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5 THE COURIER-JOURNAL DEATHS THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1997 B4 Claudia Sanders dies; helped spouse build Kentucky Fried Chicken szgpm: 1 I if land Sanders said in an article in The Courier-Journal in 1972. Even after they sold the company, in 1964, and until Harland Sanders' death in 1980, the two traveled around the country, promoting chicken Sanders in his signature white suit. In the late 1960s, they opened a restaurant not far from their home in Shelbyville. They ran the Claudia Sanders Dinner House for about five years, then sold it to Cherry and Tommy Settle, who run it today. Over the last several years Claudia Sanders would often stop by, and sometimes she'd give a little advice on a recipe, Cherry Settle said yesterday.

"She was a lovely lady," Settle said. woman of the National March of Dimes; and a member of the Business and Professional Women's Club in Shelbyville, Daughters of the Nile and Oleika Shine Temple in Lexington, Ky. Her survivors include a son, Elvis Ray Price; four sisters, Joyce Hunt, Rose Brown, Mary Holt and Thelma Hetkowski; and two brothers, Robert and B. F. Ledington.

The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at First Christian Shelbyville, with burial in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville. Visitation is at Hall-Taylor Funeral Home, Shelbyville, from 3-9 p.m. tomorrow. The family asks that memorial gifts go to the church or the donor's favorite charity.

Claudia Sanders "worked like a Trojan," the Colonel once said. now without Claudia's contributions. We shall miss her." Claudia Sanders also was known for the Shelbyville restaurant that SOUTHERN INDIANA DEATHS By KIM WESSEL The Courier-Journal Claudia Ledington Sanders, who with her late husband, Col. Harland D. Sanders, sold America on Kentucky Fried Chicken, died Tuesday at her home in Shelbyville, She was 94.

Together, the Sanderses built Kentucky Fried Chicken from just two restaurants in 1952 to more than 600 in 1964, when they sold the company. Today there are more than 9,800 KFC restaurants in 73 countries. "We're deeply saddened by the loss of Claudia Sanders," David Novak, president and chief executive officer of KFC, said in a release. "We could not have been the company we are DEPAUW AMn F. Stump 82, died Wednesday at Harrison County Hospital in Corydon.

He was a native of Shepherdsville, and a retired employee of the old National Homes Co. in New Albany. Survivors: his wife, the former Margaret C. Smith; a son, Alvin F. Stump daughters Joyce A Newton and Marie Adkins; a half sister, Juanita Biller; eight grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.

Funeral: 10 a.m. Friday, Swarens, Ramsey. Burial: St. Bernard Cemetery, Frenchtown. Visitation: 1-9 p.m.

Thursday and after 8 a.m. Friday. JASPER Marie C. Bauern-fiend, 90, died Monday at Heritage House of Jasper. She was a member of St.

Ann's Society. Survivors: a brother, Herman P. Krodel; a sister, Adgela Lorey; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral: 11 a.m. Friday, St.

Joseph Catholic Church. Burial: Fairview Cemetery. Visitation: Becher Kluesner-Downtown, 1-9 p.m. Thursday. Memorial gifts: the church.

JASPER Eva C. Kress, 85, died Monday at Memorial Hospital and Health Care. She was a native of Tell City, a former owner of the former Nuway Cleaners, where she had worked 40 years; a former owner of Quick Clean Laundromat; and a member of Daughters of Isabella and St. Ann's Society. Survivors: a son, Bernard Kress; a daughter, Donna Bonifer; a sister, Edna C.

Miller; brothers Edward Jr. and Kenneth Yaggi; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchilden. Funeral: 9:30 a.m. Friday, St. Jc-seph Catholic Church.

Burial: Fair view Cemetery. Visitation: Becher Kluesner-Downtown, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Thursday. Memorial gifts: the church. JEFFERSONVILLE Donald T.

Faigle, 67, died Wednesday at Ven-cor Hospital-Louisville. He was a native of Southgate, a former sociology and psychology professor at Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Hanover (Ind.) College and University of Louisville; a retired associate director at LifeSpr-ing Mental Health Services in New bany; a former chairman of Indiana State Healthcare Legislative Committee; and a member of American Mental Health Association and Evangelical Reformed Lutheran Church in Newport. Survivors: his wife, the former Eleanor J. Crowe; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral: 10 a.m.

