The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 19

IT if THE COURIER-JOURNAL KENTUCKY DEATHS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1995 D5 Welfare limits would deny aid to thousands of children, group says receiving federal aid to find a job when the aid is cut off. One in four Kentucky children lives in poverty defined this year as an income of less than $12,590 for a family of three. Since 1970, the rate of poverty has grown faster among children than it has among the general population. The unemployment rate is also high, and there aren't enough jobs in Kentucky to fill the gaps, the report says. The number of jobs in Kentucky rose to more than 2 million in 1993.

But the increase in jobs has been accompanied by an increase in the numbers of part-time jobs, often with few or no benefits for employees, the report said. More and more parents are holding down several jobs to make ends meet, the report says. The report notes that the federal budget cuts would affect Kentucky more in 2002, when the federal budget is scheduled to be balanced, than 1996. If federal budget cuts are enacted, Kentucky would lose $319 million in federal grants in 1996 and $1.6 billion by 2005, the report said. The loss of federal aid would amount to $82 a person in Kentucky in 1996.

By 2002, the loss would amount to $402 a Associated Press Proposed limits on federal aid to families would affect thousands of Kentucky children, a state child-advocacy group said yesterday. If Congress limits parents to two years of Aid to Families with Dependent Children, 150,698 Kentucky children would be denied assistance in 2002, Kentucky Youth Advocates said in a report, with a five-year limit, 59,000 children would be denied in 2005. The "family cap" provision, another proposal that would prohibit benefits to children born to a mother while she is receiving federal aid, would deny AFDC to an estimated 40,000 children, the report says. This is the fifth year of the study called KIDS COUNT which is a county-by-county look at the status of Kentucky's children. The report typically looks at statistics about Kentucky's children and compares them with those from years past.

But this year the group decided to go beyond that mission and focus on what has become a hot political issue how federal budget cuts will affect children, said Debra Miller, the group's deputy director. The report says it is unrealistic in Kentucky to expect everyone who is Acclaimed mystery writer Ross Thomas dies at age 69 LCUISVULS LOUISVILLE Mary Margaret Wickersham Alvey, 86 Victor Bailey, 80 Chester Lee Barnes 55 Mary Ellen Block, 77 Catherine Elliott Boucher, 74 Jean Burnett, 63 Raymond Lee Bush, 77 Wllma Chestnut Louis A. Collini, 97 Carlos M. Cotto, 31 Joyce Lavern Drury, 53 James Thomas Dunn, 76 Andre Farley, 41 Viola M. Farrls, 73 Elbert H.

Gaskins, 94 James C. Glllenwater, 57 Edward P. Hannigan, 69 Irvln Henry Hoffman, 74 Max W.Horn, 78 Floyd Furnish Hurst 78 William B. Kaiser, 67 Alice Ruhl Kennedy, 63 Sarah Barbara Lee Moss, eight-month-old daughter of Phyllis Witt Mary Catherine Mullin, 105 Robert B. Rush, 84 P.

Joseph Sehllnger 91 Charles C. Sharp, 63 Robert Shuffett, 67 Martha Jo Taft, 41 Dorothy Marian White Trice, 76 Jesse D. Turley 87 Brian Keith Upshaw, 28 Joseph R. "Bob" Wald 69 Denzil W. Whitman, 59 Anna C.

Woods, 84 CORRECTED OBITUARIES Walter Kapp, 75 Joyce Lavem Drury, 53, died Monday at her home. She was the former Joyce O'Neil and a member of Baptist Tabernacle. Survivors: daughters Rose Ward, Cynthia King ana Mary Hellinger; a son, Theodore Drury sisters Jean Hutchinson, Beverly Botto and Barbara Taylor; brothers William and Phillip O'Neil; two half sisters; two half brothers; and seven grandchildren. Funeral: 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Schoppenhorst Underwood's, 19th and Market streets.

