The Lexington Herald from Lexington, Kentucky (2024)

LEXINGTON HERALD Wednesday, March 10, 1982 C12 In Lexington Katherine B. Kephart, 80, widow of Charles M. Kephart, died yesterday. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at St.

Matthew's Episcopal Church. Visitation is at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday. Jean Small Palmer, 83, of Mayfair Manor, died Monday. A son, Charles E.

Palmer survives. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Shannon Funeral Home, Shelbyville. Costello Warner Smalley, 73, died Sunday. Services will be at 1 p.m.

Thursday at Smith and Smith Funeral Home. Visitation is from 6 to 9 p.m. today. Henry C. Smith, a native of Fayette County, widower of Mary B.

"Little Mary" Smith, died yesterday. Cunningham Funeral Home is in charge. Robert Edward "Bobby" Taylor, son of Geneva Brown and Walter Taylor died yesterday. Hawkins Funeral Home is in charge. Janie Ann Tilghman Walker, 73, of 1349 Centre Parkway, mother of Imogene Carter, died yesterday.

Visitation is at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home after 3 p.m. today. 1 Associated Press Dan Aykroyd, left, paused beside his former co-star's coffin after the funeral. Relatives, coworkers attend funeral for comedian Belushi VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. With Dan Aykroyd riding to the gravesite on a motorcycle and James Taylor mournfully singing "That Lonesome Road," comedian John Belushi was buried yesterday during a gentle snowfall on an island off Cape Cod.

Meanwhle in Los Angeles, where Belushi died Friday, it was reported that his death may have been caused by a cocaine overdose. "We can hear the call of his solitary warning: 'Wise the Rev. Ilia Katre of Boston's Holy Trinity Church told the 200 friends and relatives who gathered at a church. on Martha's Vineyard for a 45-minute service. The phrase, "Wise up!" was a trademark of the 33-year-old Belushi, whose manic comedy made him a star of television's "Saturday Night Live" and then such motion pictures as "Animal House." Among the mourners were Belushi's wife, Judith; his parents; comedian Bill Murray; and producer Lorne Michaels, who worked with Belushi on "Saturday Night Live." Lee Solters, Belushi's New York publicist, said that the comedian had chosen to be buried on the island where he owned a summer home because "it was the one place he really slept well." "Seriously, he's always really loved it here," Solters said.

Like many celebrities, the comedian had sought privacy on Martha's Vineyard. He spent the last three summers at his vacation home on the Chilmark oceanfront, which he bought from former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara for $400,000 in July 1979. The funeral was performed by two Albanian Orthodox priests in the small, traditional New England By James Simon Associated Press Clifford P. Case, an ex-senator, eulogized in N.J. Associated Press NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.

Former Sen. Clifford P. Case, who died last st week of lung cancer, was eulogized yesterday as a man of conscience and integrity who fought for human rights. "We remember him as a good man, a gentle man, a man of conscience, a man strong for said the Rev. Donald M.

Meisel during the services at Kirpatrick Chapel on the Rutgers University campus. Case, a liberal Republican who served 24 years in the Senate, died Friday in Washington at the age of 77. Case had a malignant tumor removed from one lung in August, and a longtime aide said doctors discovered last month that cancer had spread to the other lung. Case was briefly branded a communist sympathizer when, in his first year in the Senate, he criticized Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

He frequently broke party ranks on human rights issues and often voted against Nixon administration programs and nominees. He drew some criticism from voters who believed he was ignoring New Jersey. Many political observers said that criticism contributed to Case's primary loss four years ward Lewis, 45, of Sardis, a farmer, died Monday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Palmer Funeral Home.

Burial in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Rowan County. Visitation is from 5 to 9 p.m. today at Palmer Funeral Home. MAYS LICK Anna Gertrude Cropper, 76, of Route 2, wife of Clyde Cropper, died yesterday in 1. Lexington.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Shannon United Methodist Church. Visitation is from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Palmer Funeral Home. Contributions ns may be made to the Shannon Methodist Church.

MIDWAY Mary A. Williams, died Sunday. Visitation is from 6 to'9 p.m. today at Pilgrim Baptist Church. Services and burial will be Saturday in Shopton, Ala.

J.K. Hobbs Funeral Home is in charge. MOUNT STERLING Boyd Smith, 85, of 215 North Queen Street, a retired farmer, died Monday. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Eastin, Richey and Taul Funeral Home.

Visitation is anytime. OWINGSVILLE Ruth Snedegar, 59, wife of Robert L. Snedegar, formerly of Bath Monday in Dayton, Ohio. Services will be at 1 p.m. today at Richardson and Hunt Funeral Home.