Monday, Dobbling Son Funeral Home, Fort Thomas. Burial: Evergreen Cemetery, South-gate. Visitation: Scott, 3-9 p.m. Friday; and at Dobbling Son, 2-5 p.m. Sunday.

Memorial gifts: The Dream Factory, 982 Eastern Parkway, Louisville, 40217. JEFFERSONVILLE Anthony Ryan Ingram, infant son of Anthony and Sarah C. Ingram, died Wednesday at Norton Hospital in Louisville. Survivors besides his parents: grandparents Frank and Kay Ingram and David and Marilyn Carver; and great-grandparents Beldon and Ona Combs and Sarah Ingram, Inez Broy and Fay Carver. Graveside service: 10 a.m.

Saturday, Eastern Cemetery. Arrangements: Scott. MEMPHIS Leola Mildred Wii-shans, 78, of Hallmark Progressive Care Center in Clarksville, formerly of Memphis, died Wednesday at Floyd Memorial Hospital. She was a native of Horse Cave, a retired machinist for the old McCory-Norris Co. in Indianapolis and a member of Memphis Community Church.

Survivors: brothers William and Edward T. Crain; a sister, Pearl Anderson; and four grandchildren. Funeral: 10 a.m. Saturday, Garr, All meals at the Claudia Sanders Dinner House are served with eight vegetables, all cooked just the way Sanders herself wanted them. "She believed in good food," Settle said.

"It's true Kentucky cooking." After her husband died, Sanders began cutting back on her schedule and settled down in Shelbyville. "There are very few places I haven't seen," she said in a 1986 interview. "You hear all that hullabaloo about what's happening over there and decide that you're better off over Sanders was a former member of the board of directors at Union College in Barbourville, and at Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken Ltd. in Canada; an honorary chair Remains not those Associated Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. Skeletal remains found in a wooded area of St.

Joseph County are probably not those of a Plymouth woman missing for more than two years, authorities said. After the remains were found by hunters Sunday about 15 miles north of Plymouth, investigators said they could be those of Starrene Clevenger, who was last seen in October 1994. But St. Joseph County Prosecutor Michael Barnes said Tuesday that fo NEW AND PREVIOUSLY COMPUTERS 486 COMPUTERS PENTIUM 60 8 MEG RAM 540 MEG HD St 799 MULTI-MEDIA, CD-ROM SPEAKERS, SOFTWARE MORE! PENTIUM 100 MULTI-MEDIA, MINI-TOWER 8 MEG, 850 MEG HD PACKARD BELL PENTIUM fTk BSSSbiSIS flPff $299 '399 999 s1249 of SELLERSBURG Margaret Jean Patrick, 69, died Wednesday at Clark Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville. She was a native of Lockland, Ohio, and a former caregiver.

Survivors: sisters Shirley Inman, Alice Seibel and Carol Jones. The body will be cremated. Memorial service: 3 p.m. Friday, Kingdom Hall, Clarksville. No visitation.

SEYMOUR Gerald N. Botkin, 54, died Monday at Memorial Hospital. He was an owner of The Cleaners and Prominent Fit; a former employee of Arvin Industries in Columbus, where he had worked 24 years; a past president and baseballsoftball coach for the Seymour Youth League; a charter member of Babe Ruth Baseball League; an Eagle Scout and Scout Master; president of Seymour Park Recreation Board; and a member of Seymour Planning and Commission Board. Survivors: his wife, the former Janice E. Elkins; sons Dirk Andrew J.

and D. Jerad Botkin; a brother, Dan R. Botkin; and a granddaughter. Memorial service: 7 p.m. Friday, First Baptist Church.

Visitation: the church after 4:30 p.m. Friday. Arrangements: Voss Sons Funeral Home. Memorial gifts: Jerad Botkin college fund co the family. SEYMOUR Anna L.

