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B2 Lexington Herald-Leader Lexington Ky Monday September 8 1997 Eldon Webb veteran former US attorney dies Seaplane kills 2 at terday Services noon Wednesday Millstone Missionary Baptist Church Visitation 5 pm today church Everidge Funeral Hone in charge WBJJAMSTOWN Julian Joseph Fore 64 retired Jefferson County police officer died Sat- unlay of complications from multiple sclerosis Services 2 pm Tuesday Elliston-Stanley Funeral Home Visitation 4-8 pm today Contributions suggested to Williamstown Christian Church neral Home CUMBERLAND Martha Lloyd 74 wife of Albert Lloyd Sr died yesterday Services 2 pm Wednesday Lewis Creek Pentecostal Chinch in Partridge Visitation 6 pm today Tri-City Funeral Home in Benham DANVILLE James Yates Johnson 76 Kentucky Veterans Center Wilmore formerly of Danville retired personnel manager for the Matthews Corp Army veteran of World War died Friday Services 11 am Tuesday Stith Funeral Home Visitation 5 pm today Contributions suggested to the Kentucky Veterans Center in care of die Eisenhower Unit FLATWOODS Martha Irena Tackett 91 Naples Road Ashland former coowner of the Tackett Grocery widow of Arbit Court for die Eastern District of Kentucky the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals and the US Supreme Cost He was also a life member of tiie 6th Circuit Court of Appeals Judicial Conference and was a Navy veteran Mr Webb is survived by his wife Linda Webb two sons John Webb of Ashland and Eldon Webb Jr of Fort Lauderdale Fla a daughter Lazzelle Webb Parker of Roanoke Va two brothers William Webb and Talton Webb both of Flatwoods and three grandchildren Services will be private Visitation is from 66 pm Tuesday at tiie Steen Funeral Home Ashland ChapeL Contributions are suggested to the Olivary Episcopal Church Memorial Fund or die Ashland Community Hospice Compiled By Frank Turner Lexington i James Robert Callahan 85 Lancaster formerly -of Lexington died Saturday Services 10 am Tuesday Kerr Brothers Funeral Home Visitation 5-9 pjn today Harold Nathan Downing 66 Nicholasville formerly of Lacing-ton retired CEO of the University of Kentucky Federal Credit Union husband of Lillian Seamon Downing died yesterday Services 1 pm Wednesday Second Presbyterian Church Visitation 3-6 pjn Tuesday Kerr Brothers Funeral Home and after noon Wednesday church Contributions suggested to the Jessamine County Hospice Cecils Dorothy Lalmbeck Taylor 96 Meadowbrook Healthcare Carter retired bookkeeper for Simpson Electric Co in Chicago pother of Ruth Fitzgerald of Versailles died yesterday No services or visitation WH Milward Mortuary Broadway in charge Peggy Darlene Wilhite 41 360 Jefferson Street died Thursday Sendees 1 pm Tuesday Cove Haven Cemetery No visitation Hawkins Funeral Home in charge Kentucky -f BARBOURVBAE Laura Judith Bays 69 wife of Add Bays 'died Saturday Services 2 pm Tuesday Hampton Funeral Home -Visitation 9 am today Contributions suggested to the American Society BARBOURVILLE Dorothy 'Abner Lawson 79 Artemus widow of Arthur Clyde Lawson died 1 Saturday Services 2 pm Tuesday 'Hopper FUneral Home Visitation 6-9 pm today Contributions suggest-ted to the American Diabetes Asso- nation BELFRY Lucille Phillips McAndrews retired librarian widow of Blake Phillips died yesterday Services 11 am Wednesday RE Rogers Funeral Home Visitation 6 pm today BROOKSVILLE Charles Robert Malloy 80 retired fanner -Army veteran of World War died -Saturday Services 11 am Tuesday St James Catholic Church Visitation 66 pm today Moore Parker Funeral Home CORBIN Ruth Shafer Onkst 70 267 North Highway 1223 wife of Russell Onkst died -Saturday Services 2 pm Tuesday Corbin