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Bllt frTHCEPOfflER-JOURNAL. FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1993 KHJTUCSCY EAT! S3 iWheeler Elementary in Jefferson is on list of 51 stellar schools 2 Indiana men killed in crash of small plane Associated Press RENSSELAER, Ind. Two Indiana men whose small private plane left Tompkinsville, Wednesday evening were found dead yesterday in wreckage near the Jasper County Airport. Robert Kinsell, 64, of Remington and Roger Kohlhagen, 44, of De-Motte were killed when Kinsell's single-engine Cessna crashed Wednesday night or early yesterday, said Sgt. Pat King, an Indiana State Police spokeswoman.

They had been on a business trip. King said Kohlhagen's wife, Ruth, called a state police detective at home about 11:30 p.m. and said she was concerned because the plane was about 90 minutes late arriving at the airport. Kinsell, an experienced pilot, had left Tompkinsville about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and made radio contact with controllers in Terre Haute about 7 p.m., saving the plane was rtnai PnHfrnvl anH 'f1nnrf rn visual died Wednesday in Paducah.

Her husband, Robert, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday, Brown Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Friday.

MURRAY Dallas Wrye, 75, died here Wednesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Blalock-Coleman Funeral Home. Visitation after 7 a.m. Friday.

NEW HAVEN Cassle Dorothy Hintelman, 74, died Wednesday in Elizabethtown. Funeral, 10 a.m. Saturday, St. Catherine Catholic Church. Visitation at Joseph Greenwell Funeral Home after 11 a.m.

Friday. PAINTSVILLE Vina Wells Arrowood, 89, formerly of Paints-ville, died Friday in Holly Hill, Fla. Funeral, 10 a.m. Saturday, Jones-Preston Funeral Home. Visitation after 7 p.m.

Friday. RICHMOND Hallie Dunbar Noland, 102, died here Wednesday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Turpin Funeral Home. Visitation after 9 a.m.

Saturday. RUSSELLVILLE Annie Margaret Grayson, 84, died Thursday in Greenville. Her husband, Herbert, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday, Sanders Funeral Home.

Visitation after 5 p.m. Friday. RUSSELLVILLE Alma Wright, 75, died here Thursday. Funeral, 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Plainview General Baptist Church.

Visitation at Memorial Funeral Home after 5 for significant improvement, S. Ellen Jones Elementary in New Albany, and for classroom innovation, Stanton Elementary in Powell County. Redbook said the best elementary schools usually have a committed principal and nurturing teachers. They emphasize writing and hands-on learning, try new methods of measuring students' learning, make creative use of technology, set high expectations for children, and forge alliances with professionals and artists outside the school, the magazine said. School nominations in the Red-book project came from state school officials, national education organizations, members of Congress and education writers.

Graduate students at Teachers College, Columbia University, winnowed a list of 555 nominated schools to 360 finalists. A panel of 12 education experts then chose the 177 winning schools. Bush said Redbook gave her school a $2,000 award. The money will go for instruction, but Wheeler's participatory management council will decide on the specific use, she said. In January, Wheeler was named a Blue Ribbon School by the U.S.

Department of Education. By MICHAEL JENNINGS Writer Jefferson County's Wheeler Elementary School has appeared on a list of 51 outstanding elementary schools across the country. I Redbook magazine's March issue cites Wheeler, 5410 Cynthia Drive, for its ways of mixing and assessing 'students. The magazine listed one khool in each state and the District pi Columbia under the heading of the states," and Wheeler was named Kentucky's best. Wheeler enrolls about 550 children in kindergarten through fifth grade, but it does not separate students by grade level.

Wheeler principal Charlene Bush said Redbook's description erred in saying the school groups students by ability, a practice commonly called tracking. Tracking "goes against every piece of research that we know," and Wheeler doesn't do it, she said. In all, Redbook honored 177 public elementary schools nationwide as part of its annual "America's Best Schools" project. the schools cited were: for overall excellence, Arlington Elementary in Fayette County, Mary G. Hogsett Elementary in Danville and Millard Elementary in Pike County; Lawyer Laura was pioneer in BARBOURVILLE Jerry Wayne Smith, 32, died here Thursday after an illness.