"Lucille" Bobb, 81, died Wednesday at her home. She was the former Anna L. Smith. Survivors: her husband, Harold G. Bobb; a daughter, Sharon McAllister; a brother, Raymond Smith; a sister, Frances Robbins; and three grandchildren.

Funeral: 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Im-manuel Lutheran Church. Burial: Ri-verview Cemetery. Visitation: Voss Sons, 4-8 p.m. Friday; and the church after 9:30 a.m.

Saturday. Memorial gifts: the church. TELL CITY Lee Allen Popp, 54, formerly of Cannelton, died Tuesday at Bloomington (Ind.) Hospital. He was an employee in the quality control department at the former Westinghouse Electric Corp. in Bloomington.

Survivors: his wife, the former Nancy Anderson; his mother, Alice F. Beck; and a sister, Alice Scott. Funeral: 11 a.m. EST Friday, Huber. Burial: Deer Creek Baptist Church Cemetery.

Visitation: 3-8 p.m. Thursday and after 9 a.m. Friday. Memorial gifts: American Heart Association. WEST BADEN Maggie Toliver Allbright, 85, died Tuesday at Bloomington (Ind.) Hospital.

She was a native of Orange County and a charter member of Prospect (Ind.) Home-Ec Club; past president of PEO; and a member of West Baden Research Club. Survivors: a daughter, Donna Sue Linehan; sons Jerry and Richard All-bright; sisters Ruby Pruett, Pauline Tackett, Evelyn Toliver and Jewell Hodges; 17 grandchildren; 23 greatgrandchildren; and a great-greatgrandchild. Funeral: 1 p.m. Friday, Bonds Chapel Church, Orange County. Burial: church cemetery.

Visitation: Brosmer-Drabing, French Lick, 6-9 p.m. Thursday, 9-11 a.m. Friday and the church after noon Friday. SOUTHERN INDIANA Maggie Toliver Allbright, 85 Marie G. Bauernfiend, 90 Anna L.

"Lucille" Bobb, 81 Gerald N. Botkin, 54 Juanita May Deppe, 47 Donald T. Faigle, 67 Charles L. Ferree 69 Lillie Belle Swartz Fessel, 95 Marguerite B. Guernsey, 92 Anthony Ryan Ingram, infant son of Anthony and Sarah C.

Ingram Eva C. Kress, 85 Margaret Jean Patrick, 69 Lee Allen Popp, 54 Alvin. F. Stump 82 Armintie "Mintie" Taylor, 91 Mary V. "Sis" Vrooman, 74 Donald M.

Walker, 59 Leola Mildred Wilshans, 78 Louisville-area deaths, Page B5 Sellersburg. Burial: Lincoln Memorial Gardens, Zionsville. Visitation: 2-9 p.m. Friday. NEW ALBANY Morris L.

Wate, 88, died Wednesday at Floyd Memorial Hospital. He was a native of Floyd County, a retired employee of the old U. S. Steel Homes Corp. and farmer, and a member of Floyd County Farm Bureau and Grant Line United Methodist Church.

Survivors: his wife, the former Agnes C. Fenwick; a daughter, LaVerne I. Smith; two grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Funeral arrangements are pending. Entombment: Kraft-Graceland Memorial Park.

Visitation: 1-9 p.m. Friday, Seabrook Dieckmann Naville Market Street. Memorial gifts: the church. NEW SALISBURY Lillie Belle Swartz Fessel, 95, of Indian Creek Convalescent Center in Corydon, formerly of New Salisbury, died Wednesday at Harrison County Hospital in Corydon. She was a native of Crawford County.

Survivors: sons Leonard, William David K. and Charles E. Fessel; daughters Dorothy L. Smith and Barbara A. Spaulding; 34 grandchildren; 64 great-grandchildren; and 11 great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral: 10 a.m. Saturday, St. Michael Catholic Church, Bradford. Burial: church cemetery. Visitation: Swarens, Ramsey, 2-9 p.m.

Thursday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday and after 8 a.m. Saturday. 3 die when pickup hits car head-on in Wayne County Associated Press MILTON, Ind. Three people were killed yesterday morning when a pickup crossed the center line in Wayne County and hit an oncoming car, state police said.

