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Henry County Obituary Records - These records are a PARTIAL extract of the Henry County Local (HCL) Obituaries. These records range from the early 1900's to the present day and were Submitted By: the contributor listed below. Not all the obituaries contained during the years of the newspaper have been extracted. Please use this information as a starting point for your own research. |
Contributed By: E. T. "Hammer" Smith
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Donald Thomas Baker, age 62, Eminence, died Monday, November 20, 2006, at Norton Suburban Hospital, Louisville. He was a native of Shelby County, the son of the late William H. and Ethel Gill Baker, a member of the Methodist faith and an employee of Eminence Speaker.
He is survived by his wife: Donna Carpenter Baker, Eminence; one son: Billy Baker, Eminence; three step-sons: Wayne Cross, New Castle, Donald Cross, Bristol, VA and James Siler, McQuady; one daughter: Tracy Noe, Eminence; one step-daughter: April Williamson, Georgetown; one brother: David Baker, Aberdene, Ohio; five grandchildren; eleven step-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. today (Wednesday, November 22nd) at Sholar Funeral Home, Pleasureville. Rev. Ed Berry, Henry Christian Church, will officiate. Interment will be in the Pleasureville Cemetery.
Henry County Local November 22, 2006
Martha Fink, age 63 of Franklinton, died Tuesday, November 21, 2006, at Baptist Northeast Hospice Center, LaGrange. She was the daughter of the late Charles Edward and Mary Elizabeth Payton Barnes and a homemaker.
She is survived by her husband: James Fink, Franklinton; two daughters: Mary Alice Fink and Frances Ann Fink, both of Franklinton; one son: James E. Fink, Franklinton; One sister: Mrs. Jerry (Mable) Louden, New Castle; two half-sisters: Rosa Ellis, New Castle and Mrs. Danny (Linda) Fackler, Shepherdsville; four half-brothers: William Frazier, Leonard Frazier, Jr. and Johnny Cash Frazier, all of Shepherdsville and Jerry Lee Frazier, Brooks; three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held Saturday, November 25th at Prewitt New Castle Funeral Home. Rev. Nick Coleman, Sulphur, officiated. Interment was in the Pleasureville Cemetery.
Henry County Local November 29, 2006
Mrs. Elva Wentworth Imel, 69 of Route 1, Eminence, died Sunday, August 8, 1982, at the Highland Baptist Hospital, Louisville. She was a native of Trimble County, a retired nurses aide at the Mallory-Taylor Hospital, LaGrange for 17 years and a member of the Eminence Baptist Church.
She is survived by one son: Richard Brown, Louisville; four sisters: Mrs. Gladys Crosby, New Albany, Indiana, Mrs. Kathryn Stangle, Turners Station, Mrs. Elza (Pansy) Raisor, Cropper and Mrs. Charles (Marie) Kelley, Louisville; three brothers: Shelby Wentworth, Louisville, Gene Wentworth, New Castle and R. E. Wentworth, Louisville; five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, August 11th from Prewitt�s, New Castle. Rev. Michael Duncan, pastor of the Eminence Baptist Church, officiated. Interment was in the New Castle Cemetery.
Henry County Local August 12, 1982
Mrs. Pauline Imel, age 81, of Louisville, formerly of Shelbyville, died Wednesday, August 24, 1994 at Hillcreek Manor Nursing Home, Louisville. She was a press operator for Middletown Manufacturing for 19 years and a member of the Drennon Christian Church.
She is survived by two sons: Robert Imel, Shelbyville and Jerry Imel, Eminence; one daughter: Mary Grasch, Simpsonville; seven grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; eight step-great-grandchildren and two step-great-great-grandchildren.
The funeral was Friday, August 26th at Shannon Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Rev. Bill Brumley officiated. Burial was in the Simpsonville Cemetery.
Henry County Local August 1994
Ance Ingram, 50, whose home is a half mile South of New Castle on the Eminence Road, was killed in his barn early Sunday morning where he had gone to milk. A bullet entered the top of his head and came out in the neck. Coroner Henry D. Ricketts investigated and immediately stated it was murder.
Coroner Ricketts conducted an inquest Monday which lasted until dark. The jury returned a verdict of �murder by unknown hands�. Ten witnesses were called including the dead man�s wife, Mrs. Ida Halcomb Ingram, and his stepdaughter, Minerva Adams. Lt. George Blaydes of the Kentucky State Highway Patrol questioned some of the witnesses.
Sheriff Bishop Adcock, who has worked on the case since it was reported, said the testimony threw little light on the question of who did the shooting but that he had some clues on which he was working. He declined to predict any satisfactory outcome of his investigation.
Funeral services for Mr. Ingram were held at his home at 8 p.m. Monday, with the New Castle Masonic Lodge in charge. J. E. Ashley led the service, assisted by Rev. Harold Dorsey.
Besides his wife and stepdaughter, he is survived by a son, Otis Ingram, Oak Ridge, Tennessee and a half-sister. Burial was in the Halcomb burying ground in Letcher County.
Henry County Local October 5, 1945
Thomas Ivers, 85, retired farmer, died Tuesday at his home in Bethlehem. He is survived by his wife: Mrs. Nannie Ivers; two daughters: Mrs. George Adams, Bethlehem and Mrs. Berry Welch of near Bethlehem; three sons: Clifford Ivers, Mt. Washington, Indiana, John C. Ivers, Pleasureville and William Ivers, Cemetery Hill; several grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted at the Union Baptist Church at 3 p.m. Wednesday. Rev. Bruce Stivers officiated. Interment was in the Pleasureville Cemetery.
