Mary Josephine “Joann” Gootee, 69, of Loretto, died Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, at her home surrounded by her loving family. She was born Dec. 22, 1953, in New Haven. She was a retired employee of Spring View Hospital where she worked in the dietary department for 42 ½ years. She enjoyed fishing, cooking and entertaining. […]
Joseph “Joe” Veller Miles Sr., 85 years young, died Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, He was called home and one could only suspect he caught word that Heaven had a yard that needed to be mowed. In his younger years, he worked for Rose Construction. But in his “youthful” years, he was most often found mowing […]
Bobby Jewell Prather, 88, of Louisville, formerly of Chaplin, died at 2:23 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, at the Glen Ridge Health Campus in Louisville. He was a native of Nelson County. He was born on Feb. 22, 1935, to the late Cecil and Nora Hood Prather. He was a member of the Okeechobee Christian […]
Clara Jean Wheatley, 86, of Howardstown, died Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, at the Loretto Motherhouse. She was a member of St. Ann Catholic Church and the retired Blood Bank Supervisor for Sts. Mary and Elizabeth Hospital. While working in the medical technology field, she received the Volunteer Award from the Kentuckiana Hemophilia Foundation. She was […]
Antonia Calvert Richardson died at 4 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, to be home with Jesus. She was the fourth of five children of Tonie Huntley Calvert and Anne Russell Neil Calvert. She was born in Bloomfield and graduated with her class of 1953 from Bloomfield High School. She was a graduate of the University […]
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. This information […]
James Rudolph Warner, 91, of Winchester, formerly of Bloomfield, died Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, at Lexington VA Medical Center. He was born Jan. 17, 1932, in Chaplin to the late Earl and Hazel Burns Warner. He was a retired employee of Commonwealth Life Insurance. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War. He […]
Marguerite Blair Bowling, 98, of New Haven, died Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, in New Haven, surrounded by her loving children. She was born to James J Blair and Katharine Bowling Blair on April 9,1925, in New Hope. She married Martin John Bowling, the love of her life, on Nov. 11, 1948, at St Vincent de […]
Doris Lee Crank, 68, of Bardstown, died Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, at Baptist Health Hardin. She was born on Feb. 24, 1955, in Springfield, Tenn. She was preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Dorothy Middleton Bailey; and one brother, Ron Bailey. She is survived by her husband, Earl Crank of Bardstown; one daughter, […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023 — A number of the residents of the Edgewood subdivision attended Tuesday night’s Bardstown City Council meeting to complain about the smell of the city’s Gilkey Run sewer plant. “We’re really struggling in the neighborhood with the terrible smell,” Victoria Clark told the […]
