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i A 10 THE COURIER.JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 24, 1968 Estate of $1.3 Million Is Left by Mrs. Lang Overturned Ehewhcre Truck Hit; Margaret Price Dies; Driver Killed Was Democratic Official Louisville Municipal Housing Commission and was for many years an officer of the League of Women Voters. She was the daughter of Theodore Ahrens manager of the old Standard Sanitary now part of American-Standard. She was the widow of Karl H.

Lang, treasurer of Oertel Brewing Co. who died in 1954. Mrs. Lang died July 16 at age 82. Louisville Deaths William Thomas Richie, 79, died at 9 p.m.

Tuesday at the Heritage House nursing home, 3535 Bardstown Road. He lived in Taylorsville, and was a native of Spencer County. Richie was a retired farmer. Survivors include his widow, the former Ollic Hubbard; a son, Robert J. Richie; a grandson and six great-grandchildren.

The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday at All Saints Catholic Church at Taylorsville. Burial will be in Valley Cemetery there. The body is at Foreman Funeral Home, Taylorsville. Clarence Joseph Ruhs, 57, of 3657 Elderwood Way, died at 10 a.m.

Tuesday at his apartment. He was a retired painter and wallpaper Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. James Thompson, Chicago; five sons, William Ruhs, Saugus, Joseph Donald, John Alvin C. and Gerald NEW YORK (AP) Mrs. Margaret Price, 55, vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee since 1960, died yesterday at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.

She lived in Washington, D.C., but Mrs. Elsie Ahrens Lang, 1412 Willow, left the bulk of her $1,325,000 estate to her son, daughter and grandchildren by terms of her will probated yesterday in Jefferson County Court. She made specific bequests totaling $12,300 to several individuals and set aside $50,000 to be held in trust for benefit of a friend, Miss Anita Jauckens, a Louisville school teacher. One-third of the residue will go to Mrs. Lang's son, Edward Ahrens of Princeton, N.J., and another third to her daughter, Mrs.

Betty Z. Russell, Colorado Springs, Colo. One-twelfth shares go to the grandchildren, Diane and Clark Russell and Amy and Andrew Ahrens. The Kentucky Trust Co. was named executor.

The will noted that an agreement executed in 1956 created an inter vivos trust, one between living persons, but its amount and terms were not disclosed. Mrs. Lang served as chairman of the spent much of her political career in Michigan. She became a Democratic natio a 1 committee-woman in that state in 1952 and was reelected in 1956 and 1960. Mrs.

Price had been a member since 1956 of the executive committee of the national committee and was among the found WE BUY 1ST and 2ND MORTGAGES ON REAL ESTATE TOP DOLLARS PAID ALSO BUY REAL ESTATE CONTRACTS IN KENTUCKY AND INDIANA Nobel Prize for medicine; at Cambridge, England. He shared the prize with Dr. Otto Lowei of Austria for their independent work on the transmission of nerve impulses to muscles. Alfred Frenzel, 69, a former member of Parliament in West Germany who was convicted there of espionage; in Czechoslovakia. Frenzel had been a member of the West German Bundestag's defense committee, where he had access to important military information, and reportedly was awarded a medal "for courage" when he returned to Czechoslovakia after spending several years of imprisonment in West Germany.

James T. Batb, 69, former Yale University librarian and the man who raised the Yale library to its present place as fourth largest in the country; at Haven, Conn. While John F. Kennedy was president, he was named by Mrs. Kennedy to assemble a White House library.

The list of 1,780 books he compiled included authors of every era in U.S. history. Donald C. Lillis, 63, a member of the New York Stock Exchange and president of the New York Jets professional football team; in Westerly, R.I. He was president of the Bowie Race Course in Maryland from 1952 to 1966.

Mrs. Price A Louisville man, pinned in his panel truck after it overturned, was killed minutes later when the truck was struck by an auto on U.S. 42 in Oldham County early yesterday. State police identified the accident victim as Gilbert L. Martin 24, of 1027 Baxter.

Martin's widow, the former Wanda Garber, and children, Kelly Ann, Donna Marie, IVi, and Gilbert L. Martin 4 months, were treated at General Hospital for minor injuries and released. The truck was struck by a car driven by Ray Perkinson, 22, of 5309 Robbs Lane, police said. Both vehicles were bound for Louisville. Perkinson and his two passengers, Mr.

and Mr. Elmore Braden, of Carrollton, were not injured, police reported. No charges were filed against Perkinson. Mrs. Martin told trooper Thomas Brown, of Buckner, that her husband had been having trouble with the truck's headlights and lost control of the vehicle on a curving downgrade about two miles east of Prospect.

