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Lexington Monday, October Herald-Leader 20, 1997 Obituaries COMPILED BY FRANK TURNER care of Berea National Bank, Berea, Nettie Diamond, 94, mother of June Cornette, died Saturday. Services 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, W.R. Milward Mortuary Southland. Visitation 3-5 and 7-9 p.m.

today. Contributions suggested tot the Alzheimer's Association or Rosemont Baptist Church. Arthur George, 759 Dakota Street, son of Virginia Kendrick, died yesterday. Arrangements incomplete, Smith Smith Funeral Home. James W.

Glass, 70, 3 Queen Avenue, No. 3, retired security officer, husband of Brenda Glass, died Saturday. Arrangements incomplete, O.L. Hughes Sons Mortuary. Robert Allen "Hoppy" Hicks, 45, 102 American Avenue, husband of Barbara Hicks, died Saturday.

Arrangements incomplete, Kerr Brothers Funeral Home. Minnie Edith Hatfield Phillips, 95, widow of Reginald Joseph Phillips died yesterday. Services 10 a.m. Tuesday, Pisgah Presbyterian Church in Woodford County. W.R.

Milward Mortuary Broadway in charge. Contributions suggested to Sayre Christian Village. John Ward Wright, 81, 204 Boiling Springs Drive, retired manager of Mereworth and Gainesway farms, husband of Pietertje Smits Wright, died yesterday. Arrangements incomplete, Hinton-Turner Funeral Home, Paris. Kentucky ALBANY- Euell E.

Collins, Lexington 61, Aaron, carpenter, husband of Alene Collins, died yesterday. Services 2 p.m. Tuesday, Lands Chapel United Methodist Church. Visitation 3-9 p.m. today, Talbott Funeral Home.

ASHLAND Oma Burton Blevins, 91, retired owner of Blevins Grocery, widow of Sam Blevins, died Saturday. Services 11 a.m. Tuesday, Steen Funeral Home Cannonsburg Chapel. Visitation 6-9 p.m. today.

Contributions suggested to the American Diabetes Association. BEREA Katherine Huggins Johnstone, 99, Forest Street, widow of William C. Johnstone, died yesterday. Services 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at St.

Hubert's Episcopal Church in Clark County. No visitation. Lakes Funeral Home in charge. Contributions suggested to the Linden Hall School for Girls, Funeral Notices Information furnished to Herald-Leader advertising department by mortuaries. Local COUCH Carrie A.

Couch, 72, 1511 Versailles widow of Hershel Couch, died Saturday, October 18, 1997 at her home. Born in Wolfe she was a daughter of the late Nelson and Marybelle Bush Watkins. She made quilts for over years for area families, charities, and organizations in need. Survivors include four daughters, Mary Elice Tackett, Kennersville, NC, Betty Jean Sparks, Lawrenceburg, Patricia Ann Butcher, Ft. Myers, FL, and Lisa Ann Conley, Iceland; a son, Christopher Jerome Couch, Ft.

Myers; a brother, Taylor Watkins, Lexington; five sisters, Bertha Moore and Rachel Hager, both of Campton, Estelle Begley and Mae Blythe, both of Lexington, and Ruby Amburgey, Nicholasville; five grandchildren; and six great grandchildren. Funeral services will be 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home by Brother Byron Jessup. Burial will be in Lexington Cemetery. Visitation will be from p.m.

Tuesday and from 10 a.m. until service time Wednesday. DAVIS Mary E. "Toots" Davis, 80, Ft. Wayne, IN, formerly of Lexington, died Wednesday, October 15, 1997 at Parkview Memorial Hospital in Wayne, IN.

A native of Jessamine County, she was a daughter of the late Norman and Nellie Walker Davis. A member of Ashland Avenue Baptist Church, she was a retired classified searcher for Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company. Survivors include a son and his wife, Cart T. and Merna Davis, Marietta, OH; a daughter and her husband, Mary and Jack Cox, Ft. Wayne, IN; five grandchildren; five great grandchildren; great, great granddaughter; a brother, L.T.

