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CALHOUN,
Arthur L., 81, Liberty Street, Somerset, Kentucky passed away Friday,
March 5th, 2004 at Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital, Somerset, Kentucky.
He was born November 3rd, 1922 in Ingle, Kentucky, a son of the late John
W. Calhoun and Sylvia Lilla New Calhoun. He was a United States Air Force
WWII Veteran, he held a life long teaching career as a Industrial Arts
Teacher with the Somerset Independent School System, cherished his relationship
with his former students and a member of the First united Methodist Church.
He is survived by one daughter; Trudy (and Terry) Randall, Birmingham,
Alabama; one sister; Violet Claycomb, Somerset, Kentucky: 2 grandchildren;
Jerrod and Jessica Randall: two nephews; Greg Calhoun, Jamestown, Kentucky
and Paul Claycomb, Chicago, Illinois: two nieces; Kibby Calhoun, New Castle,
Indiana and Janet Hutson, Peotone, Illinois. He was preceded in death
by his parents; 1st wife; Alma Maxine Correll: 2nd wife; Edna Holt Calhoun:
one son; Scotty Calhoun: one daughter; Tonda Calhoun: one brother; William
Calhoun. Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m., Monday, March 8th,
2004 at the Chapel of Lake Cumberland Funeral Home with Brother Doug Wilcoxson
and Brother Murrell Crockett officiating. Burial will be in Lakeside Memorial
Garden, Somerset, Kentucky. Visitation will be after 6:00 p.m., Sunday,
March 7th, 2004 at Lake Cumberland Funeral Home. Military honors
will be given by American legion Post # 38 Honor Guard. Expressions
of sympathy may take the form of donations to the Arthur L. Calhoun Memorial
“Buy a Child a Book” Program c/o Lake Cumberland Headstart.
CALHOUN,
Eugenia, 86, Nancy, Kentucky passed away Monday, June 2nd, 2003 at
Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital, Somerset, Kentucky. She was born June
1st, 1917 in Nancy, Kentucky, a daughter of the late Christopher
Columbus Calhoun and Bannie Alice Cain Calhoun. She was a homemaker and
a member of White Oak Baptist Church, Nancy, Kentucky. She is survived
by three sisters; Ruby Tarter, Dayton, Ohio, Juanita Daulton, Indianapolis,
Indiana and Virginia Henderson, Nancy, Kentucky, as well as several nieces
and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents: three brothers;
Herbert, Linville and Denzil Calhoun: 2 sisters; Bonnie Hinkle and Regenia
Calhoun. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 4th,
2003 at the Chapel of Lake Cumberland Funeral Home with Brother James Floyd
and Brother J. S. New officiating. There will be in Lakeside Memorial Gardens,
Somerset, Kentucky. Visitation will be from 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m., Tuesday,
June 3rd, 2003 at Lake Cumberland Funeral Home. (Somerset, Ky Obits)
CALHOUN,
James W.; 75, North Harvey Avenue, Somerset, Kentucky passed
away Friday, April 9th, 2004 at Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital, Somerset,
Kentucky. He was born February 23, 1929 in Nancy, Kentucky, a son
of the late Howard Taft Calhoun and Renda Elizabeth Redmond Calhoun. He
was a carpenter and of the Pentecostal faith. He is survived by his
wife; Dorothy Jena Calhoun, whom he married on April 13th, 1954 in Rossville,
Georgia: one daughter; Patricia Ann Phillips, Somerset, Kentucky: two brothers;
Albert Calhoun and Robert Calhoun, both of Somerset, Kentucky: one sister;
Lucy Flynn, Somerset, Kentucky: 2 grandchildren; Scott Duncan, Ferguson,
Kentucky and Josh Duncan, Cedar Grove Community. He was preceded in death
by his parents. Graveside services will be 11:00 a.m., Monday, April 12th,
2004 at Science Hill Cemetery, Science Hill, Kentucky with Brother Johnny
Dunbar officiating. Burial will follow. Lake Cumberland Funeral home
in charge of arrangements. Expressions of sympathy may take the form
of donations to the American Cancer Society, 402 Coomer Street, Somerset,
Kentucky, 42501. from Somerset Obits
CASADA, Harley “Red”, 75, Meece Street, Somerset, Kentucky passed away
Friday, September 3rd, 2004 at Sunrise Nursing & Rehabilitation Center,
Somerset, Kentucky. He was born May 8th, 1929 in Arista, West Virginia,
a son of the late Lorenzo Casada and Sadie Tuttle Casada. He was a United
States Marine Corps Korean War Veteran, Owner & Truck Driver of Harley
Casada Trucking Company and a member of Duke Memorial Baptist Church, Somerset,
Kentucky. He is survived by his wife; Ruby Norton Casada, Somerset, Kentucky,
whom he married on March 21st, 1951 in Tennessee: three sons; James Allen
Casada, Somerset, Kentukcy, Eddie Casada (and Susan) both of Somerset,
Kentucky and Floyd Ping, Bowling Green, Kentucky: one daughter; Carol (and
Jim) Dancy, Tateville, Kentucky: three brothers; Delbert Casada, Strunk
Kentucky, Ronald Casada, Jasper Bend Community and Roger Casada, Whitley
City, Kentucky: one sister; Ann Casada Childers, Florida: 4 grandchildren;
Jamie (and Donna) Dancy, Cody Casada, Angela (and Jason) Watson and Becky
Casada: two great grandchildren; Kylie Watson and Brenton Harley Casada:
several nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins: special cousins; Frankie
and Lyndon Dyer. He was preceded in death by his parents: one grandson;
Brandon Casada: one brother; LeRoy Casada: 2 sisters; Lonnie Worley
and Vertie Howe. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m., Monday, September
6th, 2004 at the Chapel of Lake Cumberland Funeral Home with Brother David
Morris officiating. Burial will be in Barnesburg Cemetery, Somerset, Kentucky.
