THURSDAY LEXINGTON AUGUST 15, 2002 CITY REGION WWW.KENTUCKY.COMww OBITUARIES Lexington Evelyn R. Allen, 90, Pewee Valley, formerly of Lexington, retired teacher, widow of Clyde C. Allen, died Tuesday. Services 10 a.m. Saturday, Kerr Brothers Funeral Home, Harrodsburg Road.
Visitation 3-8 p.m. Friday. Contributions suggested to American Diabetes Association. James Vernon Aubrey, 56, Nicholasville, Lexington native, Stripmaster of Lexington engineer, husband of Ona Vickers Aubrey, died Tuesday. Services 1 p.m.
Saturday, Lakes Funeral Home, McKee. Visitation 6-9 p.m. today, Kerr Brothers Funeral Home, Harrodsburg Road, Lexington; 6 p.m. Friday, Lakes Funeral Home. Steven Louis Mahanes 87, retired Southern Ice Cold Storage district manager, father of Frederick S.
Mahanes, died Tuesday. Wilson Clark, 70, New Albany, formerly of Harrodsburg, retired metallurgical engineer, husband of Peggy W. Clark, died Monday. Services 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Ransdell Funeral Chapel.
Visitation 9 a.m.noon Saturday. Contributions suggested to American Heart Association. HAZARD Lena Napier Combs, 94, Happy, former school cook, widow of Troy Combs, died yesterday. Services 2 p.m. Friday, EngleWalker Funeral Home.
Visitation 3-8 p.m. today. HAZARD Polly Ann Deaton, 75, Bonnyman, who had been a homemaker, widow of Estill Deaton, died yesterday. Services 11 a.m. Friday, Engle-Walker Funeral Home.
Visitation 6 p.m. today. HINDMAN Walker Bates, 63, Pinetop, retired truck driver, son of Cordelia Hall Bates, Pinetop, died Tuesday. Services 2 p.m. Friday, Mallie Fork Old Regular Baptist Church, Pinetop.
Visitation 5 p.m. today, church. Arrangements, Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home, Martin. HINDMAN Flora Mullins, 86, Amburgey, who had been a homemaker, widow of Thomas Mullins, died yesterday. Services 11 a.m.
Friday, Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home, Martin. Visitation 6 p.m. today. JACKSON Lewis Arnett, 58, Winchester, formerly of Breathitt County, retired coal miner, died Monday. Services 11 a.m.
Friday, Watts Funeral Home. Visitation 2 p.m. today. JACKSON Dorothy White Begley, 65, Hawk Street, former homemaker, died Tuesday. Services noon Saturday, Watts Funeral Home.
Visitation 5 p.m. Friday. JACKSON The Rev. Jacob Henson, 57, who had pastered Liberty Temple Pentecostal Church, former CSX railroad worker, husband of Sandra Stamper Henson, died Tuesday. Services 1 p.m.
Friday, Liberty Temple Pentecostal Church. Visitation 5 p.m. today, Watts Funeral Home. JACKSON Elizabeth Sebastian Johnson, 93, Nicholasville, formerly of Canoe, former homemaker, widow of Robert Johnson, died Tuesday. Services 10 a.m.
Friday, Deaton Funeral Home. Visitation 5 p.m. today. JEFFERSONTOWN Inamae Mercer Koster, 90, who had been a sales clerk at Will Sales Jewelry in Louisville, survived by Marlon Cummings, died Tuesday. Services 1 p.m.
Friday, Jeffersontown Christian Church. Visitation 3-7 p.m. today, Foreman Funeral Home. LEBANON Elvena Mae Simpson, 63, Bradfordsville, homemaker, wife of Herbert Ray Simpson, died Tuesday. Services 11 a.m.
Friday, Campbell-De Witt Funeral Home. Visitation 5 p.m. today. LOUISVILLE Elmer Miles, 64, 1647 Huntoon Avenue, former Belknap Hardware buyer, husband of Myrna Blanford Miles, died of a heart ailment Tuesday. Services 10 a.m.
Saturday, Sts. Simon Jude Catholic Church, Louisville. Visitation 4-8 p.m. today, Mattingly Funeral Home, Loretto; 1-9 p.m. Friday, Joseph E.