Davis, Lexington; two sisters, and their husbands, Ida Mae and Billy Wellman S.B. and Lena Services 2 p.m. today, Bowling Funeral Home. Visitation 8 a.m. today.

LONDON Mary Bowling, 88, Old Crab Orchard Road, wife of Tester Bowling, died yesterday. Services 1 p.m. Tuesday, Laurel Funeral Home. Visitation 6-9 p.m. today.

LONDON Walter Dean Campbell, 51, Sharonville, Ohio, formerly of Laurel County, husband of Elaine Messer Campbell, died yesterday. Arrangements incomplete, Laurel Funeral Home. MARTIN Charles Goble, 89, Ivel, retired state highway worker, husband of Erma Kendrick Goble, died Saturday. Services 1 p.m. Tuesday, Tom's, Creek Freewill Baptist Church in Ivel.

Visitation 9 a.m. today, Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home. MCKEE Ada Lainhart, 78, Sand Gap, died Saturday. Services 1 p.m. Tuesday, Lakes Funeral Home.

Visitation 7 p.m. today. MIDDLEBURG Dorus Lee McAninch, 75, Wesley Road, Bethel Ridge, retired farmer, husband of Della Ann Smith McAninch, died Saturday. Services 2 p.m. Tuesday, Bartle Funeral Home.

Visitation 6 p.m. today. MORELAND Birdie Mae Harlan, 84, widow of Willie Harlan, died Saturday. Services 1 p.m. Wednesday, W.L.

Pruitt Funeral Home. Visitation 6-9 p.m. Tuesday. RICHMOND Dr. William Gibson Clouse, 70, Bel Air Drive, retired surgeon for Allied Health Service at Eastern Kentucky Uni- versity, former chief of staff at Fort Crowder Military Hospital in Missouri, Army veteran, husband of Mickie Clouse, died Saturday.

Services 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oldham, Roberts Powell Funeral Home. Visitation 4-8 p.m. today. Contributions suggested to the EKU Scholarship Fund.

SHELBYVILLE Harold B. Stanley 77, 5432 La Grange Road, retired cabinet salesman and Army veteran of World War II, husband of Dorothy Stanley, died Saturday. Services 11 a.m. Tuesday, Grove Hill Cemetery. No visitation.

Shannon Funeral Home in charge. SOMERSET -Lucy Mae Hall Childers, 78, Todd Street, wife of Willie Childers, died yesterday. Services 2 p.m. Tuesday, Pulaski Funeral Home. Visitation 6 p.m.

today. TOMPKINSVILLE Hazel Propes Harper, 64, Summer Shade, retired Monroe County coordinator for Community Action for Southern Kentucky, wife of Otha Harper, died yesterday. Services 2 p.m. Tuesday, Strode Funeral Home. Visitation 11 a.m.

today. VERONA Sue Wilson Lawson, 49, Walnut Lick Road, Thatcher Tubes Co. employee, wife of Walter B. Lawson, died Saturday. Services 11 a.m.

Tuesday, Hamilton Funeral Home. Visitation 5-9 p.m. today. WEST LIBERTY Walter PHILLIPS Besides his wife he is survived by a daughter, Beverly Rightmere, Sabina, OH; a son, Jack Lyons II, Lexington; two sisters, Edna Corson, Jeffersontown, and Dee Lyons, Louisville; six grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m.

today at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home by Rev. Steve Wolfgang. Burial will be in Camp Nelson National Cemetery. PHILLIPS Minnie Edith Hatfield Phillips, 95, widow of Reginald Joseph Phillips Sr. died Sunday, October 19, 1997 in Lexington, KY.

She was a daughter of Joseph and Sarah Hatfield, and was born in Hancock County, KY on October 13, 1902 on the same day as her future husband. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips were former residents of Dawson Springs, KY, and raised their family there. In Nashville, TN they were merchants and active members of Vine Street Christian Church.

