Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky (2024)

December 12, 1998

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Lexington Herald-Leaderi

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Lexington, Kentucky

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Saturday, December 12, 1998

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28

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C2 Uaington Herald leak Saturday 004 Science Hill teen dies in wreck near Somerset Compiled By DeWsyno Spalding llexmgtoij 11 a Monday Enterprise Regular Bainial Church Visitation 5 pm hday RS Jices and Sn Funeral Ihme and 3 pm Sunday at the church WIIITICSBL'RG Aggie Bentley 89 Sand Lick home-maker widow of Junb Bentley dud Tliursday Services 2 pm Sunday Whitnljurg First Baisist Ctiureh Visitation noon hday Leidxt Funeral Ik me WiLLfAMSTOWN Gens-va Clifford 73 Harrington Road cosnulologist wife of CTiarles DBanum died yesterday Services 4 Monday Klliston-Sianley Funeral llme Visitation 4 8 pm Sunday Coolri-butions suggeshd to Willumstown iLipnst Cliurch WILL1AMSTOWN Eliza-bath Jacobs Robinson 80 West Chester Ohio formerly of Williamstown dud Friday Service 2 pm Monday Eiliston-Stanley Funeral II-me Visitation noon Monday c*ntrilmtions suggested to Foundatioa tliy STANFORD Charles Luther Stamper 68 lPJCUoet Avenue retired Genrsco Muuifac-luring Company nniikiyre husband t4 BhiIm Lou Allison Stamper dud Tliursday Services II Monday Fox Funeral ll me ViMtatuei 5 8 pm Sunday Edgar King 74 Covington hcmerly of Verona heavy equipment tqiera-he and Wield War II army veteran wulower of Sarah Jane Webster King dud Thursday Services noon Monday Hamilton-Stanley Funeral 11 me Visitation 10 am Monday VERSAILLES Betty Jo Burrowe 61 214 Chestnut Lane wife of Ben Burrow dud Thursday S-rvicr 11 am Monday Durll Clark Funeral Home Visitation 25 pm Sunday Contributions suggested to Hospice of the Blurgras VIKGIE Sophronla Osborne 89 WilkesvilJe CNiic fra-merly of Virgie widow of Oscar Us-feme died yesterday Services pm luLty MONTICIXIjO Gaines Its 69 dird Thursday Servur 3 pm Sunday llukey Fu-reral Hw Viwiatm 7am today MONTiaXI) Earl Pug-gle 73 Ky 1275 retired farmer Iitlxt of Kailme Kuvr dud Thursday Servur 1 pm Sunday lluiry Son Funeral Ik me Visitation 5 pm today CeeitnUrtion suggested to tl American Carver Surety MOUNT VERNON Wayne Clark 99 Louisville ftsmerly of Rocknutle County painting contract and US Army veteran dud WabuviLiy S-rvkts 1 pm tulay Cox Funeral Home Visitation 9 am lulay PAINTSVILLE Frank Perkins 74 Van Lear retired cun! miner widower of Ruby Jewell Perkins died Thursday Services 1 pm Sunday Van liar Enterprise Baptist Church Visitatuin 8 am tuday at the church Arrangements Jones Preston Funeral Heme (KELTS Nancy Hurley 78 homemaker mother of Randall Hurley died Wednesday Service 2 pm today Freewill Baptist Church Visitation anytime before services at the church Arrangements Phrtp Funeral Service P1KEVILLE Kinney Are nett 81 Raccoon contract laborer husband of Afolly Arnett died yesterday Services 11 am Monday Justice Funeral Home Visitation 6 pm trxlay ITKEVILLE Charlotte Burnette 78 YpsiJanti Mich formerly of TikeviU died Wednesday Services 2 pm Sunday Zebukm Church of Christ mmwiMx irvr areoftT SCIENCE HILL A torn age driver died Thursday night after cra-hing into a bU wail feeder-ingaruad north of Snmrrt Ihmna Fisher 17 of Science Hill was driving south on Ky 1217 alxul tun miles north uf Somerset wlien she drojrjied off the right titwiulilir ovrr-oormird and 1x4 across tlie road the lu-laxki County Sheriffs Department uid Fislwr crashed into the wall and I xt vehicle then slid into a tree Slie was ejected from the 1986 Ford and was pronounced dead at the scene according to tiie sheriffs department Passenger Kendra A Vanover 18 of Somerset was taken to Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital where she was treated and dismissed lmna was the daughter of Dun and Judy Fisher Her funeral will be at 2 pm Sunday at Northside Baptist Church Visitation is at 4 pm today at Morris Hislope Funeral Hume in Science I lilL Darien Stark Calvert 81 l'nivtriiy of Kmlwky IVpart-mmt of History administrative mtTrtary wife of Ted Calvert dud yesterday Smiths 10 a Monday WE Mdward Mortuary Southland Visitation 4 7 pm Sunday Contributions suggndrd to twjkv (4 the Blurgraxs Maggie Chriitaraon 93 retired Ashland Avenue Baptist Church emplojte widow of Tom ChrLsterson dud Tliursday Services 11:30 a Monthly Kerr nwthrrs Funeral Hume Visitation 2 5 pm Sunday William Theodora Hinson 80 retired Cl'A and Goal Systems Cm owner hither of Susan Hinson dud Thursday No services or visitation will be held Contributions suggested hi St Claire Hoaxer 233 Mitlkal Circle Mtediead Ky 40351 tr Hie American Cairo Society Arrangement Whitehall Funrral Chain! Wallace Coleman Robinson 74 retired clothier husband of Bettie Rnbiiuum dud yesterday Smites 11 am Monday I fans Cemetery Visitation 6-8 Sunday Kerr Brothers Funeral Ih me Naomi WrlgM Shaw 86 655 Maxwellian Gsnt retired bookkeeper died yesterday Graveside services will be held at a later date Arrangements Funeral Hume Clara Weathers 49 128 Brown Avenue secretary wife of Joseph Weathers died Wednesday Services 1 pm Tuesday Greater New Hope Christian Center Visitation 11 am Tuesday Arrangements Smith Smith Funeral Iksne African refugees start new lives in Ky Thursday Service 2 Sunday Killer I ItuNon Funeral Home ViMtaiksi 4 8 pm tulay FRANKFORT Ray William Cilia 83 lM One Creek Rad retired Kmtucky lh-4 of Highways employee husband of Alberta Elli dud yn-ter-day Smricrs 2 pm Monday Roger Funeral Home Visitatum 28 pm Sunday FRANKFORT Sylvia Robinson 73 Florida formerly of retired Kentis ky IVr-partmrnt of Revenue employee dud Wednesday Services 11 am Monday Roger Funeral Home Visitation 1 pm Sunday GAMALIEL Annlo Lso Dockard 81 retired homemaker motlier of Maggie Cret-n died Thursday Services 3 pm Sunday Strode Funeral Home Visita-tusi 3 pm today HARLAN Mao Hall Hsynss 93 Cay wood homemaker died yesterday Services 2 pm Sunday Caywoud Cliurch of God Visitation 6-9 pm today Mount IVasant Funeral Home HARRODSBURG William "Toby" VanderpooL 66 Bur-gin Road retired printer died Tliursday Services 1 pm Monday RansdcD Funeral ChapeL Visitation 2-4 pm Sunday Ctatribu-lions suggested to Immanuel Bap list Church HAZARD Granvlllt Ever-sole 82 Confluence retired cual miner and World War 11 navy veteran husband of Sadie Eversol died yesterday Services 2 pm Sunday Engle Funeral Home Ferry County ChapeL Visitation 6 pm today HINDMAN David Wall 16 Bulan son of Karen Ritchie died Thursday Death is under investigation by the Kentucky State Police and Knott County Coroner's Office Services 11 am Monday Clcarcret-k Flee Church Visitation 5 pm Sunday at the church Arrangements Hindman Funeral Service JEFFERSONTOWN Margaret Nunnelley 75 3525 Canterbury Drive Jcffersontown Elementary aide and lunchroom supervisor US Navy veteran wife of Conrad Nunnel-ley died yesterday Services 11 am Monday Foreman Funeral Home Visitation 1-8 pm Sunday Contributions suggested to Kosair Charities LONDON James McDaniel 72 formerly of London retired Griffin Pie employee died Wednesday Services 11 am today Bowling Funeral Home Visitation 8 am today LOUISA Shirley Rosa Lester 85 Louisa grandmother of Anne Alscott died yesterday Services 1 pm Sunday Louisa Freewill Baptist Church Visitation 5 pm today Wilson Funeral Home LOUISA Leonard Phelps 66 Buchanan retired Ina Charities and a local family that will serve as the Kiyiragiras1 spraunr The Kiyiragiras had been on the run for five year he said It win take time fir Niyiragira to forget scenes of