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WEST KY NEWS OBITUARIES A7VFriday, June 2, 2023 Deepest sympathy for the family and friends of the deceased! A Friday, June 2, 2023 Donald Ray McKinney, 82 of Kuttawa, passed away May 22, 2023, at his home. A graveside ser- vice was held May 25, 2023, at Rose Hill Ceme- tery in Central City. MARSHALL Mary Ellen Cunningham, 87, of Benton, passed away May 27, 2023, at her home. A grave- side service for family and friends was held May 30, 2023 at Marshall Co. Memory Gardens in Benton, KY.

Kayla Fires, 31, of Benton, passed away May 26, 2023 at her home. Memorial services are planned for later date. Lindsey Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Shirley Marie Crosno, 86, of Gilbertsville, passed away on May 29, 2023, at Calvert City Convalescent Center. There are no services scheduled at this time.

Bobby R. Hamby, 90, of Benton, passed away May 29, 2023, at Calvert City Convalescent Center. Funeral services will be held Saturday, June 3, 2023, at 1:00 p.m. at Keeling Goodman Funeral Home in Paducah. Burial will follow at Fooks Cemetery in Benton, KY, with Military Honors.

Visitation will be Saturday, June 3, 2023, from 11:00 a.m., until the funeral hour at the funeral home. Kenneth Elwood Howell 84, of Benton, went to be with our Lord and Savior on May 29, 2023. A graveside service was held June 1, 2023, at the Vanzora Baptist Church Ceme- tery. Larry Coursey, 74, of Benton, passed away on May 30, 2023, at Lakeway Nursing Rehab. Arrangements are in complete at this time with Collier Funeral Home.

Harlan C. Collie, 68, of Benton, died on May 23, 2023, at Lourdes Hospital, Paducah. A visi- tation was held May 27, 2023 at Collier Funeral Chapel, Benton. McCRACKEN Frances Harris Fox, 91, passed away on May 22, 2023, at Mercy Health Lourdes. Services will be held at 11:00 a.m.

Friday June 2, 2023, at the Milner Orr Funeral Home of Pa- ducah. Burial will follow at Harris Cemetery. Emily Jane Manley, 82, of Paducah, passed away May 25, 2023, at her home. A memorial service is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. Friday, June 2, 2023, at First Baptist Church in Sikeston, MO.

An urn burial will follow at New Morley Cemetery in Morley, MO. Visitation will be held from a.m. Friday, June 2, 2023, at the church. OBITUARIES from page 6 Edith Wallace, 78, of West Paducah, passed away peacefully May 28, 2023 at her home. Ser- vices were held June 1, 2023 at the Milner Orr Funeral Home of Paducah.

Burial was at Woodlawn Memorial Gardens. Jan A. McDonald, 76, of Paducah, passed away on May 27, 2023, at Providence Pointe in Paducah. Graveside services will be at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, June 2, 2023, at Maplelawn Park Cemetery.

Elizabeth Cornwell, 89, of Paducah, passed away May 28, 2023 at Baptist Health in Paducah. Private family graveside services to be held at a later date. Phil McManus, 65, of Paducah, died May 18, 2023 at his residence. No services are sched- uled at this time. Keelling Goodman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Barbara Ann Simons, 82, of Paducah, passed away May 16, 2023, at Mercy Health-Lourdes in Paducah. A Celebration of Life service will be held on Saturday, June 3, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. at Pottsville Church of Christ, 4044 KY-945, Hick- ory, KY. There will be a reception for members of the family with a meal to follow in the Potts- ville fellowship hall. TRIGG Michael Wayne Chilton, 76, of Cadiz, passed away May 24, 2023.

Funeral services were held, May 28, 2023, at Funeral Home. Burial was in Green Hill Memorial Gardens with mili- tary honors. William Wayne Booth, 69, of Cadiz, passed away May 25, 2023, at Skyline Medical Center in Nashville. Funeral arrangements are incom- plete at this time. Vonnie Clark, 74, of Cadiz, passed away May 28, 2023, at the Ray and Kay Eckstein Hospice Care Center in Paducah, KY.

Memorial Services will be held Friday, June 2, 2023 at 1:30 p.m. at the Kingdom Hall of Witness. Burial will be at a later date in the Old Bethel Ceme- tery in Monroe, TN. Peggy Dixon Marlowe, 69, of Trigg County, passed away May 26, 2023, at Princeton Nursing and Rehabilitation in Princeton. Funeral ser- vices were held at Goodwin Funeral Home May 30, 2023.

Burial was in Caldwell Blue Spring Cemetery. Tereasa Armour Likes, 69, of Cadiz, passed away May 28, 2023, at her home. A memorial vis- itation will be held at Goodwin Funeral Home, 138 Main Street in Cadiz, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 10, 2023.