Burial: Evergreen. Visitation: 5-9 p.m. Tuesday and 1-9 p.m. Wednesday. i James Thomas Dunn, 76, died Sunday at his home.

He was a retired phone installer for South Central Bell, an Army veteran of World War II and a member of St. Rita Catholic Church. Survivors: his wife, the former Bet- KJ. Kuhn; daughters Judy A. eschler and Bonnie D.

Gardner; a granddaughter; and three greatgrandchildren. Funeral: 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Arch L. Heady Okolona, 8519 Preston Highway. Burial: Penn Run Memorial.

Visitation: 3-9 p.m. Tuesday. Memorial gifts: Caretenders. Andre Farley, 41, formerly of 305 N. Shawnee Terrace, died Saturday in Atlanta.

He was a former engineer for De-Kalb County (Ga.) Sewer District, an Army reservist and a former member of Westwood Presbyterian Church in Louisville. Survivors: his wife, Maxine Farley; a son, Aaron Farley; a daughter, Andrea Farley; his mother, Mary W. Brown; a sister, Arlisa Farley-Brown; and three stepchildren. Funeral: 10:30 a.m. Thursday, World Changers Ministries, College Park, Ga.

Burial: Forest Lawn Memorial Garden, College Park. Visitation: the church, after 8:30 a.m. Thursday. Arrangements: Gus Thornhill's Funeral Home, East Point, Ga. Viola M.

Farrls, 73, died Sunday at Audubon Regional Medical Center. She was the former Viola Gaddis. Survivors: her husband, Richard Farris; daughters Doris Price, Jo Ann O'Bryan and Margo Thurman; a sister, Celeste Hill; a stepsister, Bobbie Willard; seven grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Funeral: 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Russman Sons, 1041 Goss Ave.

Entombment: Evergreen. Visitation: noon-9 p.m. Tuesday. Memorial gifts: American Heart Association. Elbert H.

Gaskins, 94, of Shep-herdsville, died Monday at Audubon Regional Medical Center. He was a retired farmer and attended Shepherdsville Wesleyan Church. Survivors: his wife, the former Mary Belle Pike; daughters Ariene Adklns, Dorlis Hitch, Margie Carter and Clara Humphress; a son, Harlin V. Gaskins; 21 grandchildren; and 33 great-grandchildren. Funeral: 1 p.m.

Wednesday, Hardy-Close, Shepherdsville. Burial: Highland Memory Gardens, Mount Washington. Visitation. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday and after 9:30 a.m.

Wednesday. James C. Glllenwater, 57, of 2603 Garland died Sunday at Norton Hospital. He was a former employee of Norton Hospital and a member of Canaan Missionary Baptist Church. Survivors: his wife, Patricia Gillen-water; stepsons Leon and Woodrow Payne III, and Jacques Johnson a stepbrother, Raymond Poole; and three grandchildren.

Funeral: 10 a.m. Wednesday, W. P. Porter, 2611 Virginia Ave. Burial: River Valley.

Visitation: 9-10 a.m. Wednesday. Edward P. Hannigan, 69, died Thursday in South Orange, N.J. Paid obituaries, Page 5 AftHA C2ATEI3 Survivors: his wife, the former Sal-lie Anne Broadus; and a stepson, David Harper.

Graveside service: 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, Cave Hill. Visitation: Barrett, 1230 Bardstown Road, 10-11 a.m. Wednesday. Memorial gifts: Louisville Free Public Library.

Irvln Henry Hoffman, 74, died Sunday at Suburban Medical Center. He was a retired supervisor for Industries, where he had worked 48 years, and a member of St. John Evangelical United Church of Christ. Survivors: a daughter Rose Mary Hall; sons Irvin Henry Jr. and W.

Allen Hoffman; a sister, Doris Wernert; and five grandchildren. Funeral: 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Arch Heady Crescent Hill, 2428 Frankfort Ave. Burial: Cave Hill. Visitation: 2-8 p.m.

