Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky (2024)

August 28, 1997

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Lexington Herald-Leaderi

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Lexington, Kentucky

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Thursday, August 28, 1997

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26

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C2 LtXINGION HI RMOLEAOCR UxiNCilON KV THURSDAY AUGUST 28 1997 Brandon Tartikoff dead at 48 introduced hit shows on NBC He was pilloried by tlie media for Itroailcasting a special by Gcraldo Rivera about Satanism in his style Mr Tartikoff himself brought the incident up fix years afterward Mr Tartikoff was born on Jan 13 1919 in Freeiuirt NY a I-ong Island sulntrb of New York City lie attended Yale where he played varsity bast-tall was captain of tlu: fetu-ing team and co-edit-etl the campus humor magazine with Garry Trudeau the carlixinist After receiving his bachelor's degree in 1970 Mr Tartikoff tixik a job with a Comu-cticut advertising agency and two years later he became director of advertising and promotion lx1 WTNH-TV the ABC affiliate in New Haven In 1973 he landed a similar job at WLS-TV tlie AllC-owned station in Chicago He spent every vacation in Los Angeles kinking for a job in net-wix-k TV He found one when Fred Silver-man then head of ABCs programming diviskm hired him in 1976 as the director of dramatic devckipment Mr Tartikoff remained with ABC only until September 1977 when he left to become director of comedy programming at NBC Mr Tartikoff is survived by his wife the former Lilly Samuels a dancer with the New York City Ballet whom he married in 1982 "Matlix-k" "227" "ALP and "Empty Nest" He left NBC for I mount wIuti- his 13-month tenure foniu! mixed results Tlic studio released the smash hit Wayne's World as well ns the tlisa)jxintmg Conquest of Paradise during ttat tiiiu- He left Paramount in 1992 to sxiul more time with his daughter Calla wlio was seriously injured in a car crash at tlu family's take Tahoe vacation home Mist recently lx was hired by America Online in Muvh to bolster its devek)iuiU of onliiu programs fis cusing ixi tlu: entiitiituiuiit industry He previously had served as head of New World Entertainment and ran his own production company II Beale named after the "mad prophet of the airwaves" character in the movie Mr Tartikoffs management of NBC's schedule made him one of show business' brightest lights and he succeeded generally through innovation not sleaze In his first season with the network he introduced Street a low-rated police series that he stuck with while it won critical acclaim and developed a loyal following In one of his List years at NBC the network intnxhicixl NBC also had its share of celebrated failures during Tartikoffs watch They included "Manimal" "Beverly Hills Buntz" City Blues" and AstucuriD Pmiss I jllS ANGELES Hrandon Tartikoff tlu ft shut NBC programming wizard wlto transformed prime-time television in the HWOs with such luulmaik slums as Street Blues" I aw" snul "Tlu Cosby Show" died yesterday of llixlgkin's disea si Hi was 48 Mr Tartikoff died at UCLA Medical Center where he had Urn undergoing elnmothiTapy The fornuT etairman of Pic-tuns was hospitalized earlier litis year after suffering his third recur-mur of the ilisi-ase an often fatal earner of the lymph nixies He had battled it off and on situt he was 21 Mr Tartikoff became the youngest entertainment president in network history in 1980 when at age 30 he tixik over NBC's moribund programming He promptly turned llte lowest -rated network into tlu nation's most popular through ground-breaking comedies and dramas im-luding "Cheers" Ties" "Miami Vice" and Golden Girls" MIC was the No 1 m-twork for five conseeutive seasons under