Saturday, Augus. 14, 1uso we auucall oun DEATHS Leemon Nix MURRAY, Ky. Leemon Nix, 90, of Murray, died at 12:40 p.m. Friday at West View Nursing Home. Mr.
Nix was a member of Glendale Road Church of Christ. Surviving are one daughter, Suzanne Sprehe of Rushville, one son, Dan Nix of Fulton; four grandchildren, Tony Sprehe Indianapolis, Joni Traylor of Mattoon, Keith Nix of Jackson, and Amy Nix of Fulton; and two great-grandchildren. Mr. Nix was preceded in death by his wife, Ola Lassiter Nix; one sister; and three brothers. His parents were Don and Sally Ann Wells Nix.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Blalock- and York Funeral Home. John Dale will officiate and burial will be in Murray City Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 5 to 7 p.m. today.
The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to the Leemon Nix Memorial Fund, Glendale Road Church of Christ, 1101 Glendale Road, Murray, Ky. 42071. George Atkison FULTON, Ky. George W. Atkison, 78, of Fulton died Friday morning at his home.
Mr. Atkison, a native of Lake County, was a retired selfemployed painter. He was a member of New Hope Baptist Church in Clinton and the Woodmen of the World. Surviving are his wife of 59 years, Delcie L. Henderson Atkison; one son, Kenneth Atkison of Worth, two daughters, Joicy Morris of Oakton and Allie Rodgers of South Fulton, one sister, Allene Young of Portageville, 12 grandchildren; and 21 greatgrandchildren.
Mr. Atkison was preceded in death by eight brothers and one sister. His parents were Tom and Annie Roberts Atkison. Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at Hornbeak Funeral Chapel in Fulton.
Dr. Gerald Stow will officiate. Burial will be in New Hope Baptist Cemetery in Latham, Tenn. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today.
David Gray County. Mr. Gray was the current Lyon County clerk and a member of Eddyville United Methodist Church. David Gray EDDYVILLE, Ky. David G.
Gray, 34, of Eddyville died at 11 p.m. Thursday at his home in Lyon Surviving are son, David Thomas Gray of Eddyville; one daughter, Katie Gray of Eddyville; his parents, Ray and Janie Gray of Eddyville; two brothers, D.R. Gray of Eddyville and Darin Gray of Lexington; his paternal grandmother, Rebecca Gray of Kuttawa; and maternal grandfather, James Busby of Anniston, Ala. He was preceded in death by his maternal grandmother, Louina Noel; and paternal grandfather, Elzie W. Gray.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Dunn's Funeral Home with the Rev. Burial will Steve McVay Oliver officiating. be in Cemetery in Lyon County. Visitation will be after 5 p.m.
today at the funeral home. Herbert Thiel CADIZ, Ky. Services for Herbert Willy Thiel, 55, of Cadiz will be at 2 p.m. today at Goodwin Funeral Home in Cadiz. Burial will be in Boyd Cemetery in Trigg County.
Mr. Thiel died at 3:22 p.m. Wednesday at Murray-Calloway County Hospital in Murray. He was a member of a Lutheran Church and a retired technician engineer. He served in the German army.
Surviving are his wife, Ann Thiel; his parents, Willy and Martha Fohlmeister Thiel of Bielefeld, Germany; one brother, Klaus Thiel of Sydney, Australia; and two nephews, Peter Thiel and Patrick Thiel. Friends may call at the funeral home. Troopers called to possible fatal crash CADIZ, Ky. Kentucky State Police accident reconstructionists were called out Friday, night to investigate a multiple-vehicle, possibly multiple-fatality accident at mile marker 59 on Interstate 24 near here. The accident was reported about 9:40 p.m., with callers reporting debris strewn on both sides of the interstate and in the median.
Early reports indicated one or possibly two people were killed. No other information was available at press time. Traffic in the eastbound lanes was routed onto a shoulder of the highway, and the westbound lanes were closed. Ruby Stallons HARDIN, Ky. Ruby May Stallons, 82, of Hardin Rt.
1 died at 3:23 a.m. Friday at Westview Nursing Home. Mrs. Stallons, a native of Joppa, was a member of New Jenny Ridge Pentecostal Church. Surviving are six daughters, Ruth Judd, Helen Boggs and Ina Wallace, all of Murray, Wanda Colson and Ida Thompson, both of Hardin, and Bess Ball of Elizabethtown; four sons, Ammond Balentine of Mayfield, Noah Stallons Jr.
of Dexter, Richard Stallons of Fairdealing and Garfield Stallons of Hardin; two brothers, Curtis William Baker Ava, and Olie Baker of Paducah; 24 grandchildren; and 25 great children. She was preceded in death by her husband, Noah Floyd Stallons; two sons, Tyrone Stallons and Robert Celleon Balentine; two sisters; and two brothers. Her parents were Julious Baker and Ella May Shoemaker Baker. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Miller Funeral Home in Murray.
