Muhlenberg County Kentucky
Obituaries, Fe
Felty, Flora Ann
Bremen - Mrs. Flora Ann Felty, 80, of Bremen, died yesterday at Hopkins County Hospital. Born in Muhlenberg County, she was a member of Shaver's Chapel United Methodist Church.
Surviving are a son, Dallas C. Felty, Evansville, Ind.; a daughter, Mrs. Gladys Dean Conway, Bremen, and five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services 2 p.m. Sunday at Tucker Funeral Home, Central City. Burial in Scott Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today.
- Source: Messenger-Inquirer [Owensboro, KY], 18 Jan 1975.
Fentress, Henry Lancaster
Henry L. Fentress, 70, Buried at Cherry Hill
Henry Lancaster Fentress, 70, died at his home at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 25.
He was born in Muhlenberg County, was a retired coal miner, and was a member of the First Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lucy Fentress; six daughters, Mrs. Virgil Brown, Jasonville, Ind., Mrs. Marian Mitchell, Mrs. William Farber, both of Evansville, Ind., Mrs. Carl Wood, Owensboro, Mrs. George Heltsley and Mrs. Helen Swann both of Central City; one stepdaughter, Mrs. Herman Miller, Muncy, Ind.; 12 grandchildren; two brothers, June of Hopkinsville, and James, Indianapolis; five sisters, Mrs. Arnold Settle, St. Petersburg, Fla., Mrs. Morehead Shaver, Mrs. Arthur Bennett, Mrs. Andrew Stirsman, Mrs. Sally Guynn, all of Central City.
Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday at the First Baptist Church, conducted by the Rev. Ray Dean, assisted by the Rev. E. E. Spickard. Burial was in the Cherry Hill Cemetery.
- Source: Greenville Leader [Greenville, KY], 4 May 1961.
Fentress, Sarah Margaret
- Fentress, Sarah. Unknown Muhlenberg County newspaper, unknown date, Article.
- Contributor's note: The obituary clipping is taped in the back of a Bible that belonged to Mrs. I.F. Fentress's granddaughter Anna Noffsinger. Mrs. I.F. Fentress was Sarah Margaret Lam, wife of Isaac Finley Fentress, and daughter of Elijah Lam & Martha G. Cates.
- Contributed by JP Johnson.
Fentress, James Elgin
James E. Fentress, 36, Buried at Cherry Hill
Gary, Ind. - James Elgin Fentress, 36, formerly of Central City, died at his home in Gary, Ind. Tuesday, Sept. 25 [1956] at 7:30 a.m. following a lingering illness. He was born April 2, 1920 and was a member of the First Baptist Church. He was employed at Inland Steel Co. in Hammond, Ind.
Funeral services will be conducted Friday, Sept. 28 at 2 p.m. in Central City with the Rev. C. W. Devine, pastor of the First Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be in Cherry Hill Cemetery.
Survivors are wife, Mrs. Anna Laura Fentress; two sons, Michael and Robert Earl; daughter, Sandra Kaye, of Gary; father, Henry Fentress of Central City; six sisters, Mrs. Helen Swann and Mrs. George Helsley of Central City, Mrs. Virgil Brown of Jasonville, Ind., Mrs. Marion Mitchell and Mrs. William Farber of Evansville, Mrs. Carl Wood of Owensboro.
Fentress, Junius Edgar
J.E. Fentress, 76, Dies in Christian
Hopkinsville - Junius Edgar Fentress, 76, retired employe at Western State Hospital, died unexpectedly of a heart attack at 11:20 a.m. Friday, Dec. 7 [1962] at his home in Hopkinsville.
Mr. Fentress formerly operated a hotel at Kirkmansville. He was employed at Western State for 10 years until his retirement eight years ago.
He was born in Muhlenberg County, but moved to Christian County 44 years ago. He was a member of First Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Beulah Fentress; a foster son, Paul Starks, a professor at the University of Tennessee branch at Martin, Tenn.; and a step-granddaughter, Mrs. Martha Harris, Ft. Rucker, Ala.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday in Hopkinsville.
Officiating was the Rev. Marvin Whitmer of First Methodist Church. Burial was in Green Memorial Gardens.
Fentress, Lancaster D.
- Fentress, L.D. Messenger [Central City, KY], 21 Dec 1933, Article.
Fentress, Noah H.
End Comes To Noah Fentress
Noah H. Fentress, 82, of 1644 South Limestone street, who had been connected with mental institutions in the United States and Europe for 67 years, died at 7:45 o'clock last night at his home. He had been in declining health for two years.
Mr. Fentress served 20 years as supervisor of Western State hospital at Hopkinsville and was supervisor at Eastern State hospital for 14 years. For the past 18 years he had operated a sanitarium on the Leestown pike and on South Limestone stone. He has worked in practically every large institution in this country and was employed in several in Europe.