Funeral Home Visitation 6 pm today CORBIN Richard Searle 72 Whitney Court retired factory worker veteran of World War it husband of Helen Aileen Douglas -Searle died yesterday Services 2 pm Tuesday Worley Cemetery Visitation 6-9 pm today Hart Fu- Funeral Notices Information furnished to Herald-Leader advertising department by mortuaries Local BEAM Thelma Allen -Beam Funeral will be 11:30 am Tuesday at WJL Milward Mortuary-Southland conducted by Rev Matthew Agnew and Rev Gail Thiessen with burial in the Lexington Cemetery Casket bearers will be Grandsons and Great Grandsons Friends may call 5 to 8 pm today CALLAHAN James Robert Callahan 85 669 Tanyard Rd Lancaster former Resident of Lexington died Saturday at Lexington Hospital A native of Big Stone Gap VA he was a son of the late Howard and Della Callahan and a retired truck driver He is survived by one son Michael Callahan three daughters Nancy Fugitt Gail Brown and Rebecca Nor ton his sister Lillian Trump eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren He was preceded in death by hit wife Catherine Callahan arid another daughter Phyllis Norton Funeral services will be at 10:00 am Tuesday at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home with burial in Blue Grass Memorial Gardens Visitation will be from 5 to 9 pm today COONS Jeanette Kirkpatrick Coons Services will be conducted on today at 11:30 am at the WR Milward Mortuary-Broadway With burial in the Lexington Cemetery FIZEB Stanley Fixer Funeral Services will be at 1 pm today at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home With burial in Hillcrest Memorial Park HOLBROOK leant Holbrook Sr Funeral services wtilbe at 11:30 am herndLemer Stw Rems? ASHLAND Eldon Webb Sr a former US Attorney died yesterday at Medical Center in Ashland He was 71 Mr Webb was a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School in 1951 He practiced law in Eastern Kentucky until he retired in 1991 He served as master commissioner of tiie Boyd Circuit Court from 1958 to 1963 and as assistant commonwealth's attorney from 1968 tol97L In 1971 he was appointed as an assistant U5 Attorney In 1976 he was appointed US Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentudcy He subsequently served as the federal public defender for die Eastern District of Kentucky Mr Webb was licensed to practice law before the US District Wilmore man dies in accident HemldIewer Staff Report A 24-year-old Wilmore man was killed early yesterday when his vehicle struck a tree on US 68 in Jessamine County John Leslie Berryman was driving west on US 68 at 12:45 am when he lost control of his car about 2 miles east of Nicholasville state police said Mr Berryman was alone at die time Mr Berrympn of Bend Road was the husband of Natasha Berryman Arrangements are incomplete at Betts West Funeral Home in Nicholasville neral Home Visitation 6-9 pm today PARIS Joseph Lindsey Sharpe Sr 83 2483 Cane Ridge Road farm machinery mechanic husband of Evelyn Woodall Sharpe died Saturday Services 11 am Wednesday Hinton-TUrner Funeral Home Visitation 5-9 pm Tuesday Contributions suggested to Hospice of the Bluegrass PIKEVILLE Hattie Kiser Bowling 81 Lookout died Friday Services 11 am Tuesday Caney Creek Old Regular Baptist Church Visitation 5 pm today church Lucas Hall Funeral Home in charge PKEVILLE Marcella Pou-loa 66 mother of Dr Alex Pouk died Saturday Services 2 pm today Call Funeral Home Visitation 8 am today Contributions suggested to the Pikeville Wesleyan Church or tiie St Francis School PINEVILLE Daisy Elian Sasser 83 Arjay retired teacher mother of Lois Saner of Arjay died yesterday Services 2 pm Tuesday Buffalo Pentecostal Churdi Visita ington Cemetery