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and his wife Christine of years with Alzheimer’s dis- arrangements. Regional Medical Center in OBITUARIES Ashland; one daughter, An- ease but it was a massive DEATH Condolences may be Morehead. gela Nicole Grubb and her heart attack which ended made to reedfuneralhome. She was born March 6, husband James of Greenup; her life. us. 1939, in Lewis County. GREENUP seven grandchildren, She was born in Martin NOTICES Her husband, Robert Beverly Lynn Makayla Waugh, Dylan and County, to Andy Kirk and “Bobby” Owens, survives. Hayden Wheeler, Cortney Vinnie Fields Kirk. She was AREA The funeral will be at 2 Christian-Savage and Kathy Staten and Tori a member of Elizabeth ASHLAND p.m Sunday at Globe Fam- 1946-2012 and Josh Grubb as well as Church on Wolf Creek. John Millis Jr. Flossie Ward ily Funeral Chapel in Beverly Lynn Christian- numerous friends all of Preceding her in death John Millis Jr., 77, of Flossie Ward, 88, of Camp Dix. Burial will be Savage, 65, of Flatwoods whom will miss her dearly. were her parents; her first Ashland, died Friday in Paintsville, died Thurs- in Owens Family Ceme- passed from this earthly Funeral services for Mrs. husband, Dean Stowers; her King’s Daughters Medical day in Paul B. Hall Med- tery in Lewis County. life on Wednesday, April Savage will be at 1 p.m. Mon- second husband, Homer Center. ical Center in Paintsville. Friends may call at 6 25, 2012 in King’s Daugh- day, April 30, 2012 at Carman Reed; her daughter, Deanna Steen Funeral Home- The funeral will be at 11 p.m. today and at 9 a.m. ters Medical Center and is Funeral Home in Flatwoods. Stowers DiBella; her broth- 13th Street Chapel in Ash- a.m. Monday at First Sunday at the funeral now in the presence of her Words of comfort and reas- er, Arvil Kirk; her sisters, land is in charge of United Methodist home. Lord and surance will be delivered to Ruby Stepp, Madge John- arrangements, which are Church. Burial will be in Condolences may be Savior. all in attendance by Pastor son, Jean K. Webb, and Irene pending. Rome Cemetery in Proc- made to globefc.com. She was Ken Gowin. Burial will fol- Kirk; and special daughter- torville, Ohio. born in low at Kentucky Veterans in-law, Chona Gale Stowers. CATLETTSBURG Friends may call from 5 Claude Hall Sr. Cemetery North East. She is survived by her son, to 9 p.m. today, noon to 9 Hunting- Claude Hall Sr., 85, hus- ton, W.Va., Visitation for family and Mike Stowers of Flatwoods; Patricia Jane Garlock p.m. Sunday and at 9 a.m. friends will be on Sunday, her four grandchildren, 1940-2012 Monday at the church. band of the late Donna on Aug. 29, Gaye Benner Hall, of Pip- 1946, to the April 29, 2012 from 6 to 8 p.m. Jamie Dea, Dean, Josh and Patricia Jane Osborne at the funeral home. Andrew; her great-grand- Delmer Miller pa Passes, formerly of SAVAGE late Gifford Garlock, 71, of Catletts- Kite, died Thursday at his and Lexie In lieu of flowers, the fam- children, Kelly, Kaity, Pre- burg, died Thursday in Delmer Miller, 61, of Saly- home. Christian. Beverly was a ily has asked that donations ston, and Makenna; her sis- Woodland Oaks Health ersville, died Wednesday. The funeral will be at member of the First Baptist be made to assist with final ters, Geneva Pack of Ash- The funeral will be at 2 Care Facility in Ashland. 10 a.m. Sunday at Rebec- Church of Russell and was a expenses. land; eight nieces and p.m. Sunday at Magoffin She was born July 9, ca Old Regular Baptist homemaker. Condolences may be left nephews; and son-in-law, 1940, in Boyd County. County Funeral Home in Church in Kite. Burial Besides her parents, Bev- for the family online at car- Jack DiBella. Her husband, Robert Salyersville. will be in Bob Strange erly was preceded in death manfuneral.com. Funeral services will be at Garlock, preceded her in Friends may call anytime Cemetery in Kite. by her first husband, Ronald 11 a.m. Tuesday in the death. at the funeral home. Hall Funeral Home in G. Wheeler. Ruth Kirk Stowers chapel of Phelps & Son Fu- The funeral will be at 1 Beverly leaves behind a Reed neral Home in Inez. Burial p.m. Monday at Neal