Ratterman Son Funeral Home, Southside Drive, Louisville. Contributions suggested to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, Tenn. 38105, or masses.
Services 2 p.m. Friday, Kerr Brothers Funeral Home, Main Street. Visitation p.m. today. Contributions suggested to Hospice of the Bluegrass.
Frances Ward Martin, 86, Dallas, Texas, formerly of Lexington, who had been a homemaker, wife of Volney B. Martin, died Tuesday. Arrangements, Restland Funeral Home, Dallas. Arthur Leonard Smith 78, Chapel Hill, N.C., formerly of Lexington, World War II veteran, died Aug. 10.
Services 10 a.m. Saturday, Lexington Cemetery. No visitation. Arrangements, W.R. Milward Mortuary Broadway.
Faye Stone, 66, widow of Jessie Stone, died Monday. Services 2 p.m. Saturday, Pulaski Funeral Home, Somerset. Visitation 6 p.m. Friday.
LUDLOW Mabel E. Parton Cox, 94, former telephone operator and flooring business co-owner, mother of Jean Hale, Lexington, died yesterday. Services 1 p.m. Saturday, Ronald B. Jones Funeral Home.
Visitation 5-8 p.m. Friday. MANCHESTER Lettie Sue Hoskins, 57, Garrard, homemaker, wife of T.L. Hoskins, died Tuesday. Services 2 p.m.
Friday, Antioch United Baptist Church. Visitation any time, church. Arrangements, Rominger Funeral Home. MARTIN Fred Fraley, 91, 3070 Windermere Road in Lexington, formerly of Wayland, retired merchant, father of Marvin Fraley, Lexington, died yesterday. Services 11 a.m.
Friday, Hall Funeral Home. Visitation 5 p.m. today. MARTIN Willie Golden Wilburn, 89, Harold, retired coal miner, widower of Flora Hamilton Wilburn, died yesterday. Services 1 p.m.
Saturday, Hall Funeral Home. Visitation 5 p.m. today. MONTICELLO Fern Baker, 71, Highland View Drive, former waitress, wife of Edwin Baker, died Monday. Services 11 a.m.
Friday, Marvin S. Hicks Funeral Home. Visitation 5 p.m. today. MOREHEAD James Herbert Fultz, 73, Dayton, Ohio, formerly of Morehead, who had been a farmer, died Tuesday.
Services 3 p.m. Friday, Northcutt Son Home for Funerals. Visitation 7 p.m. today. MOUNT STERLING Gladys Mae Curtis Wilson, 77, Montgomery Square Apartments, retired private duty nurse, widow of Omar Wilson, died yesterday.
Services 1 p.m. Friday, Herald Stewart Home for Funerals. Visitation 6-9 p.m. today. NICHOLASVILLE Margaret Hager Short, 89, Sugar Creek Pike, who had been a farmer, widow of Herman Short, died yesterday.
Services 1:30 p.m. Friday, Betts West Funeral Home. Visitation 3-8 p.m. today. OLIVE HILL Lydia M.
Bishop, 90, Fort Myers, formerly of Olive Hill, widow of Oval Bishop, died Saturday. Services 1 p.m. today, OneyHenderson Funeral Home. PAINTSVILLE Norma Mae Tackett Hall, 81, Staffordsville, former homemaker, widow of Ernest Hall, died Tuesday. Services 1 p.m.
Saturday, Jones-Preston Funeral Home. Visitation 2 p.m. today. PIKEVILLE Osie Branham, 81, Wolfpit, retired school cafeteria worker, widow of Elson Branham, died Tuesday. Services 11 a.m.
Friday, Samaria Regular Baptist Church, Wolfpit. Visitation any time, church. Arrangements, J.W. Call Son Funeral Home. RICHMOND Gibson Hicks, 74, Anniston, formerly of Richmond, retired Anniston Army Depot employee, Korean War veteran, husband of Betty Farthing Hicks, died Tuesday.
Services 1 p.m. today, Oldham, Roberts Powell Funeral Home. Visitation 11 a.m. today. RICHMOND James "Jimmy" Tate, 68, South Point, Ohio, formerly of Richmond, co-owner of Little Caesar's Pizza in South Point, former owner of Jimmy's Furniture and Mercury Auto Parts in Richmond, husband of Cathy Young Tate, died Tuesday.