his k-adirship In 1982-83 his first full season of building the schedule from top to bottom Mr Tartikoffs slate included "Family Ties" "Knight Rider" "Tlu: A-Team" and "St Elsewhere" Other highly rated series he in-tnxluced included "Night Court" "Hunter" "Highway to Heaven" lou 91 High Street retired Eastern Kentucky University Bookstore empkiyee widow of Fred I Ballou died Tiu'sday Servuvs 11 am Friday Oldham RoIutIs aiul Powell Fumral Home Visitation 5-8 pm tixlay RICHMOND Thomas James Burton 59 Alta-numt Street died Monday Servuvs 2 pm Friday Elizalieth JWesti-narian Baptist Church Visitation 6-8 pm Puliy church Arrangements Combs hirsons Collins Funeral Ikime RICHMOND Ruby Carrier Williams 85 Hminchell Drive who had lxen a homemaker died yesterday Servuvs 10 am Friday Ik-tva Cemetery No visitation Arrangements Turpin Funeral Ilome Contributions suggested to Red House Baptist Church or one's favorite diarity RUSSELL SPRINGS Made-line Robertson Kean 65 Jericho Rond retired Russell Sportswear empkiyee widow of Marshall Kean died yesterday Services 2 pm Friday liemard Funeral Ikmic Visits-turn 4:30 pm tixlay RUSSELL SPRINGS Mary Sullivan 95 takeway Drive tamer homemaker widow of Bolivar Sullivan died Tuesday Services 1 pm Friday Ripxtne Funeral Ikxne Visitation 5 pm tixlay SANDY HOOK Edna Olivia-Gibson 83 fomur homemaker mother of Bill Gibson die-d Tues--day Servia-s 2 pm Friday El-dridge Funeral Home Visitation 6 pm tixlay SHELBYVILLE Cecil Chandler 77 Waddy who had been a tamer World War II veteran husband of Miry Chandler died yesterday Services 2 pm Friday Shannon Funeral Home Visitation 4-9 pm today SOMERSET Vara Stevenson 81 Park Avenue retired teacher died Tuesday Services 3 pm Friday Somerset Undertaking Co Visitation 6-8 pm today TOMPKINSVILLE Marie Curtis Francis 68 103 Crawford Street retired hospital and nursing home cook sister of JB Curtis Columbia died of canor Tuesday Services 11 am Friday Strode Funeral Ikxne Visitation 10 am tixlay WHITESBURG Drinda Cor-nett 86 tamer homemaker widow of Clifton Cornett died of cancer Monday Services 11 am today Big Cowan Old Regular Baptist Church Visitation 10 am today church Arrangements Letcher Funeral Home WHITLEY CITY Ernie Thomas Vahla 84 Strunk home- maker widow of George died of cancer yesterday Services 1 pm Friday McCreary County Fu- -neral I lome Visitation 6 pm today WILLIAMSBURG Ernest" Carr 81 father of Vennice Carter died of cancer Tuesday Services 2 pm Friday Ellison Funeral Home Visitation 5 pm today WINCHESTER Doris Cro-ley Moberiy 110 Ashford Drive former insurance company employee teacher and fashion nwdel wife of Dr Harold Moberiy Jr died Tuesday Services 10 am Friday First Presbyterian Church Visita-tion 6-9 pm today Scobee Funeral Home Contributions suggested to First Presbyterian Church Sanctuary Renovation Fund pm Friday Iloviuus Mission Church Knifley Visitation 8 am today Stmts IVlps-MctJucary Fit-iHtai I Ionic CORblN Ida Stewart 89 1373 MustiT Slntl nliivel clothing store sales clerk willow of Tlmiekin Stewart died yi-slitiliy Sitvkts 2 pm Friday Corbin Fit-neml Ikime Visitation 8 )m Iixliy DANVILLE Jessie Lee Warren 74 Allxiny Circle retired Corning Glass Works and Pltilliiis Lighting entployee World War II veteran died Tuesday Services 2 pm tixlay Stith Funeral Home Visitation 9 am tmlav FM-MINGSbl KG Nancy Hinton Kelley Route 1 bookkcc-er widow of Harvey Kelley died Monday Services 2 pm Friday boone-Nickell Funeral Home Visitation 4 pm tixlav FLKMINGSbi'RG Warren Lee Ramey 76 Kmite 1 Hillsboro retired farmer World War II veteran widower of Naomi Vice Rann-y died Tuesday apparently of ranaf Services 1 pm Friday I kilt on Funeral I lime Visitation tv 9 pm tixlav FRANKFURT William Stanley Adams 66 300 Fort boom Ilnzn retired truck driver Korean War veteran died Monday Services 10 