Friends may call from 11:30 am until time of service State ABSHEAR Moss Abshear 87 of Cobb Lane husband of the late Lucy Mae Moyers Abshear died Saturday September 6 1997 at the Lexington Hospital A native of Lee Co KY he was a son of the late Press and Kate Newman Abshear He retired as the Water Plant Supervisor for the City of Nicholasville after 26 yearsMr Abshear was member of the Mt Lebanon Methodist Church and was a lifetime member of the Booneville-Owsley Co AM Lodge Survivors include 8 children and their spouses Mrs spouses Shirley (Carolyn) Cobb Nicholasville Jerry (Sandra) Abshear Indonesia Paul (Nelva) Abshear Dwight lasville shear Nicholasville Mrs (Linda) Sewell Nicho-Mrs Don (Beverly) James Pensacola FL Mickey (Debbie) Abshear Nicholasville Gary (Donna) Abshear Nicholasville and Mrs Jean Smith McKee a sister Velma Tuck Hillsboro OH brother-in-law and his wife Benny and Marie Moyere Dayton OH 18 grandchildren 19 great- Sandchildren He was preceded death by a brother Knot Abshear Funeral services will be held on Tuesday September 9 1997 at the Hager Cundiff Funeral Home Nicholasville with Rev Hugh Delaney officiating Entombment will follow in the Bluegrass Memorial Gardens Grandchildren will serve as casketbearers Visitation will be today from 4-8 pm and from noon until service time on Tuesday The family requests contributions to the Jessamine County Hospice BOCOOK Lude Cline Bocook 87 of Morehead widow of Ivan Bocook Ky Lake associated Press DRAFFENVBLE A seaplane on an excursion tripat Kentucky Lake crashed kilkig an Elinois state trooper and his infant son officials said James Turner 33 a troober at the District 13 post! At DuQuoin III post and e-month-old Dylan Turner died In tiie accident Saturday accdrd-ing to the Blinois post The trooper's wife Anp Turner 33 a prosecutor in Jack-son County 111 survived when pilot William Wesley pulled from the wreckage before IJte plane sank according to Njar-shall County Disaster ana Emergency Services official Both had minor injuries "She said she want to go on the flight but they (fiqr husband and others) kept insisting she go on and do said Bobby Grief whose camper Jbe woman came to after vie tragedy said she guesral if they crashed all go The single-engine ponfoph plane hit Buckhom Bay acposs from Camp about pm CDT flipped and quickly sank "The plane was down and submerged about 9 feet of water whence said Gene Kissiar ijf Marshall County Disaster pifid Emergency Services Jack Perkins owner of Kuf-tawa Harbor Marina saidtije plane which bore the name Scenic Rides is owned by Jjm Parsley of Parsley Marine and Aviation Services which rents space at the marina Mike Wells public relatkfas director for Moor's Resort sid the plane was making rout pie excursion flights from Kuttawa Harbor Although the the accident remained under investigation yesterday) Wells said one or both of the pontribps apparently gave way upon roh-tact with tiie water After seeing the seaplai flip end-to-end in the water lAr-ry Champion another camper grabbed Griefs personal watercraft and raced to 'the plane Champion said Ann Turner had to be restrained from trying to rescue her family was hysterical £lje said she had the baby injtjr arms and when he (Weslf pulled her out of the planesf lost her grip on the babyJle said a 4 TT ft J7i1 '-in-law Devers Funeral set vices will be held 1:00 p-ip Tuesday September 9 1997 a the Duell-Clark Funeral Chape in Versailles with Rev J001 Brandon officiating Vlritatioi will be from 6-9 pm today a the Funeral ChapeL Memorial are auggested to the Versatile! BaptistChurcl Devers She was SHARPE Joseph Lindsey Sharpe Sr B3 2483 Cane Ridge Rd Parisrii former farm machinery