the ethnic fighting which has chimed the lives of many of his relative He said his mother father and brother aU died at the hands of Tutsi militanr "It win be very hard for he said 1 have been very very shocked how they killed my Niyiragira'a family is among 282 refugees from Burundi and Rwanda who have intermarried and who are moving to the United State Two families arrived in Louisville on Thursday Catholic Charities also is helping Shartier N'tanyungu 41 and 1 his wife Regin 37 who have five childrni: Innocent IQ Dieudonn 8 Desire 5 Crister 2c and Pascal 8 month The Ntanyungus are being sponsored by Sacred Heart Model School Kentucky AK Stcd maintenance supervisor husband of Margaret Dale Wallace Phelps died yesterday Services 2 pm Sunday Young Funeral Home Visitation 4-9 pm today Contributions suggested to Buchanan Chapel United Methodist Church Catlcttsburg MARTIN Noma Joan Ousley 66 unlock homemaker widow of Adis Ousley died Thursday Services 1 pm Sunday Living Word Pentecostal Church unlock Visitation 9 am today Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home and 10 am Sunday at the church MAYSVTLLE Elbert Raymond Skaggs 84 506 Florence Street retired laborer widower of Edna Wilson Skaggs died Thursday Services 2 pm Sunday BreD Son Funeral Home Visitation 6 pm today McKEE Liu Smith 81 homemaker wife of Willis Smith died Wednesday Services 2 pm Sunday Justice Funeral Home Visitation 630 pm today MONTICELLO Elizabeth Coffey 56 Mill Springs died Thursday Servkes 2 pm Sunday Elk Spring Cemetery Visitation 7-830 pm today Marvin Hides Funeral Home MONTICELLO James Ralph Denney 66 Hidalgo carpenter and electrician husband of Denney died Thursday Services 2 pan Sunday Marvin Hides FUneral Home: Visitation 4 ASSOCMTCOmcSS LOUISVILLE Oscar Niyi-ragira was chased from his African homeland by civil war but his spirits were lifted as he watched his young children enjoy simple pleasures as they began new lives in Louisville Before settling into their new quarter the children Mystere Sandrine 6 Gad and Billy Df frolicked around Louisville International Airport and mar-veled at the interior of a vaa Tm very happy because my children now are very far away from the killings and so Niyiragira said "Before 1 was really worried because 1 thought -they (would) not forget the killings that they had seen and so Instead of a life of fear and bloodshed "Now I think they're going to learn other things (and) to know that the world is not only killing crimes and fighting" Niyiragira said "They are very happy to see something else car beautiful buildings and so forth Tm sure forget the family arrived Thursday in Louisville as refugees from their homeland rtf Burundi a central African country tom by civil war The family was hated by both sides because Niyiragira 35 is a Hutu and his wife Regina 32 is a Tutsi the rival ethnic group: 1 "The children they are neither Tutsi nor Hutu they be classified as either Niyiragira said If it is known that a person is of mixed blood he said "he will be killed by any So moving to Louisville was a life-or-death decision for the family which plans to make a new life here with the help of Catholic Visitation 7-9 pm today Justice Funeral Home Pike County ChapeL ITKEMLLE Brandon Coffey Infant son of James and Patricia Abbott Coffey was stillborn iVc Services 1 pm today Anderson Cemetery No visitatkm PIKEVILLE Brandt Mullins 71 Zebulon Highway retired banker husband of Stella Mullins died Thursday Services 2 pm Sunday JW Call Funeral Home Visitation 4 pm today Contributions suggested to Hospice of Pike County Pikeville YMCA or First Baptist Church Gifford Thomas York 84 Thomas Hood Veterans Center Wilmore retired motel operator and World War II navy veteran father of Thomas Hill York died yesterday Services 1 pm Monday Turpin Funeral Home Visitation 10 am Monday