The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky (2024)

8 THE COURIER JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY; MAY 6, 1987 LOUISVILLE-AREA DEATHS Eric Thomas Brewer, 13, of 1663 Cayuga died Monday at Kosair Children's Hospital after an illness. He was a student at Southern Middle School. Survivors: his parents, Larry and Patricia Brewer; a sister, Danielle Brewer: a brother, Larry Brewer grandparents, Mary Brewer, Cleophus and Ellie Fletcher, and Albert and Evelyn Hanco*ck; and great -grandparents, Thomas and Clara Fletcher. Funeral: noon Thursday, North 35th Street Church of Christ, 101 N. 35th with burial in Green Meadows Memorial Cemetery.

Visitation at A.D. Porter Sons Funeral Home, 1300 W. Chestnut after noon Wednesday, and at the church after 9 a.m. Thursday. Margaret V.

Pixley Brown, 86, of 2216 Deveron Drive, died Monday at Clark County Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville, Ind. She was a native of Clark County, Ind. Survivors: a daughter, Dorothy Snyder of Clarksville, a son, Ronald W. Brown; two sisters, Dora Timian of Hines City, and Lou Snider of New Albany, three grandchildren; and a great-grandchildren. Funeral: 11 a.m.

Thursday, Coots Funeral Home, 120 W. Maple Jeffersonville, with burial in Walnut Ridge Cemetery there. Visitation from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday.

William Malcolm Clark, 73, died Monday at his home. He was a retired steel-mill worker in Indianapolis and an Army veteran of World War II. Survivors: two sisters, Delores Downs and Laurine Miles, both of Loretto, and a brother, Ballard Clark of Ridgeway, Ill. Funeral: 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, St.

Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in St. Francis, with burial in Holy Cross Cemetery. Mattingly Funeral Home in Loretto is in charge of arrangements. Marie Roche Clines, 85, died Monday at her home. She was a retired assistant advertising director for Glenmore Distilleries Co.

She was a charter member of Louisville Chapter 1 Women's Association of Allied Beverage Industries. Survivors: two daughters, Patricia C. Ebbecke of Washington, D. and Kathleen M. Clines, and a brother, John S.

Roche of Lexington. Funeral: 11 a.m. Thursday, St. Stephen Martyr Catholic Church, Hess I Lane and Pindell Avenue, with burial in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation at Embry-Bosse Funeral Home, 2723 Preston Highway, from 3 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday. Expressions of sympathy: Hospice of Louisville. Mrs. Irving S. Cohen, 63, died Tuesday at Baptist Hospital East.

She was the former Ruth Adams and a was retired bookkeeper for Liberty National Bank. Survivors: nieces and nephews. Funeral: 11 a.m. Thursday, Herman Meyer Son 1338 Ellison with cremation to follow. Visitation after 10 a.m.

Thursday. Expressions of sympathy: The Temple or Douglass Boulevard Christian Church. John Gilom Easley, 73, of Lyndon Lane Nursing 1 Home, died there Monday. He was a native of Peru, a retired employee of United Trucking and a member of Eastern Star Senior Citizens and Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church. Survivors: his wife, the former Carrie Davis; a daughter, Margaret Hull; five grandchildren; and nine great -grandchildren.

Funeral: 11 a.m. Friday, A. D. Porter Sons Funeral Home, 1300 W. Chestnut with burial in Green Meadows Memorial Cemetery.

Visitation after noon Thursday. Katherine Ballard Jackson, 75, of Spring Meadows Children's Home, died Tuesday at Humana Hospital-Suburban. She was a native of Logan County, a retired nurse for Spring Meadows Children's Home and a member of Middletown First Baptist Church. Survivors: a son, Mark W. Jackson; a sister, Ann B.

