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THE COURIER-JOURNAL. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1987 7 Former Kentucky congressman Eugene E. Siler is dead at 87 IT L10U WE'RE CLOSING OUR BASHFORD MANOR STORE ENTIRE STOCK REDUCED 25-40 PLUS AN SL EXTRA JLmJ If OFF MOST OF THE STOCK Crash at crossroads kills one person The Bluegrass Bureau RICHMOND, Ky. A Madison County man died shortly after noon yesterday as a result of a wreck. Lloyd H.

Willoughby, 82, of Waco, lid at Pattie A. Clay Hospital of heart and respiratory complications, the state police reported. Willoughby was a passenger in a car driven by his wife, Myrtle Willoughby, 77. State police said the Willoughbys car was southbound on KY 977, crossing KY 52, when it was on the passenger side by a car driven by William Estes, 50, of Beattyville. No charges have been filed.

Kentucky woman killed by pickup Associated Press COVINGTON, Ky. A Covington woman was struck by a pickup and killed early yesterday, police said. Police identified her as Cora Smith, 74. The accident occurred a block from her home in the city's Latonia section, police said. Witnesses told police that Smith tried to cross the street against the light and stepped into the truck's path.

Police were investigating, but did not expect to file charges. district's acute economic problems. He fought for flood control in southeastern Kentucky and was an outspoken critic of congressional junkets. He never accepted such a trip. He was also pn early opponent of U.S.

involvement in Vietnam. Throughout his political career, Siler was known as a powerful and eloquent lay preacher. In 1954, he was moderator of the General Association of Baptists in Kentucky the highest honor the denomination can bestow on a layman. He retired from Congress in 1964. In 1968, he lost in the Republican primary for the U.S.

Senate to Mar-low Cook. Siler is survived by his wife, Lowell Jones Siler; a son, Eugene E. Siler a U.S. District Court judge from Williamsburg; three daughters, Dorothy White of Jonesboro, Annette Hungerford of Columbus, and Carolyn Browning of Louisville; a sister, Lillian Venner of Newport, R. seven grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

The funeral will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at First Baptist Church in Williamsburg. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Ellison's Funeral Home in Williamsburg. The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to the Eugene Siler Student Scholarship Fund at Cumberland College.

Iiy TOM LOFTUS Staff Writer Eugene E. Siler the Williamsburg, Republican whose career was a rare blend of religion, politics and the law, died yesterday at his daughter's home In Louisville. He was 87. Siler's political career included a decade In Congress representing Kentucky's old 8th Congressional District, (our years on the Kentucky Court of Appeals and unsuccessful campaigns for governor and U.S. senator.

"He was one of the most genuine, patriotic and spiritual individuals I've ever known," said Nelda Barton of Corbin, a vice chairman of the Republican National Committee. "He was highly respected. If a candidate got his endorsement, you knew that candidate was worthy. I'm very grimed to hear of his passing." Filer served in the Navy during World War I and as fi captain in the Army during World War II. He received undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Kentucky.

As a lawyer, Siler, a devout Baptist, refused to take criminal cases, divorces or any case involving whiskey. News articles about his career note that he contributed 10 percent of his salary to church and charities. He served on the Kentucky License NO 956 EXPIRES 1-4-88 BASHFORD MANOR ONLY Court of Appeals then the state's highest court from 1915-48. In fo 1951, he was the Republican nominee for governor. Siler lost that race to Democrat Lawrence Wetherby.

He represented his heavily Re publican district in southeastern Kentucky in Congress from 1954 to 1964. Siler was a fiscal conservative who sometimes moderated his views on federal spending because of his m-mamgL-mXassCHm wrffr i i 4A vv in mm Two killed in wreck near Richmond, Ky. From Staff and Special Dispatches RICHMOND, Ky. A Richmond man and his grandson were killed Friday in a wreck on KY 52, about two miles west of Richmond. Everett Roscoe King, 4,3, was pronounced dead at the scene, and Christopher Scott King, 1, died at Puttie A.

Clay Hospital, stale police at Richmond said. Police said Everett King was westbound in a pickup truck when be tried to pass a car and another pickup, which was signaling and turning left. King's pickup hit the one driven by Jesse Byrd, 54, of Sextons Creek and then hit a traffic sign, rolled over and went down a bank. Eyrd was not injured. Three passengers in King's truck were injured.

They are his daughter, Mary E. King, 23, of Richmond, who is in serious condition at the University of Kentucky Met'ical Center in Lexington; Mary King's son, David King, 4, who is in satisfactory condition at Fattie A. Clay Hospital; and another of King's daughters, Connie L. King, 16, of Richmond, who also is in satisfactory condition at Pattie A. Clay Huffy Made In USA BOYS' 20" USA RACING 50 BFvIX Black Thunder frame gold rims and racing saddl Coaster handbrake.

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i U(J, S. King; his father and stepmother, Frank and Katherine King; six brothers, Danny King of Kingston, Joe King of Kirksviile, Nathan King of Indianapolis and Jerry, Charlie and Ronnie King; two sisters, Debbie Combs and Lorctta Agee, both of Kingston; five half brothers, Greg, Jeff, Steve, Darrell and Frankie King; four half sisters, Susie Ray and Linda, Kathy and Penny King; and a grandchild. Christopher King's survivors include his mother, Anna L. King; his grandmother; and his great-grandparents. A joint funeral will be at 2 p.m.

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