THE COURIER- JOURNAL DEATHS SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1997 ALBANY Walter S. Groce, 81, died here Friday. His wife, Jewell, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Talbott Funeral Home.
Visitation after 2 p.m. Saturday. ASHLAND Virginia A. Klein, 73, died here Thursday. Her husband, Raymond, survives.
Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday, Holy Family Catholic Church. Arrangements: Lazear Funeral Home. BARDWELL Modelle Redford, 85, died here Thursday. Funeral, 11 a.m.
Saturday, Milner Funeral Home. Visitation after 8 a.m. Saturday. BEAVER DAM Lillis Phelps, 78, formerly of Hartford, died Wednesday in Altamonte Springs, Fla. Funeral, 2 p.m.
Sunday, William L. Danks Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m. Saturday. BENTON Mary Edwards, 90, here Thursday.
Funeral, Saturday, Filbeck Cann Funeral Home. Visitation after 8 a.m. Saturday. BENTON Myrtle Hutson, 95, slendhere ribersday, Funeral, 1 Funeral p.m. Home.
Visitation after 5 p.m. Saturday. BEREA Kenneth Nicholson, 57, died here Thursday. His wife, Patsy, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.
Saturday, Silver Creek Baptist Church. Visitation at Lakes Funeral Home after 9 a.m. Saturday. BLOOMFIELD John Nicholls Young, 86, died Friday in Spencer County. The body was cremated.
A private graveside service will be held later. Arrangements: Houghlin Funeral Home. BOWLING GREEN Eric Louis Sutton, 35, died here Friday. Funeral, 3 p.m. Sunday, Massey Funeral Home.
Visitation after 1 p.m. Sunday. BRANDENBURG Paul E. Downs, 66, died Friday in Louisville. His wife, Vivian, survives.
Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Hager Funeral Home. Visitation after 11 a.m. Saturday. BURKSVILLE Margie R.
Coop, 61, died Friday in Glasgow. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Norris-New Funeral Home. Visitation after noon Saturday. CALHOUN Pearl Delmont Phelps, 63, of Owensboro, died there Thursday.
Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Muster Funeral Homes, Calhoun chapel. Visitation after 3 p.m. Saturday. CAMPBELLSVILLE Frances Bailey Wethington, 86, died Thursday in Greensburg.
Her husband, Bennie, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Lyon-DeWitt Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Saturday.
CAMPBELLSVILLE Maudie G. Wright, 79, formerly of Campbellsville, of Marseilles, died Thursday in Ottawa, Ill. Funeral, 11 a.m. Monday, Lyon-DeWitt Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m.
Sunday. COLUMBIA Oliver Allen Wall, 73, died here Thursday. His wife, Helen, survives. Funeral, 4 p.m. Sunday, Stotts-Phelps-McQueary Funeral Home.
Visitation after 3:30 p.m. Saturday. CORBIN Agnes Kelsay, 67, of Tallahassee, formerly of Corbin, there Thursday. Funeral, 2 Monday, Vankirk Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m.
Sunday. CRAB ORCHARD Paul Ray Denney, 61, died Thursday in Lexington from injuries suffered in a tractor accident. His wife, Conswella, survives. Funeral, 3 p.m. Sunday, New Hope First Church of God.
Visitation at McKnight-Martin Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Saturday and the church after 2 p.m. Sunday. ELIZABETHTOWN Aerial Lacie Brennan, infant daughter of Sonya and Seagram Brennan, of Radcliff, died here Thursday. Graveside service, 10 a.m.
Sunday, Elizabethtown Cemetery. Arrangements: Percell Funeral Home. FRANKFORT John Ferguson Duvall 82, died here Friday. His wife, Dorothy, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m.
Monday, Rogers Funeral Home. Visitation after 1 p.m. Sunday. FRANKFORT Warner Hines, 69, died here Thursday. His wife, Sue, survives.
Graveside service, 2 p.m. Sunday, Frankfort Cemetery. Arrangements: Rogers Funeral Home. FRENCHBURG Allen Gibbs, 75, of Olympia, died there Thursday. His wife, Blanche, survives.
Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Menifee Home for Funerals. Visitation after 6 p.m. Saturday. GLASGOW Sarah Porter' Goodman, 86, died here Thursday.
Her husband, Charles survives. Funeral, 11 a.m. Monday, First Presbyterian Church. Visitation at Hatcher Saddler Funeral Home after 3 p.m. Sunday.
Because it is Derby Day, The Courier-Journal will have early deadlines tonight. Funeral homes should call with obituaries by 6 p.m. EDT. GLASGOW Harry Palmore Smith, 78, died here Friday. His wife, Alma, survives.
Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, A. F. Crow Son Funeral Home. Visitation after 8 a.m.
Saturday. GLENCOE John B. Sullivan 52, died Thursday in Florence. His wife, Clarissa, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.
Sunday, Ten Mile Baptist Church. Visitation at Carlton-Lowder Funeral Home, Warsaw, after 5 p.m. Saturday. GREENSBURG Ernest Wright, 74, died here Thursday. His wife, Evelyn, survives.
Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Cowherd Parrott Funeral Home. HAZEL Patsy Raspberry Stenberg, 61, formerly of Hazel, died in Chicago Friday. Her husband, Bill, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.
Tuesday, Hazel Baptist Church. Visitation at Miller Funeral Home after 5 p.m. Sunday. HINDMAN Burley Combs 62, died there Friday. Funeral, 1 p.m.
Monday, Clear Fork Baptist Church, Lotts Creek. Visitation at the church after 4 p.m. Saturday. Arrangements: Hindman Funeral Services. HINDMAN Maudie Louise Lee, 77, of Jackson, died Thursday in Manchester.
Graveside service, 10 a.m. Monday, Jackson Cemetery, Jackson. Visitation at Hindman Funeral Services after 4 p.m. Saturday. HOPKINSVILLE April Clark, infant daughter of Diane Clark and Darren Herring, died here Friday.
Graveside service, 11 a.m. Monday, Cave Spring Cemetery. There will be no visitation. Arrangements: Babbage Funeral Home. IRVINE Catherine Brinegar Ashcraft, 75, of Ravenna, died Friday in Richmond.
Her husband, Charles survives. Funeral, 3 p.m. Sunday, Lewis Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Saturday.
LAWRENCEBURG Edna Mae Robinson Case, 73, died Thursday in Frankfort. Her husband, Harold, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Ritchie-Peach-Todd Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m.
Saturday. LEBANON Curtis Evans, 74, died here Friday. His wife, Ethel, survives. Arrangements: CampbellDeWitt Funeral Home. LEXINGTON Maynard Reichard, 65, died Wednesday in Montgomery, Ala.
Graveside service, 10 a.m. Saturday, Lexington Cemetery. Arrangements: W. R. Milward Mortuary-Broadway.
LEXINGTON Charles W. Shields 79, died here Thursday. Body discovered in New York is Central City man's Associated Press CALVERTON, N.Y. A body found in an abandoned and dried-up cesspool on Long Island, N.Y., has been identified as that of a merchant marine seaman from Central City, who had been missing since January 1996, police said. John S.
Bibb, 40, died of "bluntforce trauma" to the head, said Detective Edward Light of the Suffolk County Police Department. His death has been ruled a homicide, and police said they have suspects. The badly decomposed body was found Wednesday by a surveyor who was working on an abandoned farm in Calverton, Long Island. Bibb was last seen getting into a taxi at the Ramada Inn in Riverhead, Long Island, on Jan. 30, 1996, said Detective John Gierasch.
The seaman was assigned to the Mormac Sky, a tanker that was delivering an oil shipment to Riverhead, Newsday reported yesterday. Bibb signed off the vessel on Jan. 30 to see a doctor for an eye infection, the newspaper said, quoting Eugene Albert, director of marine personnel for Mormac Marine Transport Inc. of Stamford, Conn. "We're upset over this," Albert said.
"We're very sorry for his family." Bibb was treated for the eye infection but did not show up for an appointment with an eye specialist the next day, police said. FUNERALS LOUISVILLE AREA FUNERALS p.m. Saturday, Arch L. Heady Okolona, 8519 Preston Highway. Visitation: after 9 a.m.