The Rev. Elijah Balentine will officiate. Burial will be in Ferguson Springs Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. today.
Anna Rollins BARLOW, Ky. Anna T. Rollins, 72, of Barlow, died at 1 a.m. Friday at her home. Mrs.
Rollins was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church where she was a member of the Altar Society and served as a minister of praise and Eucharist. Surviving are three daughters, Kay Alexander of Mayfield, Gayle Waltmon of West Paducah and Gloria Jean Henderson of Barlow; two sons, William "Bill" Wickliffe and Michael Roberts of a sister, Lucille Meshew of Mayfield; 11 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Homer Everett "Bubba" Rollins; two daughters, Jo Ann Roberts and Kathy Sue Rollins; three sons, Tommy Parker, Donnie Roberts Jr. and Terry Roberts; two brothers; and a sister.
Her parents were Thomas and Mae McCauley Tharp. Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in La Center. The Revs.
Bob Willett and Brian Roby will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be after 5 p.m. today at Jones Funeral Home in Barlow where a vigil service will be held at 7 tonight. Visitation also will be from 1 p.m. until service time Sunday at the funeral home.
Harold Ross SOUTH FULTON, Tenn. Harold Lee Ross, 66, of South Fulton died Friday morning at Baptist Memorial Hospital East in Memphis. Mr. Ross, a native of Weakley County, was a member of Good Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Dukedom. Surviving are his wife, Carolyn Work Ross; one son, Steven Ross of South Fulton; one daughter, Nancy Manley of Jefferson City; two sisters, Helen McClain of South Fulton and Louise Shelton of Daytona Beach, and two grandchildren.
Mr. Ross was preceded in death by one brother. His parents were Homer and Jewell Scott Ross. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Hornbeak Funeral Chapel in Fulton, Ky.
The Rev. Joe Williamson will officiate. Burial will be in Good Springs Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6 to 8 tonight and until the funeral hour Sunday. Stella Rudolph BENTON, Ky.
Stella E. Rudolph, 81, of Benton, died at 6:40 p.m. Friday at Western Baptist Hospital. Mrs. Rudolph was a member of Hope Valley Church of Christ Surviving are a brother, Owen Bradley of Benton; and two sisters, Nina English and Irene Lofton, both of Benton.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Prince A. Rudolph; a sister; and two brothers. Her parents were Louis and Cleo Peck Bradley. Services will be at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Collier Funeral Home with burial in Hartsfield Cemetery.
Visitation will be after 5 p.m. today at the funeral home. William Hayden EDDYVILLE, Ky. Services for William Gifford Hayden, 94, of Eddyville, will be at 2 p.m. today at Dunn's Funeral Home in Eddyville.
The Rev. Gates Bowman will officiate and burial will be in Macedonia Cemetery. Mr. Hayden died at 9:50 p.m. Tuesday at Hilltop Nursing Home.
Naoma Posze HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. Naoma L. Posze, 60, of Hopkinsville died at 12:50 p.m. Thursday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. Mrs.
Posze was secretarytreasurer of Scheffield-Carlisle Inc. of Hopkinsville. She was a member of Faith Lutheran Church and was president of the Lutheran Women's Missionary League for 40 years. Mrs. Posze was a former member of the Cadiz Woman's Club, the Newcomers Club and a former volunteer for Trigg County Elementary School.
Surviving are her husband, James L. Posze; two sons, James. Posze Jr. of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Alex Posze of Hopkinsville; two daughters, Karen E. Boyd of Frankfort, and Lynn Posze of Asheville, N.C.; and two grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by one brother and one sister. Her parents were John H. and Edna Straw Shiley. Services will be at 2 p.m. Mon, day at Faith Lutheran Church in Hopkinsville.
The Rev. James C. Redmann will officiate. Burial will be in Trigg Memory Acres in Cadiz. Friends may call at Goodwin Funeral Home in Cadiz from 4 to 7 p.m.