Tuesday. Memorial gifts: United Crescent Hill Ministries. Max W. Horn, 78, formerly of Louisville, died Dec. 10 in Denver.

He was retired from Gates Rubber Co. in Elizabethtown and a Navy veteran of World War II. Survivors: daughters Penny Palko-vic and Pamela Marlette; sons Doug and David Horn; a brother, Nelson Horn; and three grandchildren. Arrangements: Monarch Society in Denver. Memorial gifts: Denver Rescue Mission, P.O.

Box 5206, Denver, Colo. 80217. Floyd Furnish Hurst 78, of Bloomfield, died Sunday in Bardstown. He was a retired maintenance employee for Resthaven Memorial Park. Survivors: daughters Rosie M.

Wright and Betty A. Wilson; sons Floyd Jr. and Joseph F. Hurst; sisters Ethel Prather, Lilly Bartley, Ruby Walls, Mamie Farmer and Doretha Greenwell; 20 grandchildren; and 28 great-grandchildren. Funeral: 1 p.m.

Wednesday, McAfee, 4501 Bardstown Road. Burial: Resthaven. Visitation: noon-9 p.m. Tuesday. William B.

Kaiser, 67, died Monday at Baptist Hospital East. He was the owner of W. B. Kaiser Milk Distributors. Survivors: his wife, the former Nell Rowland; daughters Debra K.

Kaiser, Pamela K. Henehan and Susan K. Gorter; a son, Darrell W. Kaiser; brothers Herbert Egbert G. and Aloysius A.

Kaiser; and three grandchildren. Funeral: 11 a.m. Thursday, St. Edward Catholic Church, 9608 Sue Helen Drive. Burial: Calvary.

Visitation: Fern Creek Funeral Home, 5406 Bardstown Road, 2-8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. Memorial gifts: American Cancer Society. Alice Ruhl Kennedy, 63, died Sunday at Baptist Hospital East. She was a retired office employee of the old J.J.B.

Hilliard Sons. Survivors: her husband, Thomas W. Kennedy; and a sister, Pamela Ruhl. Funeral: 10 a.m. Thursday, St.

Elizabeth Catholic Church, 1020 E. Burnett Ave. Burial: Calvary. Visitation: Bosse, Barret and Ellison avenues, 5-9 p.m. Tuesday and 2-5 and 7-9 p.m.

Wednesday. Sarah Barbara Lee Moss, 8- month-old daughter of Phyllis Witt, died Sunday at Audubon Regional Medical Center. Survivors besides her mother: a brother, Keenan Witt; sisters Laura and Leah Witt; and grandparents, Charles and Sarah Moss. Funeral: 2 p.m. Tuesday, Ever- freen, 4623 Preston Highway.

Burial: vergreen. Visitation: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday. Mary Catherine Mullin, 105, formerly of Louisville, died Sunday in Gaithersburg, Md. She was the former Mary Catherine Schutte and a retired employee of the old St.

Joseph Infirmary. Survivors: sons James William Thomas Daniel Robert J. and Lawrence Mullin; a daughter, Jane R. Mullin; 20 grandchildren; and 24 great-grandchildren. Funeral: 10 a.m.

Friday, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, 510 Breckenridge Lane. Burial: Calvary. Visitation: Ratterman's, 3711 Lexington Road, 7-9 p.m. Wednesday and 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. Thursday.

Memorial gifts: Wilson Ashbury Methodist Village, 301 Russell Gaithersburg, Md. 20877. Robert B. Rush, 84, died Monday at Brownsboro Hills Nursing Home. He was a retired storekeeper for the U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers. Survivors: his wife, the former Matilda Rost; a son, Bruce W. Rush; sisters Magdalene Nail and Margaret Gibson; and two grandchildren. Memorial service: 2 p.m. Friday, Arch L.