His wife, Bren-da, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Walter C. Hopper Sons' Knox Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m.

Friday and after 9 a.m. Saturday. BEAVER DAM Otis C. Bur- den, 73, died Thursday in Owens-boro. His wife, Gladys, survives.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, William Danks Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m. Saturday. BENTON Bessie Banks, 83, died Wednesday in Paducah.

Her husband, Claud, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m. Friday, Collier Funeral Home. Visitation after 8 a.m. Friday.

BENTON Walter F. Llchten-berg, 64, Route 2, Calvert City, died Wednesday in Paducah. His wife, Sue, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday, Filbeck Cann Funeral Home.

Visitation after 5 p.m. Friday. BENTON Mlrtle M. Smith, 88, died here Thursday. Funeral, 3 p.m.

Saturday, Filbeck Cann Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m. Friday. BEREA Rachel Coffey, 91, formerly of Berea, died Thursday in Huber Heights, Ohio. Funeral, 2:30 p.m.

Saturday, Lakes Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Friday. BOWLING GREEN Bessie Lou Bell, 78, died here Wednesday. Her husband, Henry, survives.

Funeral, noon Saturday, Boatwright Funeral Home, Indianapolis. Visitation after 10 a.m. Saturday. Local arrangements: Gatewood Funeral Home. BOWLING GREEN Mary Elizabeth Campbell, 79, died here Thursday.

Her husband, Charles, survives. Funeral, 10 a.m. Monday, J. C. Kirby Son Funeral Home.

Visitation after 5 p.m. Saturday and after 2 p.m. Sunday. BURKESVILLE Allle Abney Blythe, 88, died here Wednesday. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Friday, Norris-New Funeral Home. CAMPBELLS VILLE Keely Su-zanne Rakes, 2-month-old daughter of Larry and Patricia Rakes, died Wednesday in Louisville after an illness. Funeral, 3 p.m. Saturday, Lyon-DeWitt Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m.

Friday. CAMPBELLSVILLE Margai-etta Thompson, 77, died Wednesday in Columbia. Her husband, Joe, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Lyon-DeWitt Funeral Home.

Visitation after 6 p.m. Friday. CARROLLTON Carolyn Platz, 89, died here Wednesday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Graham-Dunn Funeral Home.

Visitation after 5 p.m. Friday. CARROLLTON Mary Lucille Sullivan, 77, died here Thursday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Tandy-Eckler-Riley Funeral Home.

Visitation after 12:30 p.m. Sunday. CENTRAL CITY Donnle Lee Shemwell, 70, died Thursday in Evansville, Ind. Her husband, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Saturday, Tucker Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Friday. COLUMBIA Alma Louise McKlnney, 68, died here Thursday. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Saturday, Grissom Funeral Home. Visitation after 11 a.m. Friday. COLUMBIA Glendo Rich- ards, 52, died here Thursday. Arrangements: Stotts-Phelps-McQueary Funeral Home.

DORTON Frank Sowards, 63, died Thursday in Jenkins. Arrangements: Jones Funeral Home, Virgie. DRY RIDGE Justeen Finu can, 88, died Monday in Williams-town. Memorial service, 10 a.m. Saturday, Eckler-Hudson Funeral Home.

EDMONTON Bedford "Dan" England, 68, died Thursday in Glasgow. His wife, Christine, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Chestnut Grove Church. Visitation at Butler Funeral Home after 10 a.m.

Friday. ELKHORN CITY Mark Demp- Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday, LeCompte Johnson Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m. Friday.

FRANKFORT Dr. Lelghton Cull, 89, died Tuesday in Lexington. Memorial service, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, First Christian Church. No visitation.

Arrangements: Rogers Funeral Home. FRANKLINTON Melvln E. "Bum" Holmes, 68, died Thursday in La Grange. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Prewitt Funeral Home, New Castle.