Henry County Local July 20, 1951
Major Eli O. Jackson, Jr., 83, of Louisville died at home, Monday, December 12, 2005 surrounded by family. He was born at Pine Park Place, the family farm in Shelby County, which was the second oldest Hereford breeding farm. He graduated from Eminence High School, the attended The Citadel until leaving proudly to serve in WWII where he was an active member of the 69th Infantry Division. He was a graduate from the University of Kentucky.
Mr. Jackson was a member of the New Goshen Presbyterian Church, a life-long farmer and enjoyed raising thoroughbred horses. He retired recently from Holiday Cleaners.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Eli Jackson, Sr. and Aph Pryor Phelps Jackson; his wife: Mary Odell Jackson; a brother: Laban Jackson; and a sister: Laura Jackson Keller.
Survivors include five children: Robin Odell Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina, Emilie J. and Robert O. Collins, Jr., Charlestown, South Carolina, Dr. Eli Oldham Jackson III, Bowling Green, Rebecca Aph J. and Richard (Rack) C. Edwins, Lexington, and Irene LaSalle J. and James Howard, Ft. Bragg, California; grandchildren: Emilie Collins Murphy, Molly Forcade Collins, Lucy Pryor Collins, Robert Owen Collins III, Elizabeth Bennett Jackson, Eli Oldham Jackson IV, Pryor Phelps Odell Jackson, Laura Pryor Edwins, Rebecca Clay Edwins, Robert Eli Vanetta, Peter Howard and Reuben Howard.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. (Today) Wednesday, December 14, 2005 at the New Goshen Presbyterian Church, Prospect. A private graveside service will be in Eminence. Pearson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Henry County Local December 14, 2005
John O. Jackson died at the residence of W. P. Jones near Ballinger, Texas, where he had gone a few days ago, thinking that perhaps the climate would restore his health. John O., as he was familiarly called, was born in Carroll County, July 25, 1853; so he was a little over 57 years old at the time of his death. He spent all his life in Carroll County, until about five years ago, when he moved to Henry County and bought a farm near Campbellsburg. It was the happy privilege of the writer to know John O. Jackson all his life, and to know him was to admire him, for the manly qualities he possessed. He was born with a genial, happy disposition, and made it pleasant for all who passed his way. He loved to entertain his friends, and many a happy hour has the writer spent at his home. Surely his life proved that he was the true type of manhood and surely the wqorld has been made better by him having lived in it.
His old friend W. P. Jones arrived with his remains at Campbellsburg on the morning train Friday, the 13th and at one o�clock, p.m., after a short service at the grave by Rev. W. R. Johnson of the Methodist Church, his body was laid to rest in the Masonic Cemetery, there to await the resurrection morn. W. L. Vories, M. D.
Henry County Local January 20, 1911
Mildred �Mae� Jackson, age 72 of Bedford, died Saturday, May 20, 2006, at the Carroll County Hospital. She was the daughter of the late Edward and Anna Clark Frazier.
She is survived by her husband: Alfred Jackson, Bedford; two daughters: Mrs. Lorenzo (Emma) Hicks, Bedford and Mrs. Richard (Brenda) Petitt, Lawrenceburg, Indiana; three sons: Steven Taylor, Bedford, Mathew Zosel and William Zosel, both of Tampa, Florida; two stepsons: Ricky Jackson and Donnie Jackson, both of Bedford; two stepdaughters: Karen Mattingly, LaGrange and Sheila Robinson, Shelbyville; one sister: Louise Martin, Campbellsburg; two brothers: Allen Frazier, Bedford and Mart Frazier, LaGrange; twenty grandchildren; five step grandchildren; and twenty-six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her son, Jeffrey Taylor, one sister and three brothers.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today (Wednesday, May 24th) at Ransdell Funeral Home, Bedford. Brother David McCoy and Brother Justin Stark will officiate. Interment will be in the Bedford I.O.O.F. Cemetery.
Henry County Local May 24, 2006
William Thomas Jackson, 74, retired farmer, died Tuesday night at his home in Cropper.
He is survived by his wife: Mrs. Celesta Patterson Jackson; five sons: Walter T. Jackson, Eminence, Ralph C. Jackson, Frankfort, M/Sgt. Marvin E. Jackson, Louisiana , and Lloyd and Paul T. Jackson, Cropper; two sisters: Mrs. Lizzie Evans, Smithfield and Mrs. Sue Turner, Louisville; four brothers: Sanford Jackson, Shelbyville, Sherley Jackson, Buechel, and E. W. and Theodore Jackson, Cropper.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Hall Taylor Funeral Home, Shelbyville.
Henry County Local January 27, 1956
William Lee Jackson, age 47, of Clarksville, Indiana, formerly of Henry County, died Monday July 19, 2004 at Riverview Village in Indiana. He worked in concrete construction and was the son of the late Colonel �Buck� Jackson and Velma Lee Patterson Jackson.
He is survived by one son: Clifton Jackson, Louisville; four sisters: Beverly Hoback, Stella Hughes, Betty Luckenbill and Connie Campbell, all of Louisville; three brothers: Billy Jackson, Utica, Indiana, Roger Dale Jackson and David Wayne Jackson, both of Louisville and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held Thursday, July 22 at 2 p.m. at Webb Funeral Home in Shelbyville. Pastor Paul Day officiated. Burial was in the Cedar Grove Cemetery in Shepherdsville.