In Louisville, where Mr. Phillips died on Dec 8, 1983, they were members of the First Christian Church. Mrs. Phillips was formerly an astute businesswoman, active in the Republican Party, a Kentucky Colonel and a volunteer Gray Lady for the Red Cross. She was the last family member of her generation.

She is survived by four children: son Dr. R.J. Phillips, Jr. of Gilbertsville, KY; a daughter Anne Lindsay and husband Harold, Louisville; daughter Jacquelyn Robinson and her husband James, Lexington; and daughter Patricia Blue and her husband John, Orlando, FL. The youngest son, Phillip Lionel Phillips, died in 1951, aged 18.

Mrs. Phillips is also survived by eleven grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren: Dr. Jeanne Orr and her husband Dr. Charles Orr and their children, Charlotte and Andrew, Indianapolis, IN; Reginald Joseph Phillips III, Lexington, and his children, David P. Scarborough and Elizabeth P.

of Louisville; Dr. Barbara Phillips and her children, Ellen Smith -and Ben Hatfield Smith, Lexington; Ex-Lawrence prosecutor Daniel Ball dead at 75 HERALD-LEADER STAFF REPORT LOUISA Daniel D. Ball, former Lawrence County judge and prosecuting attorney, died Saturday at his home. He was 75. Mr.

Ball attended Ashland Junior College; the of Cincinnati; and the University of Kentucky, where he received his law degree in 1948. After being admitted to the state bar association, he served as the Lawrence County judge for four years, and as a prosecuting attorney for 24 years. Mr. Ball was also an Army Air Force veteran of World War II; he served as a B-24 Liberator pilot. He received many awards and commendations, including the Distinguished Flying Cross, an Air Medal Salyer, 71, Route 2, Ezel, retired farmer and Army veteran of World War II, died Saturday.

Services 11 a.m. Tuesday, Ezel First Church of God. Visitation 5-8 p.m. today, Potter Funeral Home. WHITESBURG James K.

Castle, 71, Seco, retired coal miner, Army veteran of World War II, husband of Ollie Castle, died Saturday. Services 11 a.m. Tuesday, Everidge Funeral Home. Visitation 4 p.m. today.

WINCHESTER Catherine Robinson Hall, 59, 192 Tyler Banks Court, widow of Vernon Hall, died Saturday. Services 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Winchester Christian Baptist Church. Visitation 6-9 p.m. today, church.

Scobee Funeral Home in charge. Elsewhere BEIJING Fang Yi, 81, a guerrilla leader in China's communist revolution and an able financial administrator who rose to become vice premier, has died. China's official Xinhua News Agency said Mr. Fang died Friday in Beijing but did not disclose the cause of death. "Fang was a battle-hardened communist fighter, a proletarian revolutionary and outstanding leader," Xinhua said.

Mr. Fang joined the Communist Party in 1931 at 15, and served in a guerrilla detachment that harassed the Japanese in central China during World War II. He later helped administer areas that communist forces took from Chiang Kai-shek's nationalists during the 1945-49 civil war. After revolutionary leader Mao Tse-tung's utopian program ruined the economy, Mr. Fang was among Bruce Phillips and his wife Ruth, and their children, Daniel and Pamela, Lousiville; Christopher Phillips Lindsay, Louisville; Kimiko Lindsay, Chicago; Phillip Hatfield Stahlman, Berkeley, CA; Stephen Stahlman and his wife Kim and their daughter Anna, Lexington; Pattianne Stahlman, Richards, TX; Patricia Blue Ethridge and husband Mark, Naples, FL; John Blue, Jr.

and his wife Linda and their children Tyler and Megan, Kissimmee, FL; plus several nieces. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, October 21, 1997, at Woodford Pisgah Presbyterian Church, KY, conducted by Rev. Michael Ward with burial to follow at 3:30 p.m. EST (2:30 p.m.

