Obituaries

Dec 11, 2014

Mr. George Thomas Bowers age 76 of Salem passed away Thursday, December 11 at Indiana University Health in Bloomington.

Mr. Bowers was born November 11, 1938 on Bowers Tree Farm the son of John Thomas and Inez Martin Bowers.   He graduated high school in Mt. Summit, Indiana.  He was...

Dec 10, 2014

Dorothy Jean Brown age 82 of Salem passed away Wednesday, December 10 at St. Vincent Hospital of Salem.

Dorothy was born November 1, 1932 in Salem the daughter of Lester O. and Nellie M. Collier Brown.  She was a retired from B.F. Goodrich in 1982.  She was a member...

Dec 10, 2014

Mr. Donald Johnson age 70 of Pekin passed away Wednesday, December 10 at Meadow View Health Care and Rehab.

Mr. Johnson was born December 13, 1943 in Louisville, Kentucky the son of Ray and Louise Watts Johnson.  He was a retired Electrical Maintenance Department Foreman for the University of...

Dec 5, 2014

Mr. Kenneth Warren “Pappy” Cress age 90 of Salem passed away Friday, December 5 at Robley Rex VAMC in Louisville.

Mr. Cress was born May 28, 1924 in Burning Springs, Kentucky the son of Elisha and Frances Muncy Cress.  He was a retired employee of Link Handle Company.  He...

Dec 4, 2014

Mrs. Barbara Sue Coliapolis age 73 of Salem passed away Thursday, December 4, at her home.

Mrs. Coliapolis was born June 5, 1941 in Salem the daughter of Ossie and Nannie Melton Davidson.  She was a retired employee of Tecumseh and a former employee of Bata Shoe Company and...

Dec 3, 2014

Mr. Malcolm Hays McMakin age 72 of Hardinsburg passed away Wednesday, December 3 at St. Vincent Hospital of Salem.

Mr. McMakin was born July 21, 1942 in Frankfort, Kentucky the son of Julius Emerson and Lottie May Richardson McMakin.  He was an EMT, had been a firefighter for more...

Dec 2, 2014

Michael R. “Mike” Jones age 56 of Campbellsburg passed away Tuesday, December 2 at his home.

Mike was born February 9, 1958 in Salem the son of Raymond B. and Frances Stewart Jones.  He was an employee of Kimball Office Furniture in Borden for 30 years.  He was a...

Dec 1, 2014

William Ivan (Bill) Gross age 81 passed away at 3:00AM on Monday, December 1, 2014 at Baptist Health, in Corbin, Kentucky.

Bill was born November 5, 1933 in Washington County, Indiana to Hugh and Nellie Combs Gross.

He was a truck driver by...

Nov 26, 2014

Mr. Leo W. Nicholson age 94 of Pekin passed away Wednesday, November 26 at 8:37PM in Borden.

Mr. Nicholson was born October 30, 1920 in Washington County, Indiana the son of John and Elma Phipps Nicholson.  He was a retired foreman for Hobart Manufacturing Corporation and a retired farmer. ...

Nov 24, 2014

Mrs. Evelynn F. Hamilton age 84 of Salem passed away Monday, November 24 at University of Louisville Hospital.

Mrs. Hamilton was born January 26, 1930 in Orleans the daughter of Harold and Ruth Brinson Jacobs.  She was a retired employee of GKN.  She was a member of Westview Christian...

Nov 19, 2014

Mr. William F. Brickey age 84 of Florida, formerly of Salem, passed away Wednesday, November 19 at Hope Hospice in Lehigh Acres, Florida.

Mr. Brickey was born April 13, 1930 in Washington County, Indiana the son of Jerry Andrew and Bessie Mae Walton Brickey.  He was retired from Sprint...

Nov 12, 2014

Mr. Glen R. Batt age 62 of Pekin passed away Wednesday at 11:33AM at University of Louisville Hospital.

Mr. Batt was born November 8, 1952 in Salem the son of Earl and Lucille McCoy Batt.  He was a retired employee of TG Missouri in New Albany.  He was a...

Nov 9, 2014

Mr. Jack Eugene Thixton age 87 of Sellersburg passed away Sunday, November 9 at Clark Memorial Hospital.

Mr. Thixton was born October 14, 1927 in Salem, Indiana the son of Earl and Leafa Gross Thixton.  He was retired from Teamsters Local #76.  He was a member of Memorial Methodist...

Nov 5, 2014

Mary Ann Shuler age 45 of Salem passed away Wednesday, November 5 at 11:58AM at St. Vincent Hospital of Salem.

Mary Ann was born April 14, 1969 in Scottsburg, Indiana the daughter of Dallas and Annette Apple.  She was a Christian.  She was a former employee of Schwan’s Frozen...

Oct 31, 2014

Bertha M. Clifton age 88 of Pekin passed away Friday, October 31 at Clark Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville.

Mrs. Clifton was born July 24, 1926 in Buchanan County, Virginia the daughter of Jackson and Dora Mitchell White.  She was a homemaker.

She was...

Oct 29, 2014

Mr. Roscoe Foster Brewer age 99 of Salem passed away Wednesday, October 29 at 1:40PM at his home.

Mr. Brewer was born September 29, 1915 in Campbellsburg the son of William and Dessie Mae Foster Brewer.  He was a retired mechanic for Sperry New Holland.  He attended Westview Christian...

Oct 28, 2014

Zachary Bottorff age 7 of Salem passed away Tuesday, October 28 at 10:40AM at his home.

Zachary was born February 8, 2007 in New Albany, Indiana the son of Shawn and Tawny Hawes Bottorff.

He is survived by his parents:  Shawn and Tawny...

Oct 27, 2014

Mr. Harold Richard Agan age 86 of Hardinsburg died Monday, October 27 at Indiana University Health in Bedford.

Mr. Agan was born March 15, 1928 in Hardinsburg the son of Lewie and Hazel McCain Agan.  Harold was a life long resident of Washington County, a farmer his entire life,...

Oct 25, 2014

Sherry Mae Catlett age 54 of Salem passed away Saturday, October 25 at her home.

Sherry was born September 1, 1960 in Washington County, Indiana the daughter of Glen and Minnie Stidhams Killion.  She was a former employee of Meadow View Health Care and Rehab.  She was a member...

Oct 25, 2014

Barbara Grace (Zaring) Paynter, mother and wife, passed away Saturday, October 25 at Presence Hospital in Urbana, Illinois at age 91.  She was preceded in death by her husband of 54 years:  Julian Paynter.

She is survived by her five children:  Patty, Linda, Bill and twin daughters:  Barbara Jo...