am Friday Harris! brothers Funeral Koine Visitation 5-9 pm tixlay FRANKFORT Cornell Durr 66 101 Edge wood Drive owner and operator of Durr Custom Framing husband of Virginia Durr died Tuesday Services 2 pm today Harrod brothers Funeral Home Visitation 9 am today JACKSON Exle Noble 79 Railroad Street homemaker died Monday Services 1 pm tixlay breathitt Funeral Home LAWRENCEIil'RG James Waterfill Jr 70 1210 Bonds Mill Road retired Seagram Distillery employee Korean War veteran son of Frances Carter Waterfill died Tuesday Sen-ices 2 pm Saturday Gash Memorial Chapel Visitation 6 pm tixlay 8 am Friday and Saturday LIBERTY Oscar Jack Wright 68 Pond Schixil Road gate dealer husband of Ethel Law-son Wright died of cancer Tuesday Services 11 am Friday McKinney-Brown Funeral Home Visitation 6-9 pm today LONDON Leonard Proffitt 74 West 16th Street retired heating and air conditioning repairman World War II veteran husband of Mayme Overbay Proffitt died Tuesday Sen-ices 2 pm Friday Bowling Funeral Home Visitation 6 pm today LORETTO Rev Clarence Schwartz 71 Louisville formerly of Raywick Catholic priest who had pastured St Francis Xavier Catholic Church at Raywick died Tuesday Sen-ices 1 1 am Saturday St Francis Xavier Catholic Church Raywick Visitation 2-4 pm and 7-9 pm tixlay and Friday bosse Funeral Home Louisville 8 am Saturday church LOY John Cornett 66 Dayton Ohio formerly of Harlan County retired factory foreman widower of Louise Marlow Cornett died Tuesday Sen-ices 2 pm today Loyall Funeral Home Visitation 9 am tixlay MARTIN Elder Luther 2nd woman dies as result of Sunday crash Compiled Bv Jennifer Hewlett Lexington Rodney Brower 70 mired Tati's Creek High Schtxil assistant principal World War II and Korean War veteran husband of Arnn'da Mays Brewer died Tuesday appcir enlly of a heart attack Services 1 pm Saturday Kerr brothers Funeral Ikmu Visitation 5-9 pm today tawis Funeral Home Irvine 5-9 pm Friday Km brothers Funer-al Home Contributkms suggested to American Cancer Society Harvey Cooper 75 Fine Meadows Health Care died Tuesday Services 1 pm Friday New Vine baptist Church Fort Sring Visitation 11 am Friday church Arrangements Morgan Funeral Home Versailles Robert Grant Gentry 74 3278 Koxburg Drive mired employee of Firestone Tire Rubber Co in Dayton Ohio World War II veteran husband ofGeneva Gentry died yesterday Services 10 am Saturday Porter Memorial baptist Church Visitation 5-9 pm Friday WK Milward Mortuary-Southland James 0 Gumm 49 painter son of John Gumm died yesterday Autopsy results pending Services 1 pm today Lexington Cemetery No visitation Arrangements Whitehall Funeral Chapel Freda Mae Hagar 82 Loudon Avenue firmer homemaker died yesterday Arrangements incomplete Aaron Smith Funeral Home Kentucky ALBANY James Cooksey 82 Aaron husband of Vida Cooksey died Tuesday Sendees 2 pm today Talbott Funeral Home Visitation 8 am today ASHLAND Harold Car- penter 58 Cannonsburg mired AK Steel employee husband of Sandy Ross Carpenter died yester-day Sendees 11 am Saturday Steen Funeral Home Cannonsburg Chapel Visitation 5-9 pm Friday Contributions suggested to Community Hospice ASHLAND Carrie Qualls Laborde 71 Lakeland Fla formerly of Ashland widow of Nolan Laborde Sr died Monday Ser- vices 1 pm Saturday Steen Funer-: al Home Ashland Chapel Visita- tion 68 pm Friday BARDSTOWN Ann Eliza- both Johnson 81 104 Wickland Drive former department store employee widow of Albert Ivo Johnson died yesterday Ser-' vices 11 am Friday St Joseph Catholic Church Visitation 2 pm today Northside Funeral Home COLUMBIA Bonnie Uoyd 84 formerly of Columbia former 1 homemaker mother of Bernice Dob- son Lexington died Tuesday Ser- vices 3 pm Friday Stotts-Phelps- McQueary Funeral Home Visita- tion 2 pm today COLUMBIA Raymond Robert Watson 79 2832 Knifley Road former owner of Watson