Sunday, and at the church from noon until the funeral hour Monday. Expressions of sympathy may take the form contributions to Faith Lutheran Church, 405 Shelia Drive, Hopkinsville, Ky. 42240. Associated Press Firefighters from Santa Barbara County work to light a backfire to control the advance of flames rugged terrain about 15 miles east of Santa Margarita, Friday. The fire, to have started by a car fire in a campground, has burned 17 500 reported acres according to officials.
Crews fight fire with fire in Oregon and California BY JEFF BARNARD ASSOCIATED PRESS WARM SPRINGS, Ore. Firefighters burned several hunacres of dry rangeland in eastern Oregon to slow the growth of a fire, one of several wind-swept blazes burning in nine Western states Friday. "We've fought fire with fire and we're pretty successful today," said Gary Meese, a division supervisor battling the fire on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. "This little piece is a couple of hundred acres, but that's peanuts on this fire." The threat to the small town of Warm Springs eased as residents of about 70 houses were allowed to return home and a convoy of 65 cars left the Kah-Nee-Ta resort where they had been stranded in recent days. The main route into the resort was reopened early Friday.
The fire has destroyed 11 homes. Firefighters throughout Oregon braced for a dry cold front with strong winds forecast to move through Friday. State police evacuated 92 people, mostly campers, from an area in north-central Oregon late Thurswhen they saw the glow of a fire about miles away, U.S. Forest Service spokesman Ron DeHart said. "They went in last night as a precautionary measure because it's a one-lane dirt road from Maupin that would be a mess if the fire came down the ridge west of the river," DeHart said.
"It did not." More than half the 10,000 firefighters working in seven Western states were assigned to Oregon. President Clinton vacationing with his family in Wyoming ordered Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to send any reinforcements needed. About 700 new fires were reported in Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Washington and Wyoming mostly small fires sparked by lightning, the National Interagency "Fire Center said. Fires also burned in Nevada and Colorado. "We got lot of lightning all over the West," said agency spokeswoman Rose Davis said.
"It's a typical summer." Nearly 355,000 acres had burned across the West since Aug. 8, pushing the total to 3.95 million acres for 1996, she said. Last year, wildfires burned 1.28 million acres in the West. Timber harvest practices and fire suppression efforts that have changed the landscape over the years are to blame for much of the damage, said Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, who surveyed the damage in Warm Springs Thursday.
"Quite frankly, we haven't followed environmentally sound practices," he said. No serious injuries have been reported in the wildfires. An Army National Guard truck driver and his passenger both were released from hospitals Thursday in Utah after their truck rolled over Wednesday. Kevorkian-aided led suicide victim's husband earlier cited for abuse BY KELLY L. ANDERSON ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT A nurse suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome who committed suicide with Dr.
Jack Kevorkian's help complained to police about three weeks ago that her husband had manhandled her and that she was afraid of him. Judith Curren spoke with officers at the couple's stately colonial home in Pembroke, as they arrested Dr. Franklin Curren on a charge of domestic assault and battery, Plymouth County District Attorney Michael Sullivan said Friday. Curren, 57, a staff psychiatrist at Pembroke Psychiatric Hospital, was at his wife's side, along with Kevorkian and another psychiatrist, when she committed suicide Thursday. A message left Friday evening with Kevorian's attorney, Geoffrey Fieger, was not immediately returned.
Earlier, Fieger said Mrs. Curren, 42, had suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome that was destroying her body like AIDS. "This is not the virus that causes AIDS, but it produced exactly the same type of immune deficiency that AIDS produced," Fieger said. "In this particular case, chronic fatigue syndrome may be caused by a virus, it may be caused by a bacteria, they don't know," he said. "But in a certain small percentage of cases, it is progressive, it is fatal, inevitably, because she was suffering from destruction of systems that could never regenerate." But a specialist disputed the assertion the disease is progressive and said people don't generally die of chronic fatigue syndrome.
Charles Lapp, a North Carolina internist, said that while the pain can be nearly unbearable, medicine helps. "This is not an illness that State moves to help troubled Owensboro hotel fend off closing ASSOCIATED PRESS OWENSBORO, Ky. The state has granted an indefinite extension of the liquor license at the financially troubled Ramada Resort Conference Center. About 50 of the 400 employees have been laid off and most workers are losing their company-paid health insurance. Thursday was supposed to be the deadline for the hotel to pay more than $1 million in delinquent state taxes or lose its state license to sell alcoholic beverages.
Losing the license would mean losing conventions. And that probably would have meant closing down the hotel, General Manager Ray Cremata said. "We have renewed the license until they get something worked out," said Greg Ginter, Kentucky's Alcohol Beverage Control commissioner. "It was my decision, along with Gov. (Paul) Patton," Ginter said.
