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Obit: Jon Pancake, July 24, 1995,
McCracken Co
July 24, 1995
Jon Pancake of Eddyville, vice chairman of the
state Republican Party, died Saturday evening at Lourdes
Hospital in Paducah of an apparent heart attack. He was
43. Pancake had been Republican chairman of the 1st
Congressional District for three years before being
elevated to state vice chairman early last month by Larry
Forgy, the party's nominee for governor.
"Jon Pancake represented politics at its best
-- an exercise in civic responsibility," Forgy said
yesterday. "He moved people not out of personal
ambition, but out of dedication to causes and beliefs he
held dear. He was truly one of the most fair-minded men I
have ever known." The state party's senior elected
official, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, said Pancake was an
effective leader who will be greatly missed. Pancake
recently started his own law practice in Eddyville after
working for 14 years in the Paducah firm of Hardy,
Terrell, Boswell & Sims. He is survived by his wife,
Becky, and an 8-year-old daughter, Courtney.
The funeral will be at 3 p.m. tomorrow at Grand
Rivers United Methodist Church in Grand Rivers, with
burial in Rolling Hills Cemetery in Eddyville. Visitation
will be at Lakeland Funeral Home in Eddyville from 4 to 9
p.m. today and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. tomorrow.
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