The truck overturned and came to rest on its left side with its tail end on the pavement. Passersby Help Victims Two Sulphur residents, Willie B. Went-worth, 22, and George Earl Webster, 20, who were headed in the opposite direction, stopped to aid the Martin family. The passersby were in the process of removing the occupants from the truck when the collision occurred about 12:30 a.m., Brown said. The impact moved the truck about 4 feet off of the road.

Martin was alive before the collision, the witnesses said. SH PAID FOR ALL TYPES Ruhs; his mother, Mrs. Margaret Haus-man Ruhs, and 13 grandchildren. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at St.

Lawrence Catholic Church, 1925 Lewiston Drive. The body will be at W. G. Hardy Shively Funeral Home, 4101 Dixie Highway, after 1 p.m. Wednesday.

Ray Allen Foley 21, of 3142 Crums Lane, died Tuesday at Ireland Army Hospital, Ft. Knox, Ky. He was retired from the Army in February because of illness after three years ser REAL ESTATE U.S. to Grant Jordan $6 Million WASHINGTON (AP) The United States has agreed to give Jordan $6 million for goods or for financing develop, ment projects, officials reported Call 583-6011 ers of the Democratic Advisory Council, which was organized in 1956. Vice President Hubert H.

Humphrey will deliver the eulogy at funeral services Friday morning in St. John's Church in Washington. Mrs. Price was born in New York City, attended Bryn Mawr College and lived in Ann Arbor, before moving to Washington. She was the wife of Hickman Price Jr.

A son, Marston, also survives. Other deaths: Sir Henry Dale, 93, winner of the 1936 Nights: 458-2108 Saturdays: 778-2425 HIGHLANDS FUNERAL HOME Deaths in Louisville vice. Survivors include his widow, the former Kathleen Benney; a daughter. Miss Marlena Rose Foley; his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Ray A. Foley and his grandmother, Mrs. Mattie Foley. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at W.

G. Hardy Shively Funeral Home, 4101 Dixie Highway, with burial in Louisville Memorial Gardens. The body will be at the funeral home after noon Wednesday. Mrs. Josephine Knebelkamp died at 2:45 p.m.

Tuesday at Ann Rest Home, 243 E. Walnut. She formerly lived ai 1303 Audubon Parkway, and was a member of Salem United Church of Christ. Survivors include a nephew, Frederick Sang, with whom she lived, and several other nieces and nephews. The funeral will be at 1 p.m.

Thursday at Owen Funeral Home, 2611 Virginia, with burial in Cave Hill Cemetery. Mr. Owen Is one of our Directors. Olhert available for personal service and atlenfiom lee E. Cralle, Jr.

Alton E. Neurath Robert G. Bosse James D. Dougherty A. R.

McForland Martin Jackson (Successors to Mrs. F. B. Schoppenhorst) Also, member of Ihtir ruptcti Funeral Home $lolFs 3331 TAYLORSVILLE RD. 451-4420 John A.

McKinney, ftsidcnl Monagir rtlH Miss Laura Whittaker, 76, died at 6:45 a.m. Monday at Jewish Hospital. She lived at 1211 Zane. Aliss Whittaker, a native of Petersburg, was a member of Friendship Baptist Church and the church's senior choir. Survivors include two sisters, Mrs.

Lillie Pettis and Miss Kate Douglas, and two brothers, Taft and James Douglas. The funeral will be Wednesday at 7 p.m. at G. C. Williams Funeral Home, 1935 W.

Broadway. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery on Thursday. Mrs. Lloyd J. Hendershot the former Norma Glenn, died at 10:45 a.m.

Monday at' Masonic Widows and Or Emmett G. Harvey, a vice-president of the Tobacco Workers International Union and a former Louisville resident, died Tuesday of a heart attack at his home in Eden, N.C. He was 64. Harvey came to Louisville in 1947 as an international representative of the union. He was elected a vice-president during his 20-year stay here.

After developing a heart condition in 1967, he took a leave of absence from the union's district office here and returned to North Carolina. He was a Shriner and a former member of the Shawnee Baptist Church. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Rama Harvey; a son, David Harvey of Greensboro, N.C; two daughters, Mrs. Earl Page and Mrs.

George Bolden, both of He was a maintenance welder Other survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Lee Martin, and his grandmother, Mrs. Carrie McCoy. The funeral will be at 10 a.m.