Visitation is anytime. PRESTONSBURG Home Neeley, 69, of Abbott Creek Road, husband of Exilee Stamper Neeley, died Monday in Martin. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Bonanza Freewill Baptist Church. Visitation is after 10 a.m.

today at Carter Funeral Home. RICHMOND Burgess Anderkin, 80, of Route 6, husband of Eva S. Anderkin, died Monday after a short illness. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Turpin Funeral Home.

Visitation is after 2 p.m. today. RICHMOND William E. "Bill Ed" Stanifer, 69, retired owner of Stanifer Studios, father of Michael and Benny Stanifer, died yesterday. Services will be at 10:30 a.m.

Thursday at Oldham, Roberts and Powell Funeral Home. Visitation is form 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today. SOMERSET Betty R. Faulkner, 58, wife of William E.

Faulkner, died Monday. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Somerset Undertaking Co. Visitation is after 5 p.m. today.

SOMERSET Durward O. Neikirk, 78, of Clifty Road, a bricklayer, father of Durward O. Neikirk Lexington, died Monday. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Somerset Undertaking Co.

Visitation is anytime. SPRINGFIELD Stella Milburn Montgomery, 77, of Louisville, formerly of Washington County, died yesterday. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Brush Grove Baptist Church. Visitation is at Carey and Son Funeral Home after 2 p.m.

today. STANFORD Julia Snow, 90, of Route 1, Kings Mountain, died yesterday after a long illness. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Morgan and Fox Funeral Home. Visitation is after 3 p.m.

today. STANTON Mentford G. Spencer, 47, of Winchester, father of Randall Spencer and Regina Brannon, Franklin, died Monday of an apparent heart attack. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Hearne Funeral Home.

Visitation is after 4 p.m. today. VERSAILLES Nellie Wilson, 68, of 1339 Railroad Lane, Nicholasville, wife of Earl T. Wilson, died yesterday. Services will be at 2 p.m.

Thursday at Duell-Clark Funeral Home. Visitation is from 3 to 9 p.m. today. WEST LIBERTY Lottie Holbrook Smith, 65, of Mima, died Monday. Services will be at 11 a.m.

Thursday at Smith Creek Church. Visitation is at the church. Potter Funeral Home is in charge. WILLIAMSBURG Mossie Croley, 74, of Chicago, formerly of Williamsburg, died Sunday in Chicago. Services will be at 1 p.m.

today at Croley Funeral Home. Visitation is anytime. In Kentucky DANVILLE Robert H. Smith, 90, of 530 East Adams Street, a retired city employee, husband of Emma Clark Smith, died yesterday. Services will be at 2 p.m.

Thursday at Stith Funeral Home. Visitation is from 7 to 9 p.m. today. FRANKFORT Zona Linton Gaines, 53, of 361 Home Street, wife of William A. Gaines, died yesterday.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Harrod Brothers Memorial Chapel. Visitation is after 7 p.m. today. Aykroyd arrived at the church driving a battered Dodge Monaco similar to one he and Belushi drove in "The Blues Brothers." church, filled with soft organ music and the smell of incense.

Belushi's parents immigrated from Albania. Belushi's mother was led from the church, sobbing and clutching a gold cross to her heart. The oak coffin with brass handles was carried by Belushi's brothers, James and William, and by Aykroyd, his comic sidekick, who wore a red, white and blue bandana tied on his head. Aykroyd arrived at the church driving a battered Dodge Monaco similar to the car the two stars drove in "The Blues Brothers," a movie in which the pair portrayed shady blues musicians on the lam. Wearing a black leather jacket, Aykroyd then roared off on a motorcycle to Abel's Hill Cemetery, a burial ground dating to the early 1700s.

Murray, who also appeared on "Saturday Night Live," appeared shaken by his friend's death, hanging his head and holding his hands over his eyes. As snow drifted across the gravesite, Taylor, who appeared several times on the television show, played a guitar and sang "That Lonesome Road." Several of the mourners joined in the song. Screenwriter Howard Ramis, a friend of Belushi's from Chicago, spoke briefly as many turned away with tears in their eyes. "I have known John and loved him ever since I saw him on the stage 11 years ago," Ramis said. The Los Angeles Times reported Funeral Local DUNCAN John (Jam) Duncan.

Funeral services will be held today 11:00 a.m. at the Cunningham Funeral Home with Rev. H.H. Greene officiating. Burial in Camp Nelson National Cemetery.

KEPHART Mrs. Katherine B. Kephart, 80, 1332 Beulah Park, died Tuesday. Born in Honolulu, the daughter of the late Edwin and Amelia Burt, she was a member of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church.