"There would be too much Donnell Grimes CADIZ, Ky. Services for Donnell Richard Grimes, 72, of Cadiz will be at 1 p.m. today at Cadiz Church of Christ. Jeffrey Bell and Eugene Springer will officiate. Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery in Henderson.
Mr. Grimes died at 9:10 a.m. Thursday at Trigg County Hospital. He was an Army veteran of World War II and the recipient of a Purple Heart. He was a 32nd Degree Mason and a member of Cadiz Masonic Lodge No.
121, Rizpah Shrine Temple of Madisonville and Cadiz Church of Christ. Surviving are his wife, Ethel Miller Grimes; one son, Dickey Wayne Grimes of Henderson; one daughter, Shelia Ann Dillard of Augusta, one brother, Noah Wayne Grimes of Evansville, one sister, Mary Theodish of Tyler, Texas; and three grandchildren. He was preceded in death by one sister. His parents were Calvin Wayne Grimes and Cory Cornegie Grimes. Friends may call at Goodwin Funeral Home from 8 a.m.
until noon today. anyone dies from," Lapp said from Raleigh. "It is not generally considered to be a progressive illness, nor is it considered to be a fatal Mrs. Curren, a registered nurse and mother of two daughters, ages 9 and 7, was the 35th person to commit suicide with Kevorkian's help. The Oakland County Medical a Examiner's office said the autopsy were not immediately say where or how Mrs.
Curren is available, and Fieger would not died. The Currens have an unlisted telephone number. Oakland County Prosecutor Richard Thompson, who lost his reelection bid after twice failing to convict Kevorkian on assisted suicide charges, said Friday that his office was looking into the couple's background. "I can just tell you that we are aware of that report and our office has been in touch with prosecutors in Massachusetts," Thompson said. Prosecutors and police in Massachusetts were interviewing people about the couple's relationship and looking into whether Mrs.
Curren was taking antidepressants a possible indication that she was not fully competent to decide on suicide. However, Sullivan added, "There's no evidence at this point in time that there's any wrongdoing" in her death. Mrs. Curren had told police that she was afraid of her husband and that he had yanked the phone away from her and dismantled it, then grabbed her arm and hair and pulled her out of bed, court records said. Curren acknowledged that they had been arguing, but said his ridden wife suffered from depres, sion and an obsessive disorder and was refusing to take her antidepressant medicine.
Curren was arrested, and after a hearing Aug. 6, he was released on probation provided he get counseling, the court records show. He was to return to court on Oct. 7. At the hospital where Curren worked, medical director Dr.
Michael Engel would not speculate on whether the suicide would affect Curren's job status. "We need to do some thinking about it ourselves," Engel said. Kevorkian, 68, has crusaded to make doctor assisted suicide available to terminally or chronically ill people. Frank Jones MARION, Ky. Private graveside services for Frank Jones, 67, of Marion will be at 2 p.m.
today at Pleasant Grove Cemetery. The Revs. Hardin Hosey and Robert Phillips will officiate. Mr. Jones died at 5:05 p.m.
Thursday at Crittenden County Hospital. He is survived by one brother, Russell Jones of Marion; one daughter, Jeannie Hazzard of Melbourne, one niece, Helen Head, and two nephews, Jerry Jones and Johnny Jones, all of Marion; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Friends may call at Gilbert Funeral Home in Marion after 9 a.m. today. Ethel Sullivant TILINE, Ky.
Services for Ethel Sullivant, 81, of Tiline, will be at 11 a.m. today at Smith Funeral Chapel in Smithland. The Rev. Willie Guess will officiate. Burial will be in Leeper Cemetery.
Mrs. Sullivant died Thursday at 7:05 p.m. at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah. Surviving are one son, Earl Sullivant of Tiline; and two nephews, Audry Davis of Martin, and Pete Davis of Colorado. Friends may call at the funeral home.
economic impact on the community to revoke their license. We've renewed it until they can get something worked out." According to the stack of claims now pending in Daviess Circuit Court, the former Executive Inn Rivermont owed the state Revenue Cabinet $1,054,482 for unspecified taxes, penalties, interest and lien fees, as of July 3. The state Unemployment Insurance Fund has a separate claim of $14,435, plus interest. Private vendors also have filed claims. But the biggest was the foreclosure suit filed by a group of banks that the hotel owes $9.5 million.
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