Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky (2024)

August 3, 1987

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Lexington Herald-Leaderi

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Lexington, Kentucky

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Monday, August 3, 1987

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20

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i B12 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER LEXINGTON KY MONDAY AUGUST 3 1987 Obituaries Actress Pola Negri silent love of Valentino dies In such films as and Imperial she won fame as a darkhaired seductress Services 2 pm Tuesday at Carey A Son FUneral Home Visitation after 4 pm today VANCEBURG David Butler 81 of Camp Dix a retired employee at Crawford Nursery In Bucyras Ohio husband of Daisy Bloomfield Butler died Saturday at his home apparently of cancer Services 1 pm Tuesday at Dickep son FUneral Home Visitation 4 to 9 pm today Elsewhere DUESSELDORF West Germany Alois Pfeiffer 62 a high-ranking European Common Map ket official from West Germany died Saturday Pfeiffer had been hospitalized following a serious stomach operation said his former secretary Margaret Hoener He was named by Bonn to represent West Germany at the EEC In Brussels in October' 1984 and worked primarily with economic and regional political common market questions Pfeiffer Is survived by his wife Irmtraud DHAKA Bangladesh Abu Sayeed Chowdhury 66 former president of Bangladesh died yesterday at the age of 68 state-run Radio Bangladesh announced The radio said he died of a heart attack In London Chowdhury a former chaip man of the UN Human Rights Commission was a figurehead president of Bangladesh for 20 months ending in December 1973 Bangladesh was under a British-type parliamentary system until 1979 LYNWOOD Calif Joe Logins 72 the bandleader who gave life to the rhythm-and-blues hits The Honeydripper" and Champagne" died after suffering a stroke a week ago It was reported Saturday Liggins had been in a coma at St Francis Hospital since last Sunday two days after the piano player singer and songwriter and husband of Mary Greene Penn died Saturday at Bourbon Heights Nursing Home Services 730 pm Wednesday at Eight Street First Baptist Church Visitation 6 to 730 pm Wednesday at the church Martyn-Hurley Funeral Home in charge of arrangements PERRYVILLE Vallle Sink horn Stevena 92 of a retired employee of the Pep ryville school cafeteria died yesterday at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center Services 2 pm Tuesday at Wilder FUneral Home Visitation after 4 pm today PIKEVILLE Dr Marguo rite Thpmpaon 58 of 301 Cedar Drive an ophthalmologist who shared her practice with her husband wife of Dr Elvis Thompson died Saturday at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center of complications from leukemia Services 2 pm Monday at First Baptist Church Pikeville Visitation 9 am to 1 pm today at JW Call A Son FUneral Home RUSSELL SPRINGS Dallas Bryant 84 of Ono a retired employee of Cincinnati Tool A Dye Co husband of Onie Bryant died yesterday at Russell County Hospital Services 2 pm Tuesday at Bernard Funeral Home Visitation 9 to 8 pm today RUSSELL SPRINGS Mary Ellen Foley 83 widow of Irvin Foley died yesterday at Good Samaritan Hospital Lexington Services 10 am Wednesday at Bep nard FUneral Home Visitation after 430 pm Tuesday RUSSELL SPRINGS Donnie Wllkerson 28 of the Miller Store community a Union Underwear employee and son of Donald Wilkerson of Mount Washington and Barbara Miller of Russell Springs died Saturday in a traffic accident Services 1 pm Tuesday at Rippetoe FUneral Home Visitation after 4 pm today SPRINGFIELD Malvena Shewmaker Head 85 of Grundy Avenue sister of Nora Dennis-ton of Lexington died yesterday at Spring View Hospital Lebanon In Lexington Carl Cobb S3 of 690 Mann Headley Road a retired accountant for Square Co and husband of Marie Caidarette CDbb died Saturday at Lexington Country Place Services 1 pm Wednesday at Karpus Hunter Funeral Home In Alpena Mich Visitation 11 am to 9 pm Tuesday Celia McCartt Jordan S3 of 2012 Alexandria Drive a retired private nurse and mother of Billy Jordan died yesterday at Lexington Manor Nursing Home after a long Illness Services 1:30 pm Wednesday at WR Milward Mortuary Southland Visitation 9 to 9 pm Tuesday Contributions suggested to Lafayette Christian Church Margaret Mario' Watkins SO of 609 Shelby Street an employee at General Electric Co and wife of Darnell A Watkins died Saturday at St Joseph Hospital Services 1 pm Tuesday at New Vine Baptist Church FOrt Springs Visitation 6 to 9 pm today at the church Cunningham FUneral Home In charge of arrangements In Kentucky ASHLAND Cathy Han shaw Moyer 34 of 119 Country Club Drive a former employee of First American Bank's commercial