Saturday. John Michael Krill, 48. Graveside service: 11 a.m. Monday, Lebanon National, Marion County. Arrangements: Fern Creek Funeral Home.
Jere F. Lloyd, 44. A private graveside service will be held. Arrangements: Pearson's. Joan Meiners, 72.
Funeral: noon Saturday, Ratterman's, 3800 Bardstown Road. John C. Meyer, 82. Funeral: noon Saturday, Owen, 5317 Dixie Highway. Visitation: after 10 a.m.
Saturday. Patricia Mullen, 63. Funeral: 11 a.m. Monday, St. Polycarp Catholic Church, 7718 Columbine Drive.
Visitation: Ratterman's-Southwest, 4832 Cane Run Road, after 3 p.m. Saturday and after noon Sunday. Betty Murray, 88. The funeral will be private. Arrangements: Commonwealth-Stony Brook.
Robert J. Nonnenkamp, 57. Fu- Funeral, 1:30 p.m. Saturday, W. R.
Milward Mortuary-Southland. LEXINGTON Leona McDowell Stone, 83, died Thursday in Winchester. Funeral, 11:30 a.m. Monday, Kerr Bros. Funeral Home.
Visitation after 2 p.m. Sunday. MADISONVILLE Barbara Nell Whitsell, 53, died here Thursday. Her husband, Robert, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m.
Saturday, Harris Funeral Home. Visitation after 8 a.m. Saturday. MAYFIELD Hazel E. Dean, 71, died Thursday in St.
Louis. Her husband, Gale, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Brown Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m.
Saturday. MAYFIELD Zelma French Russell, 91, died here Thursday. Funeral, 4 p.m. Saturday, Byrn Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m.
Friday. MAYFIELD Virginia Adell Warriner, 85, died Thursday in Fort Myers, Fla. Funeral, 2 p.m. Monday, Byrn Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m.
Sunday. MORGANTOWN Robert Burns Brown 74, died Thursday in Bowling Green. Funeral, 1 p.m. SaturFuneral Home. Visitation after smith.
Saturday. MURRAY William Blivin, 64, died here Wednesday. His wife, Evelyn, survives. Memorial service, 2 p.m. Saturday, Blalock-Coleman Funeral Home.
There will be no visitation. MURRAY Ila M. Imus, 77, died here Friday. Her husband, Jesse, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m.
Monday, Miller Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Sunday. MURRAY M. Russell, 93, died here Wednesday.
Funeral, 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Miller Funeral Home. Visitation after 8 a.m. Saturday. NEW CASTLE Viola Reid Beard, 86, died Friday in La Grange.
Funeral, 3 p.m. Sunday, Prewitt-New Castle Funeral Home. Visitation after 10 a.m. Sunday. RICHMOND Pete William "Buckhorn" Gross, 62, died here Thursday of injuries from a motorcycle accident.
Funeral, 2.p.m. Sunday, Turpin Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m. Saturday. RICHMOND Mary Virginia Crisler Nicholson, 65, died here Thursday.
Memorial service, 2 p.m. Sunday, Bennett house on Main Street in Richmond. Arrangements: Turpin Funeral Home. RICHMOND Elizabeth 0. Reams, 85, died here Thursday.
Funeral, 11 a.m. Monday, Turpin Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Sunday. ROCHESTER Cecil Vernon Boyd, 76, died Thursday in Bowling Green.
Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday, Tucker Beechmont Funeral Home, Beechmont. Visitation after 8:30 a.m. Saturday. SCOTTSVILLE The Rev.
Bryant Adams 70, died Thursday in Bowling Green. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Goad Funeral Home. Visitation after 8 a.m. Sunday.
SEBREE James McKinley Floyd, 72, died Thursday in Henderson. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Tompkins Funeral Home. Visitation after 9 a.m. Saturday.
SPARTA Nadine Russell Coates, 81, died Friday in Carrollton. Funeral, 2 p.m. Monday, CarltonLowder Funeral Home, Warsaw. Visitation after 5 p.m. Sunday.