Heady Crescent Hill, 2428 Frankfort Ave. Memorial gifts: St. Peter Evangelical United Church of Christ. P. Joseph Sehllnger 91, formerly of Louisville, died Saturday in Mount Dora, Fla.

He was a retired employee of American Air Filter Co. Survivors: his wife, Jessie O. Seh-linger, a son, Peter J. Sehlinger and two sisters, Evelyn Sehlinger and Louise Tyler. Memorial service: 10 a.m.

Tuesday, St. Edward's Episcopal Church, Mount Dora. Arrangements: Hamlin and Hilbish, Rehbaum-Harden Chapel, Mount Dora. The funeral for Charles C. Sharp, 63, of 1625 W.

Market will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Ratterman's-Southwest, 4832 Cane Run Road. Burial: River Valley. Visitation: a.m. Wednesday.

He was found dead Dec. 13 on the sidewalk at 801 E. Market St. He was a former carpenter. Survivors: a daughter, Patricia Carr; sisters Thelma F.

Booth, Laura Sutton and Mary Jo Jeffries; brothers William Maurice, Robert Gene and Caroll Tipton; two grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Robert L. Shuffett, 67, of La Grange, died Monday at Baptist Hospital East. He was a retired sales engineer for Culligan Sprinkler Co. and a member of Crestwood Baptist Church.

Survivors: his wife, the former Evelyn A Burks; sons Robert J. and Philip L. Shuffett; his mother, Esther Shuffett; a brother, William H. Shuffett; and two grandchildren. Funeral: 11 a.m.

Wednesday, Pear-son-Ratterman 12900 Shelby-ville Road. Burial: Cave Hill. Visitation: 3-9 p.m. Tuesday. Martha Jo Taft, 41, died Sunday at her home.

She was the former Martha Jo Mashburn and a member of Victory Baptist Church. Survivors: her husband, John P. Taft; brothers James and J. B. Mashburn, and Aubrey Geary and sisters Virginia Woosley, Iva Truman, Ethel Piercy and Mary Jo Wilcher.

Funeral: 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Resthaven, 4400 Bardstown Road. Entombment: Resthaven Mausoleum. Visitation: 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. Tuesday.

Dorothy Marian White Trice, 76, died Saturday at Britthaven of Prospect. She was a retired teacher for the Jefferson County Board of Education. Survivors: her husband, George A. Trice; a daughter, Patricia J. Barton; a sister, Lois Epperson; a brother, John White; a grandchild; and a greatgrandchild.

Funeral: noon Thursday, Zion Baptist Church, 2200 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd. Burial: Cave Hill. Visitation: A. D.

Porter Sons, 1300 W. Chestnut 7-9 p.m. Wednesday and at the church after 9 a.m. Thursday. Jesse D.

Turley 87, died Monday at Alliant Medical Pavilion. He was a retired business teacher for Louisville Male High School, where he had worked for 35 years. Survivors: his wife, the former Audrey Francis; sons Jesse D. Ill and Marion F. Turley; a brother, Pete Turley; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Funeral: 10 a.m. Thursday, Hazel-wood Baptist Church, 4201 Taylor Blvd. Burial: Resthaven. Visitation: Nunnelley, 4327 Taylor noon-9 p.m. Wednesday.

Memorial gifts: the church building fund. The funeral for Brian Keith Upshaw, 28, of 2403 Elliott will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, G. C. Williams, 1935 W.

Broadway. Burial: Green Meadows Memorial. Visitation: 7-9 p.m. Wednesday. He died Saturday at University of Louisville Hospital from multiple gunshot wounds.

Survivors: his mother, Deborah Upshaw; his father, Fred Harris; a sister, Shanda Vaughn; brothers Stephen Washburn and Mon-Shea Upshaw; and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Upshaw and Minerva Harris. Joseph R. "Bob" Wald 69, died Sunday at Suburban Medical Center.