SHELBYMLLE Sidney Forest Phillips 85 Shelby Manor Healthcare Center retired farmer father of Betty Bailey of Frankfort died Thursday Services 2 pm Monday Shannon Funeral Home Visitation 2 pm Sunday SPRINGFIELD Clellan Clark 84 127 Lebanon Hill retired farmer husband of Zerelda Hays (Hark died Thursday Services 2 pm Sunday Carey Son Funeral Home Visitation 3 pm CAMPTON Lorona Loulso Holton 71 470 Baker Estate Fine Ridge retired Controlled Data employee wife of Arkill Hol-bn died yesterday Services noon Sunday Porter Funeral Home: Visitation 6-9 pm today and 9 am Sunday CRAB Helen Saylor Gordon 63 Walnut Street retired licensed practical nurse at Charleston Healthcare Center in Danville died Thursday Services 2 pm Sunday McK-night-Martin Funeral Hume: Visitation 630 pm today CYNTHIANA Wilbur Perkins 90 Harrison County retired fanner widower of Zella Mae Perkins died yesterday Services 1 pm Monday Whaky-Mc-Carty Funeral Home Visitation 2-7 pm Sunday DRY RIDGE Clifford Loyd Beach 74 Jonesville retired Square Company employee husband of Alma Beach died Catholic Charities staff spent more than an hour Thursday helping the families adapt to the Robertson House a transitional facility where they will live for at least 30 days until permanent housing is found Unaccustomed to modern living the families were taught such skills as how to use and clean a toilet take out the trash and light the stove The families traveled to America from a camp in Tanzania where fiie Niyiragiras had been living for the last two year "It will be a big difference" from living in rural Africa Niyiragira said of his new life "But I am ready to adapt myself" Dsewhefe in Richmond said Louise Seals managing editor of the Ridi- mood Times-Dispatch Bryan cit- ed failing health in April 1997 when he stepped down as a di- I rector of Media General the newspaper's parent company Mr Ryan a former member of the board of directors of The Associated Press was the third member of his family to head the i Times-Dispatch -A began his newspaper ca- reer almost 70 years ago as a re-porter for The Richmond News Leader the family-owned after- noon daily that merged with the Tirtes-Dispatch in 1992 He became publisher of both newspa- pers when his father John Stew- 5 Funeral Notices InfbrmMion furnished to Henld-leader advertising department by mortuaries Local GIANNINI I Byon Giannini Funeral services mil be 11:30 am today at file WR Milward Mortuary- Southland with burial in Lex- ington Cemetery WEATHERS wards and Florine Kees Edwards and stepdaughter of Louise Edward Pastor of New Jerusalem Church of God Lexington KY Survivors include a son Joseph (Natoloa) A Weathers Jr a daughter Sophia Weathers four grandchildren Sharay Toll- Celeste Weathers Alexus Tolley Chapree Weathers step grandchild Trey Haddix six sisters Flossie (Henry) Donegan Carrie Edward Susie Edwards Ruth (Marvin) Slaughter Mary Ed- wards stepsister Mamie (Jimmy) Lott four brothers Benia- nun (Lilly) Edwards Jr william Edwards Robert Edwards Charles Edwards and a host of nieces and nephews Visitation will be held from 11 am until 1 pm Funeral service will begin at 1 pm Tuesday Dec 15 1998 at -Greater New Hope Christian Center 713 Jennifer Road Lexington KY Services will be officiated by Elder Ronald Stevenson Burial at Cove Haven Cemetery The family may be reached at 606-233-7064 until time of the service Smith Smith Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements MUNICH Germany Max I Strelbl 66 who led the south- ern German state of Bavaria from 1968-93 died in a Munich clinic yesterday after suffering a heart attack was a passionate Bavarian a ccaivinced federalist and a champion of a regions-i based said Bavarian parliament president Johann Boehm as the parliament ob- served several minutes of silence yesterday A native of Oberammergau and a lawyer by