STANFORD Mary Banks Anderson Morgan, 98, died Thursday in Nicholasville. Graveside service, 11 a.m. Monday, Buffalo Springs Cemetery. Visitation at home of daughter, Geraldine Breckenridge, 101 S. Hanover Lexington, after 2 p.m.
Sunday and Fox Funeral Home after 9:30 a.m. Monday. TOMPKINSVILLE Ricky Thomas "Doc" Copas, 30, died here Thursday from injuries in a car wreck. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Strode Funeral Home.
Visitation after 2 p.m. Saturday. VANCEBURG Newell W. Kinney, 68, formerly of Charters, died Friday in Camp Dix. Funeral, 2 p.m.
Sunday, Gaydos Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Saturday. WAYNESBURG Lillie Ellen Padgett, 79, died Thursday in Lexington. Her husband, Roy, survives.
Funeral, Sunday, Barnett Demrow Funeral Visitation after 6 p.m. Saturday. Paid obituaries, F2 neral: 11 a.m. Monday, Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 501 Cherrywood Road. Visitation: Ratterman's, 3711 Lexington Road, after 6 p.m.
Sunday. Donald Rae 84. Funeral: 10 a.m. Saturday, Evergreen, 4623 Preston Highway. Robert C.
Rogers, 71. Funeral: 2 p.m. Sunday, Foreman's, Jeffersontown. Visitation: after 3 p.m. Saturday.
Deborah K. Watson, 40. Memorial service: 6 p.m. Monday, John Carr's residence, 229 Tucker Station Road, Middletown. Arrangements: Resthaven.
11 Stephen F. White 63, of Elizabeth, formerly of Louisville. Funeral: 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Schoppenhorst Underwood's, 19th and Market streets. Thelma H.
Wolfe, 72. The body will be cremated. Memorial service: 4 p.m. Sunday, at the Wolfe family home. Arrangements: Arch L.
Heady Westport Road. Veteran legislator's son is 1st Democrat to try to take Bunning's seat From C-J and AP Dispatches COVINGTON, Ky. Wes Worthington, the son of a veteran state legislator, has become the first Democrat to say he will run for the 4th District congressional seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Jim Bunning.
Worthington, a 35-year-old lawyer who lives in Kenton County, is the son of state Rep. Pete Worthington of Ewing. He said Thursday that he will base his campaign on name recognition in eastern, more Democratic part of the district, which runs from Oldham County in the west to Boyd County in the east. About 43 percent of the district's voters including more than half of the Republicans live in the Northern Kentucky counties of Kenton, Campbell and Boone. Campbell County is the home of Bunning, a Republican who will run next year for the U.S.
Senate seat being vacated by Wendell Ford, and of Judge-Executive Ken Paul, a Democrat who is considering running for Bunning's seat. Paul said this week that he will go to Washington this month to see tional Democratic leaders are willing to make the financial commitment necessary to take back a seat that has been in Republican hands for more than 30 years. Democratic officials also have discussed the race with Boone County Judge-Executive Ken Lucas. For the Republican nomination, Bunning is supporting his former aide, Fort Mitchell lawyer Rick Robinson. State Sen.
Gex Williams of Verona and Newport lawyer James Kidney, have indicated they also plan 1 to seek the GOP nomination. Rev. Stanley Schmidt, who built bridges between religions, dies By KATHERINE L. SEARS The Courier-Journal The Rev. Stanley A.
Schmidt, a retired Roman Catholic priest who was a pioneer in bringing together Jews and Christians, died Wednesday at Christopher East Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Louisville after an illness. He was 75. Schmidt was founding pastor of St. Ignatius Martyr Catholic Church, which opened in 1963. But he was best known for his work in ecumenical affairs.
In the early 1970s he became the first president of the Louisville Area Interchurch Organization for Service the first local ecumenical or interfaith organization to include Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox religions. In 1979 that organization became the Kentuckiana Interfaith Community 1984 one of the first in the nation Schmidt to include Jewish representatives. Schmidt organized dialogues among Jews and Catholics, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Disciples of Christ and Southern Baptists. Schmidt served as director of the Office of Ecumenical Affairs for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lou15 isville for 10 years, retiring in 1984. In 1989 he earned an award from the National Association of the Diocesan Ecumenical Officers for his work in bridging the differences between religions.