Friday at Bohlsen-Miller VonderHaar Funeral Home, 825 Barret, with burial in St. Michael Cemetery. A couple and two of their three sons were killed in a wreck near Cave City yesterday. Dead are Mr. and Mrs.

Albert Carett, 44, of Berea, Ohio. Another son, Danny, 8, was reported in critical condition at St Joseph Hospital, Louisville. A Kentucky woman, Miss Maxine Van Winkle of Morrill, and a child, Teresa Lynn Renfro. 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Wendell A. Renfro of Lexington, were killed in a Tennessee accident yesterday. BIRD S. OWEN, JR. phans Home, 3701 Frankfort.

She was Kentucky Deaths NIOIRIGIEI Gj Li LI 4 Keidsville, N.C., and five grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Mt. Herman Baptist Church, Eden. Burial will be in Eden.

The body is at Fair Funeral Home, Eden. Harrison Clarence Wysong, a retired driver for Stratton and Terstegge died at 9:10 p.m. Monday at his home, 1803 Dixdale. He was 71. Wysong was a native of Brownsville, and an Army veteran of World War I.

Survivors include his widow, the former Addie Durbin. The funeral will be Wednesday at 10 a.m. at St. Matthias Catholic Church, 2200 Dixie Highway. Burial will be in Louisville Memorial Gardens.

The body is at Owen Funeral Home, 2611 Virginia. Mrs. George Ray, the former Mary Elizabeth Moody, died at 3 p.m. Sunday at her home, 3502 Hale. She was 94.

Mrs. Ray was a Jehovah's Witness. We Lost Our Cool Prices Are Slashed Buy Now While the Heat is On! 71 and had lived at the Masonic Home several years. Mrs. Hendershot was a native of Lyon County, and was past matron of the Louisville chapter of the Order of Eastern Star.

She was a member of Deer Park Baptist Church. Survivors include two sons, Sgt. 1. C. Fred G.

Hendershot, of Washington, D.C., and Lloyd J. Hendershot, of Madison-ville, a daughter, Mrs. Stanley W. Greaves five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. The funeral will be Wednesday at 2 p.m.

at Pearson's, 1310 S. Third. Burial will be in Cave Hill Cemetery. Grady Wallace, a retired woodworker for the Gamble was found dead Tuesday morning at his home, 742 S. Sixth.

He was 71. Wallace was a native of Eaton, and was a member of the United Methodist Church. Survivors include a brother, Lester Wallace, of Dalton, Ga. Graveside services will be held Thursday at 1 p.m. at Lebanon, National Cemetery.

The body is at Dunn Memorial Funeral Home, 518 N. 26th. Clarence T. Beyerle, 57, of 6112 i.tJjMwiWW..w.JW?l'.Wi.n.'JH'. 1 i- mhwwiuw wihuw- NlOlRlGlEl AUTOMATIC WASHER and matching HARRODSBURG Walter Raymond Peyton, 78, died here Tuesday.

He was the father of B. G. and Bruce Peyton and Mrs. W. G.

Gash, all of Louisville. Funeral, 2 p.m. Thursday, Ransdell Funeral Home here. ELIZABETHTOWN Mrs. Lola Nice-ly, 82, Glendale, died Tuesday.

She was the mother of Mrs. Alice Bell of Glendale. Funeral, 2 p.m. Wednesday, Livingston Baptist Church. MUNFORDVILLE Mrs.

Brent Puck-ett, 57, died here Monday. Her husband survives. She was the mother of Mrs. Peggy Meredith, Louisville. Funeral, 10 a.m.

Wednesday, Mounty Beulah Methodist Church. The body is at Sego Funeral Home here. SHELBYVTLLE Funeral for Howard B. Long, killed Monday by lightning, will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Shannon Funeral Home here.

His widow survives. He was the father of Brenda Huxta of Trenton, N.J., and Robert, Carolyn, Paul and Randy Long, all of Shelbyville. NEON Mrs. Pearl B. Ransom, 77, Louisville, died Monday in Lexington.

She was the mother of Paul Ransom of Louisville. Funeral, 2 p.m. Thursday, Church of Christ at Hemphill. The body is at Kraft-Banks Funeral Home here. HEAVY DUTY AUTOMATIC DRYER all other fabrics Floor Samples N0RGE WASHER Model AWT 1500 Survivors include a cousin, William Moody, and two nephews, John and Theodore Moody.

