96 Jack E. Hasty 51 Philip H. Ketterer, 76 Sterling Little, 75 Flossie Mercer, 78 Robert M.

Newlin 60 Lula Rhea Frederick Franklin Ruckriegel, 73 Jack H. Sherman, 63 Kenneth Lee Singleton, 48 Patricia D. Thomas, 59 Willie "Billie" Vance Webb Charles Williams, 77 Pauline Hankins Wilson, 86 Lorene J. Sherrard Yadon, 82 CORRECTED OBITUARY Patricia H. Bolton, 63 McLean Stevenson, of 'MASH' fame, dies the supposed investors, he sold the costly registered animals at commercial auctions or at stockyards for less than half their value.

He used the proceeds to gamble in Las Vegas, buy securities for himself and pay personal expenses, according to his June 6 indictment. The indictment said the scheme began in September 1994, when Clark began contacting cattle breeders in the South and Midwest, telling them he was forming a large herd on behalf of investors "who had authorized him to spend a large sum of money to form this herd. But Clark said that for tax reasons, he couldn't pay the cattle breeders their money until January 1995. Angus cattle with registered bloodlines bring high prices and generally are sold at special auctions or private season closer: Blake finished his hitch and was flying home to Bloomington, 111., when his plane was lost at sea. The show, ranked in the Top 10 for nine of its 11 seasons, ended in 1983.

Stevenson Stevenson went on to his own series "The McLean Stevenson Show," "Hello, Larry" and "Con-do." All were short-lived, and he later conceded that leaving "MASH" was the mistake of his career. "When I left the show, the mistake was not in leaving," he said for a 1991 retrospective, "Memories of MASH." "The mistake was that I thought everybody in America loved McLean Stevenson. That was not the case. Everybody loved Henry Blake. So if you go and do 'The McLean Stevenson nobody cares about McLean Stevenson." Stevenson, like other "MASH" actors, praised the writing of the show, which incorporated hometowns and I Mi few- sales.

Commercial cattle are sold at lower prices for, slaughter. After Clark failed to pay the breeders their money, they forced hini'jnto bankruptcy and the FBI began a fraud investigation. Clark's trial had been scheduled to start Wednesday, but it was delayed after he failed to show up at the federal courthouse and refused to leave his house. U.S. District Judge John G.

Heyburn II sent deputies from the U.S. Marshal's Service to pick- him up, and Clark was placed in custody. Clark is to be sentenced May "10. The maximum penalty is 10 years in prison for each of the 35 money-laundering counts and and five years' for each of the five wire fraud counts. He also pleaded guilty to a criminal forfeiture count and could be ordered to forfeit the approximately $2 million involved in the scheme.

some backgrounds of its Stevenson, like his character; was born in Bloomington, 111., and said in 1991 that his character was based on his father, a cardiologist. Stevenson's cousin Adlai who twice ran for president, introduced the actor to his first Broadway, play. Stevenson, who had been an assistant athletic director at Northwestern, was 32 when the acting bug bit. He learned by acting in commercials, summer stock and comedy clubs After he took some comedy sketches he had written to Tommy mpth-ers, Stevenson won a slot as a writer on "The Glen Campbell Show." 'He also wrote for the satirical "That Was the Week That Was" and. "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour," later acting in the sketches he wrote.

Stevenson was hired as the urbane boss on "The Doris Day in 1969 and next became a regular on "The Tim Conway Comedy Hour." His film credits include "The Christian Licorice Store" in 1971, "'Win, Place or Steal" in 1975 and "The Cat from Outer Space" in 1978. Stevenson is survived by his wife, Ginny; two children; and a said. "He'd punch a hole in the slot and fish the deposit bags out," VerHey said. In his plea agreement, Reed stealing $500,000 to $800,000 during 25 thefts. He said he belonged to a group that is responsible for 100 bank thefts in the South and Midwest over the past 20 years.

Reed has agreed to cooperate with authorities in solving those crimes, VerHey said. He is free on $50,000 bond, the prosecutor said. Reed was fired from the Louisville force in 1993 after the department discovered that he allegedly had forged four grand jury subpoenas. Reed allegedly submitted the subpoenas to the department along with a request that he receive extra pay. Officers who work at night are given extra pay to appear in court.