Visitation after 5 p.m. Saturday. FULTON Mary Fleming Wood, 82, died Thursday in Union City, Tenn. Graveside service, 11 a.m. Friday, Cayce Cemetery, Fulton County.

Visitation at Hornbeak Funeral Home after 8 a.m. Friday. GLASGOW Eula Rae Woo-ten, 69, died here Thursday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, A.

F. Crow Son Funeral Home. Visitation after 8 a.m. Friday. HARRODSBURG Johnathan AMn Gullett, infant son of Timothy and Glenda Lou Royalty Gullett, died Tuesday in Danville.

Graveside service, 4:30 p.m. Friday, Gullett Cemetery, Cornishville. Arrangements: Alexander Royalty Funeral Home. HAZARD Mary Elizabeth Combs, 87, died here Wednesday. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Saturday, Maggard Bros. Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Friday. HAZARD Damon Couch, 80, died here Wednesday.

His wife, Flossie, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Maggard Bros. Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m.

Friday. HAZARD Mary Rice, 61, died here Tuesday. Her husband, Thomas, survives. Graveside service, 11 a.m. Friday, Rice Cemetery, Gays Creek.

Arrangements: Maggard Bros. Funeral Home. HOPKINSVILLE Pauline Fuller Shemwell, 64, died here Wednesday. Her husband, Sidney, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Fnday, Fu-qua-Hinton Funeral Home. Visitation after 8 a.m. Friday. ISLAND Sarah Evalyne Cabbage, 79, died here Thursday. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Saturday, Muster Funeral Home, Livermore. Visitation after 3 p.m. Friday. LAWRENCEBURG Otis Allen Riley, 63, died Thursday in Frankfort. His wife, Cora, survives.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Ritchie-Peach-Todd Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Friday and after 8 a.m. Saturday.

LEITCHFIELD Connie Ellen Durbin, 90, died Thursday in Eliza-bethtown. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Watkins Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m. Friday.

LIBERTY- Gilbert Atwood, 86, Route 8, Liberty, died Tuesday in Stanford. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, McKinney-Brown Funeral Home. Visitation after 5:30 p.m. Friday.

LONDON Solomon Jones J.M Gilbert 80, formerly of Laurel County, died Wednesday in Barbourville. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, House-Rawlings Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Friday.

LONDON Everett Marcum, 83, died here Thursday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, House-Rawlings Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Friday.

LONDON James C. Miracle, 72, died here Wednesday. His wife, Nannie, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, East London Pentecostal Church.

Visitation at House-Rawlings Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Saturday. MANCHESTER Mattle Led- ford, 8, Elk Creek, died Wednesday in Corbin. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Britton Funeral Home.

Visitation after 6 p.m. Friday. MANCHESTER Sam Size-more, 87, Beverly, died Wednesday in Pineville. His wife, Flora, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Saturday, Katie's Creek United Baptist Church. Visitation at Britton Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Friday. MARTIN Mamie Sturglll, 73, Wayland, died Thursday in Pres-tonsburg. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Saturday, Steeles Creek Regular Baptist Church, Wayland. Visitation at the church after 8 a.m. Friday. Arrange ments: Hall Funeral Home. MAYFIELD Etolla O'Neal, 66, 'if Laura Miller Deny, a lawyer who gained international attention in the 1940s when she defended a court-martialed soldier, died yesterday at St.

Anthony Medical Center in Louisville of congestive heart failure. She was 87. Deny became the first woman to represent a client before an Army court-martial during the 1944 rape trial of a Fort Knox soldier who faced a possible death sentence. He was acquitted. The trial became a test case and went into Army documents and legal publications throughout the world.

I Deny graduated from the old Jefferson School of Law in 1936 as one of five women in a 126-mem- Derry ber class. She was admitted to practice before the state bar that year. During the first years of her practice. Deny doubled as a history and business-education teacher. She taught during the day and opened her law office after classes ended.