Fu- Troy P. Holbrook Martin is in charge of will follow in the Kirk Ceme- arrangements. loving and devoted family Ruth Kirk Stowers Reed, neral Home in Catletts- Troy P. Holbrook, 75, of including her husband, tery on Meathouse Road. burg. Burial will be in 84, of Flatwoods, passed Prentice Meade and Tim Mc- Franklin, Ohio, died Willa Dean Everage Gary Edwin Savage of Flat- away Thursday, April 26, Golden Oaks Memorial Tuesday in Miamisburg, woods; two sons, Robert Gif- Coy will officiate. Gardens. Willa Dean Everage, 80, 2012, in Our Lady of Belle- Friends may visit at the Ohio. ford Wheeler of Flatwoods fonte Hospital. Friends may call at 11 His wife, Lois Bell Hol- of Savannah, Tenn., for- and Ryan Matthew Wheeler funeral home from 5 to 9 a.m. Monday at the funer- merly of Floyd County, She had suffered for many p.m. Monday. brook, survives. al home. The funeral will be at died Friday. Condolences may be noon today at New Hope Hall Funeral Home in made to kilgorecollierfu- Baptist Church. Burial Martin is in charge of neralhome.com. p.m. at South Shore First t will be in Caskey Ceme- arrangements, which are SERVICES Church of God. Kentucky Martha Josephine Runy- tery in Lenox. pending. Veterans Cemetery North on Jordan of Louisa. Funer- GREENUP Friends may call at 10 a.m. today at the funeral Hulda Mae Blanton Today East in Greenup at 1 p.m. al at 1 p.m. at Cherryville Ramey Samuel Monday. Missionary Baptist Church. Sparks home. Hulda Mae Blanton, 61, Robert L. Andre of Flat- Visitation at 10 a.m. at the Fairchild-Lemaster Ceme- Herald & Stewart & Ramey Samuel Sparks, of Paintsville, died Thurs- woods. Funeral at 1 p.m. at church. tery in Louisa. Halsey Funeral Home in day. Calvary Episcopal Church Roberson Funeral Home Wilson Funeral Home in 71, of Oak Hill, Ohio, died West Liberty is in charge Thursday at his resi- Her husband, Mervin in Ashland. in South Shore is in charge Louisa is in charge of of arrangements. Lee Blanton, preceded her Bailey Family Funeral of arrangements. arrangements. dence. Roberson Funeral in death. Home in Flatwoods is in t t Michael Jason Gray Home in South Shore is in A graveside service will charge of arrangements. Harold G. Church of Rev. Dr. James A. Hayes charge of arrangements, 1976-2012 be at 11 a.m. Wednesday t Catlettsburg. Funeral at 1 of Louisa. Funeral at 2 p.m. which are pending. Michael Jason Gray, 35, at Patty Flat Cemetery in Allie Jean Howard of p.m. at Laurel Gap Freewill at Louisa Free Will Baptist Flat Gap. Lackey. Funeral at 11 a.m. at Baptist Church. Ogle Ceme- Church. Pinehill Cemetery of Mount Washington, Clarice Lenora died Thursday in Jewish Paintsville Funeral Garrett First Baptist tery. with military rites. Home is in charge of Church. Porter Cemetery in Miller Funeral Home in Wilson Funeral Home in Salyers Hospital in Louisville. He was born Oct. 8, arrangements. Lackey. Ashland is in charge of Louisa is in charge of 1936-2012 Hall Funeral Home in arrangements. arrangements. 1976. Clarice Lenora Salyers, The funeral will be at 2 OHIO Martin is in charge of t t 76, of Russell, died Thurs- p.m. Sunday at Northcutt arrangements. James Farrel Boggs of Dock Morgan Foster of Billy R. Bentley Sr. day in Olive Hill. & Son Memorial Chapel t Portsmouth, Ohio, formerly Grayson. Funeral at 1 p.m. She was born March 15, in Morehead. Burial will 1942-2012 Dora Mae Skiver of South of Greenup County. Funeral at Grayson Freewill Baptist 1936, in New Haven, be in Alonzo Whitt Ceme- Billy R. Bentley Sr., 69, Shore. Funeral at 1 p.m. at at 11 a.m. at Roberson Fu- Church. Pleasant Valley Conn. tery in Morgan County. of South Point, died Fri- Morton Funeral Home in neral Home in South Shore. Cemetery. The funeral will be at 1 Friends may call from 7 day in Jo-Lin Nursing South Shore. Mount Zion Collier Memorial Gardens in Visitation one hour before p.m. Monday at Commu- to 9 p.m. today at the fu- and Rehabilitation Cen- Cemetery in South Shore. South Portsmouth with mil- the service at the church. nity Tabernacle Church neral home. ter in Ironton. t itary rites by James L. Flan- Malone Funeral Home in in Flatwoods. Burial will Condolences may