Services 2 p.m. Friday, Combs, Parsons Collins Fu- A Gary L. Klott, 52, tax tipster ASSOCIATED PRESS Gary L. Klott, 52, who wrote a weekly syndicated column about tax issues and founded a Web site with tax tips and news, died Sunday in San Luis Obispo, of apparent natural causes. Klott's wife, Sandra J.
Duerr, executive editor or of The Tribune of San Luis Obispo, found him dead at their home, said the paper's managing editor, Tad Weber. An autopsy was planned to determine the cause of death, Weber said. The Web site he founded, TaxPlanet.com, has been named one of the best on the Web by such publications as Forbes, Money and U.S. News and World Report. Klott also wrote three books about tax issues and was once a reporter for The New York Times.
He and his wife were presidents of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Grayson man, 38, found shot to death HERALD-LEADER STAFF REPORT Grayson Police are investigating the death of a man found early Tuesday morning with a gunshot wound below his neck. Alvin Glen "Glennie" Campbell, 38, was found in his apartment at 518 East Main Street. Police think the shooting occurred shortly before midnight Monday. Two men were present when Mr.
Campbell was shot with a rifle, police said. They have not been charged and are not in custody, said Grayson Police Detective Marlene Stewart. Investigators have ruled out suicide as a cause of the shooting, but are still trying to determine what happened, Stewart said. Mr. Campbell, a KFC restaurant employee, was the son of Gene Campbell of Hitchins.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Sparks Funeral Home in Grayson. Visitation will be after 9 a.m. today. Crash kills 74-year-old Greensburg woman HERALD-LEADER STAFF REPORT A 74-year-old woman died Tuesday after a two-vehicle accident in Greensburg that left two other people injured.
Lera Ruth Douglas Paxton of Greensburg was fatally injured between 2:30 and 3 p.m. on Columbia Highway in front of the Famous Recipe Country Chicken restaurant, Greensburg Police Chief John Brady said. Mrs. Paxton was riding with her husband, Willie "Bill" Paxton, in a Ford Tempo when their car and a full-size pickup truck collided. One of the vehicles pulled in front of the other, Brady said.
Willie Paxton and the driver of the truck, whose name and address were not available, were hurt. Services for Mrs. Paxton will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Cowherd Parrott Funeral Home in Greensburg. Visitation will be after 4 pym.
today. Compiled by Jennifer Hewlett Kentucky ALBANY Lester Ralph Lee, 64, Route 1, country store operator, husband of Dorothy Lee, died yesterday. Services 3 p.m. Friday, Locust Grove Baptist Church, Huntersville. Visitation 10 a.m.
Friday, church. Arrangements, Talbott Funeral Home. ASHLAND Elsie Frances Owens, 72, Westwood, retired nurse's aide, widow of Sim Owens died Tuesday. Services 11 a.m. Saturday, Caniff Funeral Home.
Visitation p.m. today; 10 a.m. Saturday. Contributions suggested to Community Hos- pice. BARBOURVILLE Jimmy Wayne "Bo" Engle, 52, husband of Sandra Hubbs Engle, died Tuesday.
Services 2 p.m. Friday, Hopper Funeral Home. Visitation 6-9 p.m. today; 10 a.m. Friday.
BEREA Celia Rector Soard, 79, Cumberland, formerly of Madison County, who had been a homemaker, widow of Esmer Soard, died Tuesday. Services 1 p.m. Friday, Full Gospel Outreach Church. Visitation 7-10 p.m. today, church.
Arrangements, Lakes Funeral Home. BERRY Evelyn Spigles, 74, 1 homemaker, wife of Earl Spigles died Tuesday. Services 11 a.m. Friday, Ware Funeral Home, Cynthiana. Visitation 5-8 p.m.
today. Contributions suggested to American Cancer Society. BRODHEAD Christine Davis, 84, former homemaker, died Tuesday. Services 3 p.m. today, Lancaster Cemetery, Lancaster.
