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Remembering Adam Yauch Margaret Kelly Shumate Beloved in Hi P-Hop TJo+E NEWS-ENTERPRISE 11m SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2012 DEATH S Court: State not liable "" Bobby Carlile Dunaway Mary Catherine Mulhall Willmoth in informant's slaying Bobby Carlile Dunaway, 82, retired engineer. died Mary Catherine Mulhall WilhnOlh, 95, of Elizabeth· By BREIT HARKOUQ.UERE May 4, 2012, at Sljoseph Hospital in Lexington. to ... 'I1, pass<.od away peacefully on Thunday May 3, 2012. The A._.. ,...t I~ Mr. Dunaway WM born May 25, 1929, to the late She was born in SI. john on Sept. 22, 1917. She mar· Albert CMler and Roberta Young Dun­ ried David Lollg Wmmoth Sr. injWle 1939 and for 30 LOUlSVI.ll.E - Police informant Le Bron Gai­ away. I-Ie retired from Nolin RECC after years they owned and operated Hardin County Imple­ ther got into a car for a conlrolled drug buy in j uly 20 years, where he was manager of oper­ ment Co. in Elizabethtown. She was a longtime member 1996 with a man named J ason Noel. Gaither had ations and engi neering and served in the ofSt.james Catholic Chureh and very active in the com· been unaware someone ti pped Noel 10 his role M a U,S. Air Force during the &:>rean War for munitYa! a Realtor. police informant as the two drove from Taylorsville to four yean. Bobby was a lifelong member She was preceded in death by her husband, David Cuey County. of the U K Alumni Association, the AmCf'­ Long WilLnoth Sr.; her parents, Nell French and Albert That's where police laler found Gaither's body at­ ican Legion, Elizabethtown Industrial Mulhall; her sisler, Lucy Thomas; and brothers joseph, ler he was tortured, stabbed, beaten and killed. Foundation, was a Rotary member in \;~~,..U Charles and Lawrence Mulhall. Even though Gaither died while working for Ken­ E1i7.abe!htown and served as a chairman DuNAWAY She ...·as the loying mother of David 1... (Hanni) Will­ tucky State Police, his family cannot collect any dam­ of planning and zoning for eight years. moth jr. of }-:li7.abe!h town, Ann (Roben Stettner) Will· ages from the Kentucky j ustice Wid Public Safety Surviving relativcs includehi~ loving wife of 54 years. moth of Atlanta, Kay Willmolh of Chicago and Mark Cabinet or troopers, the Kenlucky Court of Appeals Sally Martin Dunaway; IWO children. Clay Carlile Dun­ (Lynda Clark) Will moth of Louisville; proud grandmolh· nlled Friday. The Kentucky Board of Claims award­ away of Lexington and Kru-en A l exan d ~r D l~ naway ,of er of David (Carol) Wil hllolh I II of Lexillb'ion. jana ed Gaither's family $168,000. Franklin Circuit judge New Jersey; two sisters, A1lean Blose of ~ve r.llde, CaM., Thomas Wingate overturned Ihal decision in 20\ I. and tilean Classen of Chal!!worth, Calif,; one brother, (David) Bollinger, j ohn (Kru-en) Willmoth of LouisvUle, Marilyn Will molh and Robert Willmoth II; and cher­ The appeals court ruling u~ h?lds Wingate's d~sion . Willianl DWlaway of Glendale, Calif.; a nephew. Henry judge Michelle Keller, JOllied by J udge M.ichael 'Ibompson Nichola! III of Newport Coast, Calif.; an ished great·grandmother of Clay and Cole Bollinger, Caperton. wrote the actions of detectivell involved aunt, Marcella Martin Leach; and cousins. the Il.ev. Al­ Ben, Abbey and Cooper Willmoth and Davis and Kayla were protected by govemmentallmmllnity. ben Gicsler and the Rev. j ohn ThomM Dunaway and Robyn; sistCTJ·in-Iaw, Alice Mulhall of E1 izabethlown ~A1though the choices made by the detectives in Susan Dunaway. and Alice Mulhall of Sun City West, Ariz.; and eight The funeral is 10:30 a.m. Friday at Kerr Il rothers )'-u­ nieces and nephews and their families. Ihis case proved to be tragically nawed, the execution of the undercover operation with leBron was left 10 ncral Home in l..cxington with burial to follow in Ihe The funer.u is 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. james Catholic the discretion and judgment of the delectives. ~ Keller Lexinb<ton Cemetery. Church with the Rev. Chuck Walker officiating. Burial wrote. Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. follows in St.jal\les Cemetery. judge Kelly Thompson dissented, calling th.e f~ Visitation is 4 10 8 p.m. Monday and continues after 9 of th e case ~egregious and unprecedented 111 thiS Lois Ann Board Rodgers a.m. Tuesday at Il rown FUllerai Home where Ihere is It cornmonwealth.n prayer vigil at 7 p.m. Monday. UAfier detectives ull nece!S$.'lrily placed Gaither in Lois Ann Board Rodgers, 69, of Brandenburg, died on The family rcqueslll cont ribulions in her memory to front of It grand jury and disclosed his identity, the May 3, 2012, at Medco Center of Brandenburg. the Technology Center at St. james Catholic School or statutes. KSP's intemal order, and common sense dic­ Mrs, Rodgers is survived by two sons. Michael (Laura) the St. Vincent Del'aul Sociely in Elizabethtown. tated that he not be used again as an informant with IWtige.rs and Timothy (I'am) Rodgers. Condolences may be expressed at www,brownfWlCT the same suspect and leave him to be killed,­ Visitation is 6 to 8 p.m. EDT Monday, May 7, 2012, at al.com. Thomp$On wrote. Bruingtoll:lenkins·Sturgeon funeral home in Branden· burg. N o service$ will be held. Burial follows in I'arr· Franz Cemetery in Wolf Creek. ExprCS'Sions of 'Yffipathy may be made to H OSpan!5 of Central Kenlucky. Condolences may be made al www.bjsfunerals.com. Remembering Adam Yauch Margaret Kelly Shumate beloved in hi p-hop. One Beastie Boys were on me ative visionary." Margaret Kelly Shumate, 91, of Vine G~oye , went .to Beastie Boy of his most ramous and so many oth ers.n Adam Nalhanial heaven Th~:~ May 3, 2012, at Hardin Memorial rhymes was a sweet ode Yauch was an integral, Yauch, born in Brooklyn, Hospital in Er thtown. influential to women, which he founding member 10 the formed the Beastie Boys Mrs. Shumate was a native of Vine Grove, She was a called · Iong overdue": ever·weaving trio: three with high school friend devoted member of St. Brigid Catholic Church in Vine in hip hop ~To all the mothers and l ewish kids from New Diamond. Originally COIl· Grove and the Altar Society. For many years she made sisters and wiveJ and York who fOWld wide· ceived as a hardoore punk rosaries for the miu ioru in Louio;ville, which senl thenl to By JAKE COYLE mends! I want to offer spread respect in a hip" group, they played their missions all over the world. She was retired from the U.S. Arr_............. W"... my love and ~ to hop world \\-1th few credi- first show on Youch's 17th AmlY and Air Force Exchange Servjce at Fon Knox af­ the end." ble white penomlers. bin hday. ter 20 years of service. NEW YORK - When When the news came In a span of more than In the letler read at the She was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph the Beastie BoYI were in­ Friday thai earlier Ihal a quarter century that Rock and Roll Hall of Winfred Shumate; her father and stepmother, Hugh Wid ducted into the Rock and morning, Yauch, 47, had covered four No. 1 al- Fame induction, Yauc h Ollie 'Ibornberry; her mother, Mary Letitia Hamilton; Roll Hall of Fame just died afler a nearly tl l r~'e' bums and more than 40 recalled their early days an d two brothel1l, j ames and William Thornberry. weeks ago, the New York year battle witli cWlcer, million records sold, tJle al his parents' home in Her survivors include three children, Mary Gail Keit h trio Wa! down a man. the words from his letter Beastie Boys played bolh Brookl yn, "where we of Vine Grove. Robert J. Shumate and his wife, Teri, of Michael ~ Mike D~ felt particularly apl The prankster and pioneer- a used to pructitt on hOi l:Jil.O\bethlown and Gary Shumate and his wife, Susie, of Diamond and Adwn "Ad· outpouring of sadness at simultaneously goofy and Brooklyn slimmer days Vine Grove; one sister, Marty Bickett of Florence, S.c.; Rock" Horovil7. lOOk the the lou, and celebration gmundbreaking act that aflef school, windows one brother, Don Thornberry ofLouisvilJe; 10 grandchil· stage with a letter from of the music Yauch helped bring hip-hop to open to disturb Ihe neigh- dren, Dennis Lyons. Ronnie Lyo[U., Tmcy Brown. Karen their miu ing band mate: helped crealed, wa5 im- the mainstream. borhood." Penny,joe Keith, Ryan Shumale, Martin Shumale,j amie Adam "MCA~ Yau ch, mediate and vast, shared T he demure, gray. The group became a Chenault, KwKli Fortune and Andrea Pelley; Wid lever· who was too ill to attend. across social media by haired Yauch wasn't the hip.hop trio soon after aI great.grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. He .... as suffering from a those close to him, rap· mOSI boastful B.Boy; he Horovitz joined and coo­ A MaJ!I of Christian burial for Mrs. Shumate is at 11 cancerous salivary glwld pers inIluenccd by "Paul's was Ihoughtful and 1\ I~ after Yauch drop­ a.m. Tuesday, May 8, at St. Brigid Catholic Church in first diagnosed in 2009. Boutique- and hip,hop steady source of the trio's plod out of Bard College Vine Grove with the Rev. Daniel Lincoln offi ciating. In the letter, which listeners raised on Beastie ,wo y"_ ·,'uo h,·, ,''' d,·" .
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