Herndon; and a brother, Clyde Ballard of Arizona. Funeral: 10 a.m. Thursday, Willhite-Ballard Funeral Home, 11507 Main Middletown, with burial at 2:30 p.m. EDT Thursday in Fairview Cemetery in Bowling Green. Visitation from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday. Expressions of sympathy: memorial fund at Spring Meadows Children's Home. Marsha A. Kuelpman, 42, died Tuesday at Humana Hospital- versity after an illness. She was the former Marsha Newbury, a native of Bakersfield, Calif.

Survivors: her husband, Douglas R. Kuelpman; a son, Ryan Kuelpman; a daughter, Taryn Kuelpman; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Newbury of Bakersfield; and a brother, Ken Newbury of Lemore, Calif. Memorial service: 2 p.m.

Thursday, Anchorage Presbyterian Church, 10917 La Grange Road, Anchorage. Arch L. Heady Westport Road Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Expressions of sympathy: ParentTeacher Organization at Anchorage School, 11400 Ridge Road, Anchorage, 40223. LOUISVILLE Eric Thomas Brewer, 13 Margaret V.

Visitation from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday. Elizabeth Grant Posey, 88, formerly of Louisville, died Tuesday in Cincinnati. She was a native of Shelbyville. Survivors: three sons, Robert Logan of Los Angeles, Leroy Logan and Vernon Posey; three daughters, Nannie McNealy of Los Angeles, Anna Bell Summers of Cincinnati and Birdie Anderson; 30 grandchildren; and 25 great -grandchildren.

Funeral: noon Friday, Mount O1- ive Baptist Church in Cincinnati. Visitation is at Thompson Son Funeral Home in Cincinnati. Billy Sorrell, 56, of Lebanon Junction, died Sunday at Humana Hospital-Audubon. He was a native of Letcher County and had retired from the Louisville police force after 28 years of service. He was a member of Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 6 and an Air Force veteran of the Korean War.

Survivors: his wife, the former Reda L. McIntosh; two sons, Gary Sorrell with the Navy aboard the USS Midway and Michael Sorrell of Lebanon Junction; a brother, Robert Sorrell of Bad Axe, and six sisters, Jean O'Rourke of Rinelander, Betty Aspland of tol, Mary C. Lifer of Austin, Texas, Ernestine Smith of Hackensack, N.J., Georgia Sorrell of Detroit and Sandra Davis of Eatontown, N. J. Funeral: 1 p.m.

Thursday, Kappel Funeral Home in Lebanon Junction, with burial in Lebanon Junction City Cemetery. Visitation after 4 p.m. Wednesday. Mckinley Spurgeon, 78, of 5314 Citation Road, died Monday at Humana Hospital-University. He was a native of Kentucky and a retired coal-mine worker.

Survivors: two sons, Jack Spurgeon of Clinton, Ohio, and Woodrow Spurgeon; a brother, Marcum Spurgeon of Lexington; eight grandchildren; and 15 -grandchildren. Funeral: 1 p.m. Thursday, Arch L. Heady Son Funeral Home, 1201 E. Oak with burial in Evergreen Cemetery.

Visitation from noon to 9 p.m. Wednesday. Lester "Buddy" Sturdivant, 74, of 322 Cecil died Saturday at Humana Hospital-University. He was a native of Tupelo, and a retired employee of J. Edinger Son Co.

Survivors: his wife, the former Mary Gadson; a stepdaughter, Helen Simms; a brother, Buford Dalnell; eight children; and grandchildren; two 25 great grandchildren. Funeral: 11 a.m. Friday, Oak Grove Baptist Church, 4033 Vermont with burial in Highland Memory Gardens in Mount Washington. Visitation at A. D.

Porter Sons Funeral Home, 1300 W. Chestnut after noon Thursday, and at the church after 9 a.m. Friday. Michael J. Sullivan 78, of 3012 Garey Lane, died Tuesday at Humana Hospital-Audubon.