No visitation. Arrangements, Marvin E. Owens Home for Funerals. CAMPTON Edgar Leslie Spencer, 95, Pine Ridge, retired carpenter, father of Ola Mae Tolson, Pine Ridge, died Tuesday. Services 2 p.m.
Saturday, Porter Son Funeral Directors. Visitation 5-9 p.m. Friday, 8 a.m. Saturday. CORBIN Pauline Cox, 78, Rockholds, retired teacher, wife of Glenn Cox, died yes- terday.
Services 2 p.m. Friday, Vankirk Funeral Home. Visitation 6-8 p.m. today. CORBIN Burl Kelsay, 65, South Kentucky Street, retired employee of General Motors Corp.
in Detroit, died Tuesday. Services 10 a.m. Saturday, Vankirk Funeral Home. Visitation 7-9 p.m. Friday.
CUMBERLAND Golda Creech Lewis, 89, Hiram, homemaker, widow of John W. Lewis, died yesterday, apparently of cancer. Services 1 p.m. Friday, Tri City Funeral Home, Benham. Visitation 6-9 p.m.
today. CYNTHIANA Patricia Barrett Marlar, Cicero, formerly of Cynthiana, homemaker, wife of Ray Marlar, died Aug. 9. Services 11 a.m. Friday, Battle Grove Cemetery.
Visitation 9 a.m. Friday, Whaley-McCarty Funeral Home. DANVILLE Viola Mounce, 75, and Weldon "Dotson" Mounce, 89, wife and husband, died Tuesday and Sunday, respectively. Joint services 10 a.m. Friday, Bellevue Cemetery.
No visitation. Arrangements, Preston-Pruitt Funeral Home. DANVILLE Martha F. Stewart, 57, Lebanon Road, Wal-Mart store employee, retired Palm Beach Co. presser, mother of David Stewart, died Tuesday.
Services 11 a.m. Friday, Stith Funeral Home. Visitation 5-8 p.m. today. GRAYSON Judy L.
Jordan, 46, Denton, Cintas sewing factory employee, mother of Billie Jo Sexton, Denton, died Tuesday. Services 3 p.m. today, Sparks Funeral Home. Visitation 1 p.m. today.
GREENSBURG James Marr, 79, husband of Joyce Chaudoin Marr, died yesterday. Services 1 p.m. Friday, Foster-Toler-Curry Funeral Home. Visitation 4 p.m. today.
HARLAN Joe Parks, 88, Fresh Meadows, retired school cook, World War II veteran, husband of Ruth Parks, died of a heart attack yesterday. Services 7:30 p.m. today, Rich Funeral Home. Visitation 6 p.m. today.
HARRODSBURG Jack SANTA MONICA, Donald E. Biederman, 67, an entertainment attorney who put a face on the dangers of sun exposure by appearing TV commercials showing an dark cavity where his cancerous nose had been, died Aug." 8. Mr. Biederman fought a sixyear battle with skin cancer. He was founding director of the National Entertainment and Media Law Institute at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, and he was counsel of." the giant Music publishing company.
3 Mr. Biederman also wrote Law and Business of the Entertainment Industries, used in more than 80 law schools and considered the finest case book on entertainment law. Mr. Biederman, who had: ama malignant form of squamous cell cancer and had 1 undergone 58 surgeries in years, had" his nose and cheek removed. in 1996.
He wore a prosthetic. nose that hid his missing cheek. ATLANTA Doris neral Home. Visitation 4-9 p.m. today; 10 a.m.
Friday. SALYERSVILLE Jewel Francis, 73, Big Pricey Fork Road, homemaker, wife of Herman Francis, died yesterday. Services 1 p.m. Saturday, Licking Valley United Baptist Church, Pricey. Visitation 4 p.m.
today, church. Arrangements, Magoffin County Funeral Home. SCIENCE HILL Abigail Osborne, newborn daughter of Brian and Sara LeAnn Hood Osborne of Louisville, died Aug. 10. Brian Osborne is formerly of Pulaski County.
Services 11 a.m. Saturday, Science Hill Cemetery. Arrangements, Morris Hislope Funeral Home. SHELBYVILLE Abby Rowan Clarke, daughter of Lynn and Mandy Clarke, was stillborn Tuesday. Private services later.
