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Floyd Thompson, 79, formerly of Taylor County, KY

Floyd C. Thompson, 79, formerly of Campbellsville, Kentucky, son of Marvin Thompson and Ruth Hash, was born June 14, 1943, in Campbellsville, Kentucky, and departed this life on Thursday, March 23, 2023 in Gallatin, Tennessee.

He served in the United States Military. He worked for the Campbellsville Police Department, and he later retired from Verizon as a Warehouse Maintenance Technician. He enjoyed spending time with family and friends, watching westerns, and swinging on the porch.


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House Fire reported at 302 Bluegrass Drive, Campbellsville

By Chris Taylor, Chief, Executive Director Fire-Rescue-EMS

Campbellsville Fire-Rescue was dispatched to a report of a working house fire. Upon arrival, firefighters found heavy smoke conditions and heavy fire in the attic. Firefighters searched for occupants, extinguished the fire and provided overhaul. No firefighter or civilian injuries were related. The cause of the fire is undetermined at this time.


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Dorothy Brock, 83, Gradyville, KY native (1939-2023)

Dorothy (Burris) Brock, formerly of Louisville, Kentucky, passed to her Heavenly reward on March 24, 2023 at Campbellsville Nursing and Rehab. She was 83 years old.

The funeral service will be held at 11amCT on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, at Grissom-Martin Funeral Home, 200 Campbellsville Street, Columbia, KY, with Rev. David Hansel, Rev. Shaun Thomas and Rev. Boyce Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Tarters' Chapel Cemetery.

Visitation is requested after 4pmCT on Monday.


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Jerry Murphy, 68, Campbellsville, KY (1954-2023)

Jerry D. Murphy of Decatur, Illinois, died on Thursday, March 9, 2023. He was 68 years old.

The funeral service will be held at 11amET on Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at Parrott & Ramsey Funeral Home, 418 Lebanon Ave., Campbellsville, KY. Burial will follow in Jones Chapel Cemetery.

Visitation is requested from 10amET until 11amET on Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at Parrott & Ramsey Funeral Home in Campbellsville.


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Larry Alvin Bell, 72, Campbellsville, KY (1950-2023)

Larry Alvin Bell of Campbellsville departed this life on Friday, March 24, 2023 at his residence. He was 72 years old.

There will be a funeral service for Larry Bell at 11amET on Monday, March 27, 2023 at L.R. Petty Funeral Home, 1765 New Columbia Rd., Campbellsville, KY, with burial to follow in the Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery. Bro. Mike Gribbins will officiate.

The family requests visitation on Sunday March 26, 2023 from 5pmET until 8pmET at the L.R. Petty Funeral Home.


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Softball: LWC trades shutouts with No. 11 Georgia Gwinnett

Lawrenceville, GA - At the Grizzley Softball Complex, sophomore Abigail Cruz fired the Lindsey Wilson softball team's first complete-game shutout of the year as the Blue Raiders and hosts Georgia Gwinnett split their series-ending twin bill.

The visitors got off on the right foot on Saturday after dropping both contests on Friday, recording their first shutout of the ranked opponent since April 11, 2021.

Lindsey Wilson continues its non-conference stretch with a home doubleheader against Asbury University on Tuesday afternoon, March 28, 2023. The first pitch is slated for 3pmCT from Marilyn D. Sparks Park, Lindsey Wilson Sports Complex, 928 Russell Road, Columbia, KY.


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Into Adair County, Pioneer Style

By Mike Watson

Coming into Kentucky and Adair County-- A major trail from the Bluegrass into Tennessee passed through what is now Adair County. Early pioneers followed the well-defined natural roads made by the North American bison. Two bison trails crossed near where the Town Branch crosses Jamestown Street in present day Columbia. The town reputedly sprang up where it did due to the close proximity to the trails. Where the trails crossed creeks and rivers, there were natural fords useful for pioneers.

Fords across the Green and Cumberland Rivers and larger creeks like Russell and Crocus were used by the pioneers and their descendants and some are likely in use today. David Doak and Vandiver Banks ran ferries across the Green River at an early date. William Caldwell owned a ferry that crossed Russell Creek, probably in the vicinity of Columbia and prior to the building of the first bridges. One of the DeMoss brothers operated a ferry across Russell Creek somewhere near present Milltown in the early 1800s.

The permanent occupation of present Adair County was led by Col. William Casey and about thirty other men, some of whom had families, who formed together on the Hanging Fork of Dick's--now Dix--River, in Lincoln County, and moved as a group to what is now Adair.


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Poetry: To cultivate the seasonals

By Robert Stone, 26 March 2023
A word-list sonnet for Poetry in the Boro

I want more Empire apples tart and firm,
I was enraptured when I ate my first.
Short shelf-life means supply is but short term,
so get now, later cannot be coerced.

When night is dark and seems penultimate
to final ending where all turns to slime,
another day will dawn to cultivate
the seasonals we eat at proper time.

I'm eating cashews as I write these rhymes,
and sometimes when I blink I think I see
gleams scintillating as their brightness climbs,
crescendoing unsalted let them be.

All fruits and nuts are pleasures I enjoy
as I to write this all my wits employ.