loan department and wife of Robert Moyer Jr died Saturday of diabetes Services 11 am Tuesday at Steen Funeral Home Ashland ChapeL Visitation 9 to 8 pm today BOONEVILLE Nannie Barrett 70 of Cincinnati wife of John Barrett died yesterday at Deaconess Hospital Cincinnati Services 1 pm Wednesday at Searcy A Strong Funeral Home Visitation 9 to 9 pm Tuesday BOONEVILLE Edna Bowling 82 of Route 1 died Saturday at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center Services 10 am Tuesday at Searcy A Strong Funeral Home Visitation after 9 pm today BOONEVILLE Robert 8 Bowman 81 a retired real estate auctioneer husband of Hazel Bowman died Saturday at his home Services 11 JO am today at Searcy A Strong Funeral Home Visitation 930 to 1130 am today BOONEVILLE Pryco Caudill 83 of Pebworth a retired former and husband of Elva Caudill died yesterday at Good Samaritan Hospital Lexington Services 2 pm Tuesday at Searcy A Strong FUneral Home Visitation 9 to 9 pm today CAMPBELLSVILLE Josle Tucker 78 of 108 Johnson Street died Saturday at her home Services 1 pm Tuesday at Bethel AME Church Visitation after 1 pm today at BJ Brown FUneral Home CARLISLE Herbert Bradley 74 of Owingsvllle formerly of Carlisle a retired farmer died yesterday at Mary Chiles Hospital Mount Sterling Services 2 pm Tuesday at Eastln-Taul Funeral Home Mount Sterling Visitation after 3 pm today CYNTHIANA Beal Marsh 69 of Lakeland Wesley Village Benton formerly of Cynthiana father of Maty Jo Wallace of Murray died yesterday at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah after a long Illness Arrangements Incomplete at Drake FUneral Home DANVILLE Bassla Mas Murphy 89 of Friendship House a retired teacher died Saturday at the nursing home Services 1 pm Tuesday at Preston-Pruitt Funeral Home Visitation 3 to 9 pm today Memorial contributions may be made to First Christian Church of Danville FRANKFORT Susans Me-sla Valdlvleso 69 of 333 East Fourth Street No D-6 died Saturday at her home Services 1030 am Tuesday at Harrod Brothers Memorial ChapeL Visitation after 2 pm today HYDEN Joa Boggs Jr 59 of Wooten a former miner died Saturday at Hazard Appalachian Regional Medical Center of an apparent heart ailment Services 2 pm Tuesday at Dwayne Walker FUneral Home Visitation after 6 pm today HYDEN Ronald Dean Woods 37 of Wooten a miner and husband of Otha Woods was dead on arrival Saturday at Mary Breckenridge Hospital of a gunshot wound Services 1 pm Tuesday at Mount Paran Baptist Church Saul Visitation after 4 pm today at Dwayne Walker FUneral Home and 11 am to 1 pm Tuesday at the church LAWRENCEBURG John William Novins 84 of 1053 Linden Drive a former letter carrier for 42 years and husband of Frances Grigsby Nevins died yesterday at Heritage Hall Nursing Home Services 2 pm Tuesday at First Baptist Church Lawrence-burg Visitation after 1 pm today at Huddleston Fuenral Home MOUNT OLIVET Myrtle Day 87 of Edgemont Manor Cynthiana formerly of Mount Olivet widow of Dewey Day died Saturday at Harrison Memorial Hospital Cynthiana Services 2 pm Tuesday at Robertson County FUneral Home Visitation 6 to 9 pm today OLIVE Ruby Barker 67 of Grahn wife of Claude Arnold Barker died Saturday at Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital Russell Services 1 pm Tuesday at Globe Funeral Chapel Visitation after 9 am today PARIS Leslie Oliver Penn 71 of 2000 Main Street a retired Paul Miller Ford employee Associated Prsss SAN ANTONIO Texas Silent screen queen Pola Negri known for her "vamp" portrayals In the 1920s and her romances with such stars as Rudolph Valentino and Charlie Chaplin has died Dr Houston Wade who had been treating Negri for about three months said she was pronounced dead at 9 am Saturday at Northeast Baptist Hospital The actress had suffered from an inoperable brain tumor complicated by pneumonia and died In her sleep he said yesterday was very lucid the night before her death" he said "She held my hand and said she wanted to go home and I told her she would be going home very quickly" Negri who had retired to San Antonio about 25 years ago had no living relatives he said She was born Apollonia Chalu-pec in what is now Poland Her birth was reported variously as being in 1894 1897 or 1899 Pola was a childhood name and she took the name Negri from an Italian poet who was a girlhood idol She studied ballet and made her stage debut in Warsaw in 1911 A year later she began appearing in Polish movies and then went to Germany to act In films there After one of her German films Passion became a hit in New York she was lured to the United States in 1923 and quickly became an American star Her career climaxed with such films as Forbidden Paradise in 1924 and Hotel Imperial in 1927 which made her the prototype of the dark-haired seductress She appeared in some 20 US films before the advent of