Fired Louisville police officer admits Michigan bank theft Mildred J. Bentley, 91, formerly of Louisville, died Wednesday in Glendale, Calif. She was a retired employee of Franklin Printing Co. and a member of Hazelwood United Methodist Church. Survivors: a sister, Ester Bentley.

Funeral: 11 a.m. Tuesday, ley, 4327 Taylor Blvd. Burial: ville Memorial Gardens West. Visitation: 4-9 p.m. Monday.

Memorial gifts: church memorial fund. Eula Black, 76, died Thursday at Norton Hospital. She was the former Eula Quinn, a retired co-owner of the old Derby Tile and a member of Arcade Avenue Baptist Church. Survivors: a daughter, Betty Rice; a sister, Anna Mae DeVore; brothers Ernest and James Quinn; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Funeral: 10 a.m.

Monday, Arch L. Heady Southern, 3601 Taylor Blvd. Entombment: Louisville Memorial Gardens East Mausoleum. Visitation: 6-9 p.m. Saturday and 1-9 p.m.

Sunday. Rebecca C. Blunk, 81, of St. Matthews Manor Nursing Home, died there Friday. She was a member of St.

Matthews Baptist Church. Survivors: a son, John R. Blunk; a sister, Sarah Hogan; and a grandchild. Funeral: 10 a.m. Monday, Pearson's, 149 Breckenridge Lane.

Burial: Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation: 1-4 and 6-9 p.m. Sunday. Memorial gifts: American Cancer Society. Marguerite 0.

Borders, 82, died Friday at her home. She was the former Marguerite Shaw. Survivors: sons Donald, Norman and James Borders; daughters Juanita Sparks, Rose Borders, Maureen Du-sel, Elizabeth Whitlock and Martha Borders; a brother, Marshall Shaw; 19 grandchildren; and 25 great-grandchildren. Funeral: 10 a.m. Monday, Arch L.

Heady Son, 7410 Westport Road. Burial: Resthaven Memorial. Visitation: 6-9 p.m. Saturday and 2-9 p.m. Sunday.

Eli Brown 95, of Clarksville, formerly of La Grange, died Friday at Clark Memorial Hospital in Jef-fersonville, Ind. He was a retired farmer. Survivors: a son, Eli Brown daughters Ada Shaver, Frances Richardson, Katherine Hundley and Alma Lynch; brothers Johnnie, Richard and James Brown; sisters Lizzie Jones, Edith Brown, Mattie Curtis and Edna Jones; 21 grandchildren; and 30 greatgrandchildren. Funeral: 2 p.m. Sunday, Arch L.

Heady Radcliffe, La Grange. Burial: Valley of Rest, La Grange. Visitation: 6-9 p.m. Saturday. Memorial gifts: American Cancer Society.

Harry Mahlon "Mick" Brown, 61, of Westport, died Friday at Jewish Hospital. He was a retired machinist for Black and Decker Co. in Shelbyville, an Army veteran of the Korean War and a member of Westport Methodist Church. Survivors: his wife, the former Joy C. Klineline; a daughter, Vickey B.

Grace; sisters Mary Satterly, Viola Burgin and Sylvia Voelker; and two grandchildren. Funeral: 1 p.m. Monday, Arch L. Heady Radcliffe, La Grange. Burial: Valley of Rest, La Grange.

Visitation: 5-9 p.m. Sunday. Kenneth Thomas Burd, 86, died Thursday at Good Samaritan Center. He was retired from Celanese Coating where he had worked for 40 years, and a member of Shively Baptist Church. Survivors: a daughter, Loretta J.

Lewis; a son, Russell T. Burd; a sister, Effie Waldeck; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Funeral: 10:30 a.m. Monday, Owen, 5317 Dixie Highway. Burial: Louisville Memorial Gardens West.

Visitation: 2-9 p.m. Sunday. Memorial gifts: Good Samaritan Center. John H. Cockrell, 66, of 911 S.

Jackson died Wednesday at University of Louisville Hospital. Survivors: sons Rodrick Cockrell and Gary Dunbar; stepsons Wallace, Bobby and Shelley Floyd; his mother, Rebecca Simmons; and four grandchildren. Funeral: 1 p.m. Monday, Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church, 443 W. Kentucky St.

Burial: Green Meadows Memorial. Visitation: G. C. Williams, 1935 W. Broadway, 7-9 p.m.