CDT) in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Nashville, TN, conducted by Rev. Linda Parker. Memorial gifts may be made to Sayre Christian Village, 580 Greenfield Drive, Lexington, KY 40517. W.R. Milward MortuaryBroadway in charge of arrangements.

WELSH Eugene J. Welsh. Services will be 10:30 a.m. today at the Newman Center. Burial will follow in Camp Nelson National Cemetery.

State EVANS Dorothy B. Evans, 81, a resident of Manchester, VT for 13 years, formerly of Sewickly, PA, died suddenly while at home. She was born October 24, 1913, a daughter of John A. Bell and Nellie (Waite) Bell. She attended school and lived most of her life in Sewickly, Dorothy was very inclined to helping people overcome their problems with drug and alcohol abuse.

She worked as a councilor for 30 years, first at Chit Chat Rehabilitation in Reading, PA, then for many years at Gateway Rehabilitation in Pittsburgh. She was well recognized for her efforts and once received national recognition when she was awarded the National Councilor of the Year Award. During her fret time news agency quoted the ministry as Ky. 40403. BURKESVILLE Marvin Garner, 90, retired farmer, widower of Edna Vincent Garner, died Saturday.

Services 11 a.m. Tuesday, Norris-New Funeral Home. A Visitation 11 a.m. today. CORBIN Otis L.

Campbell, 87, South Kentucky Street, retired General Motors Corp. employee, husband of Cleo Campbell, died Saturday. Services 2 p.m. Tuesday, Hart Funeral Home. Visitation 6 p.m.

today. CRAB ORCHARD June Banks Hendrickson, 72, Elm Street, daughter of Carrie Dale Banks, died Saturday. Services 11 a.m. Tuesday, McKnight-Martin Funeral Home. Visitation 6 p.m.

today. ELKHORN CITY Dorothy Smith, 84, retired merchant, widow of Isaac Smith, died Saturday. Services noon Tuesday, Bailey Funeral Home. Visitation 9 a.m. today.

FLEMING-NEON Mary Potter, 83, Jackhorn, mother of Phyllis Wright, died Saturday. Services 11 a.m. Tuesday, Banks Funeral Home. Visitation 9 a.m.-10 p.m. today.

HARRODSBURG Barbara Jean Phillips, 62, 531 Henrico Road, former nursing assistant at Kentucky State Hospital, died Saturday of cancer. Services 11 a.m. Tuesday, Alexander Royalty Funeral Home. Visitation 6-9 p.m. today, and after 7 a.m.

Tuesday. Contributions suggested to Heritage Hospice, P.O. Box 1213, Danville, Ky. 40422. HINDMAN Wiley Amburgey, 80, retired coal miner, husband of Grace Amburgey, died Saturday.

Services 1 p.m. Tuesday, Old Carr Regular Baptist Church in Littcarr. Visitation 2 p.m. today, church. Hindman Funeral Services in charge.

JACKSON Kelly Mullins, 60, Princeton, retired logger, father of Otilla Hensley, died Friday. Services 10 a.m. Tuesday, Deaton Funeral Home. Visitation any time today. JACKSON James L.

Vance, 68, Middletown, Ohio, formerly of Jackson, retired Armco Steel employee, husband of Bonnie Blanton Vance, died Thursday. Services 11 a.m. Wednesday, Deaton Funeral Home. Visitation 5 p.m. Tuesday.

LANCASTER Holman "Shine" Stipes, 81, retired state highway employee, died yesterday. Services 1 p.m. Tuesday, Spurlin Funeral Home. Visitation 5-8 p.m. today.

LONDON Weta Omylene Vickers, 69, Somerset Road, retired Square employee, mother of William Vickers, died Saturday. and Jack Barnett, all of Lawrenceburg; one aunt, Ethel Miller of Lexington; and several cousins, including Lillian Gaunce, Lexington. Funeral services will be 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home by Brother Wallace York. Burial will be in Lexington Cemetery.