Upon accepting the award, Schmidt defined ecumenism as "treating everyone as God would have, whether you treat them, them regardless not." of you agree or Yesterday retired Rabbi Martin Perley of Louisville described Schmidt as "an outstanding person" in linking religions together. The Rev. Gregory Wingenbach, executive director of Kentuckiana Interfaith, called Schmidt a pioneer in fostering better relationships between Catholics and Jews. Wingenbach said that Schmidt and others working to establish a sound ecumenical base wanted it to extend beyond church leaders to lay people. Wingenbach said Schmidt was a "caring but firm, no-nonsense leader.
He was deeply pious, deeply caring and deeply believed" in uniting different faiths. Another passion of Schmidt's was discouraging anti-Semitism and id conveying the plight of Jews discriminated against in the former Soviet Union. Schmidt also was former pastor of Holy Trinity and St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic churches; administrator of St. Leonard CathoPHOTO lic Church; associate pastor and administrator of St.
Martin Catholic Church; and an associate pastor of St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church. He was a teacher at the old Flaget High School, a former secretary for the Clerical Aid Society and an Air Force veteran. Survivors include three brothers, Vincent A. W.
and Clement Schmidt; a sister, Mary Rose Allgeier; and 13 nieces and nephews. A funeral Mass will be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Leonard Catholic Church, 440 Zorn with burial in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be at Ratterman Funeral Home, 3800 Bardstown Road, from 3 to 8 p.m.
tomorrow. Memorial gifts may go to Mass of the Air. Teens accused in fatal fire may be charged as adults Associated Press closed, three-hour hearing. MADISONVILLE, Ky. A grand jury meeting next week will consider whether to indict as adults two juveniles charged with murder for allegedly setting a fire that killed three residents of an Earlington apartment building, officials said yesterday.
Hopkins District Judge Robert Soder yesterday transferred the case of the juveniles, who are charged with murder, arson and burglary, to a Hopkins County grand jury. Soder made the ruling after a The juveniles, both 17-year-old boys, are charged with starting the April 1 fire that killed Charles Wayne Blanchard and newlyweds Jimmy and Stephanie Ford at the Victory Apartments building. The blaze allegedly was set to cover up a burglary. Authorities have not released the teens' names because of their age. Hopkins County Commonwealth's Attorney David Massamore said the grand jury will consider the charges on Thursday.
Russell Springs man, 88, dies as small blast at home starts fire From AP and C-J Dispatches RUSSELL SPRINGS, Ky. State police said a man died when a small explosion set a building on fire Thursday night. They said George Albert Stephens, 88, had gone to a small building beside his residence in Russell Springs to build a fire in a stove. Police said some type of gas explosion was triggered, setting the building on fire. Stephens, a retired farmer, is sur- Ohio hiker dies in fall at Red River Gorge Associated Press CAMPTON, Ky.
An Ohio man has died in a fall at Red River Gorge. Kentucky State Police said Edward South, 32, of Middletown, Ohio, was found by fellow hikers Thursday beneath Chimney Rock in Wolfe County. The body was found around 7:30 p.m. South was pronounced dead by Wolfe County Coroner Frank Porter. The case is under investigation.
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Saturday, Antioch Old Regular Baptist Church, 10817 Barricks Road. Arrangements: Arch L. Heady Okolona. Irene Elizabeth Black, 91, of Tenny Avenue. Funeral: 1 p.m.
Saturday, Arch L. Heady Southern, 3601 Taylor Blvd. Mabel A. Compton, 93. Funeral: 11:30 a.m.
Monday, Arch L. Heady Southern, 3601 Taylor Blvd. Visitation: after 5 p.m. Saturday and after 2 p.m. Sunday.
Lewis D. Deen, 65. Funeral: 11 a.m. Saturday, Ratterman's, 3800 Bardstown Road. James Anthony Fuchs, 62.
Funeral: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sunset Memorial Funeral Home, Missoula. Visitation: after 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Martha B.
Hoggard, 86. Funeral: 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Christ Church United Methodist, 4614 Brownsboro Road. Arrangements: Arch L. Heady Westport Road.
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