She i is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Mae Elizabeth Dews, Lexington; six grandchildren, Gerald A. Love and John Dews, both of Lexington, Patricia Karsner, Owenton, Kathryn Adelsperger, Tiffin, Charles A. Love, St. Charles, Craig T.

Love, Durham, N.C.; six great-grandchildren; two sisters, Ethel P. English and Violet McKenzie, Arroyo Grande, a brother, Charles English, Everett, Washington. Services 11:00 a.m. Friday at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church with the Rev.

Joseph Maloney officiating. Burial in Lexington Cemetery. Visitation at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. Thursday. KIDD Mrs.

Ida Kidd. Services 2:30 p.m. yesterday that a source in the county's coroner's office said that Belushi died of complications from a cocaine overdose. ABC News also reported that sources said that a drug overdose killed him and that the drug was "probably cocaine." The Los Angeles coroner's office declined to comment on the reports, saying only that the autopsy and other. tests have been inconclusive.

Belushi's body was found Friday on a bed in a $200-a-day bungalow he had rented at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles. He was in California to film "Noble Rot," a comedy. The Times reported that a coroner's office source who asked not to be named said that toxicology tests conducted Monday indicated that Belushi had an elevated amount of cocaine in his blood. The source said the drug was believed to have caused respiratory failure and perhaps a heart attack, the newspaper reported. ABC News said Monday night on "Nightline" that it had learned that a nightstand in the bungalow "contained what was described as 'a fair amount of white powder' believed to be cocaine." ABC also said that Belushi, a heavy smoker, was believed to have been suffering from a respiratory disease.

The comedian began his career with the Second City comedy troupe in Chicago and the National Lampoon's "Lemmings" show. He hit it big on "Saturday Night Live" in 1975. Before leaving the television comedy show in 1979, he had launched a film career that came to include "Animal House," "The Blues "Continental Divide" and, most recently, "Neighbors." Notices Information furnished today at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home with the Rev. Ross L. Range officiating.

Burial in Lexington Cemetery. LEFFLER William D. Leffler. Funeral services 10:00 a.m. today at the W.R.

Milward Mortuary- Broadway with Pastor H. Gene Templar. Private commital services will follow in the Lexington Cemetery. PALMER Mrs. Jean Small Palmer, 83, widow of Dr.

C. E. Palmer, died Monday at the Mayfair Manor Nursing Home. She was a native of Ohio, a member of the Shelbyville First Presbyterian Church, Shelby Chapter 170 Order of Eastern Star. Survived by a son, Charles E.

Palmer Lexington; three sisters, Mrs. Mabel Nuttall, Eminence, Mrs. Leah Hausfeldt, Cincinnati, Mrs. Ethel Tumilty, Harrison, one brother, Clyde B. Small, Harrison, grandson, Charles Rodgers Palmer, Lexington.

Funeral services 2:00 p.m. today at Shannon Funeral Home -Shelbyville. Burial in the Grove Hill Cemetery. SMALLEY Mrs. Costello Warner Smalley.

Funeral services will be held Thursday 1:00 p.m. at the Smith Smith Funeral Home conducted by Rev. G. L. Russell.

Burial in Highland Memorial HARRODSBURG Charles Arthur Buckley, 86, of Wayne County, husband of Vela Grayer Buckley, died Monday. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Springhill Cemetery. Visitation is after 5 p.m. today at Alexander and Royalty Funeral Home.

HARRODSBURG Jessie Graham Meadows, 66, wife of Matt Meadows, died Sunday. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Hopewell Baptist Church. Visitation is at Ransdell Funeral Home after 4 p.m. today.

HAZARD James Farmer Bowling, 54, of Bonnyman, husband of Ida Bowling, died Monday. Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church. Visitation is after 4 p.m. today at Engle Funeral Home.

JACKSON Sylvester Callahan, 56, formerly of Jackson, husband of Louvernia Callahan, died Monday in Olathe, after a long illess. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Breathitt Funeral Home. Visitation is after 2 p.m. today.

KEENE Carlena Vinegar, died Sunday. Services will be at noon Thursday at Macedonia Baptist Church, Keene. Burial in Camp Nelson National Cemetery. Visitation is at Cunningham Funeral Home, Lexington from 6 to 8:30 p.m. today and after 10 a.m.

Thursday at the church. LANCASTER Lula Coffey Bolton, 85, widow of Clarence Bolton, died yesterday in Danville. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Ramsey Funeral Home. Visitation is after 10:30 a.m.

today. MARTIN Opal Stratton Todd, 73, of Ivel, died Monday at her home. Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Tom's Creek Freewill Baptist Church. Visitation is at Hall Funeral Home anytime.