Trucking died Tuesday Services 1 i Funeral Notices Information furnished to Heraki-ieader advertisint department by mortuaries Local BREWER From Staff Wire Reports MANCHESTER A Richmond man who was charged with manslaughter after a hit-and-run crash on the Daniel Boone tarkway left one woman dead over the weekend will face more charges now that a second woman has died as a result of the crash Hazel Thompson 83 of Buckhom died Tuesday at the University of Kentucky Hospital She was a passenger in a car driven by Geraldine Abner age unavailable when a car driven by Reginald Stidham 23 of Richmond crossed the center line and struck the Abner car Sunday night police said Mrs Thompson's daughter Hazel Abner 57 of Buckhom was also a passenger in the Abner car and was pronounced dead at the scene Another passenger Kellyn Abner 11 was treated at UK and dismissed Geraldine Abner was not Police said Stidham left the scene of the accident and later was arrested at Mary Breckinridge Hospital in Hyden Stidham posted bond and Was released from the Gay County Jail He is charged with second-degree manslaughter first-degree assault driving under the influence of alcohol and leaving the scene of an accident Kentucky State Police Trooper Gilbert Acciardo said yesterday that a warrant charging Stidham with another count of second-degree manslaughter had been issued after Mrs Thompson's death Stidham's license was suspended from a previous drunken-driving charge police said Joint funeral services for Hazel Abner and Hazel Thompson will be at 11 am Friday at Buckhom Area Church in Perry County Visitation will be after 6 pm today at the church Maggard Brothers Funeral Home in Hazard is in charge of arrangements MONT1CELLO Alphanso Duncan 36 Daugherty Street son of Ella Mae Duncan died Monday Services 1 pia today Hickey Son Funeral lime Visitation 7 am tixlay MONTICELLO Kennedy Sr 79 South Ky 90 retired service station worker widower of Laura Mae Kennedy died Tuesday apparently of a heart attack Services 10 am Friday Marvin Hicks Funeral Home Visitation 3 pm today MOUNT STERLING Ella Mae Oakley Raper 68 Main CTOss homemaker widow of Irving Raper died yesterday Services 10 am Saturday Herald Stewart Home for Funerals Visitation 6 pm today and Friday OWINGSVILLE Robin Frances Hodge 51 145 Harris and Connie Mack Baseball teams from 1956 to 1968 Besides his wife survivors include a son Paul Michael Lamb Nicholasville two daughters Susan Diane Helton ana her husband Jerry Lexington and Sharon Lamb Mangin and her husband Joseph Newport News VA three grandchildren Jeremy Scott Helton and his wife Christy Amy Helton De-traz and her nusband Scott and Kameron Aimon Mangin and three great-grandchildren Zachary Alan Turner Gavin Lee Detraz and Patrick Keyan De-traz Funeral services will be 11:30 am Friday at Kerr Broth-' era Funeral Home by the Rev Don Frye and Chaplain Stuart Dawson Burial will be in Lexington Cemetery Pallbearers will be Barron Guilfoil David DeLong Albert Taft Austin Carter Jr Shannon Mullins and Don May Honorary pallbearers' will be Harold Wayne DeLong Omer Cunningham Doug Lowry Sonny Morton Dan Lail Billy Guilfoil Maxie Clark and the employees of Kerr Brothers Funeral Home Friends may call from 5 to 9 pm today Memorials are suggested to the American Heart Association 2365 Harrodsburg Road Suite A250 Lexington 40504 LEWIS William Logan Lewis Funeral services 1 pm today at the First African Baptist Church Burial in Cove Haven Cemetery Visitation 11 am today at the church until time of service Smith Smith Funeral Home is in charge of burg Avenue Colonial Rest Home cook wife of William Hodge died of cancer yesterday Services 2 pm Saturday Eastin-Taul Funeral Home Mount Sterling Visitation 6-9 pm Friday PARIS Martha Lynn Bums Foye 35 Goldsboro NC formerly of Paris grocery clerk daughter