median ic husband of Evelyn Wood all Sharpe died Saturday S0p -tember 6 1997 He was a nativ of Nicholas County son of thi late Ernest and Verna Man Yarber Sharpe and was a mem her of the Carlisle Christian Church Other survivors are fQu 1 daughters and sons-in-law Betty Jo and Billy Turner Bour 1 bon Co Alice and Larry Pains three sons and daughter in-law James and Elizabeth Sharpe Lexington Joseph 1 and Gerry Shame Jr Danvill Richard and Kathy Sharp Huntington WV a sister Mai Crouch Lexington a brothe William Sharpe Lexington ill grandchildren and three grea) grandchildren Funeral servile will be 11:00 am Wednesday kt the Hinton-Tumer Funehu Home by Rev Chuck Perzyi Internment in Paris Cemetery Casket bearers will be Robert McCarty Joseph Sharpe HI James Ratliff Bennett Ratliff II James Greene Elliott Everett Garrison tfi Tilford Garrison Honora bearers will be WP Womall Hi Sonny Gibson Samuel Claj RW Collins Jr Mark Gai Arlie Sexton Jimmy Myr and Scott Steinhauer VisitaticT will be 5 to 9 pm Tuesday Memorials are suggested to Hos-pice of the Bluegrass Elsewhere LOS ANGELES Hal Goodman 82 an award-winning comedy writer who wrote monologues for Johnny Carson Flip Wilson Jade Benny and a young Bob Hope has died at his Los Angeles home The cause of death Wednesday was not disclosed Along with longtime partner Larry Klein Mr Goodman was nominated for eight Emmys and won twice for episodes of Jade Benny Show" in 1959 and FKp Wilson Show" in 1971 He met Carson in 1953 when the future host of "The Tonight first arrived in Los Angeles Mr Goodman by then was a veteran Hope writer Over the years Mr Goodman also worked with Milton Berk Frank Sinatra Steve Allen Imo-gene Coca Carol Burnett Jackie Gleason David Letterman and oth ers Survivors indude his wife Natalie two daughters and a brother NEW YORK Kaaron Erickson 44 a soprano who was on the roster of the Metropolitan Opera fix1 the past 12 years and whose repertory ranged from Handel oratorios to Philip most recent opera died Aug 30 at her home in Maryville Tenn Lawrence Wasserman her manager said the cause was cancer Ms Erickson was born in Seattle and studied with Marshal Singher at the Santa Barbara Academy of Music in California She made her San Francisco Opera debut in a production of CendriSon in 1982 The same year she won first prize at the Munich International Competition In 1984 she made her New York City Opera debut as Pamina in Mozart's Magic Flute and the next year she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Susanna in Le Nom Figaro At the Met Ms Erickson also sang Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Alice Ford in Verdi's Fal-staff as well as roles in Wagner's Goetterdaemmerung and Das Rheingold EJektra Dialogues des Carmelites and John Ghosts of Versailles She also performed regularly as a soloist- in performances of Ninth Symphony Fourth Symphony Four Last Songs the Mozart Requiem and Messiah lasville one daughter-in-law Kathy Hawley and ner husband Peter two sisters Betty Conway Versailles and Etta Char-lein of Wisconsin five brothers James William Taylor Raymond Sharp Donald Sharp Ronald Sharp all of Versailles and Olson Sharp of Lexington three grandchildren David Berends and Laura and Keith Booth Two great-grandchildren also survive He was preceded in death by his son David Booth and two sisters Margaret Man- ley and Martha Bailey Funeral services will be Tues- day September 9 -1997 at the 1 Clark Funeral Chapel in Versailles with the Rev Julian Simpson officiating Burial will follow at the Midway Cemetery Visitation will be nom 4-8pm today at the funeral chapel Serving as casketbearers will be ng as casketbearers Roy Sowder Kenny Way Don Chambers