Maggie Parrent, 89, of Bardstown, died Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014, at Kensington Manor in Elizabethtown. She was born March 7, 1925, in Woodlawn. She worked for Bardstown Laundry and Kenny’s Cleaners. She was a member of Mill Creek Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles “Sparky” Parrent; her parents, Tilford and […]
Hollis Stoner Wolfe Keene, 98, of Bardstown, died Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, at the Masonic Home of Shelbyville. She was born Hollis Lindley Stoner on Nov. 22, 1916, the second child of Eva Belle and Thomas Stoner of Jeffersonville, Ind. She was raised in Jeffersonville, Ind., and graduated from Jeffersonville High School. She graduated from […]
Albert Daniel Purdy, 97, of Lebanon, died Friday, Dec. 19, 2014. He was born Oct. 15, 1917, in Marion County. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II, a retired employee of Kentucky Bourbon Cooperage, and a member of St. Augustine Catholic Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, William Harrison […]
Rebecca “Bee” Edelen, 73, of Lebanon, died Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014, at Spring View Hospital in Lebanon. She was born June 24, 1941, in Lebanon. She was a homemaker and a member of St. Augustine Catholic Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Leo Edelen (1998); her parents, Lawrence Birtle and Flora […]
By JIMMY HIGDON 14th District State Senator Friday, Dec. 19, 2014 — I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas season and a Happy New Year. For the second year in a row, the hustle of Christmas parties, parades, church services and family get-togethers seems more intense with the shorter period between Thanksgiving and Christmas […]
Sue DeSpain Hurst, 78, of Bardstown, died Friday, Dec. 19, 2014, at her home. She was born Dec. 5, 1936, in Louisville and was a homemaker for her family. She was preceded in death by her husband, John Hurst and her parents, Charles R. & Virginia Durlauf DeSpain. Survivors include four children; three sisters; and […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Friday, Dec. 19, 2014, 11:28 a.m. — The state fire marshal and the Kentucky State Police have been asked to investigate a fire that damaged a Castleton Drive home in Wellington subdivision Friday morning. The Bardstown Fire Department’ on-scene incident commander requested the investigators’ help to determine the fire’s […]
Editor’s Note: The indictment of a person by a grand jury or otherwise is an accusation only and that person is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. Friday, Dec. 19, 2014 – The following people were indicted by a Nelson County grand jury on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. They are scheduled for arraignment Thursday, Jan. 8, […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014, 10:30 p.m. — The Bardstown man who broke into the Bardstown branch of the Lincoln National Bank earlier this month was indicted Wednesday by a Nelson County grand jury. Ronald G. Newberry, 61, was indicted on charges of first-degree burglary, first-degree criminal mischief and […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014, 2 p.m. — A New Haven man died Thursday morning in a single-vehicle crash on the Bluegrass Parkway in Hardin County. According to the Kentucky State Police in Elizabethtown, Glenn Edward Stratton III, 21, died when his 2000 Chrysler 300M left the parkway and […]