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Haiku by Robert Stone for March 26, 2023

Mighty like a rose,
often said but how many
resemble roses.
--Robert Stone, Sunday, 26 March 2023.
-1000 haiku fourth time, more days coming up, Day 4212


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Birthdays and Anniversaries for March 26
Happy Anniversary, Donna and Mitchell McKinley | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Anniversary, Timothy and Lori Kessler | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Becky Bell | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Cameron Fletcher (1988) | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Freddie Curl | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Jason Wooten (1978) | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Jeremy Wall | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Joyce Hoots | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Kayka Kelsay | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Kristie Johnson | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Linda Seaton | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Matthew Willis | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Patricia Yates (1948) | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Roy Wayne Coffey | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Ruby Smith | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Summer Piercy | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Susan Sandidge | (Updates/Corrections)
Happy Birthday, Wayne Jessee | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Oleen Hill, Campbellsville, KY (1931-2019) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Joyce (Loy) Hoots, Adair County, KY (1935-2020) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Howard Long, Cumberland Co. KY (1943) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Jessie Reeves Aaron, Adair Co., KY (1915) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Jewell Fudge Baker, Adair Co., KY (1925) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Barbara Denton-Erlenbush, of Adair Co., KY ancestry (1963_ | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Ruth Carol Chapman, Russell Co., KY (1926) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Flora Cox Jones, Taylor County, KY, (1924) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Mrs. Pansy Jackson Arms Blythe, Knob Lick, KY (1936) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Janet M. Gadberry, Russell County, KY (1929) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Gladys Thompson, Green County, KY (1928-2013) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Delpha Stephens, Adair County, KY (1939-2013) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, D. C. Phillips, Taylor County, KY (1932-2013) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Urias (Deedle) Stephens, Jr., Russell County, KY, (1929-2014) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Leslie Milt (L.M) Blythe, 80, Burkesville, KY (1934-2014) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Ruth Pearl Patten, 92, Casey County, KY (1922-2015) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Tommy Richardson, Liberty, KY (1953-2015) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Mr. Glyn A. Scott, Green County, KY (1932-2015) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Iner Edward Jones, Mt. Hermon, KY (1926-2015) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Mr. Barlow Grider, Cumberland Co., KY (1936-2016) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Donald (D.A.) Austin, Casey County, KY (1949-2016) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Hall E. Johnson Adair County, KY; Cumberland Co. native (1929-2016) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Eva Sanders, Liberty, KY (1928-2016) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Ms. Misty Ann Buley, 42, Campbellsville, KY (1974-2016) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Coy Turner, 60, Russell County, KY (1956-2016) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Mr. Roy Graham, 62, Taylor County, KY (1954-216) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, William (Buck) White, 82, Burkesville, KY (1934-2016) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Evelyn Sarah (Cooper) Berson, 98, Russell Co., KY (1918-2016) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Pamela Ann Shaw Stinson, 43, Edmonton, KY (1973-2016) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Leon Grider, 80, Russell Springs, KY (1936-2016) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Donald Wayne Jessie, 73, Columbia, KY (1943-2017) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Dallas Ray Holt, 71, Montpelier, Adair County, KY (1946-2018) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Charlotte Mae (Mason) Luttrell, Casey County, KY (1949-2018) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Mitchell Marlow, 45, Russell County, KY/Florida native (1973-2018) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Susie Mae Matney Hedgespeth, Green Co., KY (1952-2013) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Becky Kessler Bell, 73, Campbellsville, KY (1948-2021) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Bill Moran, 83, Campbellsville, KY (1939-2022) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Billy Weddle, Casey County, KY (1939-2019) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Della McQueary (March 26, 1914 - Dec. 19, 1999) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Donna Mae Taylor, 61, Columbia, KY (1962-2023) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Edith Newton Wise Hunt, 97, Campbellsville, KY (1924-2021) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Elizabeth (Nanny) Cochran Grider, 89, Liberty, KY (1932-2021) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Helen Hare, Taylor County, KY (1941-2018) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, J.C. Magers, Campbellsville, KY (1928-2009) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Jack Milton Vaughn, 66, Greensburg, KY (1956-2022) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Jimmy D. Hammond, Adair Co., KY (1968-2016) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Joelene Sallee, 84, Casey Co., KY native (1938-2022) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Lt. Colonel Gordon E. Smith, 92, Campbellsville, KY (1928-2020) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Marie Stephens, 101, Adair Co., KY native (1921-2022) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Maxine Brown, 95, Breeding, KY (1928-2023) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Orley Absher (1933-2002) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Randy Price, 56, Dunnville, KY (1964-2020) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Ray Milby, 90, Greensburg, KY (1931-2022) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Sam Stapleton (1941-2004) | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Sandra R. Sharpe, 85, Columbia, KY (1935-2020) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Tommy Thompson, Metcalfe County, KY Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Treva Mae Richards, 79, Russell Springs, KY (1941-2021) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)
In Memory Birthday, Ural (Haney) Sneed, 83, Breeding, KY (1937-2020) Obituary | (Updates/Corrections)

Events scheduled for Sunday, March 26, 2023
All events are listed in Central Time. Submit your upcoming event using our Contact Form.
9:00amCTSpring Gospel Meeting at Columbia Church of Christ | (ID:64693, Comment)
1:00pmCTStudent art on display at Trabue Russell House | (ID:64716, Comment)
Services for Larry Wayne Powell, 72, Columbia, KY (1950-2023) | (ID:64721, Comment)
5:00pmCTFoot Washing and Communion at Pleasant Hill Church | (ID:64722, Comment)
6:00pmCTSpring Revival at Little Cake Christian Church | (ID:64704, Comment)
6:30pmCTRevival at Bethlehem Separate Baptist Church | (ID:64718, Comment)

 

































 
 
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