Sunday. Jo D. "Nicey" Coleman, 42, of 2932 Southern died Wednesday at Jewish Hospital. Survivors: a daughter, Latonda Brown; a stepson, Terrance Brown; her mother, Dolores Coleman; a sister Nadine Coleman; stepsisters Dorlene Harris and Donna Jean Tyler; and brothers Charles the Rev. Larry and Gary R.

Coleman. Funeral: 2 p.m. Monday, Bethel Baptist Church, 3540 Garland Ave. Burial: Green Meadows. Visitation: G.

C. Williams, 1935 W. Broadway, 6-9 p.m. Sunday. Evangeline S.

Crandell, 83, died Thursday at Christian Health Care Center. She was a retired registered medical technologist for the former SS. Mary Elizabeth Hospital and a member of Fourth Avenue United Methodist Church. Survivors: cousins Jerry Murchi-son, Georgia Frey and Martha Reap-some, all of whom cared for her. The body was cremated.

A memorial service will be held later. Arrangements: Nunnelley. Roger B. Douglas, 85, died Friday at American Transitional Care-Hill-creek. He was a retired road foreman for the former Penn Central Railroad sion Catholic Church, 4600 Lynn-brook Drive.

Burial: Resthaven Memorial. Visitation: Jeffersontown Funeral Home, 9318 Taylorsville Road, 6-9 p.m. Saturday and 1-8 p.m. Sunday. Jack H.

Sherman, 63, died Friday at Hurstbourne Care Centre at Stony Brook. He was president of Machinery and Specialties Engineering Co. and an Air Force veteran of the Korean War. Survivors: his wife, the former June Rhodes; sons John D. and Scott A.

Sherman; daughters Debora Ising, Christy Llewellyn and Joan Allen; his mother, Dorytha Sherman; brothers Elmore III, Thomas and Richard Sherman; a sister, Dorytha Campbell; and nine grandchildren. Funeral: 11 a.m. Monday, St. Barnabas Catholic Church, 3042 Hikes Lane. Entombment: Calvary.

Visitation: Arch L. Heady Hikes Point, 4109 Taylorsville Road, 1-4 and 5-8 p.m. Sunday. Memorial gifts: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.

Kenneth Lee Singleton, 48, formerly of Louisville, died Tuesday in San Francisco. He was a Navy veteran. Survivors: his mother, Loletta La-verne Singleton; brothers Terry and Richard Singleton; and sisters Sandi Bright and Pam Keene. The body was cremated. A memorial service will take place later.

Arrangements: Chapel of the Highlands, Millbrae, Calif. Patricia D. Thomas, 59, died Wednesday in Ormond Beach, Fla. She was the former Patricia Doo-ley, a retired secretary for Cherry-Burrell Co. and a member of St.

Ignatius Catholic Church. Survivors: her husband, Robert Lee Thomas; a son, Mark P. Thomas; a daughter, Kimberley A. McDonald; a sister, Margaret Jansing; and four grandchildren. Funeral: 10:30 a.m.

Monday, Fern Creek Funeral Home, 5406 Bardstown Road. Burial: Evergreen. Visitation: 2-7 p.m. Sunday. Memorial gifts: Phi Beta Psi, Eta Chapter, co Gerry Whitehead, 8513 Carmil Drive, Louisville, Ky.

40291. Willie "Billie" Vance Webb, of Hillwood Drive, died Thursday at Audubon Regional Medical Center. She was the former Willie Kelly and a member of Preston Highway United Methodist Church. Survivors: her husband, David S. Webb; three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.

Funeral: 11 a.m. Monday, Embry-Bosse, 2723 Preston Highway. Burial: Resthaven Memorial. Visitation: 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. Sunday and after 10 a.m.

Monday. Charles Williams, 77, died Thursday at Alliant Medical Pavilion. He was a retired employee of Brown-Forman an Army Air Forces veteran of World War II and a member of Grace Hope Presbyterian Church. Survivors: sisters Mattie Watkins and Kathleen Logan; a brother, Thomas Williams; and a friend, Mary Martin, who cared for him. Graveside service: 10 a.m.

Monday, Zachary Taylor National. Visitation: A. D. Porter Sons, 1300 W. Chestnut 2-5 and 7-9 p.m.