He was a retired Louisville firefighter and a Navy veteran of World War II. Survivors: his wife, the former Beatrice Hayden; a son, Charles J. Sullivan and Carl Britt; a sister, Katherine Miller of Auburn, seven grandchildren; and a greatgrandchild. Funeral: 10 a.m. Friday, St.

Matthias Catholic Church, 2200 Dixie Highway, with burial in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation at Owen Funeral Home, 5317 Dixie Highway, from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and from 11 a.m to 4 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday.

Joseph M. Tarbis, 74, died Tuesday at Jewish Hospital. He was a member of Adath Jeshurun Congregation and B'nai KENTUCKY DEATHS BARBOURVILLE Sudie Carnes, 83. BENHAM Lillie Clay, 70; Grace Cobb, 71. BEREA Olean Rose, 63.

BOWLING GREEN Irene Caldwell Hardy, 80. CAMPBELLSVILLE Henry V. Nance, 79. CANEYVILLE Mattie Clark. 81.

CORBIN Anna Goodin Saylor, 90. CYNTHIANA Margaret "Peggy" Osborne Taylor, 66. DAWSON SPRINGS Clifton Ladd, 60. EMINENCE Nora Josephine Parsons, 58. GLASGOW Lougean Rutledge, 57.

GREENVILLE Kathryn Payton, 54. HARLAN Lewis Burton King, 68. HAZARD Wiliam Buck Campbell 52. IRVINGTON Jesse Durbin, 82; Noah W. Thompson, 81.

JENKINS Ed Kincer, 76. JONANCY Tyrone Sowards, 28. LAWRENCEBURG Dorothy Mae Disponett Holt, 66; Rita Lynn Summers, 40. LEBANON Charles Louis Webb, 91; Claude H. Willard.

96. LEITCHFIELD Maggie Pryor, 89. LORETTO William Malcolm Clark, 73. MADISONVILLE Oscar Harold Bailey, 76: Myrtle Mae Jones, 92. MELVIN Frances Johnson, 66.

MONTICELLO Margaret Lena Humble, 67. PADUCAH Lillian Johnson. RUSSELLVILLE Eldridge E. Croslin, 80; Alex Reynolds, 72. RUSSELL SPRINGS James Raymond Waid, 23.

STOPOVER Warren Blankenship, 76. Vadie E. Estes, 89. TOMPKINSVILLE. Enna Ethel McPherson, 83.

By ALAN JUDD Staff Writer A member of a Louisville street gang was indicted by a federal grand jury Monday on a charge of possessing a sawed-off shotgun. Police had seized the weapon after a fight involving members of three gangs April 20 in Shawnee Park. Louisville police have seized three other sawed -off shotguns from gang members in recent days, said Capt. Steve Thompson, commander of the police department's 6th District. Some gangs appear to be arming themselves by breaking into homes to steal guns, and it is common for gang members to possess powerful, illegal weapons such as sawed-off shotguns, authorities said yesterday.

A wound from a sawed-off shotgun at close range would almost certainly be fatal, Thompson said. Gregory Lamont King, 19, of River Park Drive, a member of the Bad Boys gang, could receive up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $10,000 if he is convicted of the federal charge. King will also be tried in Jefferson District Court on charges of carrying a concealed deadly weapon and disorderly conduct. Louisville police arrested King on April 20 after 12 to 18 people from three gangs the Bad Boys, the Psychos and the Junior Monks fought in Shawnee Park. One youth suffered a minor gunshot wound during the fight.

An assault charge filed after the shooting against a member of the Psychos, listed in police and court records by the names of Terrance Collier and Terrance Day, 23, of the Paul Butterfield dies; gave rock a touch of blues The Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES Paul Butterfield, a harmonica player who played a leading role in popularizing the blues with rock audiences in the 1960s, was found dead early Monday in his apartment, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office said. He was 44. Coroner's spokesman Bill Gold said there "was no apparent cause of death" and said an autopsy would Paul Butterfield Just recorded his first album in five years be performed. Butterfield's body was found in his apartment kitchen by his manager. "Butterfield was certainly one of the pivotal figures in raising the consciousness of blues in what was a white dominated '60s rock world, and also helped make the idea of a white musician playing the blues creditable," Los Angeles Times pop music critic Robert Hilburn said.