sound in the late 1920s made her thick accent a handicap and forced her at the church Smith ft Smith FUneral Home in' charge of the arrangements ROGERS Andrew Rogers Services 10 am today at WR Milward Mortuary-Southland with Rev Paul Gray Burial Lexington Cemetery WATKINS Mrs Margaret Marie Watkins 90 609 Shelby SL the wife of Darnell A Watkins died SaL at the SL Joseph Hospital after a breif illness A native of Fayette Co the daughter of the late Raymond and Mary Washington a member of the New Vine Baptist Church Other survivors are a daughter Vanessa a stepmother of Versailles Mrs Mattie Washington three sisters Ethel Webb Louise Jackson and Josephine Middleton all of Lexington two brothers William Washington Versailles and George Washington Lexington two brothers-! n-law 8 sis-ters-in-law three aunts two uncles several neices and nephews cousins and friends FUneral services Tues at 1 pm at the New Vine Baptist Church Ft Springs Rev JD Jackson officiating Burial in the Ft Springs Cemetery Visitation from 88 pm today at the church The family may be reached at 2989487 Cunningham Funeral Home in charge of arrangements to return to Europe Her last film appearance was In The Moon Spinners made In London Rumors linking her romantically with Adolf Hitler appeared In New York and London newspapers in 1935 when she had returned to Germany to salvage her career Negri said that she had never even met the German dictator She once said she had never gotten over the death of Rudolph Valentina In her autobiography Memoirs of a Star Negri disputed the version Chaplin wrote of their affair In his autobiography "Rather than say he behaved In less than a gentlemanly fashion I would prefer to excuse him on the grounds that all clowns live in a world of fantasy" she wrote She backed up her version of events by citing a Los Angeles newspaper headline: "Pola Negri Jilts Chaplain" She was married twice to a count and a prince but her marriages ended in divorce She moved to San Antonio after a friend willed her a home there She spent much of her later years in semi-seclusion A rosary service is scheduled for today in San Antonia after which her body is to be sent to Los Angeles for funeral services and burial Wednesday said William Piet of the Porter-Loring funeral home in San Antonio WILLIAMS John Cecil Williams Funeral Services 1 pm Tues at the Smith ft Smith Funeral Home Burial in Camp Nelson National Cemetery Visitation 89 pm today State NEVINS John William (Bill) Nevins 84 1093 Linden Dr Lawrenceburg passed away Sun morning at the Heritage Hall Nurisng Center Lawrenceburg He was a mail carrier for 42 years in Lawrenceburg and a member of the Lawrenceburg Baptist Church Survivors include his wife Frances Grigsby Nevins three daughters Mrs Gordon (Anne) Jenkins Lawrenceburg Mrs JP (Bonnie) Hatchett Harrodsburg Mrs Gary (Willie Frances) Scott Coldspring KY one sister Mrs JW Dawson 10 grandchildren 9 great-grandchildren several nieces and nephews Preceded in death by a daughter Mrs Floyd (Nancy) Gritton Owen ton and his first wife Beulah Hanks Nevins Funeral service will be Tues at 2 pm at the First Baptist Church Lawrenceburg Visitation will be after 1 pm today at the Huddleston Funeral Home Masonic rites will be held Mon evening at the funeral home Burial will be In the! Lawrenceburg Cemetery Information furnished to Herald-Leader advertising department by mortuaries four grandchildren Lisa Lowana Collier Billy Wayne Johnson Sandra Jean McKinney Graham Johnson Funeral service 130 pm Wed at the WR Milward Mortuary-Southland by Rev Harold Tackett and Rev Ross Range Burial Hillcrest Memorial Park Casketbearers will be Kessel Ferrell Billy Johnson Tony Collier Donald Joe Frederich Russell Clark and Harry Donald Fre-drich Friends may call from 9-9 pm Tues Memorials may be made to the Lafayette Christian Church PERSON Leonard Person 84 373 Georgetown SL died SaL He was a native of Roanoake AL Son of the late Tarthenia Person he was a me-meber of the Main Street Baptist Church and a retired custodian of the church He is survived by his wife Sarah Brooks Person a daughter Stella Johnson Lexington three grandsons Leonard Pearson III and wife Nancy Leonard Jackson Georgetown Charles Jackson San Diego CA 9 'granddaughters Shirley White Lexington Isabelle Harris and Janie Pearson New York Estell Jackson and Vivian Jackson Georgetown and a host of other relatives and friends FUneral services 11 am Tues at the Main Street Baptist Church by Dr Benjamin Baker Burial in Greenwood Cemetery Visitation from 6-9 pm Five people die in river when raft hits wild water Funeral Notices Local GREEN Alvin Poter Green Services 130 pm today at the WR Milward Mortuary-Southland with Rev Ron Hupp and Rev Bill Peronl officiating Burial will be in the Richmond Cemetery at 2:49 pm HAMM Inez Riley Hamm 79 