Obits for Harlan County 1916-1990 Submitted By: Shelia Back to Harlan Ky Research     HARLAN, KY CONNECTIONS: Tampa Tribune, The (FL) - November 18, 1990 Deceased Name: ROY E. NOE ROY E. NOE, 64, of Lake Hamilton died Friday at Winter Haven Hospital. A native of Harlan, Ky., he moved to this area from Warren, Mich., 3 1/2 years ago. He was retired from Chrysler Corp., a Protestant and a veteran of World War II, serving in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper. He is survived by a son, Robert W. of Farmington Hills, Mich.; and his mother, Nan, and a sister, Edythe N. Norman, both of Winter Haven. Mitchell Funeral Home, Winter Haven. Tampa Tribune, The (FL) - November 10, 1990 Deceased Name: JAMES E. PARKER JAMES E. PARKER, 81, of Largo died Thursday at Largo Medical Center Hospital. A native of Olmstead, Ky., he moved to the area in 1985 from Harlan, Ky. Before retirement, he was a plant manager for McGraw-Edison Corp. in Harlan. He was a member of Harlan Baptist Church, past president of Harlan Lions Club, and a past member of the Harlan Committee on Aging. He is survived by his wife, Euna M. "Hibbard"; a daughter, Christine of Largo; a brother, Paul of Corbin, Ky.; and several nieces and nephews. Moss-Feaster Funeral Home, Largo Chapel. Sun, The (Baltimore, MD) - October 23, 1990 Deceased Name: Mrs. Carr Mrs. Carr, 93, died Oct. 19 of heart failure at her home in Arnold. Born in Arthur, Tenn., she was raised in Harlan, Ky. Mrs. Carr had previously lived in Fond, Ky., and La Follette, Tenn. for most of her life. She moved to Arnold seven years ago. She was a member of the Bethlehem Baptist Church. Her husband, John Harrison Parrott, whom she married in 1916, died in 1957. Survivors include two sons, Edward Parrott of La Follette, Tenn., and Eugene Parrott of Arnold; a daughter, Allie Mae May of Jacksboro, Tenn.; a sister, Stella Peters, also of La Follette; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. News-Sentinel, The (Fort Wayne, IN) - September 27, 1990 Deceased Name: Paula S. Donohue Paula S. Donohue, 37, died yesterday at her home. Born in Pineville, Ky., she lived in Fort Wayne for 15 years. Surviving are her husband, Robert W.; her parents, Ed and Mary Brock of Harlan, Ky., and Ida and Queen Smith of Crestline, Ohio; sisters, Nora Jean Wiseman of Fort Wayne, Sharon Luker of Chicago, Martha Brock of Mansfield, Ohio, Mary Brock of Detroit, and Regina McCall of Monticello; brothers, Don Brock of Huntertown and Danny Brock of Pineville, Ky. Calling will be 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at D.O. McComb & Sons Maplewood Park Funeral Home, 4017 Maplecrest Road, with services at 10 a.m. Saturday. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - August 29, 1990 Deceased Name: ELVIA EVANS ELVIA EVANS, 83, 147 Center St., Holly Hill, died Monday. Born in Pineville, Ky., she moved to Holly Hill from Harlan, Ky., in 1962. She was a homemaker. She was a member of Livingston Memorial United Methodist Church, Daytona Beach. Survivors: brother, Quentin Van Bever, Bradenton; sisters, Catherine Tye, Evelyn Perkins, both of Naples, Virginia Landrum, Harrodsburg, N.Y., Amanda Sherwood, Lake Charles, La., Dorothy O'Brien, Richardson, Texas. Haigh-Black Funeral Home, Daytona Beach. Watertown Daily Times (NY) - August 24, 1990 Deceased Name: ERNEST E. FREEMAN, MALONE, DIES AT AGE 78 Ernest E. Freeman, 78, of 215 Elm St., died early Thursday in Alice Hyde Memorial Hospital, where he had been a patient since Aug. 16. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Bruso-Desnoyers Funeral Home chapel. Burial will be in Notre Dame Cemetery. Calling hours will be from 11 a.m. Saturday until the funeral. Contributions may be made to the Malone Volunteer Rescue Fund. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Marty (Billie Jean) Bissonette, Malone; three grandsons, Michael and Curtis Bissonette, both of Fountain Valley, Calif., and Barry Bissonette, Malone; two granddaughters, Mrs. James (Melody) Warner, Malone, Mrs. Mark (Martina) Carlin, Lakeridge, Va., and seven great-grandchildren. A brother, Joseph F., died in 1916, and a brother, Edward L., died in 1965. Three brothers died in infancy. Born in Kensee, Ky., on Aug. 24, 1911, a son of William and Louanna Wright Freeman, he married Cora Nolan on Nov. 27, 1940, in Harlan, Ky. She died Oct. 29, 1981. Mr. Freeman served with the Army during World War II. He was employed as a coal miner in Kentucky and as a steel factory worker in Gary, Ind., until his retirement in 1974. He has lived in Malone since his retirement. He was a member of the Disabled American Veterans. Akron Beacon Journal (OH) - August 17, 1990 Deceased Name: Hazel Ripplinger Hazel Ripplinger, 76, of Akron, died Aug. 16 at Akron City Hospital. Born in Harlan, Ky., she had been an area resident for the past 45 years. She was a member of the Church of God in Kenmore. She is survived by daughter, June Riley of Uniontown; son, Donald Pettit of Akron; sister, Gladys Guenther of Akron; six grandchildren; six great- grandchildren. Funeral services Saturday, 10 a.m., at the Dunn-Quigley-Ciriello & Carr Funeral Home (811 Grant St., Akron), where friends may call one hour prior to service time, Rev. John McFarland officiating. Interment at Hillside Memorial Park. (Dunn-Quigley-Ciriello & Carr, Akron Grant Street, 253-8121.) St. Petersburg Times (FL) - July 19, 1990 Deceased Name: BARTON, DELLA DORIS BARTON, DELLA DORIS, 47, of Plant City, died Sunday (July 15, 1990) at Humana Hospital-Brandon. She was born in Harlan, Ky., and came here several years ago. Survivors include her husband, Raymond; a son, Gary, Plant City; five daughters, Margaret, Deborah and Crystal Barton and Bonnie McKerely, all of Plant City, and Shirley Barton, Tampa; and a sister, Joyce Bartlett, Plant City. Haynes Funeral Home, Plant City. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - July 7, 1990 Deceased Name: HAROLD RAWLETT HARLLEE JR., 47 . . . CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT MR. HARLLEE, Howey Road, Groveland, died Monday. Born in Harlan, Ky., he moved to Groveland from Micanopy in 1979. He was a certified public accountant. He was a Southern Baptist. He served in the U.S. Air Force. Survivor: sister, Elizabeth H. Roth, Gainesville. Kurfiss Funeral Home, Groveland. St. Petersburg Times (FL) - June 28, 1990 Deceased Name: FRYKMAN, RUTH L. FRYKMAN, RUTH L., 94, of Brooksville, died Tuesday (June 26, 1990) at Eastbrook Health Care Center. Born in Staten Island, N.Y., she came here seven months ago from Harlan, Ky. She was a member of the United Church of Christ, Sayville, N.Y. Survivors include a daughter, June Yannetta, Brooksville; and a grandson, Robert Yannetta, Brooksville. Brewer Memorial Funeral Home, Spring Hill. St. Petersburg Times (FL) - June 24, 1990 Deceased Name: BRAGG, MARY RETHA ""MICKEY BRAGG, MARY RETHA ""MICKEY,'' 69, of Tampa, died Saturday (June 23, 1990). She was born in Harlan, Ky., and came to Tampa in 1963 from Detroit. She was a member of the Church of God and the Ladies Auxiliary American Legion Post 138. Survivors include a daughter, Alice Harmon, Tampa; a sister, Erline Olny, Tampa; five brothers, Byon Smiddy, Brooksville, Talmadge Smiddy, Riverview, Kermit Smiddy, Barrington, Ill., Francis Smiddy Jr., Palatine, Ill., and Marion Smiddy, London, Ky.; and a grandchild. Curry & Son Funeral Home, Tampa. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - June 21, 1990 Deceased Name: EDITH ALMA REIMER, 70 . . . X-RAY TECHNICIAN MRS. REIMER, Georgia Avenue, St. Cloud, died Wednesday. Born in Harlan, Ky., she moved to St. Cloud from Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1973. She was an x-ray technician with General Electric. She was a member of the New Life Assembly Church, Kissimmee. Survivors: son, Robert, Kissimmee; sister, Jean Thompson, St. Cloud; brother, Edward Riley, St. Cloud; one grandchild. Fisk Funeral Home, St. Cloud. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - June 19, 1990 Deceased Name: JAMES DEWEY OSBORNE JR. JAMES DEWEY OSBORNE JR., 57, 964 Park Manor Drive, Orlando, died Sunday. Born in Lynch, Ky., he moved to Orlando from Harlan, Ky., in 1969. He was a retired owner of Osborne Furniture and Bedding Co. He was a Pentecostal. He was a Navy veteran. Survivors: wife, Anna R.; mother, Flora, Orlando; sister, Peggy J. Palko, Austin, Texas. Burkett-Webber Union Park Chapel, Union Park. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - April 25, 1990 Deceased Name: MARY YOUNG DODD MARY YOUNG DODD, 73, 316 Hormigas St., Ocoee, died Monday. Born in Harlan, Ky., she moved to Ocoee from Hopewell, Va., in 1970. She was a homemaker. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, Winter Garden. She was past president of West Orange Hospital Auxiliary, a member of the Women of the Orlando Moose, BPO Elks Ladies Auxiliary, and the Ladies Auxiliary Ocoee Lions Club. Survivors: husband, M.E. ''Buster''; daughter, Joyce Mosley, Mulberry; sons, Thomas F. Thompson, Alexandria, Va., Jimmy Y. Dennis, Ocoee; sister, Margaret Tucker, Kentucky; six grandchildren; four great-grandchildren. Woodlawn Funeral Home, Orlando. St. Petersburg Times (FL) - April 20, 1990 Deceased Name: LLOYD, NAOMI LLOYD, NAOMI, 50, of St. Petersburg, died Tuesday (April 17, 1990) at her residence. She came here in 1979 from her native Dayton, Ohio. She was a binder at Dixie Printing for eight years. She was a member of Lighthouse Church. Survivors include her husband, Lawrence; three daughters, Karen Sorrell and Norma Cortwright, both of Dayton, and Amanda Lloyd, Harlan, Ky.; a son, Lawrence Jr., Dayton; her mother, Catherine Sims, St. Petersburg; a sister, Myrna Blackburn, Elko, Nev.; two brothers, Carl Gilbert, Forest, Ohio, and Roger Gilbert, St. Petersburg; and four grandchildren. National Cremation Society, St. Petersburg. Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - April 10, 1990 Deceased Name: George Sobek, 70, athlete, former scout for White Sox George Sobek, 70, a former scout for the Chicago White Sox, died Monday in St. Margaret's Hospital, Hammond, Ind. Mr. Sobek was with the South Siders from 1945 until 1985. In 1962, he was named to co-manage the club's Harlan, Ky., team in the Appalachian (all-rookie) League. He also was director of the club's summer youth sports camps in Brothertown, Wis. He left the Sox in 1985 to join the San Francisco Giants. In 1942, he graduated from Notre Dame University, where he was an All-America basketball player. He also was a member of the Notre Dame 100 Club, an athletic organization. After serving in the Navy during World War II, Mr. Sobek played briefly in the old National Basketball League, now the NBA, for the Toldeo Jeeps and against the legendary George Mikan. For the next 26 years, the South Holland native was athletic director and coached baseball at Thornton Fractional High School. In between, he was a referee for Big Ten basketball games from 1959 until 1969. He was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Hammond Sports Hall of Fame in 1988. Survivors include his wife, Anges "Cese"; a son, George "Chip"; seven daughters, Barbara Werner, Sally Sciackitano, Nancy Pavlacka, Mary Jo Jacobsma, Linda Minne, Kay, and Colleen; four brothers, Andrew, Frank, John and Joseph; a sister, Marge Bomersback, and 13 grandchildren. Visitation will be from 2 to 10 p.m. today at Drumm Funeral Home, 1200 E. 162nd, South Holland. Services will be at 8:30 a.m Wednesday at the funeral home. Mass will be offered at 9:30 a.m. at St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church, 880 E. 154th, South Holland. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, 801 Michigan City Rd., Calumet City. