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Obituaries
Arms, Willie Clifford
Willie Clifford Arms, 83, died
August 25, 2001, at Caritas Medical Center. He was a retired machinist for
the Old Naval Ordnance Station, an Army veteran of World War II and a
member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 02921 and Grace, Praise &
Worship Center. Survivors: his wife, Margie Arms; sons William and Thomas
W. Arms; a stepdaughter, Brenda Gail Wheeler; nine grandchildren; and two
great-grandchildren.
Entombment: Louisville Memorial Gardens West
8-28-2001.
Willie Clifford Arms was born in Cumberland County KY, the
son of William and Mattie Harp Arms
Armstrong, Rosie Nell Bull
Rosie Nell Armstrong, 94, died Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2006, at the T.J.
Samson Community Hospital.
Born in Cumberland County, the daughter
of the late John W. and Nancy Ellen Cary Bull. She was a member
of the Scottsville Church of Christ.
Survivors include one
daughter: Nancy Button and husband Freddie of Glasgow; one granddaughter:
Kari Button of Glasgow; a sister-in-law: Orthie Bulle of Glasgow; and
several nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, she was
preceded in death by her husband, Willie Bedford Armstrong; an infant son,
Willie Edsel Armstrong; two sisters, Hattie Anderson and Annie Huddleston;
and five brothers, Clarence, Willie, Arnie, Jim and Clay
Bull.
Funeral services will be Friday at 2 p.m., at the Hatcher
& Saddler Funeral Home, Glasgow, with burial in the Glasgow Municipal
Cemetery.
Abstracted from Glasgow Daily Times 1-6-06
Lucy Dorthey Hopper Craft
Lucy Dorthey Hopper Craft 74, of
Burkesville died in Nashville, TN on March 16, 2003.
Born in Cumberland County 7-29-1928
Daughter of Willie "Buck" and Lura Amelia Murley Hopper
Member of Chestnut Grove United Methodist Church
Married to Goethal Craft
Preceded in death by her parents, her husband, brothers, Otis Hopper,
Marshall Hopper, grandchildren, Bobbie Jo Craft, Betty Jean Craft and
Patricia Diane Craft
Survived by son and daughter-in laws Kenneth and Novella Craft, Willie
Fayette "Bill" and Judy Craft, Preston and Carolyn Craft daughter Pamela
Fannie Craft, daughters and sons-in law, Janice Ruth and Phillip Parrish
and Jackie and Jerry Bryant.
Services March 19, 2003 Norris and New Funeral Home
Burial Perkins Cemetery
Abstracted from Cumberland County News March 26, 2003
Farner, Maudie M. Scott
Maudie M. Scott Farner 72, died Tuesday, December 13, 2005 at Johnson
Memorial Hospital. She was a resident of Bargersville and a former
resident of Burkesville, KY. She was born March 30, 1933 in Burkesville,
KY. Her parents were Milty and Thelma M. (Humphrey) Scott. She married
Arthur Farner on May 2, 1985, he survives. Other survivors include three
sons Jack Butler of Beech Grove, Malcolm Booher and Donnie Abney, both of
Indianapolis; daughter Brenda Anderson of Burkesville, KY; brothers Thomas
Scott of Burkesville, KY, David Scott of Maringo, IN; four sisters Mary
Lee Pierce of Webster, KY, Sally Hall, Vina Escue and Verda Scott, all of
Indianapolis; 23 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. She was
preceded in death by a brother Leslie Scott. A service were conducted on
Thursday, December 15, 2005 at 1 p.m. in Forest Lawn Funeral Home, 1977 S.
State Road 135 in Greenwood. Burial in Forest Lawn Memory
Gardens, Greenwood, IN.
Indiana Star 12-15-05
Fletcher, Lorene Firkins
Lorene Firkins Fletcher, 84, of Burkesville, died Saturday, Dec. 31,
2005, at Cumberland County Hospital in Burkesville.
She is survived
by her son and daughter-in-law, Jackie and Rita Fletcher of Burkesville;
two brothers, Roscoe Nelson Firkins of Silver Lake, Wash., and Clifford
Firkins of Benton, Ill.; a sister, Pauline Jessie of Edmonton; two
grandchildren, Melissa Fletcher and Marquette Fletcher, both of
Burkesville; a step-granddaughter, Tiffany Smith of Glasgow; a
great-granddaughter, a step-great-grandson and several
cousins.
Burial will be in the White Hill Cemetery.
The
Norris-New Funeral Home in Burkesville is in charge of arrangements.
Abstracted Glasgow Daily Times 1-04-06
Huckleby, Dearul G.