of Fred Burns died Monday Authorities were investigating Services 10 am Saturday Hinton-Tumer Funeral Home Visitation 5-8 pm Friday PIKEVILLE Stella Williamson Chaffins Varney homemaker died Monday Services 1 pm Friday Pilgrim Old Regular Baptist Church Varney Visitation 10 am today church Arrangements Lucas Hall Funeral Home RICHMOND Nellie Bal Milward Mortuary-Southland Burial at Blue Grass Memorial Gardens Jessamine Co RUTLEDGE John Thomas Rutledge 92 586 Rosemill Dr husband of the late Marie Ballinger Rutledge died Tuesday morning in his residence He was a retired farmer bom in Georgetown KY son of the late Charles Edgar and Maiy Barnett Rutledge He was a member of the Christian church He is survived by two brothers Clyde Rutledge Lexington and William Clay Rutledge Atlanta GA one sister Edith Housel Phoenix AZ and several nieces and nephews He was preceded in Before You time ii Just as you wouldn't ask your doctor for legal advice don't rely on anyone other than a licensed funeral director for sound information on funeral arrangements We are trusted professionals who will property attend to all the details FUNERAL HOME Smcrtm Lexington 1524 Alexandria Dr 278-8521 104 Dennis Dr 278-8508 Conn 78 Harold retired coal miner and Regular Baptist minister husband of Norma Lea Wilburn Conn died Tuesday Services 1 pm Friday Hall Funeral Home Visitation 9 am today MARTIN Gary Wilson Shepherd 56 Dwale head security guard at Carl Perkins Job Corps Center in Prestonsburg husband of tatricia Derossett Shepherd died Tuesday apparently of heart attack Services 2 pm Friday Nelson-Frazier Funeral Home Visitation 9 am today MAYS Wayne Brown 45 Aberdeen Ohio truck driver husband of Janet Colemire Brown who is formerly of Mason County died Tuesday Services 2 pm Saturday Palmer Funeral ikime Visitation 6-9 pm Friday was preceded in death by four brothers James John William and Robert McKinney and a sister Katherine Bowman Funeral services will be 1 pm Friday at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home by the Rev Russell Sizemore and Brother Bob Watson Burial will be in Lexington Cemetery Friends may call from 5 to 9 pm today GUMM James Gumm 49 of Lexington died Wednesday Aug 27 1997 He was bom June 5 1948 in Lexington the son of John Gumm and the late Flora Kelly Gumm In addition to his father Mr Gumm is survived by one daughter Kim Hoskins of Lexington one son James Gumm II of Lexington two brothers John Gumm Jr of Lancaster and Steve Gumm of Lexington and three grandchildren He was preceded in death by his wife Ruby Cum- mins Gumm and one brother Robert Gumm Graveside services will be held today Aug 28 1997 at 1 pm at the Lexington Cemetery with Rev Leon Greer of Parkway Baptist Church officiating Whitehall Funeral Cha-pel in charge of arrangements LAMB Paul Lamb 69 Lexington husband of Betty Bishop Lamb- died TuesdayAug 26 1997 at Lexington Hospital A native of Lexington he was a son of the late John Marshall and Sarah Agnes Guilfoil Lamb A World War II veteran of the US Navy he retired in 1984 as a Major for the Lexington Fire Department after 33 years of service and was an employee of Kerr Brothers Funeral Home for 37 years He coached the Central Little League Northern Pony League death by two brothers Farris Rutledge and Sam Rutledge and two sisters Alma Stevens and Mable Campbell Funeral services will be 11:30 am Friday at the WR Milward Mortuary-Southland conducted by Rev Walt Gardner with burial in Blue Grass Memorial Gardens Jessamine Co Casket bearers will be JT Stevens Carroll Rutledge Stephen Rutledge Donald Campbell Tom Hinton and Jerry Campbell Friends may call 5-9 pm today Contri-' buttons may he made to Hospice of the Bluegrass 2312 Alexan-dria Drive Lexington 40504- Turn to C4 TILL PAYDAY? 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