Henry County Local July 28, 2004
Mrs. Carrie Holloway Jacoby, 73 years old, died at her home in North Pleasureville, Sunday morning, March 11, 1928 at 9:50 o�clock, after a brief illness, developing pneumonia.
Funeral services were held at the Pleasureville Christian Church Tuesday morning, March 13th, at10:30 o�clock. Services were conducted by Rev. George C. Waggoner of Stamping Ground, with the pastor, Rev. Cecil Fellows assisting. Burial was in the Pleasureville Cemetery.
Mrs. Jacoby was the mother of five children, a son was claimed by death at the age of seven years. She is survived by her husband, I. N. Jacoby, North Pleasureville; two sons: Lorenzo Jacoby, Eminence and Fred Jacoby, North Pleasureville; two daughters: Mrs. Elry Clubb, Franklinton and Mrs. Opha Stalker, pleasureville; one sister: Mrs. Fannie Stanford, Catlettsburg and four grandchildren.
She was the oldest charter member of the Pleasureville Christian Church and was ever faithful in her work. Her birthplace was at Stamping Ground, Ky., but most of her life was spent in and about Pleasureville.
Henry County Local March 23, 1928
George A. Jacoby, age 87, retired personnel executive, died October 2, 1991, at his home in Williamsburg, Virginia. He was a native of Kentucky, Mr. Jacoby moved from Michigan to Williamsburg in 1985. During his years there he served on the Board of Directors of the Residents Association of Williamsburg Landing, the Board of Directors of the Williamsburg Community Hospital Auxillary, and a member of the Middle Plantation Club.
Mr. Jacoby was a graduate of and received an honorary doctor of law degree from Georgetown University and received a master�s degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Business, spent fifteen years with the Irving Trust Company in New York City, retiring in 1969 as Director of Personnel Relations of General Motors in Detroit after twenty-nine years of service and served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Safety Council for nineteen years.
He is survived by his wife: Ruth Burtner Jacoby; two sons: Dr. George A. Jacoby, Jr., Marblehead, MA and Dr. John B. Jacoby, Cambridge, MA; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, October 5th at the Williamsburg Presbyterian Church, with graveside services at 3 p.m. Monday October 7, at the Eminence Cemetery, with Rev. Michael Duncan, pastor of the Eminence Baptist Church, officiating. Prewitt�s Funeral Home in Eminence was in charge of arrangements.
Henry County Local October 9, 1991
Chester Arvis James, 88, of Shelby Manor Nursing Home, died Monday, December 9, 1985, at the King�s Daughters Hospital, Shelbyville. He was a native of Campbellsburg, a retired farmer, and a member of the Campbellsburg Methodist Church.
He is survived by one son: Robert Malcolm James, Campbellsburg; one daughter: Mrs. Nina Orem, Shelbyville; one brother: Russell James, Campbellsburg; one sister: Mrs. Avery Jones, Campbellsburg; five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Wednesday, December 11th at the Barnett-Ransdell Funeral Home, Campbellsburg. Rev. Ray Snider, pastor of the Campbellsburg Methodist Church, officiated, assisted by Rev. Charles Pinkston, a former pastor. Interment was in the Pleasureville Cemetery.
Henry County Local December 12, 1985
Donald Ray James, Sr., age 73 of Shelbyville, formerly of Henry County, died Saturday, June 10, 2006 in Shelbyville. He was a quality technician for GE for 38 years, a member of the Shelby Christian Church and the son of the late Mary Blanche Nolin James.
He is survived by his wife: Edna Mae Case James, Shelbyville; his father: Giles W. James, Shelbyville; two sons: Donnie and Larry James, both of Shelbyville; one daughter: Melinda Adler, Hillsboro, Ohio; one sister: Betsy Allen, Shelbyville; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Monday, June 12 at Shannon Funeral Home, Shelbyville. Bro. Kenny Talbot and Rev. Mike Duncan officiated. Interment was in the Pleasureville Cemetery.
Henry County Local June 14, 2006
Forest Gilmore James, 67 of Louisville, died Saturday at his residence. He was a native of Bethlehem, a retired employee of the Fort Knox Ireland Army Hospital.
He is survived by a daughter: Mrs. Martha Clark, Goshen, KY; and a half-sister: Mrs. Phyllis McCardy, Lexington.
Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the W. G. Hardy Funeral Home, Louisville. Interment was in Bristol, Tennessee.
Henry County Local February 10, 1983
Hazel Herrell James, age 77, of Pleasureville, died Saturday, January 15, 2005 at the Masonic Home in Shelbyville. She was a native of Henry County, the daughter of the late Sherfy and Nellie Ebersbaker James, former bus monitor for the Henry County Schools, a homemaker and a member of the Bethlehem Baptist Church
She is survived by her daughter, Brenda J. James, Pleasureville; one sister: Doris Herrell, Eminence; one brother: Russell Herrell, Eminence; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph M. James and three brothers.
Services were held at 2 p.m. Monday, January 17, at Sholar Funeral Home. Rev. Brad Bridgman, Bethlehem Baptist Church, officiated. Burial was in the Pleasureville Cemetery.
Henry County Local January 19, 2005
John James, Bethlehem, died at the Shelbyville Hospital Saturday night. Although physicians were somewhat puzzled by his illness, it was believed to have been typhoid fever.
He is survived by his wife; three children, one, seven and nine years old; his parents: Mr. and Mrs. W. T. James; a brother, Herbert James; and other near relatives.