Lowell Devers Ron nie Groves and Ora Booth DEVERS Bonnie Joyce Devers 44 354 McDonald Dr Versailles wife of Clyde Devers died Saturday September 6 1997 at UK Medical Center Lexington Bom May 24 1953 she was the daughter of Lois Helen Hodges and the Batey Jacksonville AL late James Albert Batey She was a member of the Versailles Baptist Church and was the Mens Wear Fashion Manager at K-Mart in Versailles Besides her husband and mother she is survived by a daughter Vanessa Renee Devers Versailles three sisters Brenda (Pete) Pritchett and Nellie (Gary) Andrews both of Jacksonville AL and Beckey (Andy) Davis Mound ville AL four brothers James (Juanita) Thomas (Barbara) and Mickey Batey all of Jacksonville All and Ebben (Marie) Batey Anis-ton AL two sisters-in-law Diane (Thomas) Walton and Teresa (Tony) LaFoe Mrs De-vers la also survived by her father-in-law step-mother-in-law Calvin Cecil and Bettye Tackett died yesterday Services 11 am Wei Tednesday Little Mary Old Regular Baptist Church Visitation 6-9 pm Tuesday Carman Funeral Home Contributions suggested to the Ashland Community Hospice IRVINE Tammy Lea Caudill Evorsole 30 620 Cantrell Street wife of Michael Allen Ever-sole died Friday Memorial services 2 pm today Zoe First Church of God in Lee County No visitation Warren Toler Funeral Home in charge MAYS VILLE Forrest Thomas 91 Beechwood Drive retired farmer widower of Anna Bean Thomas died Saturday Services 2 pm Tuesday Brell Son Funeral Home Visitation 5 pm today NICHOLAS VILLE Moss Abshear 87 Cobb Lane retired Nicholasville Water Plant supervisor widower of Lucy Moyers Abs- hear died Saturday Services 2 pm Tuesday Guyn Kurtz Hager Cundiff Funeral Home Visitation 4-8 pm today and after noon Tuesday Contributions suggested to Jessamine County Hospice NICHOLASVILLE Christina Warfield Hunt 71 311 East Chestnut Street wife of James Hunt died Saturday Arrangements incomplete Smith Smith FUneral Home in Lexington OWENTON Alma West 86 died yesterday Services 2 pm Tuesday Beechwood Assembly of God Church Visitation 5-9 pm today McDonald Funeral Home Main Street Contributions suggested to the Beechwood Assembly of God Church OWINGSVILLE George Amos Maechlno 53 131 West Main Street Mount Sterling field engineer for Fluor-Daniel Construction Co husband of Carole Wells Maschino died Saturday Services 2 pm Tuesday Richardson Funeral Hone Visitation 6 pm today PAINTSyniE Lest Preston 92 former owner of Preston Funeral Home mother of Ray Preston died Friday Services 3 pm today Preston Funeral Home Visitation 8 am today PAINTSVB1E Jackie Salyer Sr 62 Flat Gap husband of Virginia Salyer died yesterday Services 11 am Tuesday Preston Fu Tuesday at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home by the Rev Larry Bishop with burial in Lexin Cemetery Friends may call 6 to 9 pm today JONES Rosalie Hoskins Jones 66 of 191 Tiverton Way died Saturday Morning in the Hospice Care Center she was a retired Executive Secretary with the Appalachian Regional Healthcare She was born in Pikeville KY daughter of James and Lillian Blackburn Hoskins and a mem ber of the First United Methodist Church surviving are a son James Edwin Jones Lexington zar Hoskins a brother James Edgar of Versailles a sister Norma Ann Hoskins of Wilson NC and numerous other family members Funeral services will be 3 6m Wednesday at the WR ilward Mortuary-Southland Conducted by Dr Howard Willen Rev Silas Ripato and Rev TO Harrison with burial in Blue Grass Memorial Gardens Jessamine Co Friends may call 3-5 and 7-9 pm on Tuesday Contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society 160 Moore Dr Lexington Ki 40503 or to Hospice of the Bluegrass 2312 Alexandria Dr Lexington