Mary Estelle Boone Wimsett, 80, of New Haven, died Wednesday, May 8, 2013. She was a member of the St. Catherine of Alexandria Catholic Church in New Haven. She was a 1965 graduate of Spalding University where she earned her Teacher Elementary Education certificate. She completed her Rank ll Teaching certificate from Western Kentucky University […]
STAFF REPORT Editor’s Note: The Nelson County Gazette believes the public has a right to know who has been arrested by local officials and lodged in the Nelson County Jail. The information below is a compiled list of daily booking logs from the jail. The bookings state the person(s) arrested and the charge(s) against them. […]
Rose Riley SCN, 75, formerly Sister Rose Bernard Riley, died Monday, May 6, 2013, at Carrico Hall, Nazareth. She was a native of Bardstown. She served in elementary and secondary education as teacher and principal in Kentucky and Indiana for 49 years. In Louisville, she served at St. Cecilia and St. Agnes Schools as teacher. […]
Angela Mudd Peterson, 87, of Lebanon, died Thursday, May 2, 2013, at Richmond Place in Lexington. She was born Sept. 6, 1925, in Fredericktown. She worked at the Lebanon Stockyards, New Farmer’s Tobacco Warehouse, and the Marion County Water District. She was a member of St. Augustine Catholic Church. She was preceded in death by […]
Martha Franklin, 82, of Bloomfield, died Tuesday, May 7, 2013, at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown. She was a member of the Old Chaplin Fork Baptist Church where she also taught Sunday School. She was one of the Franklin Sisters who sang on a program on WBRT radio for 20 years on Sunday mornings. She […]
Francis Allan “Dink” Thompson, 60, of Bardstown, died Tuesday, May 7, 2013, with his family by his side after a courageous eight-month battle with pancreatic and liver cancer. Known by many as “Dink”, he was born Aug. 17, 1952. He was a 1970 graduate of St. Francis High School in Loretto and attended Spencerian Business […]
George Norman Smith Jr., 82, of Bardstown, died Tuesday, May 7, 2013, at his home. He was born Feb. 4, 1931, in Louisville. He worked in the local family business at Norman’s Shoe Shop and retired from Owens Illinois in 1996. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War and a veteran of […]
Kathy Blacketer Mullins, 85, of Bardstown, died Monday, May 6, 2013, at Flaget Memorial Hospital. She was born Dec. 11, 1927, in Mackville. She was a self-employed hairdresser and a member of Bardstown Optimist Club. She was a member of the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) where she was a deacon, and a member […]
Monday, May 6, 2013, 10 p.m. – Sen. Jimmy Higdon will be a studio guest on today’s edition of WBRT’s “Brooks & Company” airing 11 to noon on 1320 AM, 97.1 FM and streaming live, www.NelsonCountyGazette.com orwww.WBRTCountry.com. Higdon will discuss the the 2013 General Assembly, redistricting, and other legislative issues likely to face the 2014 legislative […]
Joseph Lawrence Thompson, 74, of Bardstown, died Monday, May 6, 2013, at his home. He was born May 10, 1938, in New Haven. He was the owner/operator of the Bluegrass Tavern, an Army veteran, and the founder of “Bluegrass Tavern Club”. He was preceded in death by his parents, Joseph Lawrence and Theresa Hagan Thompson; […]