Mr. Fentress was born Aug. 27, 1861, in Muhlenberg county, son of the late John and Amanda Fentress. He was a member of the First Methodist church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Pyrenah Pettit Fentress, two sons, Charles B. Fentress Sr., member of the Fayette county patrol, and H. P. Fentress, Akron, Ohio; a brother, George Fentress, Greenfield; a sister, Mrs. Nell Finch, Virginia, and two grandchildren, Charles B. Fentress Jr. and Elizabeth Fentress, Lexington.
The body was removed to Kerr Brothers funeral home.
- Source: Herald-Leader [Lexington, KY], 7 Nov 1943.
Fentress, Pyrenah Pettit
Mrs. Pyrenah Pettit Fentress, 87, died at 12:25 a.m. yesterday at the Fentress Sanatorium in Jessamine County, after a long illness.
Mrs. Fentress operated the Fentress Sanatorium in Lexington for 38 years.
The widow of Noah Fentress, she was a native of Owensboro and a daughter of the late Charles and Elizabeth Pettit. She was a member of the First Methodist Church. Mrs. Fentress was a former member of the WCTU, Business Women-s Club and the MacDowell Club.
She is survived by two sons, Charles B. Fentress Sr., Jessamine County, and H.P. Fentress, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; two grandchildren, Charles B. Fentress Jr., Louisville, and Mrs. Elizabeth Barkley, Jessamine County, and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Saturday at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home by the Rev. Steadman Bagby. Burial will be in the Lexington Cemetery.
- Source: Herald [Lexington, KY], 9 June 1961.
Ferguson, Jo Marvin
Funeral services for Dr. Ferguson to be held Friday
Services to be held at residence in South Carrollton at 2 o'clock.
Dr. Jo Marvin Ferguson died at 2:11 o'clock Wednesday afternoon following a severe heart attack.
Dr. Ferguson was a member of two of the leading, prominent pioneer families of Muhlenberg County, being the son of Andrew G. Ferguson and Mary Ellen McCown Ferguson. He was born in the house in which he died on November 5, 1877, and was ever and always devoted to its memories.
He spent his younger days in South Carrollton, graduated from the South Carrollton College in the year 1898. He graduated from the University of Kentucky, at Louisville, in the year 1902, and returned to the home of his birth where he practiced medicine for two years and then was made First Assistant Physician at the Western State Hospital, Hopkinsville, which position he held for three years and then located in Central City for the practice of his profession.
Dr. Ferguson remained in Central City until the year 1917, when he offered his services to his country and was made Captain in the Medical Corps. He was a major at the time of his discharge. Returning from the war he again practiced his profession in Central City up to the year 1920, when he was given the appointment of Medical Officer in charge of the Veterans Hospital at Gulfport, Miss. He remained at this hospital for eight years, building it up until it was considered one of the best operated hospitals conducted by the Government for the benefit of its invalid soldiers.
In the year 1928 Dr. Ferguson was transferred to the Veterans Hospital at North Little Rock, Ark., which hospital he also built up till it was one of the best hospitals that took care of the soliders, and he was also Medical Officer in charge at this hospital, the highest ranking officer.
When the new Veterans Hospital at Lexington, Ky., was ready for occupancy, Dr. Ferguson was made the highest ranking officer to open and take charge of and conduct the hospital for the benefit of the soldiers, being given the appointment in the year 1930. He had charge of the hospital up till April 1, 1937, when his health failing, he resigned and returned to the home of his mother, Mary Ellen Ferguson, deceased, at South Carrollton.
Dr. Ferguson was confined to his home all the time and to his bed most of the time since his return from Lexington, gradually growing weaker until Wednesday, when a severe heart attack proved fatal.
Dr. Ferguson married Miss Willie Mae Cain of Central City in April, 1914. To this union three children were born, two of whom survive. They are Jo McCown Ferguson and Miss Mary Ellen Ferguson, both of whom were in college at Lexington when their father passed away.
He is also survived by one brother, Mc Ferguson of South Carrollton, and by three sisters, Mrs. W.C. Gaynor of New Kinsington, Penn., Mrs. C.L. Ebaugh and Mrs. F.M. Foulks of Tampa, Florida.
Dr. Ferguson was one of the best liked citizens of Central City and Muhlenberg County during his residence here. The practice of his profession took him into many homes where he was ever and always the cheerful, patient, efficient comforter and physician. He answered the calls of the poor, the needy, and those unable to pay for his services just as quickly as the calls from those amply able to pay him. He did much good and he will be greatly missed and mourned by his many friends.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the residence where he was born, lived and died, and will be conducted by the Rev. Wade Weldon, pastor of the Central City Methodist Church. Interment will be in the South Carrollton grave yard in the Ferguson family lot.
- Source: Times-Argus [Central City, KY], 23 Sept 1938.
Ferguson, William H.
- Ferguson, William H. Central City Republican [KY], 11 Jan 1894, Article.
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