I' In 1937 she was admitted to practice in federal court. She was admitted to practice before the U. S. Court of Military Appeals in 1956 and was believed to be the first Kentucky woman admitted to that UllU llj 11 VII 1JUUI) Kins said. Several people called the sheriffs department to say they might have heard the crash between 8:30 and 9 p.m., said Capt.

Bob Hicks. The wreckage was found about 8:30 a.m. about 1,000 feet west of the north end of the airport's runway. Spokesman Jim Steinkamp said the airport is not staffed at night. The Federal Aviation Administration was expected to send an investigator to the site.

Former OSM director files for bankruptcy Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. The former director of the U. S. Office of Surface Mining has filed for bankrupt cy in Lexington. Harry M.

Snyder filed a skeletal Chapter 7 petition March 29 in U. S. Bankruptcy Court. The petition, which allows him to liquidate his assets under court protection, lists 20 creditors but not what they are owed. Under bankruptcy law, that information may be filed separately.

Snyder could not be reached for comment, and his attorney, Jerry Truitt of Lexington, declined to comment. Snyder was selected for the OSM job in 1989. Before that, he was a vice president at CSX, a railroad company. According to financial disclosure forms Snyder filed before he was OSM director, his annual salary in 1989 at CSX was $120,000. He also earned a $36,000 bonus that year from CSX and had other income of at least $15,169 from stock sales, rental property and legal fees.

Snyder's job as director of OSM paid $104,800. A 1991 disclosure report showed he owed $125,000 to $315,000 on three loans. He left his OSM post Jan. 20. Shelby man dies when car runs under trailer A Simpsonville man was killed yesterday morning when his car ran under a tractor-trailer on the Gene Snyder Freeway just south of the Taylorsville Road exit, Jefferson County police said.

Mark A. Richeson, 61, died at about 6:48 a.m. at the scene, Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Robert Carter said. Richard Mikos, 54, of Wills Point, Texas, the driver of the tractor-trailer, was slowing down to stop in the right-hand emergency lane on the westbound Snyder Freeway when Richeson's car ran into the back of the trailer, caught fire and rolled several feet under the trailer, said Officer Wendy Peters, spokeswoman for the Jefferson County police. The Jeffersontown Fire Department put the fire out, Peters said.

Mikos was treated at the scene for hyperventilation. Police are still investigating the accident. Witnesses should call the county police Traffic Office at (502) 425-1020. Richeson was president of Tempo Inc. and a Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War.

Survivors include his wife, the former Mary McHugh; two daughters, Theresa Richeson and Mary Welp, both of Louisville; two sons, William Richeson of Berea and John Richeson of Louisville; his mother, Alice Richeson of Spokane, and three grandchildren. The funeral will be at 9 a.m. tomorrow at Church of the Annunciation in Shelbyville. Visitation at Shannon Funeral Home in Shelbyville will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today.

The family suggests that memorial gifts go to Hospice of Louisville. LOUISVILLE AREA FUNERALS p.m. Friday. SHELBYVILLE Johnnie C. Carey, 57, died Wednesday in Louisville.

Funeral, 10 a.m. Saturday, Hall-Taylor Funeral Home. Visitation after 2 p.m. Friday. SHELBYVILLE Earl Perry, 82, Simpsonville, died here Wednesday.

Funeral, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Hall-Taylor Funeral Home. Visitation after 2 p.m. Friday. SOMERSET Esma Glrkey Prather, 79, died here Thursday.

Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday, Pulaski Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Friday. SOMERSET Judy Rose, 88, died here Thursday.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Somerset Undertaking Co. Visitation after 9 a.m. Saturday. SONORA Roscoe Bland, 80, died Wednesday in Taylorsville.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Manakee Funeral Home. Visitation after 2 p.m. Friday. SONORA Kennith Wade Ful- kerson, 27, died Wednesday in Elizabethtown.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Friday, Center Point Baptist Church. Visitation is at Manakee Funeral Home. STANFORD Lloyd James Mason, 69, Muncie, formerly of Lincoln County, died Thursday in Marion, Ind. His wife, Wilma, survives.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Mount Moriah Christian Church. Visitation at Fox Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Saturday. VINE GROVE Martin A.