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - October 5, 1989 Deceased Name: CHARLES R. BLACKWOOD CHARLES R. BLACKWOOD, 76, 284 S. Westview Court, Melbourne, died Monday. Born in Gifford, Mont., he moved to Melbourne from Albany, Ga., in 1987. He was a tool and die engineer. He was a member of Indialantic Alliance Church. Survivors: wife, Ruth; sons, George, Indian Harbour Beach, John, Newark, Del.; daughter, Ruth Jane Rucks, Harlan, Ky.; sisters, Elizabeth Walters, Oklahoma City, Peggy Bearden, Houston; seven grandchildren. Brownlie and Maxwell Funeral Home, Melbourne. Lexington Herald-Leader (KY) - September 29, 1989 Deceased Name: NEW YORK -- Arnold Johnson NEW YORK -- Arnold Johnson, 84, a member of the national leadership of the Communist Party for many years, died Tuesday. Johnson was born in a lumber camp in Seattle and began working in a lumber mill at age 12. He worked his way through college and held a master's degree. Johnson joined the Socialist Party in New York in 1929 while he was still a student. In 1931 he was arrested in Harlan, Ky., at a miners' strike. He later became a leader of the National Unemployed Leagues and the Workers Alliance. He was the Ohio state Communist Party leader from 1940 to 1947. In the late 1940s he came to New York, where he was national legislative director, public relations director and in other posts in the party's national and New York State organizations. He also ran for the U.S. Senate on the Communist line. In 1953, Johnson and a group of other party leaders were convicted of violating the Smith Act, which made it a crime to advocate the violent overthrow of the government. Sentenced to a three-year term, he was released after two years and four months. In 1970 he refused to testify before a subcommittee of the House Committee on Internal Security, which had subpoenaed him in an investigation of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. He was cited for contempt of Congress, but the charge was later dismissed. Lexington Herald-Leader (KY) - August 30, 1989 Deceased Name: 1 KILLED, 3 HURT WHEN CAR STRIKES GUARDRAIL ON I-76 RAVENNA, Ohio -- One member of a Harlan, Ky., family was killed and three others were injured yesterday when the driver apparently fell asleep while driving along Interstate 76, state police said. Nicholas M. Underwood, 18, was killed when his car ran off the side of the westbound lanes, hit a guardrail and flipped, state police said. The victim's sister, Amelia F. Underwood, 26, her son, Shamichael, 1, and Keyla, 4, a niece to both adults, were injured. Keyla was flown by helicopter to Akron Children's Hospital, which said her condition could not be made public without parental approval. The other injured were taken to Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna, where they were reported in satisfactory condition. St. Petersburg Times (FL) - August 21, 1989 Deceased Name: FULTZ, JACK B. FULTZ, JACK B., 52, of Largo, died Saturday (July 22, 1989) in Columbus, Ohio. He was born in Harlan, Ky., and came here in 1979. A retired shoe store manager, he was an Air Force veteran and a Methodist. Survivors include his wife, Mary; and three brothers, Robert, California; and Jerry and Glenn, both of Kentucky. Moss-Feaster Guardian Funeral Home, Serenity Gardens Chapel, Largo. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - July 26, 1989 Deceased Name: VIRGINIA H. COOK, 82 . . . HOMEMAKER MRS. COOK, 601 N. McDonald St., Mount Dora, died Monday. Born in Harlan, Ky., she moved to Mount Dora from Pittsburgh in 1974. She was a homemaker. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Mount Dora. Survivors: daughter, Nancy Jones Cook, DeLand; brothers, Moses W. Howard, Naples, Fla., Gen. Edwin B. Howard, Jupiter, Dr. R. Smith Howard, Harlan, Ky., Dr. G. Turner Howard, Knoxville, Tenn.; sister, Nina McKinley, Demopolie. Rehbaum-Harden Funeral Home, Mount Dora. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - July 4, 1989 Deceased Name: PAUL JEFFERSON BEGLEY PAUL JEFFERSON BEGLEY, 48, 6802 Firebird Drive, Orlando, died Sunday. Born in Harlan, Ky., he moved to Orlando from Lexington, Ky., in 1981. He was the owner-operator of Plant Man Transportation Co. He was a Protestant. Survivors: wife, Charlotte; son, Wes, Orlando; daughter, Mrs. Laura Royalty, Carrollton, Ky.; mother, Mrs. Verna Louge, Lexington; brother, Carl, Orlando; sisters, Janet, Joyce, both of Washington, Ind.; one grandchild. Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home, Apopka. Akron Beacon Journal (OH) - June 16, 1989 Deceased Name: Ernest Eugene Clark Sr. Ernest Eugene Clark Sr., 64 years, passed away June 14, 1989 at Cuyahoga Falls General after a long illness. Born in Harlan, Ky., he had been a resident of Akron for 46 years. He had been employed at Berger Iron as a crane operator for 14 years, stopping work in 1983 due to ill health. He was a World War II Navy veteran, and a member of the Greater Peace Baptist Church, where he sang in the choir. Mr. Clark is survived by his wife, Joyce; son, Ernest Eugene Clark Jr. daughters, Evern Marie Clark and Constance Jean Clark, Sally Mae Griffith, all of Akron, Ethel Jane Elridge of Tacoma, Wash.; stepdaughters, Sharice Hammonds, Teressa Cash of Akron, and Felicia Cash of New York; stepsons Rodney, David, Fred, Robert and Victor Cash, all of Akron; devoted aunt Rosalee Jackson of Akron; 33 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; nieces nephews, cousins and a host of other relatives and friends. Funeral services Monday, 1:30 p.m. at the Stewart & Calhoun Funeral Chapel, Rev. David Bennett officiating, assisted by Rev. Coleman Robinson. Interment Mt. Peace Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel Monday, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Procession will form and condolences may be sent to 135 W. Crosier. (Stewart & Calhoun, 535-1543.) Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - June 14, 1989 Deceased Name: ANDREW T. SHIELDS SR. ANDREW T. SHIELDS SR., 66, 1336 Everglades Circle, Apopka, died Monday. Born in Balkan, Ky., he moved to Apopka from Las Vegas, Nev., in 1981. He was the owner of a motel and liquor store. He was a Pentecostal. He was a member of the North Orange 39ers. Survivors: wife, Gladys; sons, Arnold, Andrew T. Jr., both of Apopka; daughter, Ann Marie Smedley, Troy, Mich.; sister, Nancy Turner, Harlan, Ky.; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren. Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home, Forest City. Lexington Herald-Leader (KY) - June 11, 1989 Deceased Name: HARLAN -- Louise Howard HARLAN -- Louise Howard, 92, of Wallins, widow of Hollie Howard, died Friday at Harlan Nursing Home here. Services 2 p.m. Monday at Mount Pleasant Funeral Home. Visitation 6 to 9 p.m. today. Memorials suggested to Mount Heritage Hospice, P.O. Box 189, Harlan, Ky. 40831. State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - March 4, 1989 Deceased Name: Carol D. Patkus Mrs. Carol Dawn Patkus 44, of Harlan, Ky., formerly of Springfield, died Feb. 24 at Harlan Appalachian Regional Hospital following a long illness. She was born Aug. 29, 1944, in Harlan. She resided in Springfield from 1962 to 1988. Mrs. Patkus was a member of the Church of God of the Union Assembly in Harlan, Daughters of the American Revolution, Veterans of Foreign Wars in Springfield, and the Disabled American Veterans in Springfield. Surviving are one daughter, Nanci L. Patkus of Springfield; parents, Eugene and Evelyn Farley of Harlan, Ky.; five brothers, Ronnie E., Mike, Roy, Clyde Ray and Carlie Farley, all of Harlan, Ky.; three sisters, Penny Farley, Kay Ball, and Sherrie Farley, all of Harlan, Ky.; several nieces, nephews and cousins. Services were held Feb. 27 at the Church of God of the Union Assembly, Harlan, with the Rev. Paul F. Pratt and the Rev. Edwin Condra officiating. Burial was in Resthaven Cemetery in Harlan, Ky. Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer (KY) - March 4, 1989 Deceased Name: Maude Hopson Maude Hopson, 100, of Owensboro, died Friday, March 3, 1989, at Owensboro-Daviess County Hospital. She was born in Harlan, Ky., and was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Providence. Her husband, George Hopson, died in 1965. Survivors include two nieces, Mrs. Mary Lee Kendall of Owensboro and Mrs. Eula Mae Childress of Detroit, Mich.; two nephews, Herbert Rodman and Fulston Simmons, both of Lexington; 10 great-nieces and nephews; and 12 great-great-nieces and nephews. Services are at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Providence. Burial in William Lawn Cemetery in Providence. Visitation after 9 a.m. Tuesday at the church. Williams Funeral Home, Providence, is in charge of arrangements. Young's Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements in Owensboro. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - February 15, 1989 Deceased Name: CALLIE MAE THOMPSON CALLIE MAE THOMPSON, 83, 6117 Hudson St., Orlando, died Tuesday. Born in Andover, Va., she moved to Orlando from Harlan, Ky., in 1968. She was a homemaker. She was a member of Pine Hills Christian Church. She was a member of Harlan Homemakers Club. Survivors: sons, George, Pinellas Park; daughter, Nancy, Orlando; sisters, Pansy Gollahon, Manassas, Va., Lenora Dulaney, Dayton, Ohio; three grandchildren; two great-grandchildren. Woodlawn Funeral Home, Orlando Wichita Eagle, The (KS) - January 28, 1989 Deceased Name: ROY THOMAS ROY THOMAS, 59, of 1243 Figg, retired Air Force technical sergeant, died Thursday, Jan. 26, 1989. Service 2 p.m. Monday, Resthaven Mortuary. Survivors: daughters, Judy Underhill, Vicki Thomas, both of Wichita; sisters, Lorna Marlow, Jean Sutton, both of Harlan, Ky.; two grandchildren. Memorial has been established with the American Cancer Society. Wichita Eagle, The (KS) - January 23, 1989 Deceased Name: Dorothy (Elswick) Watson Dorothy (Elswick) Watson, 65, homemaker, died Saturday, Jan. 21, 1989. Service 2 p.m. today, Elliott Mortuary, Hutchinson. Survivors: son, William of Hutchinson; daughters, Wilma Morris of Hutchinson, Alice Reed, Irene Payne, both of Nickerson, Betty Hudson of Fairfax, Okla., Dorothy Schneider of Duncan, Neb., Wanda Turner of Springhill; mother, Betty Deweese of Harlan, Ky.; sisters, Margaret Jaquet of Colorado Springs, Lorrain Tukus of Newton; several grandchildren and great- grandchildren. Wichita Eagle, The (KS) - January 4, 1989 Deceased Name: MERRILL C. GREEN MERRILL C. GREEN, 60, of Derby, Cessna Aircraft Co. inspector and retired Air Force senior master sergeant, died Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1989. Service 1 p.m. Thursday, El Paso Cemetery, Derby. Survivors: wife, Marjorie; sons, Jack of Bryan, Texas, Merrill David of Derby; daughter, Christine Milligan of Champaign, Ill.; brother, Frank of Harlan, Ky.; sisters, Ruth Boutwell, Edith Ruckman, Muriel Mackin, all of Selma, Ala., Mary Lou Syslest, Annis McFerrin, both of Montgomery, Ala.; two grandchildren. Memorial has been established with the Salvation Army. Smith Mortuary, Derby. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - December 24, 1988 Deceased Name: AMANDA MARIE JOHNSON AMANDA MARIE JOHNSON, infant, 1812 Landing Drive, Sanford, died Thursday. She was born in Sanford. She was a Protestant. Survivors: parents, Kenneth E. and Patricia, Sanford; brother, Joseph W., Ball Ground, Ga.; paternal grandfather, Donald W., Riverdale, Ga.; paternal grandmother, Betty Ardron, Ball Ground; paternal great-grandmother, Irene Dean, Ball Ground; maternal grandfather, Everett L. Engle, Harlan, Ky.; maternal grandmother, Patricia, Sanford; maternal great-grandparents, Everett K. an d Eunice Engle, New Tazwell, Tenn. Oaklawn Park Funeral Home-Cemetery, Lake Mary. St. Petersburg Times (FL) - December 24, 1988 Deceased Name: COX, CHARLES C. ''CHARLIE COX, CHARLES C. ''CHARLIE,'' 62, of St. Petersburg, died Thursday (Dec. 22, 1988) at his residence of cancer. He was born in Harlan, Ky., and came here in 1970 from St. Augustine. Locally, he was a security guard at the Times Publishing Co. During World War II, he served in the Army. Survivors include his wife of 27 years, Billie; and a sister, Vivian Cottrell, St. Augustine. National Cremation Society, St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg Times (FL) - December 17, 1988 Deceased Name: KING, W. CECIL KING, W. CECIL, 72, of 8431 Brentwood Road, Largo, died Friday (Dec. 16, 1988) at Lake Seminole Hospital, Seminole. He was born in Harlan, Ky., and came here in 1978 from Hamilton, Ohio. He was a supervisor for the Mosler Safe Co., Hamilton. He was a member of High Street Christian Church, Hamilton. He was a member of Bardmoor Country Club. He was a World War II Navy veteran. Survivors include his wife, Theodocia ''Doty''; two sons, James W., Tampa, and Randall P., Hamilton; and three grandchildren. E. James Reese Funeral Home, Seminole. St. Petersburg Times (FL) - December 17, 1988 Deceased Name: LINVILLE, EMMA MAE LINVILLE, EMMA MAE, 89, of Hudson, died Friday (Dec. 16, 1988) at home. She was born in Harlan, Ky., and came here 20 years ago from Dayton, Ohio. Survivors include her husband, Russell; a son, Thomas, Hudson; two daughters, Barbara Adams, Miamisburg, Ohio, and Irene Reich, Hudson; nine grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. Bell Funeral Home, Bayonet Point. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - December 8, 1988 Deceased Name: ROGER ALAN MARLATT ROGER ALAN MARLATT, 51, 1720 Murrell Road, Rockledge, died Tuesday. Born in Xenia, Ohio, he moved to Rockledge from Harlan, Ky. in 1985. He was a parts manager with B & D Auto Parts in Merritt Island and a Baptist. Survivors: wife, Myra; son, Gregory, Virginia Beach, Va.; daughters, Deborah Merritt, Gulfport, Miss., Beverly Bruner, Cocoa; parents, George and Eleanor Dalrymple, Oxford, Ohio; brother, Ronald Dalrymple, Gastonia, N.C.; sisters, Irma Purcell, Oxford, Ohio, Marlyn Roberts, Colonia l Heights, La. Services and visitation at a later date in Harlan, Ky. Wylie-Baxley Funeral Home, Rockledge. St. Petersburg Times (FL) - November 22, 1988 Deceased Name: COX, LESTER COX, LESTER, 65, of Jacksboro, Tenn., died Tuesday (Nov. 15, 1988) at Mountain Home Veterans Administration Hospital, Johnson City, Tenn. Born in Clinton, Tenn., he moved to Jacksboro four years ago from Brooksville, and was retired owner of Lester's Curb Market, Brooksville, and a World War II Army veteran. He was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Brooksville Lions Club and was a Protestant. Survivors include a son, Lester Jr., Harlan, Ky.; three daughters, Diane Koontz, Newburg, Ind., Barbara Davis, Gulfport, and Annette Taylor, Jacksboro; two sisters, Vera Ogle, Lubbock, Texas, and Bessie Cox, Harrison, Tenn.; and six grandchildren. Merritt Funeral Home, Brooksville. Akron Beacon Journal (OH) - September 17, 1988 Deceased Name: William B. Ryan William B. Ryan, 65, died Sept. 15 at St. Thomas Medical Center after a short illness. He was born in Harlan, Ky., and lived in the Akron area most of his life. Mr. Ryan was self-employed as an electrician, and served in the Navy during World War II. Preceded in death by wife, Theresa; he is survived by sons and daughters- in-law, Mike and Trisha of Akron, Ed and Paula of Ocola, Fla.; six grandchildren; sisters, Helen Walker of New Jersey and Pearl Kerney of Kentucky; and special friend, Jeannie. Funeral services will be TODAY, 10 a.m., at the Hopkins Lawver UNIONTOWN Funeral Home, 3553 Northdale St., one block northwest of the square of 619 and Cleveland Avenue, Uniontown, Rev. Rondal P. Hardman officiating. Burial Hillside Memorial Park, where V.F.W. services will also be conducted. (Hopkins Lawver, Uniontown, 733-6271.) 90 Miami Herald, The (FL) - July 24, 1988 Deceased Name: WHITFIELD, Augustus WHITFIELD, Augustus, 61, of Jupiter, died Friday. Services in Harlan, Ky. Aycock-Village Funeral Home. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - June 18, 1988 Deceased Name: BILLIE L. LINNELL BILLIE L. LINNELL, 33, 2665 Garden St., Malabar, died Wednesday. Born in Bonham, Ky., she moved to Malabar from Dayton, Ohio, in 1983. She was an expediter for Regency Communications. She was a Protestant. Survivors: husband, Michael; daughters, Tara, Dedra Dixon, Monica Dixon, all of Malabar; mother, Georgia Mombach, Melbourne; sisters, Doris Lewis, Harlan, Ky., Betty Buchanan, Atlanta, Rena Clark, Indianapolis, Sallie Brillhart, Dayton, Judy James, Brookville, Ohio. Graveside services: 2 p.m. today, Fountainhead Memorial Park, Palm Bay. Brownlie and Maxwell Funeral Home, Melbourne. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - June 9, 1988 Deceased Name: GEORGIA GIST GEORGIA GIST, 48, 188 Humphrey Road, Lake Mary, died Tuesday. Born in Keith, Ky., she moved to Lake Mary from Harlan, Ky., in 1961. She was a school bus driver for Seminole County schools. Survivors: husband, Allen; sons, Virgil Noe, Mark Noe, both of Lake Mary, Steven Noe, Sanford; daughters, Kay Mullins, Lake Mary, Linda Dykes, Sue Noe, both of Sanford; mother, Chelsia Fletcher, Harlan, Ky.; sisters, Barbara Gross, Orange City, Mary Sapp, Geneva, Louise Martz, Shelia O'Dell, Sanford; 11 grandchildren. Gramkow Funeral Home, Sanford. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - June 2, 1988 Deceased Name: RONALD G. PETERS RONALD G. PETERS, 56, 4502 Gilpin Way, Orlando, died Wednesday. Born in Morley, Tenn., he moved to Orlando from Harlan, Ky., in 1960. He was a car dealer. He was a Baptist. He was a member of Masonic Lodge 879 F&AM, Harlan, and was an honorary Kentucky Colonel. Survivors: mother, Mrs. Claude L., Orlando; brothers, Mickey D. Peters, Orlando; sisters, Joyce Hoskins, Melbourne, Betty L. Peters, Orlando, Judith Prendergast, Poway, Calif. Colonial Carey Hand Guardian Chapel, Orlando. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - March 27, 1988 Deceased Name: HUBERT WOLFE HUBERT WOLFE, 73, South St., Orlando, died Friday. Born in Harlan, Ky., he moved to Orlando from Ohio in 1963. He was a retired machinist. Survivors: son, Ervin; daughter, Vernitta,; sisters, Anna LaFevers, Orlando, Nellie Seregent, Baxter, Ky.; brother, Billy, Orlando, John, Eau Gallie. Beacon Cremation Service of Central Florida, Orlando. Akron Beacon Journal (OH) - February 15, 1988 Deceased Name: Jay B. Witt Jay B. Witt, 61, passed away Feb. 13 at Akron General Hospital after a long illness. Born in Harlan, Ky., he lived in Akron most of his life. He was an Army veteran of World War II. He had worked for the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. for 33 years, and was a member of the Greensburg United Methodist Church. Preceded in death by his parents, Thurston and Clara; brother, Woodie; he is survived by wife, Bernadine M.; sons and daughters-in-law, Terry J. and Elizabeth of Sevierville, Tenn., David L. and Debbie of Greensburg; daughters and sons-in-law, Susan and Richard Ladwig of Akron, Debbie and Larry Carney of Portage Lakes, Vickie Witt and Robert Mokros of Fort Myers Beach, Fla.; nine grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; brothers, Eugene and Thurston Jr. both of Williamsburg, Ky., and Billie Paul of Dayton; sisters, Geneva Adkins of Williamsburg, Ky., Garnetta Mumaw of Ashland. Funeral services Wednesday, 1 p.m., at Eckard-Baldwin Funeral Home. Interment Greenlawn Mausoleum. Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. (Eckard-Baldwin, 760 E. Market St., 535-7141). St. Petersburg Times (FL) - February 3, 1988 Deceased Name: GRIMES, CHARLES H. JR. GRIMES, CHARLES H. JR., 53, of Ridge Manor, died Sunday (Jan. 31, 1988) at Humana Hospital Pasco. Born in Harlan, Ky., he moved to Ridge Manor in 1984 from Tampa. He was a self employed carpet installer. Survivors include his wife, Delores; five brothers, Edward, Brandon, Colin, Lutz, Harold and Dwight both of Tampa, and Herbert Watson Jr., Land O'Lakes; four sisters, Bernice McClish, Lakewood, Calif., Virginia Juarez, San Jose, Calif., Charlsie Stovall, Dayton, Ohio, and Violet Bostick, Tampa. Oakley Funeral Home, Dade City. Charlotte Observer, The (NC) - January 21, 1988 Deceased Name: DORA GOODE, HAD 101 GRANDCHILDREN The Goode family gathers for a reunion on the first Saturday in August every year. As grandmother to 101, Dora Christine Goode always remembered her grandchildren by face if not by name. Mrs. Goode also had 161 great-grandchildren and 16 great-great- grandchildren . A native of Sharon, S.C., and a Charlotte resident for many years, Mrs. Goode died Saturday, Jan. 16, 1988, at age 82. She lived at 8529 Windsong Dr. Mrs. Goode was described by her daughter, Virginia Bell, as an understanding mother who ruled with a firm hand but was willing to listen. ''Everyone in the house had to go to church on Sunday morning. That was her rule,'' Mrs. Bell said. Mrs. Goode was a member and deaconess of St. Luke's Baptist Church in Sharon. The Rev. A.A. Bankhead and his wife, Florence, remember Mrs. Goode as one of the church's oldest members. When she was not taking care of her children, Mrs. Goode spent a lot of time fishing. ''She loved to go fishing. She would fish every day of the week if she could,'' recalled Bell. She even took her fishing pole to the family reunions if the event was held near a creek. At last year's reunion, Mrs. Goode's children honored her by presenting her with roses. Funeral is St. Luke's Baptist Church at 2 p.m. today. King Funeral Home is in charge. Survivors are her sons, James Goode of York, S.C., Wade Goode of Bessemer City, Sam Goode of Falls Church, Va., Ager Goode of Rock Hill, Addison Goode of Staten Island, N.Y., Claude Wade, Gerona Goode; daughters, Mrs. Annie Boyd, Mrs. Clara Mobley, both of Vienna, Va., Mrs. Eva Crosby of Sharon, Mrs. Essie Garvin of Gastonia, Mrs. Azalene Gill, Mrs. Maggie Feemster, both of Rock Hill, Mrs. Margaret Wilkes, Mrs. Geneva West, both of Fort Mill, S.C., Mrs. Cleona Mobley of Herndon, Va., Mrs. Elizabeth Gary, Mrs. Lucille Easter, Mrs. Hazel Sanders, Mrs. Josephine Williams, Mrs. Virginia Ball; sister, Mrs. Estelle Renfrow of Harlan, Ky. Akron Beacon Journal (OH) - October 12, 1987 Deceased Name: Albert F. Kucharski Albert F. Kucharski, 66, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Alkar Inc. in Kent, died early SaturDAY, morning in a one-car crash on North River Road in Stow. He was born in Harlan, Ky., and had been an area resident most of his life. He was a member of Loyalty Lodge 645 F&AM, A.A.S.R. Valley of Akron and Tadmor Temple Shrine, and was a veteran of the Army during World War II. Mr. Kucharski is survived by son, James of Alliance; daughter, Judy Kucharski Reynolds of Garfield Heights; brother, Joseph of Bath; sisters Carolyn Barbour of Akron and Mildred Knight of California; grandson, Ryder Reynolds. Funeral services Wednesday, 1 p.m., at Kucko-Anthony-Kertesz Funeral Home, 95 W. Waterloo Rd., Rev. Benjamin Black officiating. Cremation to follow. The family will receive friends Tuesday, 6 to 9 p.m., at the funeral home. (Kucko-Anthony-Kertesz, 724-1281.) Akron Beacon Journal (OH) - October 8, 1987 Deceased Name: Daniel L. Pope Daniel L. Pope passed away Oct. 7 at St. Thomas Hospital after a short illness. Born in Harlan, Ky., he had been a resident of Akron for 23 years. He was a World War II veteran, and a member of Deliverance Tabernacle Church. He had been employed at the University of Akron, stopping work in 1963. Mr. Pope is survived by devoted wife, Elsie; sons, Tommie, Danny and Terry Pope, all of Akron; daughters and sons-in-law, Claudette Grimes, Anna (Forrest) Calhoun, Evelyn Higginbottom and Cassie (Selvy) McGowan, all of Akron; sister, Anna Pope of Dayton; daughter-in-law, Cynthia Pope, brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Robert (Bessie) Curley, all of Akron; 13 grandchildren; a host of other relatives and friends. Funeral services Saturday, 10 a.m., at the Stewart & Calhoun Funeral Chapel. Interment Mt. Peace Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel Friday, 7 to 9 p.m. Procession will form, and condolences may be sent to 271 Shelby Ave. (Stewart & Calhoun, 535-1543.) Daily Oklahoman, The (Oklahoma City, OK) - September 22, 1987 Deceased Name: James Clifford Allen ALLEN James Clifford, 72 of Midwest City, died Sept. 19, 1987. He was born March 12, 1915 at Harlan, KY. Mr. Allen came to MWC in 1952 and was a member of the Masonic Lodge 930, in Loyall, KY; a 32nd Degree Mason; and a member of the Shrine Guthrie Consistory; and the First Christian Church of MWC. Mr. Allen served in Italy during World War II as a Chief Warrant officer in the 15th Air Force. He retired from Civil Service at Tinker AFB in 1976, with a total of 6 years military service and 34 years Civil Service. Mr. Allen is survived by his wife, Kathleen, of the home; 1 son, Benny Allen, of Houston, TX; 3 daughters, Della Owensby, of OKC, Anna Sue Holton and Leslie Brendemihl, both of MWC; 2 brothers; 2 sisters; 9 grandchildren; 1 great grandchil d. Services are 11am Tues. at the First Christian Church of MWC. Directed by Paylor Funeral Home Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - September 10, 1987 Deceased Name: DAVE TARTER DAVE TARTER, 50, 2329 N. Beaumont Ave., Kissimmee, died Wednesday. Born in Russell Springs, Ky., he moved to Kissimmee from Crothersville, Ind., in 1984. He was a field foreman for Don's Sod Co., Kissimmee, a U.S. Army Veteran and a Baptist. Survivors: daughters, Theresa C. Rambo, St. Petersburg, Angela D. Fugate, Ocala, Mona R. Smith, DuPont, Ind.; sons, Ricky D., David L., Thomas H., all of Kissimmee; mother, Eva M. Baxter, Russell Springs; sisters, Alpha M. Vernon and Cindy L. Tarter, bot h of Hampton, Ga., Sheila Faye Tarter, Russell Springs; brothers, Louis W., Elizabethtown, Ind., Roger N., Harlan, Ky.; ten grandchildren; Grissom Funeral Home, Kissimmee. St. Petersburg Times (FL) - August 8, 1987 Deceased Name: SWAIN, PHILIP LEE SWAIN, PHILIP LEE, 38, of Tampa, died Tuesday (Aug. 4, 1987). Born in Harlan, Ky., he had lived in Tampa 11 years, coming from Michigan. He was a musician/entertainer. Survivors include his mother, Edith Swain, Dearborn, Mich.; two sons, Philip Jr., Detroit, and Ryan Thomas Swain, Tampa; his grandmother, Mary Farmer, Harlan, and a brother, William Swain, Dearborn. Duval Funeral Home, Tampa. St. Petersburg Times (FL) - August 2, 1987 Deceased Name: CARR, TIFFANY L. CARR, TIFFANY L., 2, of Brandon, died Friday (July 31, 1987) as the result of a drowning accident. Survivors include her parents, David and Cherri Carr, two brothers, Henry Harris and Jerald Carr, and two sisters, Christi Harris and Jennifer Carr, all of Brandon; paternal grandparents Robert and Alma Carr, Lakeland; maternal grandparents Harold and Beverly Hansen, Minneapolis; paternal great-grandfather Leo Carr, Goshen, Ohio; paternal great-grandmother Bea Howard, Wallins Creek, Ky.; maternal great-grandmother Ruby Holscher, Minneapolis, and paternal great-great-grandmother Eva Carr, Harlan, Ky. Stowers Funeral Home, Brandon. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - July 28, 1987 Deceased Name: JOHN WILLIAM MITCHELL JOHN WILLIAM MITCHELL, 92, 2002 Alcorn Court, Orlando, died Sunday. Born in Harlan, Ky., he moved to Cocoa in 1967 and to Orlando five months ago. He was a retired electrician and a Protestant. Survivors: son, Harold L. Mitchell, Orlando; 10 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren. Visiting hours: noon to 2 p.m. today. Funeral: 2 p.m. Wylie-Baxley Funeral Home, Merritt Island. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - July 3, 1987 Deceased Name: DORA WOLFE DORA WOLFE, 97, 2418 Pershing Oaks Place, Orlando, died Thursday. Born in Harlan, Ky., she moved to Orlando from Kissimmee in 1977. She was a homemaker and a member of the Church of God, Kissimmee. Survivors: daughters, Anna Lafevers, Orlando, Nellie Sergent, Harlan; son, Billy G., Orlando; 20 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren. Grissom Funeral Home, Kissimmee. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - May 21, 1987 Deceased Name: THOMAS SMALLWOOD THOMAS SMALLWOOD, 51, 504 W. Cornell Ave., Melbourne, died Wednesday. Born in Harlan, Ky., he moved to Melbourne in 1959. He was an automobile mechanic and a member of First Baptist Church, Melbourne. Survivors: wife, Barbara; sons, Johnny H., Michael W., John Robert, all of Melbourne; daughter, Katherine Harwood, Melbourne; mother, Purlina, Evarts, Ky.; brothers, Barney, Louisville, Ky., Arnold, Melvin, both of Middlesboro, Ky.; sisters, Nannie Howard, Faye McMillian, Mae Combs, all of Evarts . Visiting hours: 5 to 8:30 p.m. today. Funeral: 1:30 p.m. Friday, Davis Funeral Home, Melbourne. St. Petersburg Times (FL) - March 4, 1987 Deceased Name: STROTHER, PAULINE STROTHER, PAULINE, 66, of Safety Harbor, died Monday (March 2, 1987) at Village of Countryside Nursing Home, Safety Harbor. She was born in Harlan, Ky. and came here in 1975 from Indianapolis, where she was a retired clerk with a credit company. Survivors include a stepson Forrest Jr., Clearwater, and a niece Rosemary Calandra, Norristown, Pa. Baty Funeral Home, Safety Harbor. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - March 1, 1987 Deceased Name: CLAUDE L. PETERS CLAUDE L. PETERS, 80, 4502 Gilpin Way, Orlando, died Friday. Born in Tennessee, he moved to Orlando from Harlan, Ky., in 1962. He was a retired mechanic for a commercial refrigeration company and a Baptist. He was a member of Masonic Lodge 879 F&AM, Harlan. Survivors: wife, Ada; sons, Ronald, Mickey, both of Orlando; daughters, Joyce Hoskins, Cleveland, Tenn., Betty, Orlando, Judith Prendergast, Poway, Calif.; brothers, William, Raymond, both of California, Malcolm, Hobert, both of Rockwood, Tenn.; sisters, Ruth, Soddy, Tenn., Nancy, Louise, both of Monterey, Tenn.; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren. Colonial Guardian Funeral Home, Orlando. Akron Beacon Journal (OH) - January 24, 1987 Deceased Name: Britt Lee Cashner Britt Lee Cashner, 16, died Jan. 22. He was born in Harlan, Ky., and had been a resident of Akron most of his life. He was junior at North High School, and was on the staff of the North High School Viking Newspaper. He is survived by parents, Cliff and Laura Cashner; brothers, William and Brad of the residence; grandmothers, Jean Linaburg of Cuyahoga Falls and Stella Ford of Evarts, Ky.; great-grandparents, William and Florence Henegar of Cuyahoga Falls. No calling hours. Private services will be held for the family, with Rev. Eloy Pacheco officiating. Interment Hillside Memorial Park. (McGowan-Reid & Santos, 928-1313.) Charlotte Observer, The (NC) - January 3, 1987 Deceased Name: VOLUNTEER P.C. WELLS AT AGE 76 Pauline ''Polly'' Carr Wells made a lasting impression with her wit and optimism. Mrs. Wells, 76, of Westfield Road, died Dec. 31, 1986 at Presbyterian Hospital of heart failure. ''She loved people,'' said her son, David Wells of Centralia, Ill. ''She loved giving to people, whether it was making banana bread for somebody or making an attractive flower arrangement. ''People came away from a meeting with her feeling good. She was a very upbeat person.'' Mrs. Wells was a volunteer for the Red Cross and Presbyterian Hospital, a member of Friends of the Mint and a charter member of Trinity Presbyterian Church. She also was a volunteer for the Shepherd Center, which serves elderly people who stay in their homes. She was the first coordinator of office volunteers for that organization. Brigid O'Connor, executive director of the center, described Mrs. Wells as ''vivacious, full of life.'' ''She had a joke or a story to tell you right away, and then she wanted to know what was going on in your life,'' she said. ''She wanted to know the important things about you right away. She was kind in a very subtle way, in a way that didn't burden the people she was kind to.'' A native of Harlan, Ky., Mrs. Wells spent her youth in Cumberland Gap, Tenn. She attended Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tenn. She had lived in Charlotte since 1943. Mrs. Wells also was interested in promoting the arts in Charlotte. She attended programs by the Charlotte Symphony and was a member of a book club. ''She always wanted to be involved,'' her son said. In addition to her son, Mrs. Wells is survived by two grandchildren. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. today at Harry and Bryant Funeral Home. Burial will be in Sharon Memorial Park. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - November 1, 1986 Deceased Name: GEORGE C. SCHOOLCRAFT GEORGE C. SCHOOLCRAFT, 90, State Road 48, Center Hill, died Thursday. Born in Harlan, Ky., he moved to Center Hill from Clinton, Tenn., in 1946. He was a retired house painter. Survivors: daughter, Louise Kapuschinski, Leesburg; sons, John, Bruce, both of Newton, N.C., Joe, Center Hill; sisters, Nellie Baer, Belleview, Nan Russell, Clermont, Chalcie Metcalf, New Philadelphia, Ohio; 10 grandchildren. Beyers Funeral Home, Leesburg. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - August 20, 1986 Deceased Name: HIRAM NOE SR. HIRAM NOE SR., 84, 107 Crystal Lake Ave., Lake Mary, died Tuesday. Born in Harlan, Ky., he moved to Lake Mary from there in 1966. He was a retired coal miner. Survivors: daughters, Stella, Lake Mary, Juanita Caldwell, Temple, Ga., Wanda Thompson, Pennsville, N.J., Thelma Coonrod, Charlotte, N.C.; sons, Francis, Hiram Jr., Charles, Billy, all of Lake Mary, Lewis, Kissimmee; brothers, Lee, Sandgap, Ky., Henry, Lexington, Ky.; sisters, Ethel Ross, Ollie Smith, both of Lexington; 29 grandchildren; numerous great-grandchildren. Gramkow Funeral Home, Sanford. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - August 19, 1986 Deceased Name: CHARLES ROBERT WINSTON CHARLES ROBERT WINSTON, 63, 819 Whitmire Drive, Melbourne, died Sunday. Born in Ethel, W.Va., he moved to Melbourne from Harlan, Ky., in 1955. He was a construction inspector and a Methodist. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Missile and Space Pioneers, Cape Canaveral Clown Club, Veterans National Home and Australian Return Service League. Survivors: wife, Mary; daughters, Donna, Tina Eck, both of Melbourne; mother, Elizabeth, Salem, Va.; one grandson. Visiting hours: 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, followed by a service at 7 p.m. Ammen's South Brevard Funeral Home, Melbourne. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - August 11, 1986 Deceased Name: ERNEST RAY ANDERSON ERNEST RAY ANDERSON, 86, 7518 Narcoossee Road, Orlando, died Saturday. Born in Norton, Va., he moved to Orlando from Appalachia, Va., in 1962. He was a retired coal miner and a member of the Church of God. Survivors: son, Clyde E., Orlando; brother, Danny, Lakeland; sisters, Nettie Hawkins, Harlan, Ky., Minnie King, Cincinnati, Ohio; five granchildren; 10 grandchildren. Colonial Guardian Funeral Home, Orlando. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - June 19, 1986 Deceased Name: GEORGE K. REEDY GEORGE K. REEDY, 77, 533 S. Center St., Eustis, died Wednesday. Born in Pine Top, Ky., he moved to Eustis from Harlan, Ky., in 1944. He was a retired citrus grower and a member of First United Methodist Church of Eustis. He was a Eustis city commissioner from 1958 to 1962 and a member of the Kiwanis Club. Survivors: wife, Carrie D.; son, George Kent Jr., Honolulu; daughters, Barbara Atkins, Palatka, Rosemary Bronson, Eustis, Linda McCord, Pensacola; sisters, Sarah Kenney, Eustis, Nannie Parsons, Umatilla; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren. Harden-Pauli Funeral Home, Eustis. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - March 23, 1986 Deceased Name: ARTIE F. ''ROSE'' WASSMAN ARTIE F. ''ROSE'' WASSMAN, 72, 3414 Lake Margaret Drive, Orlando, died Saturday. Born in Kentucky, she moved to Orlando from Maine in 1958. She was a retired registered nurse and was a member of Blessed Trinity Catholic Church. Survivors: husband, John; sons, David M., John P., both of Orlando; mother, Clara Rose, Harlan, Ky.; sisters, Bertha Farmer, Orlando, Nancy Price, Paducah, Ky., Grace Wood, Pineville, Ky., Edna Miller, Sun Prairie, Wis., Beth Seale, Rose Hill, Va.; brothers, John, Georgetown, Ky., Kenneth, Tucson, Ariz.; five grandchildren. Woodlawn Funeral Home, Orlando. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - March 11, 1986 Deceased Name: FRED NEALON FRED NEALON, 57, 7119 State Road 33, Clermont, died Sunday. Born in Harlan, Ky., he moved to Clermont from Mascotte in 1986. He was a security guard and a Protestant. Survivors: wife, Rosemarie; sons, Freddie, Texas, Michael, Pennsylvania; daughters, Karen Minch, Lewisberry, Pa., Doreen Franks, Elizabeth, Pa., Laurie Smith, Clermont, Donna, Middletown, Pa., Anna and Vernamae, both of Maryland; brother, Bill, Mount Erie, Md.; sister, Ruby Cinnamon, Knoxville, Tenn.; 11 grandchildren. Beckers Funeral Service, Clermont. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - February 14, 1986 Deceased Name: IMOGENE VARNADORE IMOGENE VARNADORE, 61, 355 Happy Lane, Lady Lake, died Wednesday. Born in Harlan, Ky., she moved to Lady Lake from Sebring in 1966. She was a nurse's aide and a Protestant. Survivors: daughter, Sheila Kurtz, Leesburg; son, Silas, Winter Park; brother, Eugene Brown, Baltimore; sisters, Hazel Merrill, Glenn Rock, Pa., Martha Brunner, Mildred Brunner, Reba Hummel, all of Covington, Ky. Harden-Pauli Funeral Home, Eustis. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - February 10, 1986 Deceased Name: ANDREW HURLEY ANDREW HURLEY, 80, 1126 Jeff Lane, Apopka, died Friday. Born in Harlan, Ky., he moved to Apopka from Ohio in 1957. He was a retired coal miner and was a Pentecostal. Survivors: daughter, Hazel Jones, Apopka; son, David Norris, Apopka; brothers, A.P. Hurly, Apopka, Boyd, Kentucky, Billy, Don, both of Michigan, Jim Carns, Walton, Ky.; sister, Dora Scott, Sunshine, Ky., Samantha Lawson, Chicago, Brenda Reed, Shelia Farley, Diane Cole, all of Harlan, Anna Faye Goad, West Virginia; stepsister, Lindy Teague, Barbourville, Ky. Baldwin- Fairchild Funeral Home, Apopka. Akron Beacon Journal (OH) - January 8, 1986 Deceased Name: DEATH NOTICES / CLASSIFIED Mark D. Creekmore, 53, passed away Jan. 6 at Akron General Medical Center after a long illness. He was born in Harlan, Ky., and lived most of his life in the Akron area. Mr. Creekmore was employed with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. for 31 years, and was a life member of Firestone V.F.W. Post No. 3383. He was a member of the Springfield Assembly of God, and was an Army veteran serving during the Korean Conflict. He is survived by wife, Janice L.; daughters, Jan R. and Dana M.; sons, Mark S. and Bret D., all of Akron; stepdaughters, Kim Murphy of Florida, Robin Syroid of Texas; stepson, John P. Waters III of North Carolina; four grandsons, one granddaughter; mother, Elsie Pastor; father, William Creekmore; sister, Juanita Ivey, all of Akron; brothers, Lewis (Bud) of Ellet, Larry of California. Funeral services Friday, 11 a.m., at the Springfield Assembly of God, 1651 Massillon Rd., Rev. Joseph B. Serbin officiating. Burial Hillside Memorial Park. Friends may call at the Hopkins Lawver Funeral Home, 547 Canton Rd., Akron, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday; and one hour prior to service time FriDAY, at the church. (Hopkins Lawver, Akron, 733-6271.) Akron Beacon Journal (OH) - October 4, 1985 XENIA -- William L. Kinnard, 46, of 1096 Reid Ave., died Tuesday. He was a truck driver for McLean Trucking Co. in Columbus. He was born in Harlan, Ky., March 31, 1939. He is survived by his wife, Helen (Magyar) Kinnard; two daughters, Mrs. Gary (Michele) Wheeler and Stephanie Kinnard, both of Xenia; two brothers, Bob Kinnard of Wadsworth and Mendel of Medina; three half sisters and three half brothers. Services 10 a.m., Saturday, at the First Church of the Nazarene in Xenia, Ohio. Burial 3 p.m., SaturDAY, at Woodlawn Cemetery in Wadsworth. Visitation 7 to 9 p.m., FriDAY, at the McColaugh Funeral Home, Xenia, where Masonic services will be held at 8 p.m. Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - September 17, 1985 Deceased Name: Ella Louise Ward Ella Louise Ward, 67, Kissimmee, died Monday. Born in Harlan, Ky., she moved to Kissimmee from Frederica, Del., in 1955. She was a homemaker and a member of Brack Street Missionary Baptist Church, Kissimmee. Survivors: daughters, Betty Collins and Margaret Hills, both Milford, Del.; sisters, Ava L. Goins, Corbin, Ky., Millie F. Wilson, Milford; brother, Harold W. Hoskins, Santa Susana, Calif.; six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Grissom Funeral Home, Kissimmee. Chicago Tribune (IL) - June 16, 1985 Deceased Name: SLAIN WHEATON TEENAGERS EULOGIZED: 'GOD'S HEART BROKE WHEN THESE 2 DIED' Two teenagers from Wheaton who ran off nearly two weeks ago to get married were buried Saturday in side-by-side cemetery plots adjoining a junior high schoolyard where they once played. The bodies of Amy Boyle, 15, and Larry Brock, 16, sophomores at Wheaton Central High School, were returned home late Friday. The couple had been found shot to death last Monday in a remote mountain area in southwestern Colorado. A third Wheaton youth, who joined them on their cross-country adventure, is being held by authorities in Colorado in connection with the shootings. The plots in Wheaton Cemetery where the bodies where laid to rest Saturday overlook the ball diamond at Edison Middle School where Larry played baseball. Though Larry and Amy attended the same junior high school, they did not begin dating until last year. As mourners left the grave sites to return to their vehicles, Peggy Boyle, Amy's mother, looked over her should for one last glance at her daughter's casket. Amy's father, Donald, returned to the casket and plucked a red rose to take with him. Earlier in the day, at a 45-minute funeral service attended by about 200 friends and family members, three ministers eulogized the young couple. ''Their lives were not a waste,'' said Rev. Duane Mevis, associate pastor of Wesley Mehtodist Church in Naperville. ''They experienced love with their families and with each other. ''I don't believe an act like this is God's will. I believe God's heart broke when these two died.'' As Rev. Mevis recited a portion of the Gospel of John, Mrs. Boyle mouthed the words. At another point in the service, she left her seat and knelt before her dauther's open casket. Many of the couple's young friends wept during the service. Larry's mother, Janice Sue, sat bent forward with her face down. His father, Lawrence, stared blankly at the floor. Larry was the Brocks' only child. Rev. Ira Davidson, Larry's great-uncle and asociate pastor of Kedvale Baptist Church in Chicago, warned that ''Satan is killing so many of our young people today. We have evidence right here.'' Rev. Jack Carmichal, a Church of God pastor from Harlan, Ky., where the Boyles once lived, said Amy and Larry had been ''an inspiration to friends in school and the community.' Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) - June 15, 1985 Deceased Name: James Clark Hurley Sr. James Clark Hurley Sr., 62, 602 E. Magnolia St., Apopka, died Wednesday. Born in Knox County, Ky., he moved to Apopka from Harlan, Ky., in 1957. He was a retired minister and was a member of Holy Tabernacle Church, Apopka. He was an ordained minister of the Church of God United Assembly. Survivors: wife, Leona; sons, James C. Jr., Orlando, Jerry A., Forest City; brothers, Boyd, Harlan, Don, Bill, both of Illinois, Andy, A.P., both of Apopka; sisters, Dora Scott, Harlan, Samantha, Illinois, A nna Faye, Indiana, Brenda, Shelia, Dinah Cole, all of Harlan; seven grandchildren. Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home, Apopka. Daily Oklahoman, The (Oklahoma City, OK) - December 31, 1984 Deceased Name: Milton French Hensley HENSLEY Milton French, age 75 passed away Dec. 29 in Okc. He was born Oct. 14, 1909. He was married in 1931 to Artie Peters & came to Okc in July of 1949 from Kentucky at which time he owned a grocery store on SW 29 called ""Hensley's Corner & Market''. He was also a retired truck driver & member of the Masonic Lodge in Harlan, KY. He is survived by his wife, Artie of the home. 3 sons, Ron & Neal of Okc & Garry of Midwest City. Daughter, Mona Riggall of Okc. Brother, Ballard of Okc. 13 grandchildren & 5 great grandchildren. Graveside services Monday, Dec 31 at 10am at Resthaven Memory Gardens, with the Rev. C.L. Brown officiating. Directed by Captiol Hill Funeral Home. Daily Oklahoman, The (Oklahoma City, OK) - May 31, 1983 Deceased Name: Adele F. Hensley HENSLEY Adele F. of Okc. Passed away Sat, May 29, 1983. She was 99 years old. She was born in Harlan, Ky. She was a member of the Airline Christian Church & was retired from the teaching profession. She is survived by 2 sons, French Hensley, Okc & Ballard Hensley, Okc. 7 grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren & 3 great great grandchildren. Services Tuesday at 1pm, graveside in Resthaven Cemetery. Conducted by Capitol Hill Funeral Home. New York Times, The (NY) - January 14, 1981 Deceased Name: DON WHITEHEAD, PULITZER PRIZE WINNER FOR DISPATCHES ON KOREAN WAR Don Whitehead, a war correspondent for The Associated Press who won two Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting for dispatches on the Korean War, died at his home in Knoxville, Tenn. on Monday of lung cancer after a long illness. He was 72 years old. Mr. Whitehead reported on some of the major battles and events of World War II in Europe and North Africa, including the Normandy invasion, the liberation of Paris, the Allied invasion of Sicily, and Montgomery's desert drive against Rommel. In July 1950 he went to Korea and, with a portable typewriter carried in a rucksack slung over his back, he wrote accounts of American forces landing on the Inchon beachhead, the crossing the Han River and the capture of Seoul, all of which he had witnessed. He was awarded his first Pulitzer Prize in 1951. Two years later he won the award again, this time for his coverage of a secret trip to Korea by then President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower. Mr. Whitehead also wrote five books, including "The F.B.I. Story," a best seller that was made into a movie, and worked for The Knoxville News Sentinel until 1978. Donald Ford Whitehead was born on April 8, 1908 in Inman, Va. His father was a mine superintendent and later opened a furniture store in Harlan, Ky. He studied journalism at the University of Kentucky and later worked for several daily and weekly papers in Tennessee. In 1935 he joined The Associated Press and worked in Memphis and later in Knoxville, where he covered the early development of the Tennessee Valley Authority.Covered North Africa Fighting After working in New York as a feature writer for the news service for a year and a half, he was assigned to India in 1942, but, while traveling there, his assignment was changed to Cairo after another Associated Press correspondent was captured by the Germans. In the North Africa campaign, he reported on the British Eighth Army, including an account Rommel's attack south of the Mareth line and the drive into Tunisia, which he had observed. He also covered the major American campaigns, including five amphibious assault landings. In 1943 he reported on the Allied invasion of Sicily