Sunday. Memorial gifts: American Cancer Society. Pauline Hankins Wilson, 86, Friendship House, died there Friday. She was a retired clerk for Strath-moor Pharmacy and a member of Southeast Christian Church. Survivors: a son, Arthur E.

Wilson; two grandchildren; and two greatgrandchildren. Funeral: 11 a.m. Monday, Shannon, Shelbyville. Burial: Grove Hill, Shelbyville. Visitation: after 10 a.m.

Monday. Memorial gifts: Christian Church Homes of Kentucky. Lorene J. Sherrard Yadon, 82, of Brooks, died Thursday at Audubon Regional Medical Center. She was a Baptist.

Survivors: her husband, Arthur Yadon; a son, Charles Yadon; daughters Delores Kennedy, Wanda Davis and Kathy Young; sisters Mabel Powers, Mary Alice Raizor, Frances Vincent and Lillian Wilkerson; 12 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren. Funeral: 10 a.m. Monday, Hardy-Close, Shepherdsville. Burial: Evergreen. Visitation: 5-9 p.m.

Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday and after 9 a.m. Monday. CORRECTED OBITUARY Patricia H. Bolton, 63, died Thursday at Baptist Hospital East.

She was the former Patricia Henry and a retired secretary for Southern High School. Survivors: her husband, Carl Bolton; a son, Robert Bolton; a brother, Paul Henry; a daughter-in-law, Gayle Bolton, who cared for her; and two grandchildren. Funeral: 10 a.m. Saturday, Fourth Presbyterian Church, 3016 Preston Highway. Graveside service: 3 p.m.

Saturday, Cumberland Memorial Gardens, Corbin. Arrangements: Arch L. Heady Okolona. Memorial gifts: American Cancer Society. INDIANA DEATHS CLARKSVILLE John W.

Alderman, 71, died Friday. Funeral: 1 p.m. Monday, Scott, Jeffersonville. Visitation: noon-9 p.m. Sunday.

FLOYDS KNOBS Edgar R. Sperzel, 81, died Thursday. Funeral: 2 p.m. Sunday, Sea-brook Dieckmann Naville Market Street, New Albany. Visitation: 2-9 p.m.

Saturday and after 9 a.m. Sunday. JEFFERSONVILLE Adrian M. McOaniel, 94, died Friday. Funeral: 1 1 a.m.

Monday, Carr Funeral Home, Boaz, Ala. Visitation: 6-9 p.m. Sunday. JEFFERSONVILLE Christopher D. Noel, 37, died Thursday.

Funeral: 10 a.m. Monday, Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Visitation: Coots, 1-9 p.m. Sunday. NEW ALBANY James W.

Taylor 78, died Thursday. Funeral: 11 a.m. Monday, Kraft. Visitation: 1-9 p.m. Sunday.

By MYRNA OLIVER Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES McLean Stevenson, best remembered for his role as the laconic, reluctant commanding officer and chief surgeon during the early years of CBS television's "MASH," has died. He was 66. Stevenson died Thursday at a Los Angeles-area hospital of a heart attack, his agent, Robert Malcolm, said yesterday. The actor earned an Emmy nomination and a 1973 Golden Globe Award for his work as Lt. Col.

Henry Blake, head of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. Stevenson appeared on the show from its inception in 1972 until 1975. "McLean Stevenson was one of the kindest, most sensitive people I've worked with or known," said Gary Burghoff, who played Radar O'Reilly. "My personal sense of loss is magnified a thousand times by what this kind, funny gentleman has meant to all those who knew him." When Stevenson opted for more lucrative offers, his character was written out of the show in a heart-rending Criminal aliens expelled in record numbers in '95 WASHINGTON (AP) The United States expelled a record 31,500 criminal aliens during 1995. In announcing the statistic, Attorney General Janet Reno dispatched $87 million to help 44 states and the District of Columbia pay prison costs for others still here.

Preliminary data showed that 2,140 criminal aliens were taken from federal, state and county prisons and jails last December and expelled, pushing the total past 1994's record 30,000 expulsions. Ex-Louisvillian Cecil Head dies; '40s bridge champion New York Times News Service Louisville native Cecil Head, one of the nation's leading bridge players half a century ago, died Wednesday in his hometown of Fort Branch, Ind. He was 85. His wife, Olivia, said he died of congestive heart failure. Head set records in the National Life Master Pair Championship, which he and his partner, S.