Fou-shee, 63, died Thursday in Louisville. His wife, Carolyn, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, St. Brigid Catholic Church.

Visitation at Nel-son-Edelen-Bennett Funeral Home after 11 a.m. Friday. WAYNESBURG Andrew Campbell, 72, died Monday in Cincinnati. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Barnett Demrow Funeral Home.

Visitation after 10 a.m. Saturday. WHITESBURG James Fletcher Collins, 14-month-old son of James and Denise Collins, died Tuesday in Houston after an illness. Funeral, 1:30 p.m. Friday, Letcher Funeral Home.

Visitation after noon Friday. WHITLEY CITY Bennle Wright, 52, formerly of Stearns, died Sunday in Little Rock, Ark. His wife, Cecil, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday, McCreary County Funeral Home.

Visitation after 6 p.m. Friday. WINGO Loudlne Adds, 86, formerly of Wingo, died Friday in Chicago. Graveside service, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Wingo Cemetery.

No visitation. Arrangements: Brown Funeral Home. YEAGER Nerva Compton, 75, died Wednesday in Pikeville. Her husband, Sollie, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Saturday, Little Creek Regular Baptist Church. Visitation is at the church. Arrangements: Justice Funeral Home, Pikeville. might befall her grandmother, who Deck was caring for at the time of her arrest. Sproat and other family members thought Deck killed Kurtz simply because she was tired of caring for him.

Deck insisted from the time of her arrest that she killed her husband at his request. She said she agonized over the decision and the burden her husband's condition put on the family. The degenerative disease, which attacks the nervous system, had robbed the 37-year-old Kurtz of his ability to walk, use his hands or chew. Deny dies; Army case court. She retired in 1990.

Derry compiled and edUed the Digest of Women Lawyers and Judges in 1949, a directory of 6,000 female lawyers and the only work of its kind then. She recently was included in a video project on early female lawyers by University of Louisville law Professor Kathleen Bean. Derry was a native of Horse Cave, a former president of the National Association of Women Lawyers and the Louisville Younger Women's Club, a former treasurer of the Louisville Bar Association, and a former recording secretary of the International Association of Women Lawyers. She had been a member of the American Bar Association, of Women's Club and Louisville Pilot Club. Survivors include a daughter, Portia Derry Brown; two brothers, John R.

and Willie Miller; and two sisters, Clara Miller Cobb and Cattie Lou Miller. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. CDT Sunday at Hawkins-Brooks Funeral Home in Munfordville, with burial in Horse Cave Cemetery in Hart County. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

CDT tomorrow. p.m. Friday, St. Michael Antiochian Orthodox Church, 3026 Hikes Lane. Arrangements: Arch Heady Hikes Point Funeral Home.

Willie B. Maulden, 89, a native of Munfordville. Funeral: 11 a.m. Saturday, Calvary Pentecostal Church, 7017 S. Watterson Trail.

Visitation: Ratterman's-Bardstown Road, 3800 Bardstown Road, after 2 p.m. Friday and the church after 10 a.m. Saturday. William T. Moore, 77, Kimberly Way, a native of Butler County.

Funeral: 2 p.m. Friday, Heady Fern Creek Funeral Home, 5406 Bardstown Road. J. D. Allen Rowe, 58, of 2515 Jenlee Lane, a native of Columbia.

Funeral: 1 p.m. Saturday, Third Christian Church, 3900 W. Broadway. Visitation: A. D.

Porter Sons Funeral Home, 1300 W. Chestnut after noon Friday and the church after 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Bannard F. Schafer, 67, of 7515 E.

Manslick Road. Funeral: 10 a.m. Friday, Heady Fern Creek Funeral Home, 5406 Bardstown Road. David Stayton, 29, Pleasure Ridge Park. Funeral: 10 a.m.

EDT Friday, Ratterman's-Southwest, 4832 Cane Run Road. Burial: 12:30 p.m. CDT Friday, New Harmony Baptist Church Cemetery, Butler County. Visitation: after 9 a.m. EDT Friday.