be He was born Aug. 17, Mace Randall Eden of nery American Legion Post Grayson is in charge of be in Bellefonte Memorial made to northcuttand- 1942, in Floyd County, Ky. Olive Hill. Funeral at 11 a.m. 276 of South Shore. arrangements. Gardens in Flatwoods. son.com. His wife, Sheila Bentley, at Globe Funeral Chapel in Visitation at 9 a.m. at the t Friends may call at 11 preceded him in death. Olive Hill. Rice Cemetery in funeral home. Paul Fannin of Sandy a.m. Monday at the A private memorial Olive Hill. Mildred Irene Lewis t Hook. Funeral at 1 p.m. at church. service will held by the Visitation until time of Owens Leon Jaskot Jr. of Colum- Waddell & Whitt Funeral In lieu of flowers, dona- family. service at the funeral home. bia. Funeral at 11 a.m. at Home in Sandy Hook. Bark- tions may be made to help 1939-2012 Slack and Wallace Fu- t Lane-Stucky-Gray Funeral er Family Cemetery in Olive with funeral expenses. Mildred Irene Lewis neral Home in South Dottie Louise Flannery Home in Morehead. Crix Hill. Reed Funeral Home in Owens, 73, of Vanceburg, Point is in charge of McElhaney of South Cemetery. Visitation at 9 a.m. at the Greenup is in charge of died Thursday in St. Claire arrangements. Portsmouth. Funeral at 2 funeral home. Space shuttle Widow of civil rights Enterprise arrives at NYC airport activist wants him home SIOUX FALLS, S.D.(AP) When civil rights political activist Barbara Deming. NEW YORK (AP) Look! Up in It was chased through the air activist Ray Robinson arrived at In a letter dated Dec. 29, 1974, the sky! It’s a ... space shuttle? by a NASA plane, and in the Wounded Knee in April 1973 to stand Buswell-Robinson wrote that she had An unusual flying object Hudson River by numerous alongside Native Americans in their been told Robinson backpacked into came to New York from ferries and other boats. fight against social injustice, he excited- Wounded Knee at night and was later Washington on Friday — the A few dozen people gath- ly called his wife back home and told shot for not following an order to im- space shuttle Enterprise. ered on the deck of its future her, “This could be the spark that lights mediately report to AIM co-founder Enterprise zoomed permanent home, the Intrep- the prairie fire.” Dennis Banks. around the city, riding pig- id. The crowd cheered and ap- “No, it’s not. Come home. Please AIM member Richard Two Elk of gyback on top of a modified plauded and snapped pic- come home,” his wife, Cheryl Buswell- Denver told The Associated Press in jumbo jet. Its trip included tures as the shuttle flew over Robinson, recalled begging of him. 2004 that he had seen someone shoot flyovers over parts of the the river. About five minutes The black activist and follower of Robinson in the knees, but the reason city and landmarks includ- later, the shuttle turned Martin Luther King Jr. never made it was because he had refused to pick up ing the Statue of Liberty around, again flying past the home to Bogue Chitto, Ala. He was de- a gun and was constantly annoying and the Intrepid Sea, Air aircraft carrier. Dozens more clared dead, but his body never was people in the bunker. Two Elk de- and Space Museum on Man- lined the pier by the ferry ter- found and little is known about what clined an email request from the AP hattan’s west side, before minal. happened. Not knowing has haunted this week to talk further about the in- landing at its temporary Onlookers bundled up on a Buswell-Robinson and the couple’s cident. home, Kennedy Airport. blustery spring day crowds three children for nearly 40 years. Banks, in a telephone interview “Touchdown at JFK!” gathered along piers, cam- The United States government han- Thursday, said he can’t recall ever NASA declared on Twitter. eras slung around their dles investigations on reservations. meeting Robinson. He said the only At the Kennedy tower, air necks. The roar of the air- Minneapolis-based FBI spokesman recollection of Robinson he has is traffic controllers had been craft could barely be heard Kyle Loven said the Robinson case is a AP PHOTO when his family visited AIM in St. Paul busy fielding inquiries from over the howling