Visitation will be after 6:00 p.m., Sunday, September 5th, 2004 at Lake
Cumberland Funeral Home. Somerset Obits
CASADA, Melvin, 58, South Amherst, Ohio, formerly of the Kidder Community,
Kentucky, passed away Monday January 31st, 2005. He was born June 25th,
1946 in Kidder, Kentucky, son of the late Hubert Casada and Lura Cowan
of Burnside, Kentucky. He was employed by Lorain Assembly Plant of Ford
Motor Corp. for thirty - four years, retiring in 2000. He enjoyed working
on cars, hunting and traveling. He attended the Oak Grove Missionary Baptist
Church in Amherst, Ohio and Liberty Baptist Church in Bronston, Kentucky.
He is survived by his wife Linda Mae Dalton Casada, they were married forty
years: two daughters; Theresa Lynn Strader of Taylorville, Kentucky and
Jennifer Fay Helton of South Amherst, Ohio: one brother: Floyd Casada of
Burnside, Kentucky: two sisters: Louise Nevels of Frazier, Kentucky and
Wilma Mae Bray of Kipton, Ohio: four grandchildren. He was preceded in
death by his father in 1990: a son; Tony Lynn Casada in 1969: a brother;
Willard R. Casada in 1948: a sister; Frances K. Casada in 1944. Funeral
services will be 10:00 a.m., Saturday, February 5th, 2005 at Liberty Baptist
Church. Burial will be in the Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery, Bronston,
Kentucky. Visitation will be after 5:00 p.m., Friday, February 4th, 2005
at Lake Cumberland Funeral Home. September 20, 1917 - February 2, 2005
Somerset Obits
CAUDILL, Ralph K. (Kenton) SUPREME SACRIFICE PAID BY CAUDILL
BOY; ARMY SAYS “PRESUMABLY DEAD” Missing since November 27, 1950,
Sgt. Ralph K. Caudill, son of Mr. And Mrs. James E. Caudill Route 1, Waynesburg,
has been classed “presumably dead” in a letter from the Army Adjutant General.
“Full consideration has been given to all information bearing on the absence,
including all records, reports and circumstances of your son”, the letter
said. Sgt. Caudill was reported seriously wounded in January of 1951
and reported missing in March of 1951. No word has been received
by his parents since then. He attended Highland High and went into
the army when 17 years old. His basic training was taken at Camp
Breckenridge and was a Sergeant in the Infantry when reported missing.
He attended Fairview Baptist Church at Hall’s Gap and was a popular boy
in the high school he attended. He was born in 1931. Other
children and relatives of the bereaved parents are three brothers, Watson
Caudill, Dayton; Jim Caudill, Waynesburg and Charlie Caudill, Cincinnati;
three sisters, Mrs. Ray Jenkins, Waynesburg; Mrs. Lonzo McGuffey, Dayton
and Miss Dixie Caudill at home and grandparents, Mrs. Leona Truller, Isom,
KY and J. D. Hale, Red Fox, KY. The Army said in the letter that
he was presumed dead as of December 31, 1953. Mr. And Mrs. Caudill
have given the supreme sacrifice as well as their son for this country.
Our sympathy is extended and we speak for the entire county in this.
Interior Journal of Stanford.