He was a member of the Bethlehem Baptist Church, where funeral services were conducted at 1 p.m. Tuesday. Burial was in the Pleasureville Cemetery.
Henry County Local December 29, 1939
Marvin T. James, age 74, of New Castle passed away on Thursday, October 5, 1995 at LaGrange.
He is survived by his wife, Dotty James of New Castle; one step-daughter: Tina Barr Tipton, Shelbyville and several sisters.
Funeral services were held at 5 p.m. Sunday, October 8, 1995, at Prewitt Funeral Home, New Castle. Rev. Nick Coleman officiated, assisted by Rev. Garnett Slone. Burial was in the New Castle Cemetery.
Funeral Program from Prewitt Funeral Home
Mary Blanche Nolin James, age 91, of Shelbyville, died Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at her residence. She was a member of the Bethlehem Methodist Church, a homemaker and the daughter of the late Lego and Bessie Barton Nolin.
She is survived by her husband of 77 years: Giles Witt James, Shelbyville; one son and one daughter: Donald James, Sr. and Betsy James Allen, both of Shelbyville; one brother, Russell Nolin, Smithfield; three sisters: Ruth Russell, Shelbyville, Glenna Christy, Ohio and Martha Prewitt, Indiana; five grandchildren; twelve great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by an infant son, Reuben James, and three brothers.
Funeral services were held Saturday, October 16 at 2 p.m. at the Sholar Funeral Home, Pleasureville. Rev. Lynn Gants, Chaplain of Hospice, officiated. Rev. Kenny Talbott, Chaplain for the Women�s Correctional Institute, assisted. Burial was in the Pleasureville Cemetery.
Henry County Local October 20, 2004
Robert E. James, 79, of Louisville, passed away Tuesday (November 2, 2004) at Jewish Hospital. He was raised in Henry County and later moved with his family to Louisville. He retired from General Electric after 33 years of service in the Quality Control Division. He was a Navy Veteran of WWII and a member of the Midlane Park Reformed Presbyterian Church.
Mr. James is survived by his wife of 60 years: Ruth Lowe James; three daughters: Judith Goolsby and Monica Guenin, both of Louisville and Kimberly Bonitz, Ft. Myers, Florida; a son: Robert �Alan� James of Louisville and four grandsons: Matt Goolsby, Ryan and Justin Guenin and Mitchell Bonitz.
Cremation was chosen. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, November 6, 2004 at the Midlane Park Reformed Presbyterian Church. Ratterman Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Courier-Journal (Newspaper) November 3, 2004
Mrs. Rosalie James, 87 of Route 1, Campbellsburg died suddenly Tuesday May 5, 1981 at her residence. She was a member of the Berea Christian Church.
She is survived by six daughters: Mrs. Zeffie Roberts, Route 2 Pleasureville, Mrs. Roscoe (Lorene) Hall, Eminence, Mrs. Virgie Lee James, Route 1, Campbellsburg, Mrs. Nola Jones, Crestwood, Mrs. Jesse (Alma) Chisholm, New Castle and Mrs. Nick (Glenna) Coleman, Sulphur; three sons: Marvin James, New Castle, Kenneth James, Louisville and Orville James, Crestwood; thirteen grandchildren; thirteen great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Friday, May 8th from Prewitt�s, New Castle. Rev. Nick Coleman, pastor of the Children of the King Church, Bedford, officiated. Interment was in the Pleasureville Cemetery.
Henry County Local May 14, 1981
Tyler Jamison, an infant, died Tuesday, February 17, 1987 at the United Medical Center, Shelbyville. He is survived by his parents: Phyliss and Keith Jamison, Pleasureville; one brother: Matthew K. Jamison; grandparents: Mr. and Mrs. Gerald D. Banta, Pleasureville and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sparrow, Louisville; Mrs. Kathleen Jamison and the late Roy Jamison, Shelbyville and great-grandmother: Ethyl Banta, Pleasureville.
Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Saturday, February 21st at the Shannon Funeral Home, Shelbyville. Rev Randy Brown officiated. Interment was in the Grove Hill Cemetery, Shelbyville.
Henry County Local February 26, 1987
Mr. Jack W. Jeffries, 63, of Eminence, died suddenly Sunday, September 2, 1984 at the King�s Daughters Hospital, Shelbyville. He was a construction excavator, and Army Veteran of WWII, a member of the DAV in Henry County, a member of the American Legion, Frankfort, and a member of the New Castle United Methodist Church.
He is survived by his wife: Mrs. Juanita Case Jeffries, Eminence; one daughter: Mrs. Sonny (Connie) Ramsey, Shelbyville; one sister: Mrs. Bessie Lee Abbott, LaGrange; two brothers: Newt Jeffries, Jr., Route 1, Sulphur and John R. Jeffries, Sulphur and two grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, September 5th from Prewitt�s, New Castle. Rev. Kenneth Armstrong, pastor of the Eminence Presbyterian Church, officiated. Interment was in the Franklinton Cemetery.
Henry County Local September 8, 1984
Mrs. Martha Chandler Jeffries, age 86, of New Castle died Sunday, May 24, 1998 at the Tri-County Baptist Hospital, LaGrange. She was the daughter of the late Arthur and Nora Stivers Chandler, a retired seamstress at Enro Shirt Company, Louisville for 30 years and a member of the Clover Leaf Baptist Church, Louisville.