He was a retired parts manager for the old Louisville Flying Service and a Navy veteran of World War II and the Korean War. Survivors: a sister, Jane W. Wilson; and a brother, Phillip L. Wald. The body was cremated.

Arrangements: Fern Creek Funeral Home. Memorial gifts: charity. Denzil W. Whitman, 59, died Monday at Hillcreek Manor Nursing Home. He was a retired employee of General Electric, where he had worked for 36 years.

Survivors: his wife, the former Doras E. Wood; a son, Jeffrey T. Whitman; a daughter, Pamela Moon; stepsons Darrell and Dale Wood; a stepdaughter, Karen Brooks; brothers Darrell and Verlin Whitman; a sister, Lena May Ratchford; and nine grandchildren. Funeral: 2 p.m. Wednesday, Resthaven, 4400 Bardstown Road.

Entombment: Resthaven Mausoleum. Visitation: 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. Tuesday. Memorial gifts: American Cancer Society. Anna C.

Woods, 84, died Sunday at Caritas Medical Center. She was a member of South Louisville Seventh-day Adventist Church. Survivors: a son, Edward Woods; a daughter, Helen Motley; stepsons Lawrence Woods; a sister, Julia McGraw; a brother, Edward Wiggin-ton; six grandchildren; and sue greatgrandchildren. Funeral: noon Wednesday, Arch L. Heady Southern, 3601 Taylor Blvd.

Burial: Resthaven Memorial. Visitation: 11 a.m.-9 p.m. p.m. Tuesday. CORRECTED OBITUARIES Walter L.

Kapp, 75, died Sunday at University of Louisville Hospital. He was a retired employee of B. F. Goodrich Chemical Co. and an Army Air Forces veteran of World War II.

Survivors: sons Kevin and Craig P. Kapp; a sister, Mary V. Wickliffe; a brother, Geroge K. Kapp; and four grandchildren. Funeral: 11 a.m.

Wednesday, Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church, 768 Eastern Parkway. Burial: St. Michael Cemetery. Visitation: O. D.

White Sons, 2727 S. Third 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday and after 9 a.m. Wednesday. Memorial gifts: American Cancer Society.

Agency urges parents to supervise BB guns ATLANTA (AP) About 30,000 people most of them children are injured each year by BB or pellet guns, many of them accidentally, the government said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control urged parents to make sure their children follow instructions, wear protective eyewear and use the guns only when supervised by an adult. About 23,000 of those injured are 19 or younger, the agency said. Mary Margaret Wickersham Al-vey, 86, died Monday at Jefferson Place. She was a former teacher at Western and Barret Junior High schools and a member of Walnut Street Baptist Church.

Survivors: two granddaughters, Elizabeth K. Senn and Katherine S. Williams, both of whom cared for her; and two great-grandchildren. Funeral: 10 a.m. Wednesday, Pearson's, 149 Breckenridge Lane.

Burial: Hebron Cemetery in Bullitt County. Visitation: 3-6 p.m. Tuesday. Memorial gifts: Hospice of Louisville. Victor Bailey, 80, died Sunday at Alliant Medical Pavilion.

He was a retired machinist for the old Louisville Nashville Railroad an Army veteran of World War II and a member of Ninth Baptist Church. Survivors: sisters Lola Parmon and Doris Barton; and brothers Haskell and Oakley Bailey. Funeral: 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, O. D.

White Sons, 2727 S. Third St. Burial: Resthaven. Visitation: p.m. Tuesday and after 9 a.m.

Wednesday. Memorial gifts: the church's TV ministry fund. Chester Lee Bames 55, died Sunday at Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He was a mechanic for Prairie Village BP Station and an Army veteran of the Vietnam War. Survivors: his wife, the former Betty Lou Aldridge; a daughter, Tammy Cook; a son, Ronald S.

Barnes; his mother, Maxine Barnes; a brother, Donald E. Barnes; sisters Arden R. Richmond and Ruth B. Swann; and three grandchildren. Funeral: 10 a.m.