Butterfield, who studied classical flute and then mastered the harmonica by age 16, grew up on Chicago's predominantly black South Side. There, he was one of the first young white musicians to venture into black blues clubs, where he played with such black blues stars as Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy and Little Walter. Butterfield and Elvin Bishop, another harmonica player, formed the Butterfield Blues Band in the early 1960s, consisting of Butterfield, Bishop, two guitarists, a piano player and a drummer. The six became popular around Chicago and aroused considerable interest among blues musicians because of their use of amplification and material that combined elements of the blues, folk, rock and jazz. The band recorded two high-energy blues albums for Elektra Records that paved the way for British blues groups that surfaced in the rock world in the late 1960s.

The group, adding a brass section, toured widely both in and outside the United States while Butterfield continued to experiment with different music until 1972. He then switched to an acoustic-electric lineup with a group called Better Days that toured and recorded until health problems curtailed Butterfield's activity. Butterfield moved to Los Angeles from New York early last year and was involved in various recording projects, including his first record album in five years, "The Legendary Paul Butterfield Rides Again," for Amherst Records. Commenting last June on the fact that the album contained only one number alluding to his Chicago blues roots, Butterfield said: "A lot of people relate me to the blues, but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. This really isn't a blues album, but it has that blues inflection and still has my style to it.

It's like Ray Charles did country albums and it never changed his style. I just try to be the best Paul Butterfield can be in music." 3400 block of Larkwood Avenue, was dismissed Monday because of a lack of evidence, Jefferson District Judge Dan Schneider said yesterday. Police officers were called to the park on April 20 by reports of fighting and shooting. They apprehended King after chasing him on foot and found the sawed-off shotgun in a gym bag he was carrying, Thompson said. Another teen-ager was shot in the back during a related fight in the park the following night.

Neither youth appeared to have been wounded with a sawed-off shotgun, Thompson said. Thompson asked the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to look into King's case because they could initiate the more serious federal charges. Kentucky has no law prohibiting possession of sawed-off shotguns. The bureau has been "monitoring" gang members' weapons for several months, said Jim Vaughn, the agent in charge of the bureau's Louisville office. It is "common" for gang members to possess dangerous firearms, Vaughn said, but he declined to specify the types of weapons.

The bureau has filed no other federal charges against gang members, Vaughn said. Authorities are still investigating the source of the shotgun King is charged with possessing, Vaughn said. Other guns seized from gang members have been traced to residential burglaries, Thompson said. Thompson declined to discuss details of the seizure of the other three sawed off shotguns or to say whether he is seeking federal charges against the gang members who had them. The gangs' increasing firepower concerns authorities.

"Weapons out there in the possession of people who are less than totally mature or who cannot settle disputes in an adult way scare me," Thompson said. By pursuing federal charges for possessing illegal guns, "I'm just trying to send them (gang members) a message," Thompson said. "It's not going to be Doctor's lawsuit charges WLKY-TV with libel Dr. Kent Seitz, who was acquitted last year of sexually abusing a 14- yearold boy in his office, yesterday filed suit claiming that WLKY-TV broadcast a report that implied authorities tried to cover up the charges against him. Seitz filed suit in Jefferson Circuit Court against Pulitzer Broadcasting which owns WLKY, claiming a story the station aired last May 5 libeled him and damaged his medical practice.

The suit asks for compensatory and punitive damages. Last May 8, a jury found Seitz, 38, innocent of first-degree sexual abuse. He had been accused of fondling a Bullitt County boy in an examination room at his Fern Creek office. According to the lawsuit, the day before the trial began, WLKY broadcast a story that implied the following: That Seitz or others "had improperly suppressed or covered up information" about his indictment and trial. That Seitz or others covered up the fact that Seitz is a doctor.