She is survived by her husband, Newton Wesley Jeffries, Jr., New Castle; one sister: Edith Cox, Louisville; two brothers: Paul S. Chandler, Danville and Albert S. Chandler, Louisville; four stepdaughters: Mrs. Barry (Willa) Paget, Nashville, Mrs. Frank (Brenda) Louden, Sulphur, Mrs. Bill Barber and Mrs. Gene Jones, both of Johnson City, Tennessee; three stepsons: Larry Jeffries and Kenny Jeffries, both of New Castle and Shelby Jeffries, Smithfield; thirteen step-grandchildren and fifteen step- great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a stepdaughter: Patsye Smith.
Funeral services will be today (Wednesday, May 27th) at 11 a.m. at Prewitt Funeral Home, New Castle. Rev. Nick Coleman, Sulphur, will officiate. Entombment will be in the Evergreen Cemetery, Louisville.
Henry County Local May 27, 1998
Beulah Neal Jenkins, age 95 of Campbellsburg, died Wednesday, November 23, 2005 at the Homestead Nursing Center, New Castle. She was a member of the Mt. Gilead Methodist Church and the daughter of the late Joseph L. and Minnie McGrew Neal.
She is survived by two daughters: Mrs. Ray (Mikki) Croxton, Pleasureville, and Mrs. Jimmy (Patty) Mahoney, West Jefferson, Ohio; one son: Neal Jenkins, Louisville; nine grandchildren; fifteen great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband: Raymond Jenkins.
Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Saturday, November 26, 2005 at Prewitt New Castle Funeral Home. Rev. Jacky Newton, pastor of the Franklinton Baptist Church, officiated. Interment was in the New Castle Cemetery.
Henry County Local November 30, 2005
Mrs. Irma Jenkins, age 79, of Tampa, Florida died March 3, 1991 at the AMA Memorial Hospital in Tampa. She was a native of Eminence, the daughter of the late Jacob Edward and Anna Catherine Heldenmanier Koenigstein, a graduate of Eminence High School and Western Kentucky University and a school teacher in Taladaga, Alabama for many years. She was preceded in death by her husband: James H. Jenkins.
Survivors include two sisters: Kathryn Drane and Lucille Nichols, both of Eminence; one brother: Buddy Koenigstein, Eminence and several nieces and nephews.
Graveside services were held March 6th at the Eminence Cemetery with Dr. Richard Carlson, pastor of the Eminence Presbyterian Church, officiating. Ransdell Funeral Home, Eminence, was in charge of arrangements.
Henry County Local March 13, 1991
Raymond Jenkins, 81 of Route 1, Campbellsburg, died Wednesday, April 13, 1983 at the St. Anthony Hospital, Louisville. He was a retired farmer and a member of the Drennon Christian Church.
He is survived by his wife: Mrs. Beulah Neal Jenkins, Route 1, Campbellsburg; two daughters: Mrs. Ray (Mikki) Croxton, Route 2, Pleasureville and Mrs. Jimmy (Patty) Mahoney, Columbus, Ohio; one son: Neal Jenkins, Louisville; nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Friday, April 15th from Prewitt�s, New Castle. Rev. Steve Kirk, pastor of the Franklinton Baptist Church, officiated. Interment was in the New Castle Cemetery.
Henry County Local April 21, 1983
Wayne B. Jenkins, age 81 of New Castle, died Wednesday, June 26, 2006, at his residence. Son of the late Norman and Allie Mae Christopher Jenkins, he was a life-long farmer. Wayne was a member of the New Castle Christian Church, a former New Castle Lions Club past president and past president of the Henry County Country Club. He was a highly decorated WWII Army Veteran, given three Bronze Stars, a Victory Medal, Theater Ribbon and a Purple Heart. He was preceded in death by two sisters: Cordie Walton and Anna Mildred Corneilson and four brothers: Wallace, Ernest, Merle and Thomas Jenkins.
He is survived by his wife: Ruth H. Jenkins, New Castle; two daughters: Mrs. Mary Ann Scott and husband, Kent of Frankfort and Connie Ray, Louisville; one son: Curtis �Buddy� Simpson and wife Kay, Elizabethtown; one brother: Douglas H. Jenkins, Richmond; seven grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 1, 2006 at Prewitt New Castle Funeral Home. Rev. Anthony Pierce, pastor of the New Castle Christian Church, officiated. Rev. Corky Klingenfus, associate pastor of Southeast Christian Church and Rev. Gary Polston, pastor of the New Castle United Methodist Church, assisted. Interment was in the New Castle Cemetery.
Henry County Local July 5, 2006
Mrs. Bessie Powell Jennings, 93, of Trimble County Nursing Center, Bedford, died Saturday, March 10, 1984 at the Carroll County Hospital, Carrollton. She was a member of the Hickory Grove Methodist Church.
She is survived by one son: Guy Jennings, Route 1, Pendleton; two daughters: Mrs. Ruth Robinson Raner, Coatesville, Indiana and Miss Bernice Bookman Jennings, Miami, Florida; six grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 13th at the Hickory Grove Methodist Church. Rev. Dan Wright officiated. Interment was in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Bedford.
Henry County Local March 15, 1984
James B. Jennings, 50, of Route 2, Pleasureville, died Friday, December 23, 1983 at the Humana Hospital University, Louisville. He was a retired farmer and a member of the Drennon Christian Church.