George Richard Taylor, 61, Prospect. Funeral: 11 a.m. Saturday, Harrods Creek Baptist Church, 7610 Upper River Road. Visitation: G. C.

Williams Funeral Home, 1935 W. Broadway, after 9 a.m. Friday and the church after 7 p.m. Friday. James H.

"Jack" Williams, 77, Cincinnati, formerly of Louisville. Funeral: 2 p.m. Friday, Evergreen Cemetery chapel. Visitation: the cemetery chapel, after 1:30 p.m. Friday.

Arrangements: Miller-Sim-minger Funeral Home, Cincinnati. Alvena Jane Kesslnger Allen, Elkton, formerly of Louisville. Funeral: 10 a.m. Friday, Owen Funeral Home, 5317 Dixie Highway. I James Gregory Allen, 31, Hen- ryville, formerly of Louisville.

Funeral: 1 p.m. Friday, Evergreen Funeral Home, 4623 Preston Highway. I Charles S. Bolden, 65, of 2519 Osage Ave. Funeral: 11 a.m.

Saturday, A. D. Porter Sons Funeral Home, 1300 W. Chestnut St. Visitation: after 2 p.m.

Friday. TCharles D. Collins 70. Funeral: 1:30 p.m. Saturday, A.

D. Porter Sons Funeral Home, 1300 W. Chestnut St. Visitation: after 6 p.m. Friday.

Evelyn Ham Curry, 70, a native of Ohio County. Funeral: 11:30 a.m. Friday, Arch L. Heady Southern Funeral Home, 3601 Taylor Blvd. -Augusta J.

Lukat Denzlnger, 91. Funeral: 1 p.m. Saturday, Arch Heady Hikes Point Funeral Home, 4109 Taylorsville Road. Visitation: after 3 p.m. Friday.

Ferold Fisher Gldcumb, St. Matthews, a native of Bowling Green. Funeral: 10 a.m. Saturday, Pearson's, 149 Breckenridge Lane. Visitation: after 3 p.m.

Friday. Joseph T. Grady 58. Funeral: 10 a.m. Friday, St.

Lawrence Catholic Church, 1925 Lewiston Drive. Arrangements: Keenan's Funeral Home. Pauline E. Boemker Harris, 89. Funeral: 9:30 a.m.

Saturday, St. Vincent DePaul Catholic Church, 1207 Shelby St. Visitation: Keenan's Funeral Home, 4724 Dixie Highway, after 2 p.m. Friday. Mary Fawn Coombs Kidder, 64, of 4011 Stony Brook Drive.

Funeral: 10 a.m. Friday, Fairchild Funeral Home, North Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Visitation: after 9 a.m. Friday. Nasem Malllck, 87.

Funeral: 1 sentenced in husband's slaying sey Adklns, 72, died Wednesday in Pikeville. His wife, Bertha, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Unity Freewill Baptist Church. Visitation is at the church.

Arrangements: Morris Funeral Home, Millard. FRANKFORT Wanda M. Cat-left died Thursday in Lexington. Indiana woman Associated Press FORT WAYNE, Ind. A former Allen County woman was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison in the slaying of her terminally ill husband, a death she insists was a mercy killing.

Rose Deck was arrested in Lincoln, last summer nearly 12 years to the day after her husband died in their Leo, home. It originally was thought that James Kurtz died of Lou Gehrig's disease, but an autopsy after the body was exhumed last summer showed he had been suffocated. Deck, 53, was arrested after her daughter, Janet Sproat, told police she had witnessed the July 10, 1980, killing. Deck claimed her daughter, who was 14 at the time, helped in the killing. Sproat will not be charged, Chief Deputy Prosecutor Fran Gull said.

"We found the allegations to be totally unfounded," he told Allen Superior Court Judge John Surbeck. Sproat, who attended the sentencing, said she watched her mother suffocate her father but never spoke up about it before because Deck had told her she would be implicated. She said she finally went to authorities last summer because she was concerned that the same fate.