Charles E. Jones Jr. of College Corner, Ohio, was heading north on Ind. 1 two miles south of U.S. 40 about 7:50 a.m.

when he apparently took a turn too fast for the wet road, state police Sgt. Mike Marcum said. Jones' truck went into the southbound lane and hit a car driven by Amin M. Jindani of Richmond, Marcum said. Jones, 48, and his passenger, Terri L.

Heatherly, 40, of Hamilton, Ohio, died at the scene of the accident, Marcum said. Jindani, 35, was taken to Fayette Memorial Hospital in Connersville, where he was pronounced dead. All three had head injuries. bears her name. Sanders was bom in 1902 on a farm in Knox County, one of 14 children.

In 1930 she went to work for Harland Sanders at his first restaurant, the Sanders Cafe, in Corbin, waiting tables and minding the cash register. They married in 1948. Four years later, they began building the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain. Harland Sanders had already developed his special recipe of 11 herbs and spices, but he hadn't yet set out to sell them it over the country. In a few years, the business took off.

Claudia Sanders would package the herbs and spices and deliver them to the railway station to rush them to a restaurant that needed them. "She worked like a Trojan," Har NORTH VERNON Juanita May Ceppe, 47, died Wednesday at Columbus (Ind.) Regional Hospital. She was the former Juanita May Marksberry and a native of Jennings County. Survivors: her husband, Tom Deppe; sons Roger D. and Thomas L.

Deppe daughters Rose Marie and Keshia N. Deppe; brothers Marvin and William Marksberry; sisters Carol Hazelwood, Bonnie Lacey and Nancy Swindell; and a granddaughter. Funeral: 11 a.m. Saturday, Dove-Sharp Rudicel. Burial: Baldwin Cemetery, Vernon.

Visitation: 4-8 p.m. Friday. Memorial gifts: Hospice of Jennings County co the funeral home. NORTH VERNON Mary V. "Sis" Vrooman, 74, died Wednesday at Columbus (Ind.) Regional Hospital.

She was the former Mary V. Cor-yea, a native of Jennings County and a member of First Methodist Church. Survivors: daughters Vicki Kipper and Jill Campbell; a brother, Charles Coryea; several nieces and nephews; and three grandchildren. Funeral: 1 p.m. Friday, Dove-Sharp Rudicel.

Burial: Vernon (Ind.) Cemetery. Visitation: 4-8 p.m. Thursday. Memorial gifts: the church. PALMYRA Donald M.

Walker, 59, died Monday at his home near Palmyra. He was a native of Louisville, a Marine veteran of the Korean War, and a maintenance man for and member of Bonnie Sloan American Legion Post 28 New Albany. Survivors: a son, Todd Walker; daughters Mary Jane Neofotistos, Kimberly and Rochelle Walker, Bren-da Griffin and Angela Matlock; brothers Albert, Clarence, Charles, James and Jack Isenberg and Eugene Walker; a sister, Pat Fonte; and eight grandchildren. Funeral: 10 a.m. Friday, St.

Michael Catholic Church, Bradford. Burial: church cemetery. Visitation: Gehl-bach Royse, Georgetown, 1-9 p.m. Thursday and after 8 a.m. Friday.

PAOLI Charles L. Ferree 69, died Tuesday at his home. He was a native of Livonia; an Army veteran of the Korean War; a retired carpenter at Body Works; a former farmer; past director of the Farm Bureau; and a member of Providence Cemetery Board and Providence Baptist Church. Survivors: his wife, the former Georgia Condra; daughters Debra Schroer and Pamela McGhee; a son, Charles Ferree a sister, Mary Wein; brothers William, John T. and Donald Ferree; and three grandchildren.

Funeral: 2 p.m. Friday, McAdams. Burial: Providence Cemetery. Visitation: 4-8 p.m. Thursday and after 9 a.m.

Friday. SALEM Armintie "Mintie" Taylor, 91, formerly of Salem, died Tuesday at Westminster Health Care Center in Clarksville. She was a native of Washington County, a retired co-owner of the old Four Point Grocery Store, and a member of Christ United Methodist Church in Georgetown. Survivors: daughters Lela Warner and Margaret Weathers; sisters Ella Smedley and Edith Hamilton; six grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren, i Funeral: 11 a.m. Friday, Weathers.