Wednesday, Arch Heady Okolona, 8519 Preston Highway. Burial: Evergreen. Visitation: 1-9 p.m. Tuesday. Mary Ellen Block, 77, died Monday at tier home.

She was the former Mary Ellen Hennessy and a retired employee of the American Tobacco Co. Survivors: two cousins, including Wanda H. Nesselbush, who cared for her. Funeral: 10 a.m. Thursday, St.

Raphael the Archangel Catholic Church, Bardstown Road and Lancashire Avenue. Burial: Calvary. Visitation: Highlands, 3331 Taylorsville Road, 3-6 p.m. Wednesday. Memorial girts: American Cancer Society.

Catherine Elliott Boucher, 74, of Barefoot Bay, formerly of Louisville, died Friday in Roseland, Fla. She was a retired legal secretary and organist. Survivors: her husband, Russell J. Boucher; a son, Russell J. Boucher a daughter, Cyndy Longacre; and a granddaughter.

Funeral: 2 p.m. Thursday, Grace United Methodist Church, Wabasso, Fla. Burial: Fountainhead Memorial Park, Palm Bay, Fla. Visitation: the church, 1-2 p.m. Thursday.

Arrangements: Fountainhead Memorial, Palm Bay. Jean Burnett, 63, died Sunday at her home. She was the former Jean Kingery and a member of Southeast Christian Church. Survivors: her husband, Howard R. Burnett; daughters Sherry B.

Vittitow and Barbie B. Pickett; her stepmother, Edna H. Kingery; a sister, Josie Pruitt; a brother, Clyde Kingery; and five grandchildren. Funeral: 11 a.m. Wednesday, Fern Creek Funeral Home, 5406 Bardstown Road.

Burial: Resthaven Memorial. Visitation: 3-8 p.m. Tuesday and after 10 a.m. Wednesday. Memorial gifts: Hospice of Louisville.

Raymond Lee Bush, 77, died Saturday at Bashford East Nursing Facility. He was a retired construction worker. Survivors: sons Raymond M. Bush and Robert D. Whitlow; a daughter, Patricia Bush; foster daughters, Dorothy Buford and Sylvia Allen; a foster son, Walter Bradshaw; a brother, Joe Bush; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Funeral: 11 a.m. CST Wednesday, Watts, Glasgow. Burial: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Glasgow. Visitation: 5-8 p.m. CST Tuesday.

Wllma Chestnut died Sunday at the home of her daughter. She was a retired executive secretary for General Motors and a member of St. Paul United Methodist Church. Survivors: a daughter, Barbara Donoghue; a son, Bruce Chestnut; a brother, Lyman J. Bruce; and two grandchildren.

Funeral: 1 p.m. Wednesday, Pearson's, 149 Breckenridge Lane. Burial: Resthaven Memorial. Visitation: 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. Tuesday.

Memorial gifts: American Cancer Society. Louis A. Colllnl, 97, died Sunday at his home. He was a retired foreman for American Standard Co. Survivors: sons Don, Bert and Vince Collini; daughters Dorothy Bur-chett and Rita Shaughnessy; 24 grandchildren; 50 great-grandchildren; and six great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral: 10 a.m. Wednesday, St. Thomas More Catholic Church, 6105 S. Third St. Burial: Calvary.

Visitation: Joseph E. Ratterman Son South Central, 2815 S. Fourth 2-9 p.m. Tuesday. Memorial gifts: St.

Vincent de Paul Society. Carlos M. Cotto, 31, died Thursday at University of Louisville Hospital. He was a hairdresser. Survivors: his mother, Lydia Cotto; brothers Angel Angel Raphael, Louis Louis and Carman Cotto; and a sister, Maria Pizarro.

The funeral and burial will be held later at Funeria San Jose, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Arrangements: Family Funeral Care-Metropolitan. emergency room at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Torrance, Calif. "It was natural causes. She apparently had a series of strokes lately," said police Lt.

