By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Monday, June 12, 2017, 11 p.m. — The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has implemented a new process to help prioritize road projects that stresses the importance of knowing the priorities of local residents, elected officials, business and industry, and weighing them against other needs that include improving […]
Mary Evelyn Mattingly, 91, of New Hope, died Sunday, June 11, 2017, at Flaget Memorial Hospital in Bardstown. She was born Nov. 7, 1925, in Louisville. She was a very religious woman who loved to embroider and to be outside working in her flower beds and vegetable garden. She was preceded in death by her […]
William David Puckett, 65, of Bardstown, died June 11, 2017, at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown. He was born July 13, 1951, in Buffalo. He was a retired truck driver for American Service Lines. He was preceded in death by his parents, Arvil and Helen Puckett; his son-in-law, Timmy Murphy; and grandson, Hayden Burkhead. He […]
Sister Marylee King, SCN, formerly Sister George Cecilia King, 87, a native of Topeka, Kan., died June 11, 2017, at Nazareth Home in Louisville. Sister had been a professed Sister of Charity of Nazareth for 65 years. She served as a teacher in elementary education at St. Thomas More School in Louisville from 1952-1959; in […]
Charles Edward Reed, 75, of Hodgenville, died Saturday, June 10, 2017, at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown. He was a member of St. Ann Catholic Church in Howardstown. He retired as a plumber with Leo McMillen Plumbing. He was born Nov. 28, 1941, in Larue County to the late John and Mary Ann Bartley Reed. […]
James Robert Barber Jr., 62, formerly of Springfield, peacefully departed this life on Sunday, June 4, 2017, at the VA Hospital in San Diego, Calif. He was born August 7, 1954, in Lebanon, Bob Barber Sr. and Elizabeth Ann Mudd. He spent his childhood in Springfield. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in May 1975. During […]
Larry “Toby” Couch, 43, of Bardstown, died Friday, June 9, 2017, at Flaget Memorial Hospital. He was born March 1, 1974, in Nelson County. He was an employee for Publishers Printing and a member of Nelson County Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his father, George “Bub” Couch; his maternal grandmother, Irene Browning; […]
Connie Lee Flint Morris, 70, of Bardstown, died peacefully at home Friday, June 9, 2017, in Bardstown. Formerly of Dixon, Ill., she was born in Oregon on Oct. 8, 1946. She went to school in Cambridge, IL at Sauk Valley Community College. She was retired from Borg Warner in Dixon before moving to Kentucky. She […]
Patricia Ann “Patsy” Simms Peters, 72, of Fair Drive, Springfield, died at 1:45 a.m. Friday, June 9, 2017, at the Village of Lebanon. She is survived by her husband, Frank Peters; one son, Frank Peters IV (Jennifer) of Lawrenceburg; and one brother, Mike “Critter” Grigsby of Springfield. The Funeral Mass is 11 a.m. Monday, June […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Friday, June 9, 2017 — A recent editorial in The Kentucky Standard heralded the 20th anniversary of the launch of the newspaper’s website on May 21, 1997. It’s an anniversary I have kept track of too over the years; 20 years ago, I was the newspaper […]