winds. pending investigation, so federal pros- Cheryl Buswell-Robinson, widow of to ask for information. circling pilots, who were in- “There it goes: Space Shut- ecutors and investigators can’t discuss civil rights activist Ray Robinson who “Over the years, the Robinson name formed they’d be delayed tle Enterprise flying over,” it. disappeared from Wounded Knee in has popped up and I’m not sure even from landing because of tweeted Lincoln Center. “An Buswell-Robinson, 67, flew into 1973, stands outside her Sioux Falls, who would have that information or “special activity.” Some won- amazing view!” Sioux Falls from Detroit on Thursday S.D., hotel after arriving for a week- where it was,” Banks told the AP. dered how much longer they The shuttle also flew over ahead of a conference commemorating end conference commemorating 40 “That’s a complete blank to me.” would be in the air. Others central Long Island. Nassau the 40th anniversary of the 1973 Amer- years since the takeover of the South Banks said there was no formal AIM asked where they should look County office workers looked ican Indian Movement takeover of the Dakota reservation village. investigation into the disappearance of to get the best view. out their windows and mar- Pine Ridge reservation village of be at Wounded Knee the week prior Robinson or anyone else during When the big event oc- veled as it passed over the Wounded Knee. stated “he heard that one black man Wounded Knee. curred, the controller said to Roosevelt Field Mall, located She’s not looking for arrests or pros- and one black woman had recently ar- “We never conducted any, like, major the shuttle craft: “Welcome near a former airfield where ecutions. She just wants to know where rived.” search for anybody that was missing, to New York, and thanks for Charles Lindbergh took off her husband’s body is so she can give ‰A May 21, 1973, FBI memo reported just except by word of mouth, ‘Did you the show.” for Paris in 1927. him a proper burial. an Indian woman who left the village guys ever see this or that?’ That’s as far A little earlier, as the shut- The shuttle had been “People have information as to on April 20, 1973, counted 200 Indians, as I know and that’s as far as it went,” tle passed Manhattan, people scheduled to arrive earlier in where his body is buried,” she said. 11 whites and two blacks. he said. gathered on rooftops to gawk. the week, but NASA pushed Two Native Americans were con- Buswell-Robinson said those two Clyde Bellecourt, another AIM co- it back because of bad weath- firmed to have died during the 1973 were most likely Robinson and a black founder, said he wasn’t in Wounded er. siege, and rumors of other deaths per- woman from Alabama who went with Knee in April 1973. He left a month or The shuttle prototype was sist. FBI documents that now are pub- him. The woman returned after the so earlier to form the Wounded Knee steen housed at the Smithsonian lic suggest the possibility of people standoff; Robinson didn’t. Legal Defense-Offense Committee and Institution in Washington funeral hoMes buried at Wounded Knee during the oc- Buswell-Robinson filed a missing act as AIM’s spokesman. but will soon be making its steenfuneralhome.com cupation. There’s no mention of Robin- person’s report with the FBI and in Oc- “I’ve heard some rumors about this home at the Intrepid, where it son in the FBI correspondence, but two tober 1974 traveled to Rapid City and Robinson thing, but supposedly that 324-4128 will be “the largest and most documents reveal the presence of two the AIM headquarters in St. Paul, happened a long time after I was gone, significant space artifact in black people toward the end of the Minn., but said she learned nothing if anything did happen,” he said. “No- the entire Northeast,” said John Millis Jr. standoff: about what happened to her husband. body’s ever talked to me about it impli- Susan Marenoff-Zausner, In- ‰On May 5, 1973, a transcript of an In the years after Robinson’s disappear- cating anybody or even said it’s hap- trepid’s president. interview with a man who claimed to ance, she corresponded with writer and pened.”