training Mr political career began in I 1962 when he was elected to the Bavarian state parliament for the ruling Christian Social Union the Bavaria-only sister party of the conservative Christian Democ-f rat'- Mr Streibl quickly rose to prominence appointed secretary general of the Christian Social I Union in 1967 'fi jv4-He became state finance min-- ister in 1977 and state premier 11 years later after the death of Ftanz Josef Strauss resigned ini 1993 'under f-the doud of the so-called "Amigo affair" with allegations sur-' rounding government loans wrath millions of dollars to an aviation entrepreneur for a fight-ex-plane project Mr Streibl was a frequent guest on file Brazilian ranch NEW YORK PhN Thomas 70 retired book editor of The Associated Press has died1 (V Mr Thomas a resident of an English degree after two Manhattan had been undergoing years of military service in file treatment fra cancer and died Intelligence Corps during the night Ins wife Mary His fascination with Ameri-Ellen Thomas said yesterday can literature led him to the Uni-' Mr Thomas was bora in De- versity of California at Berkeley troit and graduated from Wayne and Stanford University for a University now Wayne State prestigious Harkness Sdxdarship He began his news career at in the late 1950s the weekly Birmingham (Mich) His doctoral dissertation on Eccentric and worked for United wonder and naivete in American Press before joining the AP in literature became the first on an Detroit in 1957 American subject to be accepted He transferred to the General by file Cambridge English facul-Desk the AFs national news ty- desk in 1966 and to Business After earning his doctorate in News file following year In 197tyX' 1964 Mr Tanner was appointed he moved to foe features depart-to a teaching position He eventu- ment where he became book edi- ally convinced the university to tor a position he held until he re- offer a master's degree in 'tired in 1991 art Bryam died in 1 wrote rountless book re His first book The ReigH Mr Bryan began Media Gen- views as well as interviewed Wonder a study of the wrak of expansion into a regional many many authors fra feature Henry James Mark Twain and communications company in-J he once said of his beat-? Ralph Waldo Emerson brought chiding the acquisition of addi- 5The ones I recall most happily him prominence in America after'4 tional newspapers broadcast were Irwin Shaw James Jwiea 1 its publication in 1965 properties cable television and James Farrell Kurt Vonnegut'A: He also wrote about Saul Bel-wwsprint Joseph Wambaugh and Howard low Thranas Pynchon Joseph IBs son Stewart Bryan HI PsbLT--v' '-sf'Coraad and Jane Austen became pribuher of file newq-A CAMBRIDGE" last a pers to 1978 and succeeded his i Vi? Desired included chapters frither Cranpany chairman in on Lord Byron John Ruddn mid -19901 Marcel Proust Most recently Media in indqpen-edited and wrote introductions dent publicly owned company for a series called Shakespeare 'now has interests in newspapers for Everyman broBdc8 and cable television RICHMOND Va TMh recycled newspint and diversi-nant Bryan 92 the framer fied infonnation services primari- publisher of daily ly in the Southeast Among its 21 newspapers and chairman of Me- i daily newspapers are The Tam-j dia General Inc died Wednes- pa Tribune in Florida and the: day 3 Vv- V'-: (NG) JburnaL Mr' Bryan died at his home if- ristkx' )Vives-aiA i jU tftrut jfmni amMu Mrs Clara Weathers 128 Brown Ave wife of Joseph A Weathers died Wednesday Dec 9 1998 at St Joseph Hospital Mrs Weathers was a strong Christian woman who served her church and community well and beloved by everyone she came in contact with She was a daughter of the late Bishop Benjamin Ed A service of the Lexington HeraW-Leoder wwwkentuckyconnectcom 1.

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