Arrangements, Shannon Funeral Home. SOMERSET Charlie Kuhnapfel, 84, husband of Pearl Kuhnapfel, died Tuesday. Services 11 a.m. Friday, Pulaski Funeral Home. Visitation 6 p.m.
today. SOMERSET Wilbur "Junior" Thompson, 55, Nancy, husband of Lisa Williams Thompson, died Tuesday. Services 2 p.m. Friday, Lake Cumberland Funeral Home. Visitation 5 p.m.
today. STANFORD Alberta Lee McGuire Rogers, 86, 236 Cherokee Drive, former discount store clerk, widow of James Rogers, died yesterday. Services 1 p.m. Friday, Stanford First Church of God. Visitation 11 a.m.
Friday, church. Arrangements, McKnight Funeral Home, Crab Orchard. Contributions suggested to Stanford Senior Citizens or Heritage Hospice, Danville. VERSAILLES Loran Thomas "Boe" Wilson, 59, Tyrone Pike, retired heavy equipment operator, husband of Loretta Stevens Wilson, died Tuesday. Services 2 p.m.
Friday, Duell-Clark Funeral Chapel. Visitation 7-9 p.m. today. VIPER Sandra Lee Blatter, 54, Jamestown, Ohio, formerly of Perry County, wife of Ronald Blatter, died Tuesday. Services 11 a.m.
Saturday, Mount Olivet Baptist Church, Cornettsville. Visitation 5-8 p.m. Friday, church. Arrangements, Brashear Funeral Home. VIRGIE Joseph "Joe" Justice, 91, Pikeville, retired coal operator, widower of Martha Ellen Justice, died Tuesday.
Services 1 p.m. Friday, Hall Jones Funeral Home. Visitation 9 a.m. today. WEST LIBERTY Verda Cox Potter, 81, Old Ky.
172, widow of Robert Potter, died yesterday. Services 1 p.m. Friday, Potter Funeral Home. Visitation 6 p.m. today.
WINCHESTER Georgia Lee Watts, 72, East Broadway, homemaker, widow of Warner Price Watts, died yesterday. Services 11 a.m. Friday, Scobee Funeral Home. Visitation 6-9 p.m. today.
Contributions suggested to Hospice East. Buchanan Smith, 68, who wrote 17 books for adolescents, including the award-; winning A Taste of Blackber. ries in 1973, died Thursday. Ms. Smith, who had fourchildren of her own, also tookcare of more than 200 foster children some for a few days, others for months.
She raised one foster child to: adulthood. Her other books included Return to Bitter Creek and A Pennywhistle Tree. She won the 1974 Georgia Children's Book Award and the Children's Best Book prize in Holland for Blackberries a sto-: ry about a boy whose best friend dies. LONDON Winifred Watson, 95, a popular writer- of the 1930s who found a new. readership in the 21st century, has died.
Ms. Watson died Aug. 5 in a hospital near her northern England home, said publisher Nicola Beauman, who has reprinted the author's humor- ous and risque 1938 novel, Miss Pettigrew Lives for Day. The November 2000 reprint won warm critical praise. Ms.
Watson wrote six novels in the 1930s and early 40s. They were well-reviewed and popular. But she gave up writing during World War II when she was rearing a son and dealing with a bombed home. Louisville man faces charges in car-bus crash ASSOCIATED PRESS SOMERSET A 24-yearold Louisville man was arrested after his car slammed into a Pulaski County school bus and struck a woman who was waiting for her son, police said. Jason Edward Helton was being held in the Pulaski County Detention Center on 31 counts of first degree wan-, ton endangerment and.
driving with a suspended li-, cense. Helton was traveling weston Ky. 1642 Tuesday shortly. before 4 p.m. in a 1991 Honda when he lost control of the vehicle, the Pulaski Sheriff's Office said.
The Honda rear-: ended the bus, veered around to the front and struck Gracie. Barber, 25, of Somerset, po-. lice said. Barber was listed in good condition yesterday at the University of Kentucky Hospital. A 12-year-old student who was on the bus and a 9- month-old who was a passenger in Helton's car were taken to Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital and treated for minor injuries, authorities said..