David Marsden. McMartin founded the now-defunct McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, which became the focus of a child abuse investigation in 1983 when a mother later diagnosed as mentally ill told police she suspected her son had been molested, McMartin was arrested in 1984 with her daughter, Peggy McMartin Buckey, and grandchildren, Raymond and Peggy Ann Buckey, and three teachers. In 1986, felony child molestation charges were dismissed against all but Peggy McMartin Buckey and her son. They were charged with molesting 11 children over five years. Peggy Buckey was acquitted in 1990 after a three-year trial.

The same year, Raymond Buckey was acquitted of 40 counts and a jury deadlocked on another eight counts against him in a second trial. The case lasted seven years and cost Los Angeles County $13 million, making it the longest and costliest criminal prosecution in U.S. history. The O.J. Simpson trial cost $9 million.

Leitchfield killing said. Hudson said a diving team would search a pond on Ellis property for the murder weapon today. McKinney was in Grayson County Jail last night. Ellis was a shipping clerk for Ford Motor Co. His survivors include three sons, Eric, Roml and Gary Ellis; a daughter, Lori Ellis; a sister, Mary Cholette; and five grandchildren.

All are of Louisville. A memorial service will be at 6 p.m. tomorrow at W.G. Hardy Valley, 10907 Dixie Highway in Louisville. The body will be cremated.

Visitation will be at the funeral home from 2-6 p.m. tomorrow. nle Clay Stamper, 91 JENKINS Delsle Anderson, 87 LEXINGTON William Furlong, 82; Kathleen Hoffman, 78; Ann Carol Kennedy, 52 UVERMORE Irene Willis, 84 MADISONVILLE Milton Eddie Armstrong, 46; Mary Crowe, 79 MAYFIELD Lovie V. Yancy, 89 McKEE Marty Dale Jones. 27 MOREHEAD Mary Lee Dean Mauk.

103 NICHOLASVILLE Corbett Underwood, 81 NORTONVILLE Nina Elizabeth Buchanan, 79 OWENSBORO John Albert Davis, 84; Joseph Ray "Pinky" Payne, 82; Ellene "Sis" Snyder, 79 PADUCAH Matilda Bllka, 90; Lucille Buchanan, 80; Lyell Collins, 79; William M. Yates, 43 PRESTONSBURG Redford Ward, 81 SEBREE Pauline B. Wilson, 82 SHELBYVILLE James M. Bates, 71 SLAUGHTERS Arthur Lee Nance, 83 SOMERSET Leslie "Peanuts" Colyer, 79; William Souder, 67 SONORA Opal Moody, 90; Emery D. Wil- kerson, 77 TOMPKINSVILLE Marjorfe Bewley, 57 VERONA Mary Lee Mullrns, 84 WHITLEY CITY Othel Chllders, 87 WILLIAMSTOWN Kathryn Fortner Brady, 88 died Monday.

Arrangements: Gehlbach Royse. JEFFERSONVILLE Ralph R. Stewart, 81, died Monday. Funeral: 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Chapman, Clarksvtlle.

visitation: 1-8 p.m. Wednesday. JEFFERSONVILLE Isllne Q. Lewis Sturm, 59, died Sunday. Funeral: 1 p.m.

Thursday, Coots, Visitation: 5-9 p.m. Tuesday and 9 a.m. -9 p.m. Wednesday. NEW ALBANY Cheyenne Richard Fogel, 37, formerly of New Albany, died Sunday.

Funeral: 11 a.m. Wednesday, Mulllneaux. visitation: 1-9 p.m. Tuesday. NEW ALBANY Mrs.

George McCoy, 88, formerly of New Albany, died Monday. Memorial service: 1 p.m. Friday, Saabrook Dieck-mann 4 Naville Oak Street. Visitation: 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday.