Garton Churchill, won in 1948. They scored 65 percent over four sessions, and 77.4 percent in a single session. Head also won more than 14 regional championships and contributed to his partner's theoretical ideas, some of which became standard practice. Head graduated from Harvard University and Yale Law School. He then practiced as a lawyer in Manhattan.

Survivors besides his wife include a son, Charles, of North Miami Shores, and two grandchildren. KENTUCKY DEATHS BENTON Sarah Kathleen Colson Pickens, 66 BOWLING GREEN Alma T. Ellis, 97; Icie Willis Goodall, 81 Tommy H. Ramsey, 56; Richard Walker, 64 BRANDENBURG Strother Dowell, 79; Belinda J. Green, 18; Hazel C.

Swink, 81 CADIZ Robert B. Joyce, 78 CAMPBELLSVILLE Elizabeth Brents Coak- ley; George Robert Cowherd, 55 CLARKSON Mary Doris Douthitt, 45 DANVILLE Elizabeth Ellen Elliott, 86 DAWSON SPRINGS Pauline Thomas, 71 ELIZABETHTOWN Carl William Cook, 82 EVARTS Chestina Sue Long Huff, 53 FRANKLIN Donald Vance, 54 GREENVILLE David Charles Binkley, 74 HARLAN China Sizemore Brown, 86; Shirley L. Payne, 83 HOPKINSVILLE Amy K. Higgins, 83; Lee Prucia Shanklin, 95; Romona Lee Smith, 67 HORSE CAVE Ernest Richardson, 94 LEBANON Theodore R. Clarkson, 83 LEXINGTON Meek Brazelton, 81; Mary Esenbock, 80 LIBERTY Matthew Wayne Coleman, 3 LONDON Fayma Evelyn Sweet Cheek, 61 MADISONVILLE Mabel B.

Scott, 87 MANCHESTER Gilbert Lee, 58 MARTIN Lucy Mae Davidson, 85 MAYFIELCr Joe B. Short, 83 MOREHEAD Scoty Keith Haines, 39 MORGANTOWN Richard O. Caudill, 49 MUNFORDVILLE Robert J. King, 74 OWENSBORO Charles Burdette 75; Gertrude Durham, 79; Thomas Leroy Johnson, 40 PADUCAH Lottie Hartle, 84; Mary K. Hicks, 70 PRESTONSBURG Elsie Prater Holbrook Poe, 86 RICHLAND Lottie Pearl Thompson, 86 SMITHS GROVE Forest "Tick" Marr, 87 SOMERSET Alta Pennington Denney, 89 SPRINGFIELD Amos Thompson, 97 WHITESVILLE Pascal Howard, 84 WHITLEY CITY Roger L.

Neal, 64 WILLIAMSBURG Lillian Moses, 95 WILLIAMSTOWN Everett "Johnny" Black 51 REPORTS a Navy veteran of World War II and a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church. Survivors: a son, Herbert E. Douglas; and a sister, Joanne M. Douglas.

Funeral: 10 a.m. Monday, Arch L. Heady Crescent Hill, 2428 Frankfort Ave. Burial: Resthaven Memorial. Visitation: after 9 a.m.

Monday. Ella Walters Goodman, 96, died Thursday at Klondike Manor Nursing Home. She was a Baptist. Survivors: brothers Carl, Bill and Buckner Walters; a sister, Louise Logsdon; four grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and 13 great-great-grandchildren. Funeral: 2 p.m.

CST Sunday, Hawkins-Brooks, Munfordville. Burial: Magnolia Cemetery. Visitation: p.m. Saturday and after 10 a.m. Sunday.

Jack E. Hasty 51, formerly of Louisville, died Jan. 26 in Cape Coral, Fla. He was a physicians assistant, a Navy veteran of the Vietnam War and a Catholic. Survivors: his wife, Denise Hasty; daughters Dana and Deana Hasty; a brother, Jay Hasty; and a sister, Susan Fahringer.

The funeral was Jan. 30 in Cape Coral, Fla. Arrangements: Coral Ridge Funeral Home, Cape Coral. Memorial gifts: Health Park Hospice House, 9470 Health Park Circle, Fort Myers, Fla. 33908.

A memorial service for Philip H. Ketterer, 76, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Holy Family Catholic Church, 3926 Poplar Level Road. Visitation: Bosse, Barret and Ellison avenues, 1-5 p.m. Saturday.