and was among the first reporters to land on Omaha Beach at Normandy in the Allied invasion of France. Mr. Whitehead was the first American reporter to file a dispatch out of liberated Paris. After driving a borrowed Jeep through the still-fluid lines surrounding the city, he sped back to the press headquarters and, in 45 minutes, wrote a 1,600-word article that made front pages all over the country. A big, soft-spoken, modest man, Mr. Whitehead later said that his exclusive was, in part, a result of luck. A messenger rushed the dispatch to a wireless truck for the press several miles down the road where it was radioed to New York. But before other reporters could file their articles, the wireless operator then packed up his gear and became lost in slow-moving columns heading toward Paris.Atomic Bomb Tests at Bikini After the war, Mr. Whitehead directed the Associated Press bureau in Hawaii for two years and covered the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Island. He arrived in Korea, a month after the war broke out. His articles on the Army's failure to provide troops with adequate winter clothing at a time when the temperature was near zero led to an airlift of warm clothes to troops at the front. In 1956 he became Washington bureau chief of The Herald Tribune, a post he left a year later. He joined The News-Sentinel in Knoxville in 1959 as a columnist. Mr. Whitehead received an honorary degree from the University of Kentucky in 1948 and was awarded the Medal of Freedom by the United States Army for his World War II reporting. He also received a Polk Award in 1951 for distinguished wire service reporting. Mr. Whitehead is survived by a daughter, Ruth Graham of Baton Rouge, La.; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. His wife, Marie, died in September 1979. A memorial service was scheduled for today in Knoxville. Chicago Tribune (IL) - May 30, 1977 Football coach dies in Ky. fire CLARKIE MAYFIELD, Jacksonville [Ala.] State University football coach, was killed Saturday night trying to assist others who were trapped in the Southgate, Ky. nightclub fire, school officials said Sunday. Mayfield, 35, was in the Beverly Hills supper club with his wife, Susie, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Mayfield of Hamilton, Ohio, to celebrate the retirement of his mother after 40 years as a teacher. "He helped his dad get out of the building and his mother and wife got out unharmed, but he went back inside to try to help others escape," said Rudy Abbott, baseball coach and sports information director at Jacksonville State. "He was a heck of a guy, a real goodhearted person. He was always more interested in helping other people than in himself. I guess he showed that by going back to try to help during the fire." Mayfield, a native of Harlan, Ky., played football at the University of Kentucky and coached at high schools in Kentucky before going to Jacksonville State in 1969. Chicago Tribune (IL) - November 08, 1968 Cop Slain; Arrest Parents of Prisoner Harlan, Ky., Nov. 7 (AP) -- A Harlan county deputy sheriff was shot to death tonight as he sat in his car on a street here, and the mother and father of a man he had arrested were charged in the slaying. Witnesses told police that Oscar Burkhart, 53, the deputy sheriff, was sitting in his automobile at a red light when two persons got out of an auto behind Burkhart's, walked to each side of his car and opened fire. In Car with Victim Police said Frank Pennington, 20, of Cawood, was in the car with Burkhart. They said Burkhart had arrested Pennington yesterday, but Pennington had been released on bail and Burkhart had picked him up again tonight. Charged in connection with the death were Pennington's parents, Sam Pennington, 63, and Juanita, 40, of the Dressin community near Harlan. Leaves After Shooting Police said Frank Pennington was being held as a material witness. They said he left the scene of the shooting with his parents and a brother, Heyward. Chicago Tribune (IL) - July 25, 1965 9 ARE KILLED IN COLLISION ON WINDING ROAD Harlan, Ky, July 24 (UPI)-- Nine persons, five of them children, were killed today in a tow-car crash on a twisting mountain road near here. State police said a car operrated by Philip Perkins, formerly of nearby Smith, collided with an auto carrying 10 members of the J. C. David Eldridge family. Both Drivers Killed Perkins, who was traveling alone, and Eldridge, also of Smith, were killed. Police said the five children and an adult had not been identified. Another adult and one child were injured. "When we got there, one car was knocked over on the bank near a stream and the Eldridge car was sitting along the edge of the highway," said State Trooper Lonnie Leach. None Thrown Out "I have never seen an accident in which so many were killed but none thrown from the cars," he added. Leach said the coroner reported several of the children died of shock. Both cars were traveling at high speed and, Leach said, the road was in such poor condition it was not determined whether either car had slowed down. Chicago Tribune (IL) - March 09, 1965 3 BOYS KILLED BY ROCK FALL IN OLD MINE Harlan, Ky., March 8 (AP)--A rock fall estimated at 75 tons crushed three teen-age boys to death today in an abandoned mine where they had gone to pick up coal for their families. Miners worked under extremely hazardous conditions to remove the bodies several hours after the mid-afternoon cave-in. Dead are Rodney Gross, 17; his brother, George, 12, and a cousin, Tommy Gross, 13, sons of Harlan count miners. Ralph Gross, 15, brother of Rodney and George, was behind the trio and was blown from the mine entrance by the impact. He went for help. Chicago Tribune (IL) - September 26, 1963 TRUCK STRIKES, KILLS GIRL, 5, IN OHIO STREET Couldn't Stop, Says Driver A 5-year-old girl was killed by a truck yesterday as she was running to a corner store. She was Mary Trevino, daughter of Carlos Trevino, 1355 Ohio st. Mary was struck by a truck driven by Louis J. Santos, 48, of 4322 Washington blvd., who was southbound in Noble street. Apparently the girl ran in front of the truck in the Ohio street intersection. Santos said he did not see the child in time to stop. He was charged with reckless homicide, negligent driving, and failure to use due care to a pedestrian in a roadway for appearance Nov. 5 in Traffic court. Two Die in Crash Two Kentucky men died when their speeding auto and a dump truck loaded with 20 tons of sand collided yesterday at the intersection of Illinois highway 58 and Bartlett road, six miles east of Elgin, in Cook county. They tentatively were identified as Clyde Fee, 23, and Raymond A. Young, both of Harlan, Ky. A witness, Mrs. John C. Forbes of Barrington, told authorities she had stopped in Bartlett road at Ill. 58, a thru highway, and was driving north about a block away when the Kentucky car passed her in the opposite direction at a high rate of speed. Sees Truck Approaching She said she had seen the dump truck approaching some distance away when she crossed Ill. 58, and she stopped her car because she thought the accident was imminent. She said the Kentucky car continued at the high speed thru the stop sign and plowed into the left side of the eastbound truck, driven by Joseph J. Bird, 24, of 285 Tomahawk st., Wheaton. He was treated for minor injuries in St. Joseph's hospital, Elgin. The impact of the crash pushed the heavy dump truck into a ditch near the intersection and ruptured one of its auxiliary fuel tanks, spilling about 50 gallons of diesel oil into the roadway. Chicago Tribune (IL) - April 29, 1961 4 KILLED, 3 HURT AS ROCKS FALL ON MINERS IN TROLLEY Harlan, Ky., April 28 (UPI) -- An accident at a coal mine near here this afternoon has claimed the lives of four men and injured three others, state police here reported. The men, all miners, were killed as they rode from the mine on a trolley car when several huge rocks fell from the ceiling on them. Those killed were identified as Columbus Mamasco, Stanley Fee Jr., Denver Fee, Stanley Fee's uncle; and Tom Dean. They were all from the Yancy community of Harlan county. Injured were Elbert Ox, Kenneth Dean and Eddy Fee, also of the Yancy community. Chicago Tribune (IL) - April 26, 1951 2 SLAYINGS ROB 'BLOODY HARLAN' OF NEW RECORD Spoil Clean Slate; 2 Cops Seized Harlan, Ky., April 25 [Special] --Two former Harlan policemen were shot to death on downtown streets here last night and today, and six men, including two on the police force, were arrested and charged with murder. The slayings shattered the Circuit court's hopes of setting a record for "bloody Harlan" county. For the term of court starting May 7 not a single murder case had been docketed. It would have been the first term without a murder case since 1819. Victims of the latest shootings were Avery Hensley, 45, and his stepson, Joe Hensley, 26, a truck driver. Felled by of 6 Shots Arrested and charged with murdering the younger Hensley are Policemen Charlie Wade and Ray Smith, and a bus line employe, Oren [Doc] Nantz, 39. Those seized for the murder of Avery Hensley are Claude and Wheeler Beach, brothers and operators of a Harlan caf?, and their nephew, J. W. Beach. Avery Hensley was felled by six pistol bullets that spurted at him from the recessed doorway of the Manufacturers Outlet clothing store as he stood in a parking lot across Central st. at 6:45 p.m. He died in Harlan hospital at 11 p.m. At his bedside when he died was his stepson, Joe, who with Hensley had resigned from the police force last year. Joe left the hospital and at 2 a.m. was slain by a single bullet that struck him in the head as he stood near a city bus stop two blocks from where his stepfather was shot. Recall Turbulent Careers Several witnesses reportedly saw each killing, but Police Chief Logan Middleton refused to disclose their names--presumably for their own protection. The Beach brothers, said to have formerly been friendly with the Hensleys, have had a turbulent career here. They were tried and acquitted in the slaying May 8, 1950, of Policeman James Ford. They were accused, but not indicted, in the slaying last January of C. D. Bengey, a mechanic, killed by 15 bullets that pierced his body in a street gun battle. They also are awaiting trial on charges of arson, shooting with intent to kill, and bootlegging. The origin of their feud with the Hensleys was not known--or at least not disclosed by police. Circuit Judge Astor Hogg summoned a special grand jury to convene Saturday and hear evidence against the six alleged murders. Chicago Tribune (IL) - November 15, 1949 MAN ONCE HELD CHIEF'S KILLER SLAIN IN HARLAN Shot from Car as He and Girl Quit Movie Deceased Name: Ford Sizemore Harlan, Ky., Nov. 14 [Special] -- Ford Sizemore, 29 year old cafe operator and reputed bootlegger who was arrested and later released in the slaying last Easter Sunday of Harlan County Police Chief Ambrose Metcalfe, was shot to death on a Harlan street tonight. Sizemore, preparing to take a girl friend home after visiting a local theater, was fired on from an automobile which pulled in behind him as he drove his own car into an alley to make a turn, Harlan City Police Chief John Greenlee said. Sizemore's companion was not injured. Slug Replace Pellets Greenlee said a slug, place in a shotgun shell in place of pellets, tore away Sizemore's jaw. The assailants' car made a fast getaway after the shooting. Greenlee said that so far he had no clew to killer or accomplices. State police joined city officers in an investigation. Sizemore and Arthur Jackson were taken into custody in the Metcalfe slaying but Sizemore was never indicted. Jackson is the owner of a cafe in front of which Metcalfe, 29 year old war veteran, was slain while his wife, Kathleen, looked on. She recognized both men, she said, but