The funeral will be Thursday at 3 p.m. at Kingdom Hall, 733 Dixie Highway. Burial will be in Louisville Cemetery. The body is at A. D.

Porter and'Sons Funeral Home, 1300 W. Chestnut. Haywerd Miles Powell, a barber at Luttrell's Barber Shop, died Sunday at his home, 678 S. Fifth. He was 59.

Powell was a native of Brandenburg, and was a member of Elizabethtown, Christian Church. Survivors include his widow, the former Mary Lou Moore; two daughters, Mrs. John Felker and Miss Nancy Powell, both of Elizabethtown, and four sons, Jack Robert E. and Haywerd Miles Powell all of Elizabethtown, and Patrick E. Powell, Pleasure Ridge Park.

The funeral will be Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Nunnelley Funeral Home, 4327 Taylor Blvd. Burial will be in Brandenburg Cemetery. w00 Athens Drive, died Tuesday at the Smith Transfer where he worked. Beyerle had been a truck driver for 35 years and was formerly with Huber Huber Motor Express.

He was a member of Teamsters Local 89. Survivors include his widow, the former Edna a daughter, Miss Nancy M. Beyerle. The funeral will be at 9 a.m. Friday at St.

Ignatius Martyr Catholic Church, 1816 Rangeland Road, with burial in Calvary Cemetery. The body will be at Russman Son Funeral Home, 1041 Goss, after 2 p.m. Wednesday. N0RGE DRYER 59800 Model DEJ 1500 NIOIRIGIEE REFRIGERATOR. FREEZER.

ATA LOW Mrs. Horace McClellan, 79, formerly of 2315 Gladstone, died at 12:50 p.m. at St. Anthony Hospital. She was the former Nora Lucas, and a member of Walnut Street Baptist Church.

Survivors include two sons, David L. McClellan, Anchorage, and Howard L. McClellan, and two granddaughters. The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Arch L.

Heady Hikes Point Funeral Home, 4109 Taylorsville Road, with burial in Cave Hill Cemetery. The body will be at the funeral home after 6 p.m. Wednesday. LOW PRICE Price too low Two Youngsters Hit by Cars; Both In Serious Condition Two young boys are in serious condition at General Hospital after being struck by cars in separate accidents yesterday in Louisville. Charles E.

Hayden, 3, of 605 S. 38th, was hit at 3:35 p.m. while crossing River Park Drive in the 3700 block. Police said the boy stepped from between two parked cars. The driver of the car, Archie Lee Townsend, 25, of 763 S.

Clay, was given a citation for not having an operator's license on his person. The boy, son of Mrs. Linda May Hay. den, suffered head and internal injuries. Randell H.

Lewis, 5-year-old son of Mrs. Mary Lewis, 2805 Tyler suffered head injuries when he was struck in the 2700 block of Portland at 2:15 p.m. William C. Hicks. 21, of 1700 Portland, was charged with failure to stop and render aid and having no operator's license after appearing at Police Headquarters at 6:45 p.m.

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I 1 -i 1 George F. Johnson, an employe of Ho-bart Manufacturing died at 2:40 a.m. Tuesday at General Hospital. He was 64 and lived at 517 N. 37th.

Johnson was a native of Martin County and was a member of the Odd Fellows. Survivors include his widow, the former Lola Hensley; three daughters, Mrs. Sylvia Bailey, Mrs. Laverne Thurman and Mrs. Charlotte Cox; two sons, Eugene and George F.

Johnson and 19 grandchildren. The funeral will be Thursday at 11 a.m. at Dunn Memorial Funeral Home, 518 N. 26th. Burial will be in Louisville Memorial Gardens.

James Henry Reed, 79, of 1032 S. Hancock, died at 11:10 a.m. Monday at Red Cross Hospital. He was formerly of Wayne County, N.C. Survivors include his widow, the former Louise Mae Miller; a daughter, Mrs.

Mary Lee Wilder, Moro, and a son, Elihue J. Reed, Helena, Ark. The funeral will be at noon Thursday at Rodgers Funeral Home, 951 S. Preston, with burial in Greenwood Cemetery. The body will be at the funeral home after noon Wednesday.

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The management of Ct Hill extends an invitation to anvone ho wishes to visit the cemetery at any time between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 in. CAVE HILL 701 BAXTER AVE. 451-5630 MVm OPEN NIGHTS IL 9 P.M. realtors la, infill wi ppw I 'Mil Cr 5th Walnut I -s.

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