He died Wednesday. Sterling Little, 75, formerly of Louisville, died Wednesday in Roanoke, Va. He was a retired painter and a member of Church of God of Prophecy in Roanoke. Survivors: his wife, Dorothy M. Little; a daughter, Barbara Dent; sons Dexter and Bill Little; six grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

Funeral: 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Oa-key's North Chapel, Roanoke. Burial: Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Roanoke. Flossie Mercer, 78, died Friday at Southwest Hospital. She was the former Flossie Aikin, a former lunchroom worker for Medora Elementary and Our Lady of Consolation schools and a member of South Jefferson Baptist Church.

Survivors: a daughter, Sharon Ca-hill; a brother, E. Toad Aikin; a sister, Sylvia Quire; two grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Funeral: 11:30 a.m. Monday, W. G.

Hardy Valley, 10907 Dixie Highway. Burial: Bethany Memorial. Visitation: 4-9 p.m. Saturday and 1-9 p.m. Sunday.

Robert M. Newlin 60, died Friday at Suburban Medical Center. He was a retired car salesman for Bluegrass Lincoln-Mercury and an Air Force veteran. Survivors: his wife, the former Dar-lene Burnett; sons Robert M. Jr.

and Rex M. Newlin; sisters Jackie Richardson, Susie Newlin and Nancey Greer; and two grandchildren. The body was cremated. Memorial service: 2 p.m. Monday, Arch L.

Heady Hikes Point, 4109 Taylorsville Road. Visitation: noon-2 p.m. Monday. Lula Rhea, of 4706 Rustburg Place, died there Thursday. Survivors: daughters Pamela G.

Scott, Deborah L. McDonald, Gina McClasky and Candace Dunlap; sons Kenneth A. Goodlett, Lawrence C. Jr. and Michael Rhea; sisters Elizabeth Bailey, Mattie Sleets and Dorothy Keaton; a brother, William A.

Bailey; 19 great-grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. Funeral: 11 a.m. Monday, Mount Vernon Baptist Church, 1107 S. 12th St. Burial: Green Meadows Memorial.

Visitation: the church, 7-9 p.m. Sunday. Arrangements: G. C. Williams.

Frederick Franklin Ruckriegel, 73, died Thursday at Suburban Medical Center. He was a retired employee of the Kentucky Department of Highways and an Army veteran of World War II. Survivors: his wife, the former Pauline Gibson; sons Larry A. Ruckriegel, Leonard John Paul Christopher A. and Kyle E.

Rieber; daughters Cathy L. Chodyniecki and Colleen E. Doty; brothers Robert J. Sr. and Roy A.

Ruckriegel; a sister, Agnes Ho-dapp; and 17 grandchildren. Funeral: 10 a.m. Monday, Ascen Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. A fired Louisville police officer pleaded guilty to stealing more than $50,000 from an Eaton County bank, and he acknowledged roles in two dozen similar robberies. James Marvin Reed, 36, who still lives in Louisville, pleaded guilty in U.S.

District Court on Thursday to stealing money from a First of American Bank in Charlotte, southwest of Lansing, on March 15. He faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,050. Charges against Reed in Eaton County will be dropped in exchange for his testimony against three alleged accomplices, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim VerHey said yesterday. Reed took the money by breaking into overnight deposit chutes, VerHey CRIME ROBBERIES Bearno's Little Sicily, 9216 Westport Road.

An employee said someone claiming to have a weapon demanded money but fled about 3:30 p.m. Feb. 9. Dairy Mart, 4347 S. Third St.

An employee said a man trying to take merchandise without paying struggled with him about 8:45 p.m. Wednesday. Domino's Pizza, 2119 Upper Hunters Trace. An employee said two men, one with a gun, took $110 from the register about 10:15 p.m. Sunday.

Little Caesar's Pizza, 491 7-B Dixie Highway. An employee said a gunman took an undetermined amount of money from the register about 2:45 p.m. Feb. 8. Video Castle, 10266 Shelbyville Road.

An employee said a gunman demanded money but fled when told there was an alarm on the register about 11:30 p.m. Feb. 9. 23rd and Oak streets. Grace Suppler said a man grabbed her purse, containing $90 and a checkbook, about 8:30 p.m.

