In
Memory Of :JEFF
DONALD MURPHY, 1947 - 2001, of Redmond, Deschutes County, OR, born in
Bowling Green, Warren Co., KY, son of Powell Davis Murphy and Marjorie
(Morrison) Murphy. Jeff was the founder of the KYGenWeb, USGenWeb,
USBIOGRAPHIES and co-founder of KYBIOGRAPHIES.
Suzanne Shepherd was the county coordinator for Adair County until her passing on May 17, 2022. When Susan started as coordinator in March of 2001, the web site consisted of 32 pages. She made her last posting on February 11, 2022, at that time there were 1456 pages.
Suzanne Yelton Shepherd:
I was born two blocks from Churchill Downs in Louisville, moved to Valley Station at age 5 and attended Valley Elementary and Stonestreet Elementary before heading for Valley for 7th grade. I have been married 4 times, have three children [2 boys, 1 girl] and now have 4 grandkids [2 of each]. I moved from KY in 1973 to Madison, IN and in 1983 to Lawrenceville, GA. I was a disc jockey and news journalist for 8 years and worked at several Pop and Country music stations. The governor of Kentucky bestowed the title of Kentucky Colonel on me in 1974 for my radio work alter the tornados. After moving 10 GA. I worked as a Graphic Designer for 24 years with a large convention company in Adanta. I am now retired due to health problems but I am still active as a volunteer in the USGenWeb Project. I'm Assistant Slate Coordinator for the KYGenWeb and I oversee the KYGenWeb Archives. I also maintain 11 different genealogy websites dedicated to free genealogy on the Internet.
For those of you who have ancestors in
the Adair County area and may have done research, here, her name will be
quite familiar. She was a former librarian at both Lindsey Wilson
College and at the Adair County Public Library. She was the compiler
and co-writer of several books related to Adair County history. Randy
was a wonderful person and a superb genealogist.
Randy H. Flowers, 85, of Columbia, died Monday, April 21,
2008, at 10:00pmCT, at Westlake Regional Hospital.
The funeral service will be Thursday, April 24, 2008, at
1:00pmCT, at Columbia Christian Church with Bro. Raymond
Martin, Bro. Terry White, and Bro. Gene Grasham officiating.
Burial will be in Columbia Cemetery.
She was the daughter of the late Foree Hood and Ruth Sublett
Hood Bowen and the step-daughter of the late Walter Bowen.
She was a member of the Columbia Christian Church where she
taught Sunday School and was head of the Youth Department
for many years. She was a member of the DAR, Adair County
Genealogical Society, and Past Worthy Matron of Adair Order
of the Eastern Star 435.
She was President of Columbia Cemetery Board for many years,
was Assistant Librarian at Lindsey Wilson College for
several years, and retired as Assistant Librarian at the
Adair County Public Library.
She is survived by her husband, Alfred W. Flowers, Columbia,
KY, and the following:
Three sons: Jim and his
wife Georgann Flowers, Robert and his wife Mikki
Flowers, and Joseph Flowers, all of Columbia, KY
Three grandchildren: Lynn
and her husband Chad Spencer, Ann Leslie Flowers, and
Michael and his wife Sarah Flowers
Three great grandchildren:
Elizabeth Whitfield Spencer, Emily Kate Spencer, and
Charles Wesley Spencer
The funeral service will be
Thursday, April 24, 2008, at 1:00pmCT, at Columbia Christian
Church with Bro. Raymond Martin and Bro. Gene Grasham
officiating. Burial will be in Columbia Cemetery.
Visitation will be after 3:00pmCT, Wednesday, April 23,
2008, and after 6:00amCT, Thursday, April 24, 2008, at the
Grissom-Martin Funeral Home, and after 12noon, on Thursday
at Columbia Christian Church.
In lieu of flowers, the family woul dappreciate a donation
in her memory to Columbia Christian Church Building Fund,
Adair County Public Library, or the Adair County
Genealogical Society and these can be left at the funeral
home.
Grissom-Martin Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Casket bearers: James Cundiff, Mitchell Cundiff, Charles V.