From Los Angeles Times and AP Dispatches SANTA MONICA, Calif. Ross Thomas, award-winning mystery writer who chronicled crime in high places in some two dozen novels praised for lucid plotting, realistic characters and witty dialogue, died yesterday. He was 69. Thomas died of cancer at St. John's Medical Center in Santa Monica, said his wife, Rosalie.

With books always characterized as steady sellers although never best sellers, Thomas was highly regarded by readers, critics and peers. He won the coveted Edgar Allen Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America twice in 1967 for his first novel, "The Cold War Swap," and in 1985 for "Briarpatch." Thomas is survived by his wife of 21 years, the former Rosalie Appleton. Another death: Virginia McMartin, the grandmother acquitted of molesting children at her preschool in the nation's longest and costliest criminal case, Sunday of natural causes. She was 88. McMartin, who bitterly denied the charges leveled against her, her daughter, her grandson and preschool staff, was pronounced dead in the Man, 24, held in The Central Kentucky Bureau State police charged a 24-year-old Edmonson County man with murder last night in the weekend shooting of a Grayson County man.

Grayson County Coroner Ronald Hudson said Johnny McKinney of Huff was charged with shooting Jesse W. Ellis, 55, in the face at Ellis' Leitchfield home between 2:30 a.m. and 5 a.m. Friday. Hudson said McKinney was waiting in the house when Ellis arrived from his job at Ford Motor Co.

in Jefferson County. A neighbor found Ellis' body Sunday and called police. An autopsy yesterday confirmed that Ellis died after being shot in the face with a 20-gauge shotgun, Hudson KENTUCKY DEATHS BARBOURVILLE Samuel Cutter, 30; Martha "Tillie" Tye Dumas, 91; Violet Mae Trosper, 84 BELFRY Virginia Kathleen Canupp, 78 BOONEVILLE Lenia Faye Moore, 54 BOWLING GREEN Elmond Gary, 84; The Rev. William H. Ricketts, 77 BROOKSVILLE Harry Sldebottom, 65 CADIZ Ruby Brasher, 64 CAMPBELLSVILLE Nancy Ariene Delk, 86 CARLISLE Clayton Morris, 53 CARROLLTON Lorene Belle Perkins, 78 COLUMBIA Marshall "Martha Lee" Johnson, 51 CORBIN Darls N.

Moore, 76; Robert E. Pet-rey, 81 EVARTS Harry Ray Hopkins 25 GLASGOW Paul Hawkins, 79 GOODY Jackie Lee McCoy, 59 HARDINSBURQ Virgil Compton, 85 HARLAN George Edward Cottrell, 22 HARRODSBURG Herman B. Gabbert, 85 HAZARD Sherman Williams, 58 HELLIER Lloyd "Silo" Damron, 44 HODGENVILLE Herbert Eugene Weedman, 66 HOPKINSVILLE Teresa Cox, 37; Susanne Adams Cross, 49; Azlle Underwood Wood, 89 HORSE CAVE Annie Melton Bunnell, 76 IRVINE Chester Columbus Elklns, 81; Lon- INDIANA DEATHS AUSTIN Delbert Deaton, 56, died Sunday. Funeral: 10 a.m. Wednesday, Collins, Scottsburg.

Visitation: 4-8 p.m. Tuesday and after 9 a.m. Wednesday. CHARLESTOWN Angelica Lyn Wilson, 8, died Monday. Arrangements: Grayson-Charlestown.

CLARKSVILLE Cardell A. Melson, 60, died Monday. Funeral: 10 a.m, Wednesday, Scott, Jeffersonville. Visitation: noon-9 p.m. Tuesday.

FLOYDS KNOBS Albert Joe Aemmer, 68, died Monday. Funeral: 11 a.m. Wednesday, Kraft, New Albany, visitation: 1-9 p.m. Tuesday and after 9 a.m. Wednesday.

GEORGETOWN Stephen R. Gusler, 46,.