He is survived by his wife: Mrs. Joyce Jennings, Route 2, Pleasureville; his parents: Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Jennings, Pleasureville; five sons: Jerry Jennings, James Jennings, Gary Jennings, Charles Jennings and Carroll Jennings, all of Pleasureville; three daughters: Elizabeth Jennings, Pleasureville, Patricia Pike, Sanders, KY and Barbara Jennings, Pleasureville; three grandchildren; two brothers: Sammy Jennings and Ed Jennings, both of Eminence and one sister: Stella Winters, Lockport.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday, December 26th at the Ricketts Funeral Home, Eminence. Dr. Clayton Klingenfus, pastor of the New Castle Christian Church, officiated. Interment was in the Pleasureville Cemetery.
Henry County Local December 29, 1983
Mrs. Pryor Jennings, 69 of Route 1, Pleasureville, died April 13, 1982 at the Mease Hospital, Dunedin, Florida. She was formerly of Shelby County and a member of the United Pentecostal Church in Eminence.
She is survived by her husband, Pryor A. Jennings, Route 1, Pleasureville; two sons: P. Austin Jennings, Jr., Marion, IL and Tommy Jennings, Pleasureville; two daughters: Mrs. Daniel Warren, Buckner and Mrs. Thelma Raake, Louisville; two brothers: Lester Hedges, Buckner and Luke Hedges, Louisville; one sister: Mrs. Ike Bailey, Versailles; twelve grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Funeral services were held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, April 17th at the Radcliffe Funeral Home, LaGrange. Rev. Lewis Edday, pastor of the United Pentecostal Church, Eminence, officiated. Interment was in the Louisville Memorial Gardens East.
Henry County Local April 22, 1982
Word was received in Pleasureville this week of the death of Dr. George Jesse, San Diego, California, formerly of this county and widely known here.
Dr. Jesse was struck by an automobile last Wednesday and fatally injured. He died Saturday but no further details of the accident could be learned. He was buried in San Diego.
Dr. Jesse, who was 64 years of age was born in Pleasureville, a son of the late Col. George Jesse, Confederate army officer. He practiced medicine in Pleasureville and Henry County for many years before making his home in California.
Dr. Jesse is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sallie Slemmons Jesse and two sons, Duff and Harold Byrd, San Francisco and two brothers, Dr. John Jesse, Waddy and William Jesse, Jefferson City, Missouri.
Henry County Local June 14, 1929
Kelly Renee Jewell, age 17, of Campbellsburg, died Tuesday, February 7, 2006 in Trimble County. She was a junior at Trimble County High School and a member of the Campbellsburg Baptist Church.
She is survived by her parents: Joel and Carolyn Jewell, Campbellsburg; one sister: Aubrey Jewell, Campbellsburg; grandparents: Walter and Edna Jewell and Thomas Suter, all of Campbellsburg and Sherlean and Terry Bray of LaGrange.
Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, February 10th at Henry Christian Church. Rev. Bert Montgomery, pastor of Campbellsburg Baptist Churchj, officiated. Interment was in the New Castle Cemetery. Prewitt New Castle Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Henry County Local February 15, 2006
Mrs. Aline Kiphart Johnson, 83, of Eminence, died Saturday, January 19, 1985 at her residence. She was a member of the Main Street Baptist Church, New Castle.
She is survived by four daughters: Mrs. Mattie Lou Johnson, Pewee Valley, Mrs. Daisy Mae Johnson and Mrs. Mary Ann Compton, both of Louisville, and Mrs. Alberta Beach, Eminence; one son: Albert Johnson, New Castle; one stepson: Carl Johnson, Shelbyville; several nieces and nephews; eighteen grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, January 22nd from Prewitt�s, New Castle. Rev. Merdith Trabue, pastor of the Main Street Baptist Church, New Castle, officiated. Interment was in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, New Castle.
Henry County Local January 24, 1985
Mrs. Anna Belle Johnson, 95 of Pleasureville, died Monday, August 8, 1983 at the King�s Daughters Hospital, Shelbyville.
She is survived by on daughter: Mrs. Anna Lee Hayden, Eminence; two grandsons: Tony Hayden, Eminence, and Damon Chavis, Cincinnati; one great-grandson; tow sisters: Miss Nora Williams and Mrs. Corine Clark, both of Cincinnati and one brother: Joe Williams, Paris.
Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. at the Pleasureville Christian Church. Rev. Chris Franklin officiated. Interment was in the Pleasureville cemetery. Thomas Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Henry County Local August 18, 1983
Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Long Johnson, 45, of Route 1, Campbellsburg, died Monday, May 6, 1985 at the St. Anthony Hospital, Louisville. She was a member of the Campbellsburg Apostolic Pentecostal Church.
She is survived by her husband: Donald Johnson, Route 1, Campbellsburg; two daughters: Miss LaDonna Renae Johnson and Miss Vanessa Gay Johnson, both of Campbellsburg; her mother: Mrs. Myrtle Long, Milton; four brothers: James Courtland Long, William Howard Long, Jewel Dee Long and Dennis Eugene Long, all of Milton.
Funeral Services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday (today), May 9th at the Campbellsburg Apostolic Pentecostal Church. Rev. Paul Perry will officiate. Interment will be in the Campbellsburg Cemetery. Barnett-Ransdell Funeral Home, Campbellsburg, is in charge of arrangements.
Henry County Local May 9, 1985
Mrs. Estella Johnson, 81, of Eminence, died Friday, September 6, 1985 at the Shelby Manor Nursing Home, Shelbyville.
She is survived by one daughter: Mary Ellen Johnson, New York; two grandsons; three nieces and one cousin, Alfred Busby, Eminence.
Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, September 10th at the First Baptist Church, Eminence. Rev. W. H. Goatley officiated. Interment was in the Pleasureville Cemetery. Thomas Funeral Home, Pleasureville, was in charge of arrangements.
Henry County Local September 12, 1985
Gary Allen Johnson, age 37 of Campbellsburg, died Monday, July 18, 2005 at his home. He was a landscaper and son of the late Colonel James C. Johnson.
He is survived by his mother and stepfather: Brenda Dunn Wallace and Richard Wallace, Campbellsburg; two daughters: Cassie and Brittany Johnson, Campbellsburg; one brother: Ronnie Johnson, Pendleton; six half-brothers and sisters: Heather Sutherland, South Carolina, Ernest Johnson, Becky Johnson, John Johnson, Jim Clay Johnson and Janie Johnson and several other relatives. He was preceded in death by his grandparents.
Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Friday, July 22nd at Ransdell Funeral Home. Rev. Bert Montgomery officiated. Interment was in the Campbellsburg Masonic Cemetery.
Henry County Local August 3, 2005
Mrs. Lucy Simpson Johnson, 71, died Sunday, August 12, 1984 at the Trimble Nursing Center, Bedford. She was formerly of Campbellsburg and a member of the Carrollton Pentecostal Church.
She is survived by three sons: Truman and Billy Simpson, both of Campbellsburg and John Simpson, Florence; two daughters: Mrs. Jaqualine Hensley, Bedford and Mrs. Peggy Eaves, Lutts, Florida; one brother: J. C. McClellan, Milton; three sisters: Mrs. Georgia Litell, Loveland, Ohio, Mrs. Beatrice Wolfort, Louisville and Mrs. Sally Wilson, Turners Station; twelve grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, August 14th at the Barnett-Ransdell Funeral Home, Campbellsburg. Rev. Roger Winsett officiated. Interment was in the Campbellsburg Cemetery.
Henry County Local August 16, 1984
Vanessa Laura Johnson, age 49, of Louisville, died Monday, May 9, 2005 at the Norton Hospital. She was a legal secretary and a member of the First Baptist Church, Eminence. She was the daughter of the late John Leroy Johnson, Sr. She is survived by one son: J. R. Johnson, Louisville; her mother: Nancy Lewis, Eminence; her grandmother: Emma Laura Johnson, LaGrange; four sisters: Mrs. Robert (Victoria) Carr, Veronica Hayden, Rhonda Frierson, all of Louisville, Charletta Woods, LaGrange; three brothers: Janssen Rod Johnson, Eminence, Rodney Frierson, Louisville and John Leroy Johnson III, LaGrange and one granddaughter. She was preceded in death by two brothers.
Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 14 at the First Baptist Church, Eminence. Rev. Charles Duncan, Jr., pastor of the First Baptist Church, Eminence, officiated, assisted by Rev. Warren C. Eley, pastor of Union Missionary Baptist Church, Louisville. Interment was in the Eminence Cemetery. Prewitt Eminence Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Henry County Local May 18, 2005
Walter Leslie Johnson, 77 of Charlestown, Indiana, died Friday, April 24, 1981 at the North Clark Community Hospital. He was a heavy equipment operator, a member of his International Union of Operating Engineers Local 181 and was a Baptist.
He is survived by his wife: the former Manotee Hill; five sons: Kenneth Johnson, Charlestown, Dean Johnson, St. Joe, Missouri, Donnie Johnson, Hazard, Billy and Bobby Johnson, both of Jeffersonville; two step-sons: Chester Louis Wright, South Charlestown, Ohio, Denver Ray Wright, Jeffersonville; three daughters: Mrs. Louise McDonald, Charlestown, Mrs. Dorothy Johnson and Mrs. Betty Pope, both of Jeffersonville; one stepdaughter: Mrs. Carla Jean Bashlor, Clarksville; three brothers: Dewey, Victor and Vernon Johnson, all of Eminence; one sister: Mrs. Sybill Emeola, Missouri; seventeen grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Monday, April 27th at the Grayson Funeral Home, Charlestown, Indiana. Interment was in the Eastern Cemetery.
Henry County Local May 7, 1981
Geneva �June� Johnston, age 84, of Shelbyville, died Monday, March 14, 2005 at Jewish Hospital Shelbyville. She was the daughter of the late John Scott Miller and Susan VanMeter Miller, a homemaker and a member of the Simpsonville Baptist Church.
She is survived by one son: Ronald G. Johnston, Shelbyville; two daughters: Mrs. Victor (Patsy) Bramlette, Pleasureville and Darlene Spurr, Simpsonville; one sister: Faye Flavin, Denver, Colorado; five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband: Humphrey �Woody� Johnston.
Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Thursday, March 17th at Shannon Funeral Home, Shelbyville. Rev. Steve Boyd officiated. Interment was in the Simpsonville Cemetery.
Henry County Local March 23, 2005
An active career spanning almost a century as banker, writer, church leader and public official ended last Wednesday with the death of Joe E. Johnston of Pleasureville. He was 94. He had in recent years authored a book, �Life Begins at Eighty,� and himself lived to within sixty-seven days of his ninety-fifth birthday, which would have been on May 31st.
Mr. Johnston retired at eighty from his lifetime work in banking which began at the age of seventeen years. Initially, he was located at Campbellsburg. Later he became associated with the Deposit Bank of Pleasureville and worked there until his retirement with the exception on one year in farming and four years in politics.