Chesnut, Carl B., age 64 years, Marshes Siding, Kentucky died March
11, 2005. Funeral services were held Wednesday, March 16, 2005 at McCreary
County Funeral Home with Pastor Billy Lowe officiating. Burial was in Barren
Fork Cemetery. He was born April 28, 1940 at East Bernstadt, Kentucky the
son of the late Ernest Store and Nancy Ruth Boreing Chesnut. He worked
in the Parks Department for the City of Oneida, Tennessee. His parents
precede him in death. Survivors include his sons: Carl Chesnut, Jr., San
Bernardino, California; Charles Chesnut and Tyler Chesnut both of Whitley
City, Kentucky. The surviving brother and sisters are: Charles Chesnut
and wife, Shirley, Cincinnati, Ohio; Phyllis Perkins and husband, Ralph,
Santa Fe, New Mexico; Anna Bryant and husband, Gerald, Marshes Siding,
Kentucky and Mary King and husband, Huston, Louisville, Kentucky. Three
grandchildren and one great grandchild survive. McCreary County Funeral
Home entrusted with arrangements. McCreary Co paper
CHITWOOD, Randi Elaine, age 19 of Pine Knot, Kentucky, passed away
Friday, May 21, 2004, at the Scott County Hospital in Oneida, Tennessee.
Funeral services were held on Monday May 24, 2004 at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel
of Pine Knot Funeral Home with Bro. Jack Cordell officiating. She was laid
to rest at the Pine Knot Cemetery. She entered life the daughter of Lisa
Stephens Chaney and Randy Chitwood on May 6, 1985, in Somerset, Kentucky.
She is preceded in death by a step-mother, Belinda, Jayne Waters Chitwood,
a great grandfather, James Tapley. Her family include a daughter, Riley
King of Pine Knot, her mother Lisa Chaney and her husband Greg of Pine
Knot, her father Randy Chitwood and his wife Radena of Winfield, Tennessee,
two sisters, Rachel Anderson of Pine Knot and Brooklyn Chitwood of Winfield,
a brother Zachary Chaney of Pine Knot and a step-sister, Cameron Kidd of
Winfield and two step-brothers, Shane and John Vanover of Marshes Siding.
Randi’s grandparents are Jimmy and Jean Stephens, Raymond and Brenda Chitwood,
and Dean and June Chaney, a great grandmother Betty Thompson, all of Pine
Knot, and a grandmother, Wilma Waters of Stearns. She also leaves behind
a very special friend, Ashley King. Randi was the daughter of a wonderful
and loving family, the mother of a beautiful baby girl, a special niece
to several aunts and uncles, a fun cousin, and a best friend to many, many
people. Pine Knot Funeral Home assisted the family with funeral arrangements.
CHRISTMAN,
Robert
Harrison- "Chris", a longtime executive at Procter & Gamble Co., died
of cancer May 19, 2000 at Hospice of Cincinnati in Blue Ash. The
Anderson Township resident was 68. Mr. Christman was raised in Hamburg,
PA., and was educated at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA., where he
received a bachelor's degree in economics in 1954. Following graduation,
he served with the U.S. Army during the Korean War in the Army Security
Agency. Discharged in 1957, Mr. Christman moved to Mount Lookout
and began working for Procter & Gamble as a manager in the Advertising
Department Service Building. Mr. Christman was a community leader
on Cincinnati's east side, volunteering at the Hyde Park Community United
Methodist Church and serving as president of the Anderson Township Neighborhood
Civic Association. He was also an active member of the Boy Scouts
of America. He retired in 1989 and enjoyed gardening, bird watching
and traveling with his wife. Survivors include his wife of 44 years,
Barbara Burritt Christman; loving father of Nancy C. (David) McDonnell
of Centerville, OH, Paul B. (Lisa) Christman of Bethel, Martha D. Christman
of Anderson Township and James S. Christman of Blue Ash, brother
of Bruce S. (Gloria) Christman of Wayne, PA and Mary Lou (Harold) Kauffman
of Fleetwood, PA, grandfather of Matthew S. and Anna B. Christman.
Visitation will be ????? (part was lost during uploading...will correct
at a later date) Community United Methodist Church, 1345 Grace Ave., Hyde
Park. A memorial service at 7 p.m. Burial was in Spring Grove
Cemetery. In lieu of flowers memorials may be directed to the Hyde Park
Community United Methodist Church, 1345 Grace Ave., Cinti., OH 45208;
American Cancer Society, 11117 Kenwood Rd., Cinti., OH 45242 or Hospice
of Cincinnati, 4310 Cooper Road, Cinti., OH 45242. Elden A. Good
Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Korean Veteran. Cinti
Enq (transcribed combination of two obituaries)