The following obituary recently appeared in The News-Gazette, Champaign,
Illinois:
"Funeral services for Dearul G. Huckleby, 68, of Hoopeston (IL) will be
at
1
p.m. Monday (March 20th) at Brown-Alkire Funeral Home, 309 E. Washington
St., Hoopeston. Bud McMasters will officiate.
Burial will be in Floral
Hill Cemetery, Hoopeston. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m.
today at the
funeral home.
"Mr. Huckleby died at 8:06 a.m. Friday, March 17, 2006, at
home. He was
born Dec. 15, 1937, in Marrowbone, Ky., a son of Joseph H. and Ethel M.
Anderson Huckleby. He married Marguerite S. Bogard on Aug.
29, 1959, in
Rossville (IL). She survives.
"Survivors also include two sons, Harlie Huckleby of Panama City, Fla.,
and
Mark Huckleby of Hoopeston; three daughters, Debbie Watson and Janet
Bivans,
both of Hoopeston, and Connie Douglas of Rossville; two sisters,
Elizabeth
McMasters of Monticello, Ind., and Betty Lomax of Hoopeston; six
grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and
five
step-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his
parents and a
brother.
"Mr. Huckleby was a supervisor in the winding department at Schumacher
Electric Corporation in Hoopeston for 35 years and retired in
1999. He
enjoyed fishing, country music and playing the dobro."
Humphrey, Thomas Burr
At the stroke of twelve on Thursday, September 11,
1919, the tired heart of Judge Thomas Burr Humphrey, former County Judge
of Hemphill County, TX, ceased to beat. With the cessation of work on the
part of this mechanical portion of the body which is designed to provide
activity in the human form, there passes from the affairs of this life and
of this community one whose activities have been a blessing and a
benediction to Hemphill county and all those who have come within the
scope of Judge Humphrey's influence and personality. Born in obscurity in
Cumberland County, KY, to John and Susanah Humphrey, on December 17, 1846,
he grew to manhood subservient and obedient to his parents and then
launched upon a life that was destined to be eventful and that should
encompass extended interests and touch the lives of a multitude. He sought
and obtained a liberal education and was ever an advocate of advanced
intellect, being always more desirous of knowledge than of wealth. In
young manhood, he was united in marriage to Miss Nannie Triplett and to
this union was born nine children, five daughters and four sons all of
whom, together with the widowed mother survive. With his family he came to
Texas in the fall of 1883 and spent time time at Mobeetie (Fort Elliott)
in Wheeler County. It was probable early in the year 1185 that he moved to
Hemphill County where he was destined to perform a valuable and lasting
work. In those early days in the history of this county a home was
established on the Washita River near where the Gageby Creek enters that
stream. The signs of the home still exist and a draw coming from the north
bears the Humphrey name. In the vicinity also Judge Humphrey taught the
first school in Hemphill County and organized the first Sunday School
within Hemphill County. Early in life he adopted the Christian faith and
espoused the belief which is known as the Christian Church and lived a
quiet and devoted Christian life. He many years ago sought and obtained
entrance into and membership in the Masonic Lodge at this place and is
known and loved in fraternal circles for his strict adherence to the
sacred teachings of that order. For eight years T. B. Humphrey was County
Judge and ex officio county superintendent of Hemphill County s Public
School System and is will remember that he brought joy and delight to the
hearts of the school children as he went from place to place on his tours
of inspection, and what pride he felt in the development as a splendid
county system began to grow, from that little school that he first taught
in the county. Notwithstanding the responsibility of a large family and
hes interest and attention to things of a public nature this man prospered
in things material and for many years he has lived in retirement, in ease
and in comfort. His home was always a meeting place with pleasure and good
fellowship and best influences. The children were all present at the last
sad rites that were said over the boy in Heneritta where interment was
made. They are Mrs. Frank Cole of Hamburg, OK. E.S., Virgil, and John of
this city, who are engaged in commercial pursuits; the Misses Georgia and
Lil of Wichita Falls. Mrs. Karsetter of Henreitta, Leslie, a prominent
attorney in Wichita Falls; and Mis Ruth of Dallas. These together with the
widowed mother are left to mourn the departure of a father who was loving
and a husband who was devoted and kind. These are the facts about a man
who in his life formed the very foundation stone upon which the affairs of