KY 40504 MARTIN Margaret Martin Funeral services will be 1:30 pm Tues pm Tues by Dr at the WR Milward Southland conducted Howard Willen with entombment in Blue Grass Memorial Gardens Mausoleum Jessamine Co Friends may call 5 to 9 pm today PENMAN John William Penman Jr Funeral services 10 am Wed Smith Smith Funeral Home Visita-tion 6 to 8 pm Tuesday WILSON Marsha Vaughn Wilson Funeral services will be 1:30 pm today at the WR Milward Mortuary-Broadway with burial in Lex- tion 6 pm today chuith Arnett Steele Funeral Home in charge SHELBYVILLE Mary Ann Duffy 73 6972 La Grange Road mother of Libby Fraas of Richmond died Saturday Services 10 am Wednesday Church of the Annunciation Visitation 5-9 pm Tuesday Shannon FUneral Home SHELBYVILLE Raymond Franklin Elliott 69 928 Plainview Avenue former owner of Zink Auto Parts died Saturday Services 11 am Tuesday Shannon Funeral Home Visitation 2-9 pm today Contributions suggested to Hospice of Louisville SHELBYVILLE Emma Marshall Long 81 Simpson ville retired school bus driver mother of Nancy Gibbs of Finchville died yesterday Services 2 pm Tuesday Shannon Funeral Home Visitation 4 pm today Contributions suggest ed to the National Foundation SOMERSET Stella Holloway 72 306 Murphy Avenue Ferguson retired General Electric employee wife of Janies Holloway died Saturday Services 2 pm Tuesday Pulaski Funeral Home Visitation 6 pm today VERSAILLES Grover Booth 78 105 Molly Street retired Texas Instruments employee Army veteran of World War husband of Elizabeth Booth died yesterday Services 1030 am Tuesday Duell-Clark Funeral Chapel Visitation 4-8 pm today VERSAILLES Bonnie Joyce Devers 44 354 McDonald Drive men's wear fashion manager at Kmart wife of Clyde Devos died Saturday Services 1 pm Tuesday Duell-Clark Funeral ChapeL Visitation 6-9 pm today Contributions suggested to tiie Versailles Baptist Churdi WMTESBURG William Big Anderson 79 Cremona retired coal miner husband of Ethel Anderson died yes- paed away Friday Sept 5 1997 in Cynthiana where she had resided with a daughter Mrs Bocook was bom Nov 25 1909 in Rowan County KYto the late RW and Bertie Caudill Cline She was a retired Florist having worked for Flowers in Morehead for many years and was also a member of the First Baptist Church More-head Mrs Bocook was preceded in death by her husband Ivan Bocook on June 11 1983 two brothers Ora dine and OlUe Cline one sister Lennie Bailey and one grandson Larry Johnson She is survived by two-Sullivan of daughters Mrs Faye Sul Cynthiana KY ana Mrs Chloris Jett en Edwai KY one broth-dine Shepherds- eri oawaiu uune anepneras-ville KY two sisters Bess Hall Morehead and Delma Austin Redwood City CA four grandchildren Paul Parker Terry Jett Sherri Jett and Barry Sullivan two great-grandchildren Brian Parker ana Lindsay Jett Funeral services will be con- ducted 1:00 pm todayin the Chapel of the Lane-Stud Stuckey-Grav Funeral Home in More-heaa with Rev Don Mantooth officiating Internment will follow in the Cranston Cemetery Casketbearers will be Bob Hays Dale Howard Mike Chadwell Harold White Danny Sullivan and Sidney Stewart Honorary bearers will -be grandsons Friends may call until time of services at the Funeral Home BOOTH Grover Booth 78 of Versailles husband of Elizabeth Booth died Sunday September 7 1997 at St Joseph Hospital in Lexington Mr Booth was a retired employee of Texas Instruments in Versailles He was also a member of the Midway Methodist Church and was a WWII veteran having served in the US Army He was also member of the VFW Post 4075 of Frankfort Besides his wife he is survived by one daughter Kathle Berends and her nusband George of Nicho- 1.

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