324 Maxwell St widow of Harlan Hamm died Sat at SL Joseph Hospital A native of Rowan Co she was a daughter of the late George and Mae Humphries Riley For over 44 years she was a resident of Fleming Co and for many years baked at TraxeTs Restaurant Maysville She moved to Lexington in 1996 and was employed by the University of Kentucky until her retirement She is survived by one daughter Nellie Frances Hamm Moneypenny Gaithersburg MD two sons Harlan Hamm Jr Los Angeles CA and Cecil Hamm David KY one sister Helen Williams Delmont NJ two brothers Allie and Earl Riley Vincentown NJ 7 grandchildren Elizabeth Carol and Anita Camille David KY Calvin George and Yvonne Los Angeles CA and Todd and Tonya Gaithersburg MD and one great-grandson Nicholas Bogan Los Angeles She was preceded in death by two brothers Harley and James Riley and two sisters Geneva Martin and Ruby Riley FUneral 11 am Tues at ML Carmel United Methodist Church Fleming Co by the Rev Richard Marsh with burial in ML Carmel Cemetery Bearers will be Stephen Harris Gene Wheeler Joseph Rothman Daniel and David Jefferson Floyd Davis Stephen Telfer and Marion Meadows Friends may call at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home from 6-9 pm today and at the church from 10 am Tues until time of services JOHNSON Edgar Johnson FUneral 10 am" today at Kerr Brothers FUneral Home with the Rev William Craig officiating Burial in Lexington Cemetery JORDAN Celia McCartt Jordan 93 widow of WT Jordan 2012 Alexandria Dr died Sun in Lexington Manor Nursing Home after a lengthy illness She was born in Tennessee daughter of the late Joel and Sarah Davis McCartL was a member of Lafayette Christian Church and the Evelyn Johnson Circle Survivors are one son Billy Jordan Lexington a daughter-in-law Frances Jordan a sister Mrs Bertie Ferrell Lexington a brother-in-law Kessel Ferrell Associated Press ALEXIS CREEK British Columbia Five people all believed to be Americans were killed when the white-water raft they were riding hit a stretch of wild water in the surging Chilko River police said yesterday The inflatable raft turned over about 39 miles west of here on Saturday and tossed 11 of 12 rafters into the rapids police said One person managed to cling to the raft and was rescued while six others made it out of the river alive police said Two had to be hospitalized The accident in southwestern British Columbia at a spot called Gary Dotson on charge of Associated Press CHICAGO Gary Dotson who drew national attention when his prison sentence for rape was commuted after his accuser recanted her testimony was arrested last night for allegedly beating his wife police said The wife Camille Dotson did not require hospitalization Police Lt Fred Friedlieb said He said Mrs Dotson flagged down a squad car yesterday eve- Lava Canyon was the second such fatal rafting accident in the western province in a month Police identified two of the dead as Robert Goldstein 50 of Cincinnati who was corporate vice president of advertising for Procter and Gamble Co of Cincinnati and James Fasules 63 of Glen Ellyn 111 Names of the other three were withheld until relatives could pe contacted Two of the survivors were taken to the hospital at Williams Lake 89 miles east of Lava Canyon One was released Saturday night the other yesterday The remaining rafters were not injured seriously is arrested beating wife ning to say she had been beaten during an argument and that Dot-son had taken the 6-month-old daughter out of the house Dotson 30 had been drinking but did not appear to be intoxicated when arrested In an alley not far from there the lieutenant said Dotson was charged with simple battery a misdemeanor Friedlieb said Nov 8 1971 in an operation pep formed at the Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto Calif According to Stanford records the longest surviving recipient is William Van Buren who received a new heart Jan 2 1970 Mueller retired in August 1989 from the Journal-Sentinel Inc where he was foreman of the paper and ink department We planned ahead 138 years ago so we'd still have space 100 years from now The Lexington Cemetery has an historic past and a bright future Almost every section has space available Our founders made sure of that when they carefully planned the cemetery in 1849 Take responsibility for your burial arrangements Call now for information THE LEXINGION Lcemetery 833 Weal Main Street Lexington Kentucky 40508 (606) 255-5522 1 6 years after heart transplant man dies Associated Press MILWAUKEE A 93-year-old man said to be the second-longest surviving heart transplant patient has died nearly 16 years after the operation Richard Mueller died Saturday at his home in suburban Greenfield of a heart-related illness Mueller received his new heart I i.

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