out county were placed; who wiht the stroke upon twelve as the hour hand
had described one complete revolution upon the dial surrendered his soul
to God who gave it and became still and motionless in the embrace of
death, leaving us the wealth of his memory and delegating to us all future
responsibilities. And yet there are a thousand facts connected with this
career that have not and could not be mentioned, nor is it necessary that
they should except to emulate the splendid example that he has bequeathed
to us. To have lived a life crowned with financial success, intelectual
attainment, public preformance; to have reared a family who are
distinguished for uprightness, industry and ability; and to have been
permitted in the twilight to review a life so full of usefulness and
achievement and then in the fullness of years to have a peaceful passage
into that Upper and Better Kingdom, certainly placed the stamp of God's
approval on a noble man. Judge Thomas Burr Humphrey was 72 years, 8 months
and 24 days old when the angel came to smile away his immortal spirit,
having passed the Biblical span of three score and ten. We mourn wtih his
family in this sad hour, because humanity cannot sever these ties with
sorrow, but there is a consolation in his life that leads us to the
perfect assurance that a Heavenly career has begun where sorrow and
sadness and separation will be no more. Canadian Record, September 18,
1919
Harvey,
Mildred Glee Vibbert
Mildred Glee Vibbert Harvey,76, of
Sellersburg, IN died October 06, 2001
born in Cumberland County, to
Clay and Rosie Glass Vibbert
Survived by: daughters - Jeannie Norris
and Peggy Cambell
Sons - Terry Harvey - (states 3 sons but only one
name listed)
Brothers - Jessie Lee Vibbert, Hershel Clay Vibbert, Kenny
Vibbert
Two Sisters - Cleophas Arms and Julia Faye Clark
Preceded in
death by parents, Husband - Russell Harvey - son Ferry Harvery - daughter
- Carolyn Wilodene Harvey, four brothers
Burial 8-08-2001 - Dutch Creek
Cemetery
(Cumberland County News 10-10-01)
Johnson, Alpha Omega Wells
JOHNSON, Alpha Omega Wells , 98, of Brownsville, died
Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005, at a nursing home in Bowling Green.
The
Cumberland County native was a school teacher in Cumberland County
one-room schoolhouses for several years, a bookkeeper for the Brownsville
Deposit Bank and the oldest member of the Brownsville Missionary Baptist
Church.
She is survived by two sons, James Howard Johnson and wife
Ruth of Irvine, Calif., and William Sid Johnson of Bowling Green; one
sister, Maxine Jones of Signal Mountain, Tenn.; three grandchildren, Ann
Doyle, Debra Johnson and William Alan Johnson; two great-grandchildren;
one sister-in-law, Sydna Shufelt of Brownsville; and several nieces and
nephews.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at the Patton
Funeral Home, Brownsville Chapel, with burial in the Donelson Cemetery in
Celina, Tenn.
Glasgow Daily Times 1-02-06
Powell, Opal Wray
Opal Wray Powell, 82, died Sunday, Nov. 27, 2005, at the T.J. Samson
Community Hospital in Glasgow.
Born in Cumberland County, she was a
daughter of the late Vernor and Pearl Thacker Wray. She was a homemaker
and a member of the Rose of Sharon United Methodist Church.
She is
survived by four sons, James (Delcie) Powell of Burkesville, Bill (Brenda)
Powell of Sevierville, Tenn., John (Denise) Powell of Albany, and Larry
(Judy) Powell of Beaumont; three sisters, Vocal Wray of Bow, Vastaline
(Weldon) Wright and Martina Simpson of Burkesville; one brother, Armond
Wray of Bow, 12 grandchildren, Lynn Lynn, David Powell, Michael Powell,
Ashley Moolhutzen, Sherry Davis, Billy Joe Powell, Angela Dicken, Cindy
Conaster, Wendy Latham, Casey Jones, Melissa Lynn and Larry Powell Jr; and
11 great-grandchildren.
In addition to her parents, she was
preceded in death by her husband, Lucian Powell; one son, Roney Powell;
one sister, Betty Blythe; five brothers, Grant, James Howard, Otis and
Russell Wray.
Funeral services were held at the Rose of Sharon
United Methodist Church in Cumberland County with burial in the church
cemetery.
McMurtery Funeral Home, Summer Shade in charge of
arrangements abstracted from Glasgow Daily Times 12-01-04
Whitlow, Janice Marie Milby
Mrs. Janice Marie Milby Whitlow, daughter of the late Aaron
Wayne Milby and Mary Clarice Davidson Jesse of Breeding, Kentucky, was
born on Wednesday, July 28, 1964 in Cumberland County and departed this
life on Friday, November 4, 2005 at the Jane Todd Crawford Hospital in
Greensburg. She was 41 years, 3 months and 6 days of age.
She had made a profession of faith in Christ and was a member
of the New Salem Baptist Church, a machine operator for Topps Safety
Apparel and a member of the National Guard Family Support Rediness Group.
She united in marriage to Rodger Mark Whitlow on December 31,
1996 who survives.