Leroy Martin, 69, of Ca- diz, passed away, May 23, 2023, at Baptist Health in Paducah. Funeral services were held May 31, 2023 at Funeral Home. Burial was in Crown Hill Cemetery. Barry Schaumburg, 67, of Cadiz, passed away May 29, 2023, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.

Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. Vernon Lewis Crump, 62, of Cadiz, died May 29, 2023, at his home. Funeral services will be Sunday, June 4, 2023, at 2:00 p.m. at Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery with military honors.

Visitation will be from p.m. Sunday at Funeral Home. UNION John Quentin Wesley, 93, of Morganfield, KY, went home peacefully on May 24, 2023. His fu- neral service was held May 28, 2023, at Whitsell Funeral Home in Morganfield. The burial was in Pythian Ridge Cemetery in Sturgis.

Billie Ann Mills, 75, of Waverly, KY passed away May 26, 2023 in Marion, KY. Her funeral service was June 1, 2023 at St. Catholic Church in Waverly. The burial was in St. Peter Cemetery.

WEBSTER Maxine Gordon Ausenbaugh, 94, of Prov- idence, KY and formerly of Dawson Springs, KY, passed away May 27, 2023, at Baptist Health Deaconess in Madisonville, KY. A visitation was held May 30, 2023, at Beshear Funeral Home, Dawson Springs, with a graveside ser- vice following at Rosedale Cemetery. David Lee Liggett, 79, of Dixon, KY, left this world for a better one on May 27, 2023. Funeral services were held May 31, 2023, at Townsend Funeral Home in Dixon. Burial was in Mt.

Pleasant Cemetery in Slaughters, KY. Donald Wayne Stone, 85, of Slaughters, passed away May 29, 2023, at Riverside Manor Nursing Home in Calhoun, KY. Services will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday, June 3, at Tomblinson Funeral Home Sebree Chapel. Burial will be in the Zion Brick Church Cemetery in Slaughters, KY.

Visitation will be Friday from 4:00 until 8:00 and Saturday 9:00 a.m. until service time at the funeral home. Marie L. Vaughn, 78, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Sunday, May 28, 2023. Funeral services will be Saturday, June 3, 2023, at Va- nover Funeral Home at 2:00 p.m.

with burial to follow in Oddfellows Cemetery in Clay. Visita- tion will be Friday, June 2, 2023 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the funeral home and from 10:00 a.m. till service time on Saturday.

By John Grimaldi and David Bruce Smith June 1 to June 15 On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee sur- rendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appo- mattox Court House, in Virginia, but that ceremony did not fin- ish the Civil War. The strife ended on June 2 when General Edmund Kir- by Smith, commander of Confederate forces west of the Mississip- pi, signed offered by Union ne- according to History.com. A little more than a year later--August 20, 1866--Andrew Johnson, President Abraham vice ly culminated the combat by proclaim- ing that insur- rection is at an end and that peace, order, tranquility, and civil authority now exist in and throughout the whole United States of The Grateful Amer- ican Book Prize endorses Elizabeth R.

Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War. The renowned Apache chief, Coch- ise, one of the greatest Native American leaders. Little is known about his early life, according to History.com, but in mid-19th centu- ry, he had become a prominent leader of the Chiricahua band of Apache Indians living in southern Arizona and north- ern Mexico. Like other Chiricahua Apache, Cochise re- sented the encroach- ment of Mexican and American settlers on their traditional lands. Cochise led nu- merous raids on the settlers living on both sides of the Mexicans and Amer- to call for military protec- tion and By 1872 the U.S.

on winding down the Apache raids, convinced Cochise to settle on a reserva- tion in Arizona. He agreed-- reportedly stating, white man and the Indian are to drink of the same water, eat of the same bread, and be at Not long after, the chief took ill, and died June 8, 1874. He was buried in the Dragoon Mountains of Arizona. The Grateful Amer- ican Book Prize rec- ommends The Wrath of Cochise by Terry Mort. In a June 12, 1987, speech, President Ronald dared the Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev, to down that had sepa- rated East and West Germany for more than a quarter of a century.

Even with doubtful warnings from White House in- siders, lucky leap crushed Commu- nism in Europe. History.com ex- plains that 1945, following defeat in World War II, the capi- tal, Berlin, was divid- ed into four sections, with the Americans, British and French controlling the western region and the Soviets gaining power in the eastern region. In May 1949, the three western sections came to- gether as the Federal Republic of Germa- ny (West Germany), with the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) being established in Octo- ber of that same year. In 1952, the border between the two coun- tries was closed and by the following year East Germans were prosecuted if they left their country without permission. In August 1961, the Berlin Wall was erected by the East German govern- ment to prevent its citizens from escap- ing to the The Grateful Amer- ican Book Prize pro- poses Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire by Bret Baier and Catherine Whitney.

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