Thursday. 23rd and Oak streets. Margaret Pryor said a man grabbed her purse, containing $2 and a checkbook, about 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Hancock and Jacob streets.

Tanya Wat-kins said a man grabbed her purse, containing $11, about 1:15 p.m. Thursday. Kramers Lane and Cane Run Road. John Laughlin said he was stopped at a light when a man with a knife tried to open his truck door; the man fled when Laughlin pulled out his own knife about 8 p.m. Feb.

8. 4000 block of Buechel Bank Road. William Faust said a man who indicated he had a gun took his wallet, containing an ATM card and a telephone card, about 12:45 a.m. Monday. 4500 block of Garden Drive.

Tammy Moore said two men, one with a gun, opened her car door, took her purse, gave it back, fired two shots into the hood of her car and fled about 1:15 a.m. Sunday. 100 block of W. Oak St. James Lindsey said a man visiting his apartment hit him in the face and took $40 about 10:15 p.m.

Thursday. BREAK-INS, THEFTS Loulsvlll 2400 block of Emil Ave. Stephanie Schaefer's home. Cash, Wednesday or Thursday. 5000 block of Fay Ave.

Ronald Huff home. TV, coins and display, drill and battery pack. Wednesday or Thursday. 3000 block of Peale Ave. Elsie Dunn's home.

Silver set, cash, jewelry. Thursday. Jefferson County 4400 block of Benoch Ave. Mike Schoen-bachler's home. VCRs, guns, video cassette.

Feb. 9. 10700 block of Blue Lick Road. Annett Brown's home. Coat, tools, cash.

Feb. 9. 3600 block of Cane Run Road. Christy Gambrel's home. TV, VCR, telephone.

Feb. 10 or Sunday. 3400 block of Endeavor Way. David Hill home. Silver, VCR, video game system, tools, camera, coat.

Between Feb. 6 and 9. 1200 block of Huntington Lane. Tricia Jones' home. TV, VCR, telephones.

Monday or Tuesday. 7000 block of Johnsontown Road. Jolinda Frye's home. Video camera. Sunday, 5700 block of Lake Superior CourC Sandra Webb's home.

VCR, jewelry, cash'Mon-day. 5300 block of E. Manslick Road. Jason Braden's home. Guitars, banjos.

"i- 500 block of Mlnette Circle. Tammy Greed's home. VCR, jewelry, lamp. Feb. 10.

8200 block of Minors Susan O'Bryan's home. TV, VCR, jewelry, cash. Tuesday. 10100 block of Mitchell Hill Road. Tonna Spanyer's home.

Stereo equipment, TVi VCR, jewelry. Saturday. 5400 block of Rayburn Road. Andrew Cook's home. CD player, video game system, knife, jewelry.

Tuesday. 3400 block of Shagbark Road. Francine White's apartment. TV. Sunday.

8500 block of Smithton John Mann's home. Guns, jewelry, coins, CDs, sam-era, stereo. Monday. 8500 block of Standing Oak Brian Sanders' apartment. VCR, stereo, video game system and cartridges, CDs.

Feb. 9. 2200 block of Stephan Lane. Ernie Scott home. Silver set.

Between Feb. 3 and 9700 block of Turnpike View Wilda Derringer's home. VCR, statue. 1900 block of Wickham Way. Parti Bowman's home.

Medication. Saturday. 1700 block of Wilart Drive. Terry-Allen's home. Food stamps, medication.

Between Feb. 8 and Monday. COURT ACTION Drunkan-drlvlng conviction David R. Clifford, 27, of the 14500 block of Dixie Highway, fined $350, sentenced to 12 days. Second conviction.

Billy R. Cook, 29, of the 900 block of Central $350, 60 days. Second conviction, Donnie Hansgen, 27, of the 3200 block of Raintree Place, $350, 10 days. Second conviction. (In addition to the penalties all Ken-tuckians convicted of drunken driving 'lose their licenses for at least 30 days and pay a $200 fee.) Readers with information aboul these or other crimes can call Crime Stoppers at 582-CLUE.

If you call, you don't have to give your name. Crime Stoppers will pay cash for information that leads to an arrest and Indictment In any felony. Anyone interested In the status of jail Inmate may call the Jefferson County Corrections Department at 574-VINE. The automated system tells callers when the Inmate will be released or next appear in court..