Also surviving are two sons: Sgt. Curtis Aaron McKibben of Iraq
and Derek Allen McKibben of Greensburg; one daughter: Megan Brooke Whitlow
of Campbellsville; step-father: Bob Jesse of Breeding; one grandchild:
Alliona Renee McKibben of Campbellsville; two sisters: Sheila Clarice
Boots of Lebanon and Beatrice Ann Judd of Monticello; a step-brother and
step-sister: Wendell Jesse and Pam Deweese both of Edmonton; a
mother-in-law: Maurine Judd Whitlow of Greensburg and a host of other
relatives and friends.
The funeral services for Mrs. Janice Marie Milby Whitlow will
be conducted at 10:00 A.M., Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at the Cowherd and
Parrott Funeral Home with burial in the New Salem Cemetery. Bro. Clay
Scott, Jr. and Bro. Jim Collison III will be officiating.
The family request that expressions of sympathy take the form
of donations to the National Guard Family Support Readiness
Group.
Owens, Nancy Ellen Scott
BORN 12-23-1912 in Cumberland County
DIED
3-29-2002 in Cumberland County
INTERMENT: 4-01-2002 Bow Schoolhouse
Cemetery
PARENTS: Wellington and Ellen Riddle Scott
HUSBAND: James
Elvin Owens
Survived by: sons- Perry Owens, Donny Owens, Daughters -
Ruby Rush, Regina Wray, Jewell York, Margaret Burns and 44 grandchildren -
78 great grandchildren and 28 great great grandchildren
Perceded in death by parents, husband, brothers
and sisters - Rassie Bow, Charlie Scott, Radford Scott, Amp Scott, Johnny
Scott, Betha Dicken, Myrtie Wright, sons-in-laws - Harold Rush, Willie
Vincent, Ed Williams, Daughter-in-law Hassie Owens, Grandchildren, Jackie
Jones, Perry Allen Owens, Benny Phillips, Jimmy Phillips, great
grandchildren, Robert Edward Scott, and Leila Daily.
(abstracted from Cumberland County News
4-03-2002)
Scott, Caleb Crockett
BORN: Cumberland County on October 28, 1912 to A. R. and Rosa Long Scott
died on July 25, 1999 Survived by: wife - Vanzie Lucille Dean
daughter and son-in-law - Elsie Maron and Ron
Cloud son and daughter-in-law Fred Kelsie and Judy Scott brothers and sisters: Bill Scott, Frank Scott,
Dorothy Fields, Ruby Wells Half brothers and sisters - Robert Scott, Lewis
Scott, Betty Dickson, Katherine Riddle Preceded in death by- Parents, brothers and
sisters - Homer Scott, Taylor Scott, Edd Scott, Cecil Scott, Roy Scott, Mary Scott Norris, Crittie
Scott Norris Capps and a half brother Denzil Scott.
(obit card Norris-New Funeral Home)
Thomas, R.E.
Submitted by
of June E. Tuck. Thank You!
THOMAS, R. E. - Died in this city
on the 26th instant. He was recently from Burksville, Cumberland
County, Kentucky. Sad news for his Kentucky relatives and friends. (The
Texas New Era, Apr. 28, 1883, Longview)
White, Lovie B.
BORN: 3-21-1908
DIED:
10-20-1983
BURIAL: 10-22-1983 - Charlie White Cemetery-Cumberland
County, KY
SURVIVED BY:
Children: William Elmer White, Preston
White, Sam White, Jackie White, Denton White,Larry White, Mary Lou
Holland, Emma Jean Patterson, Margie Cromwell and Joyce Muse
Brothers
and Sisters: Walter Muse, Sanford Muse, ina Scott and Dane McCoy
37
Grandchildren
33 Great Grandchildren
obit card-Ballou Funeral
Home-Burkesville, KY
Young, Willie Truman
BORN
4-05-1934-Cumberland County
DIED 2-10-1999-Cumberland
County
PARENTS: Ress and Jewell Roach Young
BURIAL: 02-13-1999-Bow
School House Cemetery, Cumberland County
SURVIVED BY:
Wife: Minnie
Long Young
Children: Archie Young, Lester Young, Carolyn Smith, Rebecca
Young, Lottie Young
Brothers and Sisters: Dewey Young, Nile Young,
Golda Mee, Vercie Young, Mae Thacker, Joyce Scherdein, Monzell Robbins,
Sylvia Spears, Bernice Thompson
Grandchildren: Jason Smith, Josua
Corbin, James Paul Young
Preceded by brothers: Hummer Young, Tony
Young, Roy Young
Obit card - Norris and New Funeral
Home
Burkesville, KY
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