Mr. Johnston had been a member of Board of Deacons of the Pleasureville Baptist Church more than a half century and served as Sunday School Superintendent and Teacher. He was a member of the Farmers and Businessmen�s organization in the community, and of the Board of Directors of the Pleasureville Cemetery.
Mrs. Stella Wells Johnston, his wife of nearly fifty years, died in 1970.
He was the son of Captain I. N. Johnston, who organized and commanded Company H, Sixth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry of the Union forces in the Civil War.
He leaves one son: Joseph Johnston, Ft. Mitchell; one sister: Mrs. J. S. Price, Pleasureville; nine nieces and nephews, including Mrs. Hardin Rodgers and Harold Hammond of Pleasureville, and Mrs. Caldwell Bird, Shelbyville.
Services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Pleasureville Baptist Church with Rev. Thomas Cole officiating. Burial was in the Pleasureville Cemetery.
Henry County Local April 2, 1970
Joseph Wells Johnston, age 83, of Ft. Mitchell died Tuesday, May 9, 1995 at St. Elizabeth Medical Center, Covington. He was born in Pleasureville, was a member of of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and editor of the Georgetonian, the Georgetown College newspaper. During summer vacations, he worked for the Henry County Local, and after college, he was a reporter for The Kentucky Post.
He is survived by a niece, Sherrill Beers, Covington. He was preceded in death by his wife, Leona Thurman Johnston, who died in 1981.
Funeral services were held Friday, May 12, at 11 a.m. at Allison and Rose Funeral Home, Covington. Burial was in the Low Dutch Cemetery, Pleasureville.
Henry County Local 1995
On Friday, April 24, 1914, at 6:15 in the evening, the gentle spirit of Mrs. Anna E. Johnston, beloved wife of Capt. I. N. Johnston, of Pleasureville, was separated from her body to assume its place among the spirits of the just made perfect. Ten weeks before her death paralysis suddenly destroyed her power of speech. She continued to go about but was never entirely well afterward. A second stroke came two weeks before the end of her life, that affected the entire right side. She gradually sank then until the hour named above when nature yielded.
Mrs. Johnston was a native of Shelby County, and was a member of an old and honorable family, her maiden name having been Anna Eliza Nash. Had she lived till next October she would have been 72 years old. On the 22nd of March 1864, she was united in marriage to Captain I. N. Johnston, a returned soldier in the cause of the Union. Last March, there was a celebration of the fiftieth wedding anniversary at the Johnston home, with all the children present, and a happy event it was, for the married life of Captain and Mrs. Johnston has been one of much felicity.
On Sunday afternoon April 26, the funeral took place from the Baptist Church in Pleasureville. The discourse was by Rev. Dr. George B. Eager, of Louisville. Rev. J. W. Gardner, the local Methodist minister, offered prayer at the funeral. �At four o�clock, the sun shining,� the body was laid to rest in the Pleasureville Cemetery.
Mrs. Johnston is survived by her husband and six children. The latter are Mrs. Mattie Kephart, Mrs. Sammie Hammond, Mrs. J. B. Sibley, Mr. Joe E. Johnston, Mrs. G. B. Pearce and Mrs. James S. Price.
Mrs. Johnston had been a member of the Baptist Church of Pleasureville fifty-four years.
Henry County Local May 1, 1914
Captain I. N. Johnston, 94 years old, died at 10o�clock Thursday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. S. Riner, Pleasureville, after a lingering illness of ten weeks. Captain Johnston was born about three miles from Pleasureville on May 11, 1833. He was the descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran, his grandfather having served with General George Washington. Captain Johnston enlisted in the Sixth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry and served in the Union army during the war between the states.
He is survived by six children: Mrs. Mattie Kephart, Mrs. W. S. Riner and Joe E. Johnston, Pleasureville, Mrs. J. S. Price, Nicholasville, Mrs. Nora Sibley, Sulphur and Mrs. B. G. Pearce, New Castle.
Funeral services were conducted at the Methodist Church, Pleasureville, on Saturday morning at 10 o�clock, where Captain Johnston had been a life-long member. The services were under the direction of the pastor, Rev. James E. Wright. Rev. P. C. Long of Eminence offered a beautiful prayer. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Price Smith, Versailles, a former pastor, much beloved by Captain Johnston and who had unburdened to Rev. Smith many of the deep and solemn questions of his heart and soul, for on many occasions he visited the parsonage to discuss these things.
He was laid to rest in the Pleasureville Cemetery where prayer was offered by Rev. John Cunningham of the Baptist Church and the last act was the removal of the flag from the casket by his old comrade Mr. Heilman.
Henry County Local February 3, 1928
Miss Ada Jones, 85, was burned to death Saturday morning when her home on Drennon Road was destroyed by fire. The New Castle Volunteer Fire Department responded to the call to the fire at approximately 8 a.m., but the blaze was already out of control and in the zero temperature the firemen�s work was hampered by a lack of water. A nearby pond was frozen too deep to penetrate.
Mrs. Jones lived alone and her only relatives are several cousins.
Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Monday, February 4th from Prewitt�s, New Castle. Rev. Phillip Moor, pastor of the New Castle United Methodist Church, officiated. Interment was in the Port Royal Cemetery.
Henry County Local February 7, 1980
Alberta King Jones passed away in her 80th year, on Monday, February 10, 1992 in Carrollton.
Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Thursday, February 13, 1992 at Prewitt New Castle Funeral Home. Rev. Garnett Slone officiated. Interment was in the New Castle Cemetery.
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