Newcom.Jerry.Francis.1997.Hopkins-Union.OBIT

Obituaries from The Sturgis News, 112th Year, Sturgis, 
Union County, Kentucky, Wednesday, May 21, 1997,  
Number 21.

Copied with permission from Paul Monsour- Managing 
Editor.  Obits this week appear on page 2. 


Jerry Francis Newcom, 47, Clay, died at 3:25 am Friday at Regional 
Medical Center in Madisonville of an illness.

A member of and Sunday school teacher at Old Bethel Church, he earned a
masters degree and a Rank I certificate from Murray State University. He
taught in Sebree and also in the Henderson County School System.

Survivors include his wife of 25 years, Janet, one son, Jared Newcom of
Clay; two brothers, Robert Kenneth Newcom of Seatlle and Plez Winston Newcom
of Newberry, IN; six nieces and one nephew.

Services were at 1pm Sunday at Whitsell Funeral Home in Sturgis. The 
Revs George Besch and Kenneth Crase officiated. Burial was in Pride-Bordley
Cemetery in Union County.

Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to the Jared
Newcom Memorial Scholarship Fund, Morganfield National Bank, Waverly Branch.


Contributed by: Maria & Tim Troutman <troutman@snoopy.bunt.com>
Date: 3 Jun 1997