Friends may call from 7-9 p.m. today. DIAMOND Nettie Ellen Shropshire Diamond, 94, Lexington, widow of George B. Diamond, died Saturday afternoon in Mayfair Manor Convalescent Center. She was a former manager of the Gift Horse.

She was born in Leesburg, KY, daughter of the late ter Joseph Shropshire Hubble and and she Myrtie wasna member of the Rosemont Baptist Church. She is survived by a daughter, June F. Cornett and -in-law Edgar L. Cornett, Lexington; two sisters, Rachel S. Horn, Lexington, and Myrtie S.

Ocklawaha, FL; brother Willard N. Shropshire, Wheeler, OR; and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the W.R. Milward Mortuary-Southland, conducted by the Dr.

C. Gilbert Tucker, and Rev. Jerome Browne, with burial in the Blue Grass Memorial Gardens, Jessamine County, Casket bearers will be Chris Litton, Don Umbenhen, Matt Adams, Jim Hatfield, Joe Shropshire, and Clyde Arnold. Friends may call 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. today.

Contributions may be made to the Alzheimers Association, 801 S. Limestone, Lexington 40508, or to Rosemont Baptist Church, 556 Rosemont Garden, Lexington 40503. LYONS Jack L. Lyons, 72, 303 Herrington Woods, Harrodsburg, husband of Frances Fearrand Lyons, died Friday, October 17, 1997 at his residence. Born in Glasgow, he was a son of the late Leroy and Mae Palmore Lyons.

A WWII veteran of the U.S. Navy, he was a retired U.S. Postal Service employee and a member of the Lexington Rd. Church of Christ in Danville. with three oak leaf clusters, an EAME theater ribbon with three oak leaf clusters, a Presidential Citation, Good Conduct Medal and the Victory Medal.

Mr. Ball is survived by his wife, Betty Lou Wilson Ball; two daughters, Dana Lou May of West Liberty, and Teresa Gail Martorana of Gaithersburg, five grandchildren; one great-grandchild; two sisters; and two brothers. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the First Baptist Church. Visitation will be after 4 p.m.

today at Wilson Funeral Home. Contributions are suggested to the First Baptist Church Building Fund or Community Hospice. the officials brought to Beijing in the early 1960s to return order. He served as a member of the powerful State Planning Commission and handled foreign trade. Mr.

Fang became a vice premier in 1978, the year Deng Xiaoping consolidated his hold on power and embarked on pragmatic economic reforms. He accompanied Deng on his successful tour of the United States in 1979. WASHINGTON Parker T. Hart, 87, a career diplomat who served as an assistant secretary of state and ambassador to three countries, died Wednesday at his Washington home. He had a heart ailment.

Mr. Hart served as assistant secretary for Near East and South Asian affairs from 1968 to February 1969, when he was named director of the Foreign Service institute. He retired later that year. He then served as president of the Middle East Institute in Washington and worked as a consultant. Earlier, he was ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1961 to 1965, serving for part of that time also as ambassador to Kuwait and minister to Yemen.

He then became ambassador to Turkey, serving there from 1965 to 1968. Mr. Hart was a native of Medford, and a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard University. He is survived by his wife, Jane; two daughters and four grandchildren. MOSCOW Grigory Pushkin, 83, the last direct descendant of Alexander Pushkin, Russia's greatest poet, has died at a Moscow veterans' hospital, the Ministry of Culture announced Saturday.

Grigory Pushkin, the poet's great died late Friday after a long illness, the ITAR-Tass Dorothy was an avid fan of many sports. She also enjoyed the time spent working in her garden and arranging flowers, and was also said to be an excellent cook. She could also often be found reading or knitting. Dorothy is survived by her two sons and daughters-in-law Charles R. (Chip) and Opal Evans of Jaffrey, NH, and John F.

and Marilyn Evans of Minneapolis; a brother, John A. Bell III of Lexington; and a sister, Jean Snyder of Sewickly Hights, PA. The funeral service will be held Tuesday, Oct. 21, 11 a.m. at the First Congregational Church in Manchester Village.