Sparks, Scotty Ferguson, Don Knifley, and Doug Pyles.
This obituary was made possible through the support of
Grissom-Martin Funeral Home, established in 1926, located
one block off the Square at 200 Campbellsville Street in
Columbia. To reach David and Cathy Martin, phone
270-384-2149, or E-mail: grissomfuneralhome@alltel.net.
Large enough to serve comfortably; Small enough to serve
personally.
In Memory Of...
September
11, 2001
From
Suzanne
I
would like to express Sympathy to all the families who have lost loved ones in
the American Tragedy September 11, 2001.
God Bless you at this time and please know that you do not grieve alone. The
rest of America grieves with you.
from The Miami Herald
Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:12:29 -0700
We'll go forward from this moment by Leonard Pitts Jr. of the Miami Herald
"It's my job to have something to say. They pay me to provide words that
help make sense of that which troubles the American soul. But in this
moment of airless shock when hot tears sting disbelieving eyes, the only thing I
can find to say, the only words that seem to fit, must be addressed to the
unknown author of this suffering.
"You monster. You beast. You unspeakable bastard.
"What lesson did you hope to teach us by your coward's attack on our World
Trade Center, our Pentagon, us? What was it you hoped we would learn?
Whatever it was, please know that you failed.
"Did you want us to respect your cause? You just damned your cause.
"Did you want to make us fear? You just steeled our resolve.
"Did you want to tear us apart? You just brought us together.
"Let me tell you about my people. We are a vast and quarrelsome family, a
family rent by racial, social, political and class division, but a family
nonetheless. We're frivolous, yes, capable of expending tremendous emotional
energy on pop cultural minutiae -- a singer's revealing dress, a ball team's
misfortune, a cartoon mouse. We're wealthy, too, spoiled by the ready
availability of trinkets and material goods, and maybe because of that, we walk
through life with a certain sense of blithe entitlement. We are fundamentally
decent, though -- peace-loving and compassionate. We struggle to know the right
thing and to do it. And we are, the overwhelming majority of us, people of
faith, believers in a just and loving God.
"Some people -- you, perhaps -- think that any or all of this makes us
weak.
You're mistaken. We are not weak. Indeed, we are strong in ways that cannot be
measured by arsenals.
"Yes, we're in pain now. We are in mourning and we are in shock. We're
still grappling with the unreality of the awful thing you did, still working to
make ourselves understand that this isn't a special effect from some Hollywood
blockbuster, isn't the plot development from a Tom Clancy novel. Both in terms
of the awful scope of their ambition and the probable final death toll, your
attacks are likely to go down as the worst acts of terrorism in the history of
the United States and, probably, the history of the world. You've bloodied us as
we have never been bloodied before.
"But there's a gulf of difference between making us bloody and making us
fall. This is the lesson Japan was taught to its bitter sorrow the last time
anyone hit us this hard, the last time anyone brought us such abrupt and
monumental pain. When roused, we are righteous in our outrage, terrible in our
force. When provoked by this level of barbarism, we will bear any suffering, pay
any cost, go to any length, in the pursuit of justice.
"I tell you this without fear of contradiction. I know my people, as you, I
think, do not. What I know reassures me. It also causes me to tremble with dread
of the future.
"In the days to come, there will be recrimination and accusation,
fingers pointing to determine whose failure allowed this to happen and what can
be done to prevent it from happening again. There will be heightened security,
misguided talk of revoking basic freedoms. We'll go forward from this moment
sobered, chastened, sad. But determined, too. Unimaginably determined.
"You see, the steel in us is not always readily apparent. That aspect of
our character is seldom understood by people who don't know us well. On this
day, the family's bickering is put on hold.
"As Americans we will weep, as Americans we will mourn, and as Americans,
we will rise in defense of all that we cherish.
"So I ask again: What was it you hoped to teach us? It occurs to me that
maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of your hatred. If that's the case,
consider the message received. And take this message in exchange:
You don't know my people. You don't know what we're capable of. You don't know
what you just started.
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