authorities gave conflicting reports as to which she had named as the gunman. Acquitted in October Jackson stood trial on a murder charge in October and was acquitted. Sizemore operated a cafe at Shields, in the Clover Fork section of the county. He was a brother of T. C. Sizemore, the Republican nominee for Harlan county judge who was defeated in last Tuesday's special election. Metcalfe, who was named to head the county's first police patrol several years ago when citizens demanded more vigorous enforcement of vice and liquor laws, often had raided Jackson's place seeking moonshine whiskey. The county legally is dry. In a whiskey case in October, 1948, in which Jackson was acquitted, Sizemore admitted that the liquor Metcalfe had seized was his own. No action was taken against Sizemore at that time, altho the arrest slip listed him as "bootlegger." Chicago Tribune (IL) - February 09, 1949 COMPANIONS OF UNION MAN HELD IN RIOT DEATH REMAIN FREE Harlan, Ky., Feb. 8 (Special) -- No action looking toward prosecution of persons who accompanied Lawrence Pennington, 26, labor organizer, on the fatal demonstration Saturday at near-by Lynch, Ky., has yet been taken. Harlan County Atty. Bert O. Howard said today. Pennington is in a hospital here awaiting an examining trial next week on a murder charge arising from the fatal shooting of a Lynch police officer. The shooting broke out in the course of a riot outside the Union Supply company store after Pennington led from 25 to 30 men into the town in automobiles. State police said Pennington and his companions were trying to induce the store's 200 employes to join the United Con struction Workers' union, an affiliate of the United Mine Workers. Howard said Pennington was the only person taken into custody by Lynch police after the shooting. He said that if Pennington is held for trial by the examining magistrate the case will be presented to a grand jury. Lynch, with a population of 7,500, is an unincorporated community surrounding mines owned by a subsidiary of the United States Steel company Chicago Tribune (IL) - February 07, 1949 WOUNDED GOON HELD AS KILLER OF POLICEMAN Two Are Shot Down at Company Store Harlan, Ky., Feb. 6 (Special) -- A police officer was shot and killed in near-by Lynch, Ky., late yesterday in a street battle which developed when a group of armed labor goons surrounded the town's huge company store in what state police said was an attempt to force store employes to join the United Mine Workers union. A second police officer was struck in the thigh by a pistol bullet and Lawrence Pennington, 26, a member of the goon squad, was shot twice in the legs and once in the chest. State police today brought Penningston here from the Lynch hospital and placed him in the county jail on a charge of murder. Shoots It Out The slain officer was John Yellenosky Sr., married and father of three children. His wounded colleague, who shot it out with Pennington after Yellenosky fell, is Harry Carroll. Carroll's condition was reported satisfactory today at the Lynch hospital. Also receiving treatment in the hospital was Thomas Eads, manager of the store's furniture department, who had a broken nose, the result of being struck with brass knuckles. Lynch is a city of more than 7,500 inhabitants and is wholly owned by the United States Coal and Coke company, a subsidiary of United States Steel. Surround Store The company store is the city's only large retail establishment. It is a department store with about 200 employes. State police said the United Mine Workers union has been trying to induce store employes to join the union's district 50, the catchall branch of the miners' organizations. Last year the union lost out in a bargaining election. Five automobiles carrying an estimated 20 men drove into Lynch yesterday just before the store's closing hour, state police said. These men grouped themselves around the store's exits and sought to prevent employes from leaving. Threats were reportedly shouted that employes attempting to leave without signing up with the union would be beaten up. Burst of Gunfire Witnesses told investigators today that several fist fights broke out in the street. Eads was knocked down when he led a sortie of employes from the store's front entrance. Patrolman Yellenosky was several blocks away when the melee broke out. He started on a run toward the scene of the fighting. State police said Yellenosky had approached within a few yards of the struggle when he fell with a bullet thru his heat. They said Yellenosky had not drawn his gun and was wearing an overcoat buttoned over the weapon. Patrolman Carroll, several feet behind Yellenosku, was wounded in the same burst of gunfire. He returned the fire from the shelter of a parked car. He told state police Pennington had done the shooting. Pennington has a police record for involvement in union strongman tactics. He was arrested last year in connection with the whipping of Bill Cohelia, mine superintendent, at High Splint, Ky., but was subsequently released without prosecution. He was a defendant in an action before the national labor relations board brought by two mine maintenance men who charged Pennington and others drove them out of a mine where they were on maintenance duty during a strike. Pennington is an organizer for the United Construction Workers union, which is an affiliate of the UMW. Chicago Tribune (IL) - July 04, 1948 FIND SLAIN BUS DRIVER'S GUN ON SUSPECT; HOLD 4 Posse Waylays Car in Kentucky Union War Pineville, Ky., July 3 (Special)-- A pistol belonging to Silas Hendrickson, 24, bus driver who was shot and killed from ambush yesterday in a jurisdictional union war, was found early today in the possession of Clyde Spence, a field worker for the United Construction Workers union. catch-all affiliate of the United Mine Workers union. This was announced today by John Howard, sheriff of Bell county, who said Spence and three other men have been seized in connection with the slaying of the bus driver and are being held without charge in the Bell county jail. The sheriff said Spence and a companion, Jim Thacker, were arrested shortly after midnight when they drove into a filling station near Pineville. Two women in the automobile with Spence and Thacker were released after questioning. Posse Surrounds Car State police and deputy sheriffs surrounded Spence's car when it appeared at the filling station, the sheriff said. One of the occupants of the car threw a pistol out of a window and another was seen to thrust another pistol under a seat of the car. The sheriff said the two pistols were seized by authorities and that a further search of the car produced a .32 caliber special pistol identified as the property of Hendrickson and reportedly in his possession yesterday when he started out on the 20 mile bus run from Straight Creek to Red Bird, in the course of which he was shot down. Two other persons seized by police in connection with the slaying were identified by the sheriff as Vernon Brock of Pineville and Ed Brock of Arjay, Ky. a near-by village. The sheriff did not disclose the basis of these arrests but said authorities acted on information obtained in their investigation. Ed Brock is already under $2,000 bond on a charge of shooting on the highway, the result of an attack on another bus several days ago. Almost Missed Him The sheriff said both men were arrested in their homes. Officers who went to the home of Vernon Brock said they found the front door padlocked from the outside and were about to leave under the impression the place was deserted when they caught a glimpse of Vernon Brock watching them from an upstairs window. They then broke in the door. Hendrickson, who had worked only two weeks for the Cumberland Bus company, was a native of Straight Creek. He served as an army corporal for 39 months in the European theater of operations in World War II. The union dispute broke out several weeks ago when the Cumberland Bus company was purchased by the owners of the Tri-State Bus company of Harlan, Ky., whose drivers are members of the independent Tri-City Transportation Workers union. Drivers Quit Under Threats Theodore Middleton of Harlan president of the two bus companies, said most of the Cumberland's 15 drivers quit under threats of organizers for the United Construction Workers union. This UMW affiliate has been conducting an intensive drive here to organize hotel employes, waitresses, taxicab drivers and bus drivers. The bus in which Hendrickson was shot was hauled to Pineville today by authorities and drew a huge crowd to the city square. Sheriff Howard said he had counted 17 bullet holes in it. In some instances bullets had pierced both of the bus's steel sides. W. T. Brown, only passenger on the bus at the time of the ambush, said he saved his life by lying on the floor of the bus in simulation of death. Tells How He Escaped "At the first crash of guns I fell on my face," Brown told the sheriff. "I was lying beside Hendrickson and my clothes were covered with his blood. After a while Bill Chadwich drove by and looked in. I crawled out and he gave me a ride. We drove several miles until we found a phone and notified police." The sheriff said the bus was unattended for about half an hour from the time Brown and Chadwick left it until deputy sheriffs reached the scene. In this interval, he said, those who perpetrated the ambush would have had opportunity to enter the bus and take Hendrickson's pistol. Chicago Tribune (IL) - December 06, 1947 2 CLANS WAR IN KENTUCKY LIQUOR FEUD 1 Dead, 4 Hurt in Shootings Harlan, Ky., Dec. 5 (Special) -- The spilling of more blood in a mountain feud in which five persons already have been shot, one fatally, was predicted by authorities today as a member of one of the warring families vowed that "we'll get even" for the last shooting. As was typical of many of Kentucky's old time feuds, liquor raids were believed to be at the bottom of the current outbreak. Local authorities have indicated a hands-off attitude. Sgt. Earl Gilbert of the state highway patrol is heading the investigation. The enmity lies between the Caldwells and the Brocks, two families living about 20 miles north of here in Leslie county. The Caldwell clan is headed by Capt. William Caldwell of the Leslie county police. On the other side is Theo Brock and his family who operate a tavern. War Veteran Slain First blood was spilled Saturday night when Cornelius Caldwell, 25, a war veteran who lost a leg in Germany and was discharged from the army only six weeks ago, was slain from ambush in the vicinity of the Brock tavern. His brother, Ray, 23, was wounded. Early yesterday three members of the Brock family were wounded by a fusillade of submachine gun bullets fired from the darkness. The tavern was dynamited and burned. The three Brocks were wounded, as they fled from the burning tavern, Mrs. Brock was shot in the shoulder and is now in the Harlan hospital. Their son, Melvin, 14, had a scalp wound. Brock's cousin, Levi, a tavern employe, was shot in the lobe of each ear. Chicago Tribune (IL) - June 18, 1946 SIX WEEK BRIDE KILLED WITH AX; SEEK HUSBAND --Harlan, Ky., June 17 (AP)--Sheriff J. S. Cawood said Albert Colvin, 24, Verda coal miner, was being sought today in connection with the ax slaying of his wife, Mrs. Marguerite Craig Gilbert Colvin, 20. Mrs. Colvin, whom Colvin married about six weeks ago, died in Harlan hospital early today several hours after he face was crushed wiht an ax, the sheriff reported. Cawood said a neighbor of the Colvin's was attracted to their four room home last night by the cry of her 4 year old son by a former marriage: "You've killed my mother." Mrs. Colvin was found on the floor near a bed which appeared as if it had been slept in. The blood stained ax was found on the floor. Chicago Tribune (IL) - September 24, 1944 VICTIM OF SNAKE BITES AT CHURCH MEETING IS DEAD Deceased Name: Coroner Fielding Hensley Harlan, Ky., Sept. 23 (AP). -- Coroner Fielding Hensley reported today the death of Mrs. Maudie Lankford, 28, a coal miner's wife, who had been taken to Harlan hospital for treatment of snakebites. Hensley said Mrs. Lankford was bitten three times during a meeting at the Church of God here last night. Magistrate John Keller levied a fine of $50 against the Rev. Willard Cress, pastor of the church, and placed him under a$500 peace bond. A 1942 Kentucky statute makes it a misdemeanor to handle snakes in connection with religious services. Chicago Tribune (IL) - September 20, 1942 CHARGE MURDER IN SNAKE DEATH AT CHURCH MEET Harlan, Ky., Sept. 19 (AP).