MAYS LICK Herman Ed- by mortuaries. Cemetery. Friends may call at the Funeral Home from 6-9 p.m. today. Mr.

Henry C. Smith, husband of the late Mrs. Mary B. Smith (Little Mary), died Tuesday morning at the King Daughters Hospital in Frankfort. He was a native of Fayette County, and a member of the St.

Andrew's Episcopal Church. Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Helen Woods, Indianapolis, Mrs. Margaret Turner, Lexington; two sons, Henry F. Cleveland, Dr.

Leroy V. Smith, Frankfort; eleven grandchildren; thirteen great-grandchildren; a devoted da Dr. Mary L. Smith, Frankfort; a devoted son-in-law, William C. Turner, Lexington.

The family may be reached at 127 Eddie Street or 410 College Park Drive-Frankfort. Cunningham Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. TAYLOR Robert Edward (Bobby) Taylor, died unexpectantly in Louisville, KY. A native of Fayette County, son of Mrs. Geneva Brown and Walter Taylor a member of the First Baptist Church, Young Adult Choir, and Mass Choir of Jefferstown, KY.

Other survivors are a sister, Mrs. Janet Bolton; two brothers, Rev. Walter Taylor and John Clark Elsewhere PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. M.J. "Joe" Wing, 77, who spent 40 years with The Associated Press as a writer and editor, died Monday apparently of a heart attack.

Wing also worked for newspapers in Omaha, Denver, Philadelphia and Atlantic City, N.J. British statesman "Rab" Butler dies Associated Press GREAT YELDAM, England Conservative Party statesman "Rab" Butler, a Cabinet minister in seven governments and a reformer of Brit: ish education, has died at the age of 79. Lord Butler of Saffron Walden born Richard Austen Butler was a leading formulator of Conservative policy for much of his 35-year political career but never became prime minister. "The greatest prime minister Britain never had," said the London Evening Standard newspaper, echoing political historians and many colleagues of the elder statesman. Butler narrowly lost contests for the Conservative leadership in 1956, when Harold Macmillan succeeded Sir Anthony Eden, and in 1963, when Sir Alec Douglas-Home was chosen to replace Macmillan.

Butler, who suffered a chronic heart ailment, died Monday night at his home, his family said. An urbane intellectual with a wry sense of humor, Butler was a favorite of Sir Winston Churchill, and he used to call the wartime leader "God." Taylor; step-mother, Mrs. Ann Taylor; step-father, James Brown; stepsister, Mrs. Patricia Mack; a sisterin-law, Mrs. Gail Taylor; six aunts; great aunts; three uncles; one niece; two nephews.

Hawkins Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. State VINEGAR Carlena Vinegar. Funeral services will be held Thursday 12:00 noon at the Macedonia Baptist Church-Keene with Rev. Tony Jones officiating with Rev. Walter Taylor assisting.

Burial in Camp Nelson National Cemetery. Visitation today at the Cunningham Funeral Home from 6- 8:30 p.m. and after 10:00 a.m. Thursday at the Church. WILLIAMS Mrs.

Mary A. Williams. Visitation today 6-9 p.m. at the Pilgrim Baptist Church-Midway. Services and burial Saturday in the Family CemeteryShopton, ALA.

J.K. Hobbs Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. WILSON Mrs. Nellie Wilson, 68, a resident of Railroad Lane-Nicholasville, passed away Tuesday at Central Baptist Hospital after a long illness. She was a member of the Baptist Church and Churchill, originally a Liberal, and Butler, who introduced egalitarian reforms in education and social security, had much in common.

Butler once recalled his tenure as chancellor of the exchequer in Churchill's 1951-55 government. "Winston used to ring me up before a (national) budget and say, 'Remember With his zeal for social reform and abhorrence of political strife, Butler was at opposite ends of the Tory ideological spectrum from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, an arch-conservative following strict monetarist policies. "He was the high priest of the one-nation school of conservatism," said Liberal Party leader David Steel in a tribute. Butler's first wife, Sydney Courtauld, daughter of the founder of the Courtauld textile empire, died in 1954. They had three sons and a daughter.

He is survived by the four children and by his second wife, Mollie Courtauld, whom he married in 1959. She was a widow of a relative of his first wife. SMITH is survived by her husband, Earl T. Wilson; two foster children, Mrs. Betty McClure, Nicholasville, and Pete Harlow, Versailles; two sisters, Mrs.

Anna Ryan Keith and Mrs. Charlie Downey, both of Versailles; one brother, Mike Harlow, Versailles; five foster grandchildren. Funeral services 2:00 p.m. Thursday at the Duell-Clark Funeral Chapel conducted by the Rev. Joe Lloyd.

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