That Seitz "was receiving preferential treatment from authorities" in the prosecution of the case. The news story, as Channel 32 knew, "was false and without foundation," the suit alleges. WLKY news director Tom Becherer said that about six months after the original story his station broadcast a clarification "on some questioned points." Becherer said he didn't believe the story created any misconceptions. Becherer said: "At this point, we're going to stand by what we reported." Claims made in filing a lawsuit give only one side of a case. Downs breezes in court; 4 scratches at hearing By GLENN RUTHERFORD Staff Writer Four people whose unlicensed Kentucky Derby merchandise was confiscated by U.S.

marshals last week failed to appear at a hearing in U.S. District Court yesterday. Sheryl Snyder, an attorney for Churchill Downs, identified those whose goods were confiscated as Dante DeSilvo of Pittsburgh; John D. Gibson of Fort Wayne, Steven Rieson of Cranville, and Leon Simon of Louisville. Judge Charles Allen had scheduled the hearing so the vendors could have their day in court.

The Downs last fall hired All Pro Championships to market and license Kentucky Derby souvenir items. The track has four trademarks registered with the government the words Churchill Downs and Kentucky Derby, the 113th Derby logo and the illustration of the twin spires. A temporary restraining order obtained by the track prohibited vendors from selling any unlicensed items containing those trademarks or words or pictures that were "confusingly similar." "Every established business we contacted has been very cooperative," Snyder told Allen. "And we've been pleased that, by and large, when we asked vendors, they voluntarily complied." Gerald Lawrence, vice president and general manager of the Downs, said after the hearing that there were still a few local businesses the track would be negotiating with, but added that he hoped no further legal action would be necessary. But Simon, whose T-shirts were confiscated Derby Eve at the Rodeway Inn on Jefferson Street, said yesterday that his attorney would respond to the Downs' action "within the 20 days allowed by law." "I had some shirts that were legal and some that were illegal," he said.

"But the ones they say were illegal were already in my inventory. They were purchased before the temporary restraining order was Simon said he would ask the court to return his merchandise. Ex-'Soap' star Damon dies at 56 The Los Angeles Times BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Cathryn Damon, a co-star of "Soap," television's ribald and revolutionary parody of its own daytime melodramatic programming, died Monday of cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She was 56.

The actress, who arrived in Hollywood with an impressive array of stage credentials, became known to millions of "Soap" fans as Mary Dallas Campbell, wife of Burt Campbell, the "working stiff" counterparts to the series' wealthy and pompous Chester and Jessica Tate. Although the 1977-81 series carried a loosely structured plot line, the prime thrust was to titillate the American public with running and usually hilarious references to sex in all its forms incest, adultery and hom*osexuality. In an example of some of the more bizarre episodes, Damon's TV husband was captured and cloned by outer space aliens who then sent the clone to spend several intimate evenings with her. Damon, who won an Emmy in 1980 for her zany portrayal of Mary, found herself impregnated by her ersatz husband and in future episodes dealt with who really was the father of the baby. Trained in the legitimate theater, Damon worked until her illness incapacitated her.

Cathryn Damon Was active on Broadway before TV roles She was seen on television in the "Matlock," "Mike Hammer" and "Murder She Wrote" series. Earlier she had been the next-door neighbor on "Webster" and was featured in a TV movie, "Not in Front of the Children." On Broadway Miss Damon appeared in "Flora the Red Menace," "Prisoner of Second Avenue," "'The Last the Red Hot Lovers," "Sweet Bird of Youth" and "The Boys From Syracuse." Many South Koreans mark Buddha's birthday SEOUL, South Korea (AP) Tens of thousands of Buddhists converged on temples across South Ko- rea yesterday to chant prayers and offer flowers on Buddha's birthday. With about 10 million believers, Buddhism is the largest religious group in South Korea..

The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky (2024)

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