--Three men were held to the grand jury today on a charge of murder following the death yesterday of James Couch, 30 years old, as a result of rattlesnake bites. The men are George Washington Hensley, 50, of Harlan and Bradley Shell, 45, of W.B. Creech, 60, both of Pine Mountain. Coroner Fielding Hensley reported Couch was bitted fatally by rattlesnakes which he handled at a reilgious meeting at the Little Pine Mountain Church of God at Laurel Branch. Chicago Tribune (IL) - May 22, 1942 Slain in Court: He's Convicted, Doomed to Die Harlan, Ky., May 21 (AP).--Manzo Shepherd, 24 years old, on trial for the killing of a taxicab driver, was shot to death in the Harlan Circuit courtroom today. Sheriff Clint Ball said Jack Heaton, 26, a coal miner from Louellen and a nephew of the man Shepherd was charged with killing, surrendered after the shooting and was put in jail. Shepherd was seated at the defense table, with the crowd which packed the courtroom jammed behind him. Commonwealth Attorney Daniel Boone Smith had just completed closing arguments and asked the jury of men from adjoining Bell county to sentence Shepherd to the electric chair. Shot Interrupts Judge. As Smith walked back to the prosecution table and Judge James S. Forester started to address the jury the shot rang out. Amid screams from women and children, attaches rushed to Shepherd's side and carried him out. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. After the courtroom had been quieted Judge Forester told the jury that Shepherd was alive when taken from the room and ordered them to take the case under consideration. The jury returned in a few minutes with a conviction verdict and recommended the death penalty. Shot in the Head. Sheriff Ball said Heaton, whose uncle, Joe Christian, was found with his throat cut on Black mountain May 5, walked up behind Shepherd and shot him in the head with an "owl head" pistol. Ball said Heaton then handed the pistol to officers. Shepherd, Sherman Clouse, 23, and Howard Hensley, 30, of Yancey, were indicted for the killing of Christian. Clouse and Shepherd were tried jointly, but the trial ended in a deadlocked jury. Hensley previously had been granted a separate trial. At the opening of the second trial today, Judge Forester granted Shepherd and Clouse separate trials. After the shooting of Shepherd Judge Forester dismissed the jury which had been selected to try Clouse and postponed the trials of both Hensley and Clouse until October. Chicago Tribune (IL) - November 07, 1941 HARLAN BALLOT GUARD IS KILLED IN COURTHOUSE Deceased Name: Bill Lewis Harlan, Ky., Nov. 6 (AP). -- Bill Lewis, 60 years old, one of 15 men guarding uncounted ballots cast in Tuesday's general election, was killed by an unidentified gunman early today in the corridor of the Harlan county court house. John McKinney, deputy coroner, said Lewis was shot five times in the abdomen and chest as he entered the courthouse upon returning from a restaurant across the street about 1:40 a.m. As Lewis stepped into the corridor, some one fired upon him from the stairway leading to the courthouse basement, McKinney said. Lewis fell dead about 30 feet from the county court clerk's office where other guards were watching the ballot boxes. Chicago Tribune (IL) - April 03, 1941 4 KILLED, 5 SHOT IN COAL FIELD OF HARLAN COUNTY More Violence Feared in Mine Work Stoppage. Harlan, Ky., April 2 [Special]. -- Four CIO pickets were shot dead and five other men were wounded today in one of the bloodiest mine battles in Harlan county's long record of labor violence. A machine gun was said to have been used in the pitched battle. Tension thruout the country heightened in the expectation of more bloodshed. Today's outbursts raised the Harlan country toll to five dead, six wounded, and about 30 injured in two days of violence following the work stoppage ordered by the United Mine Workers of America [CIO] in the nation's major bituminous mines pending new contract negotiations. The county was quiet tonight, under and unofficial truce -- the companies refrained from trying to operate and the CIO refrained from picketing. Lewis Rules Out U. S. Aid. In New York, John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, ruled out the possibility of federal mediation in the wage dispute as a spokesman for the mine operators agreed with a federal concillator's expressed belief that and agreement soon would be reached and the mines reopened. Speaking at a convention of anthracite miners during a recess in negotiations between union and a management representatives in the soft coal industry, Lewis said; "We are not going to follow the new formula that the mediation board has discovered -- of wiring the strikers to go back, bust their strikes, then have them come to Washington to mediate for the remnants of it." Scoffs at Compromise. Lewis called attention to reports that union negotiators had "receded in their demands for vacations and other things." and declared there had been no such recession. There had been indications last night that the union would withdraw certain demands, including those for paid vacations and 200 guaranteed work days a year, in return for the operators' acceptance of a $1 aday increase in the basic wage scale and elimination of the 40 cent a day north-south wage differential. Todays violence occurred. at the crummies Coal corporation mine at Martin's Fork, where 15 miners were beaten yesterday. 2,000 Pickets Storm Mine. L. P. Johnson, general manager of the company, gave the following account of the shootings: "A Crowd of about 2,000 men, mostly CIO Pickets, assembled on the mine properties. "A large group of union pickets, armed with pistols, entered the company store. They announced they would tear up the place. They abused the storekeeper and tried to force several nonunion men there to sign union checkoff slips. As the commotion in the store mounted, pickets outside began firing into the building." Bullets riddled the store. More than 100 shots were fired during the battle. When it ended, these men were dead; Virgil Hampton of Harlan, district field representative of the UMWA; Oscar Goodin, of Lynch, Ky., and Charles Ruth and Ed Tye, a Negro, both of Kenvir, Ky. Five others lay wounded. Robert Hodge, district secretary treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, charged that a machine gun was turned on the union men when they entered the store to buy soft drinks. At the same time, he said, men hidden outside began firing into the store, trapping the victims in a cross fire. The gunplay at the Crummies Creek mine followed and earlier disturbance at the Mary Helen corporation mine several miles away where a mine guard was killed yesterday. Pickets invaded a company store there and beat several nonunion miners. They also rushed a newspaper photographer for the Louisville Courier-Journal and smashed his camera. Chicago Tribune (IL) - April 02, 1941 1 Killed, 1 Shot, 21 Beaten in Violence at Coal Mines Harlan, Ky., April 1 [Special]. -- One man was shot dead, another was wounded, and 21 were beaten today in outbursts of violence that accompanied picketing in the Harlan county coal fields in connection with a CIO ordered work stoppage in the industry. The bloodshed, which broke nearly two years of peace in the area, prompted Gov. Keen Johnson to send Col. Jack W. Nelson, director of the state highway patrol, to investigate the situation. The most serious disorder was at the Mary Helen Coal corporation mine at nearby Coalgood, where Earl Jones, 52 years old, a mine guard, was wounded fatally. Bill Gibbs, a miner from the Black Mountain mine, was arrested and was said to have admitted the shooting. Sheriff Herbert Cawood said Gibbs surrendered a rifle and three pistols, one belonging to Jones. 400 Pickets Storm Mine. A mob of about 400 pickets gathered at the mine and set upon the workers when they changed shifts. The mine boss and five other miners were slugged and beaten. Rocks were thrown and shots were fired at running men. Jones was felled by a burst of gun fire as he stood near the mine entrance. Later in the afternoon a crowd of about 250 men exchanged shots with miners in a tipple at the R. C. Tway Coal company. Several hundred shots were fired, but no one was injured. Then the 250 motored to a mine of the Crummies Creek Coal company at Martin's Fork and attacked workmen as they left the pit late in the afternoon. Fifteen miners were injured in the battle, in which clubs were swung freely. The injured received medical attention at the office of the company doctor. Chicago Tribune (IL) - July 17, 1939 VIOLENCE FLARES AGAIN IN HARLAN OVER WEEK-END Shooting and Stabbing Traced to Strike. Harlan, Ky., July 16.--(AP)--Death of the second miner wounded in a battle between union mine pickets and National Guardsmen, the knifing of a nonunion miner, and three fatal shootings, one attributed to current labor disorders, marked the week-end in Harlan's strife-torn soft coal field. Daniel Noe, 39 years old, died in a hospital today of a bullet wound received in Wednesday's battle. Dock Caldwell, a union miner, was the first fatality. Miner Knifed by 5 Men. John Collins, 32, identified as a nonunion miner employed by the Draper Mining company at Draper, reported to National Guard headquarters late today that he was beaten and knifed by five men last night near his home. Collins identified four of his assailants as union miners. Court hearings tomorrow are scheduled for 246 men and women arrested after the skirmish last Wednesday between mine pickets and National Guardsmen. Among the 246 is George Titler, district secretary-treasurer of the U. M. W. of A. Held in Fatal Shooting. Willie Fee, 36 years old, one of the men who Gen. Ellerbe Carter, troop commander, said signed warants charging "banding and confederating" against 233 persons, was held without charge in the fatal shooting of Bill Roberts, 35, idle union miner, last night at nearby Stanfill. The general said, "I wouldn't be surprised if the shootings were connected with Fee's signing of the warants." Fee, employed at the mine of the Mahan-Ellison Coal company, at which last week's battle occurred, claimed self-defense. Roberts had worked for the company before the old union contract expired March 31. Chicago Tribune (IL) - September 13, 1918 AMERICAN OVERSEAS CASUALTIES ARMY CASUALTIES DIED OF WOUNDS. PRIVATES. Clark Hall, Harlan, Ky. Chicago Tribune (IL) - June 01, 1918 AMERICAN OVERSEAS CASUALTIES WASHINGTON, D. C., May 31. -- Today's casualty list of the American army in France contained sixty names and brought the total casualties to 6,523. SEVERELY WOUNDED. Privates. Horton Creech, Harlan, Ky. Chicago Tribune (IL) - August 07, 1916 DROWNINGS OF A DAY HARLAN HARLAN, Ky. -- Five persons, Mrs. William Hall and her four children, were drowned here early today when a shack in which they had taken refuge when high water drove them from their home, was carried away by a landslide into the Cumberland river.

 
 

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