The Rev. Leo Hourihan, pastor of the church, will officiate. Calling hours will be today from 7-9 p.m. at Brewster Funeral Home in Manchester. There will be a graveside service of committal at the Sewickly Cemetery in Sewickly, PA, Friday, Oct.

24, 11 a.m. For those who wish, memorial gifts may be made in her memory to Alcoholics Anonymous, Brewster Funeral Service, PO Box 885, Manchester Center, VT 05255. saying. Grigory Pushkin, a highly decorated veteran of World War II, became a police officer after the war and later went to work for the Pravda publishing house, where he helped collect his famous ancestor's work. Alexander Pushkin is perhaps the most beloved of all Russian literary figures, and nearly every Russian can recite some of his poems by heart.

Among his bestknown works are the epic poem Eugene Onegin and a play, Boris Godunov. Grigory Pushkin organized festivals of Pushkin poetry and toured the country, delivering lectures about the Pushkin family. In his will, Alexander Pushkin barred his descendents from writing verse, but on a recent birthday Mr. Pushkin recited the one poem he had written during his life. According to ITAR-Tass, Grigory Pushkin dreamed of living to see the celebrations of his greatgrandfather's 200th birthday, in 1999.

LOS ANGELES Audra Lindley, 79, best known for her portrayal of Helen Roper on television's "Three's Company," died of complications from leukemia. Miss Lindley died Thursday at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, where she had been for three weeks, said Debbie Beard, her business manager. She was diagnosed with leukemia earlier this year. Miss Lindley continued to work up until one month ago, when she did a taping of the CBS series "Cybill" in a recurring role as a mother to Cybill Shepherd's character. She appeared as Helen Roper, the sexually frustrated landlady on the sitcom "Three's Company," from 1977 to 1979.

Miss Lindley and Norman Fell, who played her husband, starred in a spinoff sitcom called "The Ropers" from 1979 to 1980. Miss Lindley's credits, however, extended far beyond "Three's Company," Beard said. She appeared in recent years in the film The Relic, and played Phoebe's grandmother on the NBC sitcom "Friends." She also joined legendary TV moms Barbara Billingsley, Florence Henderson and June Lockhart in a special Mother's Day episode of NBC-TV's "The Mommies" in 1994. She worked extensively in theater with roles in Handy Dandy; Take Her, She's Mine and Death of a Salesman, for which she won The Citadel Best Actress Award, Beard said. Miss Lindley also appeared as Bridget's mother in the CBS sitcom, "Bridget Loves Bernie" from 1971 to 1973.

Miss Lindley was divorced from actor James Whitmore. She is survived by three of her five children from a previous marriage. HARRISON Eliza Turner Harrison, 79, of Nicholasville, wife of the late. T.L. Harrison, died Saturday, October 18, 1997 at St.

Joseph Hospital, Lexington. A native of Breathitt she was a daughter of the late George and Louraine Johnson Turner. Survivors include a granddaughter, Carol Cole; a sister, Alice Murphy; and a daughter-in-law, Paula Harrison, all of Nicholasville. She was preceded in death by a son, Ted Harrison. Funeral services will be Tuesday, October 21, 1997 at 1 p.m.

at the Hager Cundiff Funeral Home, Nicholasville, with Rev. Jim Harrison officiating. Burial will follow in the Maple Grove Cemetery. Family and friends will serve as casket bearers. Visitation will be Tuesday, from 11 a.m.

to 1 p.m. STOKLEY Lula Mae Stokley. Services are 2 p.m. Tuesday, at the Wells Funeral Home, Clay City. Burial at the Stokley Cemetery, Clay City.

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