Burial: Crown Hill. Visitation: 1-9 p.m. Thursday and after 8 a.m. Friday. SELLERSBURG Marguerite B.

Guernsey, 92, formerly of Sellersburg, died Tuesday at Clark Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville. She was a native of New Albany, a retired employee of the Census Bureau in Jeffersonville and a member of Sellersburg United Methodist Church. Survivors: several nieces and nephews. Arrangements: Garr. Memorial gifts: the church.

The total reported at Louisville International Airport, 56.44 inches, made 1996 its fifth wettest year on record. That was more than 3 inches behind 1979's record 59.80 inches. A summary released yesterday by the National Weather Service at Louisville International Airport showed that May, with its 10.98 inches of rain, was the extraordinary month. The May figure was 6.36 inches over the average for the month and second-highest for, May in the 120-plus years the weather service has kept monthly records. May 1990, with 11.57 inches of rain, was the wettest ever.

Ten of the last 12 months featured above-average rainfall. May was followed by September's 6.55 inches, which was 3.39 inches above normal, and by January's 5.35 inches, which was 2.49 inches above the average. Plymouth woman rensic tests showed the body was that of a petite woman aged 18 to 25 who stood between 5 feet and 5 feet 7. Clevenger was 37 at the time of her disappearance and stood about 5-9. Tests conducted on the remains by an anthropologist indicate the woman met with foul play.

A Marshall County grand jury on Nov. 1 indicted Ed Hosch, 32, of Donaldson on a charge of murder in Cle-venger's case. Police discovered traces of bodily fluids that matched Clevenger's inside Hosch's car. mm LEASED COMPUTERS 0VER100CD TITLES mOFF! ALL WE LATEST IBM SHAREWARE: GREAT GAMES, E0UCAWHAL SOFTWARE ITl2" FORMATTED Iffll I DISCS I I 25 $99 1 i rAUR I Liuuo vaunnflis i ulu LIMIT 4 COUPON I SVGA MDHITOB SYSTEM PURCHASE $199 CANON BUBBLE JET PRINTER 99 wsystem purchase 14.4FAX7M0DEM$49 4AAO NIIAOAMTCtm ON I I raTTrr rraral I 111MD Mf I .1 Sale Hours I 1 1 Mon-Sat1(Hj 1 1 EVERY SINGLE ITEM IS IlNMmilimHraffilUriPl Southern Indiana was unusually wet in 1996 Iff, I Thiirerlav. I Jan.

2 Friday, I Jan. 3 Saturday, Jan. 4 Li Sale Terms 1 1 ffiK gob t2097 .1 1. Tre.ri.rrMW I LA3JViUlLLLLi JnLSfiZu Pond, science director for the Indiana commissioner of agriculture. A state assessment this summer predicted corn and soybean yields statewide would be 30 percent less than normal.

Rain forced Indiana farmers to plant corn and soybeans later than ever. "From the very beginning of the season to the very end of the season, precipitation is one of the most important external factors a farmer faces," Pond said. Pond noted that tropical rain forests can get hundreds of inches of rain annually, while places such as Las Vegas can get less than 10 inches a year. "We're kind of right there at a nice area," he said. Louisville-area precipitation hit some high marks in 1996 but failed to rewrite local weather history.

i Continued from Page 1 Phil Gray, meteorological technician with the National Weather Service. Indianapolis receives an average precipitation of nearly 40 inches a year. Its 1996 total of 56.81 inches made it wetter than other cities in the region, including Fort Wayne (43.77), South Bend (42.61), Cleveland (44.69), St. Louis (43.17), Chicago (29.52), Detroit (26.10) and Milwaukee (23.49), according to the climate center. Still, Lashley was disappointed.

"We were all sitting here pushing for the record," he said. But many were no doubt sick of the rain and snow. "There's all kinds of people like farmers that are not really excited about record rainfall," Gray said. He got no argument from Douglas ffflTvTK 210 North Hurstbourne Pkwy 426-4130.