http://www.kentucky.com/219/index.xml News, sports, and entertainment from Kentucky.com en-us Copyright 2008 Kentucky.com Obituaries 60 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:53:31 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's Workbench webmaster@kentucky.com http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/459863.html http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/459863.html Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:32 EDT
WASHINGTON . Tony Snow, a conservative writer and commentator who cheerfully sparred with reporters in the White House briefing room during a stint as President Bush's press secretary, died Saturday of colon cancer. He was 53.

.America has lost a devoted public servant and a man of character,. President Bush said in a statement from Camp David, where he was spending the weekend. .It was a joy to watch Tony at the podium each day. He brought wit, grace and a great love of country to his work..

Born in Berea on June 1, 1955, Robert Anthony Snow spent his childhood in the Cincinnati area.

Mr. Snow was the first host of the television news program Fox News Sunday from 1996 to 2003 and later said that in the Bush administration he was enjoying .the most exciting, intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have.. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/459864.html http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/459864.html Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:32 EDT
HOUSTON . Dr. Michael DeBakey, the world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, has died. He was 99.

Dr. DeBakey died Friday night at The Methodist Hospital in Houston of natural causes, according to a statement issued early Saturday by Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital.

Dr. DeBakey counted world leaders among his patients and helped turn Baylor from a provincial school into one of the nation's great medical institutions.

.Dr. DeBakey's reputation brought many people into this institution, and he treated them all: heads of state, entertainers, businessmen and presidents, as well as people with no titles and no means,. said Ron Girotto, president of The Methodist Hospital System. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/456116.html http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/456116.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:13 EDT
NASSAU, Bahamas . John Templeton, an investor and mutual-fund pioneer who dedicated much of his fortune to promoting religion and reconciling it with science, has died. He was 95.

Mr. Templeton died Tuesday from pneumonia at Doctors Hospital in Nassau, said his spokesman Donald Lehr.

Mr. Templeton created the $1.4 million Templeton Prize . billed as the world's richest annual prize . to honor advancement in knowledge of spiritual matters. Winners have included Mother Teresa, the Rev. Billy Graham and Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Mr. Templeton was born in Tennessee and later moved to Nassau and became a naturalized British citizen. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/452944.html http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/452944.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:23 EDT http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/451889.html http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/451889.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:38 EDT
Lawrence Kendrick spent many years doing charitable acts in his native Boyle County, according to those who knew him.

He helped with a church project to send shoe boxes filled with toys and necessities for poor children overseas at Christmas time. For years, he donated a bicycle to be used as a prize for the children of Junction City Elementary School at the school's annual fall festival.

He served on the board of Boyle County Habitat for Humanity, which builds homes for people with low incomes. And he provided support, financial and otherwise, in the adoptions of four of his grandchildren from overseas.

Mr. Kendrick was seriously injured June 6 in a traffic accident in Russia, where he was involved in another kind act . working on a church youth camp. A taxi in which he was riding in the town of Bryansk was struck by a dump truck, said his son, Larry Kendrick of Danville. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/448714.html http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/448714.html Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:08 EDT
Despite never attending college, Robert Lewis Shayon became a media industry .visionary. and celebrated professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, his wife Nash Cox said.

Mr. Shayon died June 28 at his Frankfort home. He was 95.

Mr. Shayon was born in New York City on Aug. 15, 1912, and worked in the media industry as a writer, producer and director in New York for WOR-Mutual and the CBS Radio Network, where he worked with Edward R. Murrow. He also was the first television critic for the Christian Science Monitor and wrote a column for more than 20 years for the Saturday Review .

Mr. Shayon wrote a number of books, including his 2001 memoir Odyssey in Prime Time , and 1951's Television and Our Children , the first analysis of TV's impact on kids, Cox said. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/447489.html http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/447489.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:04 EDT
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. . John D. Minton Sr., a former president of Western Kentucky University and father of the new chief justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court, has died. He was 86.

Mr. Minton died Sunday morning.

He became the fifth president of Western Kentucky in 1979, replacing Dero Downing. He held the post from Jan. 8 until July 31, 1979. He was replaced by Donald Zacharias.

The Western Kentucky Board of Regents recognized Minton's service by giving him the official title of university president. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/445018.html http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/445018.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:39 EDT
Ron Filkins, the publisher of Bardstown's Kentucky Standard, died June 25 in his Bardstown home. He was 57.

Mr. Filkins had worked with Landmark Community Newspapers, which owns the Kentucky Standard, since 1996. He started with the company in Tell City, Ind., at the Perry County News and moved to the Kentucky Standard in 2002.

Kentucky Standard Editor Lisa Tolliver said she and members of the Standard's staff considered Mr. Filkins to be not only a boss, but also a friend.

.He would do anything for anybody, but he was always a newspaper man,. she said. .He was also deeply involved in the community, he loved Bardstown, he loved his job, he loved the people he worked with. I don't think the man ever had a bad day.. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/444149.html http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/444149.html Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:46 EDT
FRANKFORT . Former House Judiciary Chairman Gross Clay Lindsay, a Henderson Democrat who was a key figure in modernizing the state's court system and criminal laws, died Wednesday at his home of natural causes, Henderson County Coroner Bruce Farmer said. He was 77.

.Gross had a history of heart problems,. Farmer said. .But I always knew him to be a most vibrant man who did a lot for this community and state. The commonwealth has lost a great leader..

Mr. Lindsay, who left the legislature in 2006 after losing a bid for re-election, was known for his keen intellect and love of the law. He was a longtime attorney in Henderson.

House Judiciary Chair Kathy Stein, D-Lexington, said Mr. Lindsay was .the finest legislator I've ever met, and I have served with many fine legislators. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/441597.html http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/441597.html Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:59 EDT
The funeral for a Lexington Marine killed last week in Afghanistan will be Saturday.

Marines Corps Capt. Eric Terhune, 34, died while conducting combat operations in Farah province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force in Twentynine Palms, Calif.

Family and friends remembered Terhune for his love of God, family and country.

Family friend Dustin Hamilton said Terhune enlisted in the Marines right out of high school. He said Terhune's father, grandfather and uncle also served in the armed forces. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/441993.html http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/441993.html Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:16 EDT
LOS ANGELES . Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television. Some People Are Stupid. Stuff. People I Can Do Without.

George Carlin, who died of heart failure Sunday at 71, leaves behind not only a series of memorable routines, but a legal legacy: His most celebrated monologue, a frantic, informed riff on those infamous seven words, led to a Supreme Court decision on broadcasting offensive language.

The counterculture hero's jokes also targeted things such as misplaced shame, religious hypocrisy and linguistic quirks . why, he once asked, do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?

Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/427601.html http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/427601.html Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:52 EDT
OCEANPORT, N.J. . Jimmy Croll, the Hall of Famer who trained 1994 Horse of the Year Holy Bull and won the 1987 Belmont Stakes with Bet Twice, has died. He was 88.

Based at Monmouth Park throughout his career, Croll died Friday night at Monmouth Medical Center, track officials said Saturday.

Warren A. .Jimmy. Croll also trained the influential sire Mr. Prospector, as well as champions Parka, Forward Gal and Housebuster.

Bet Twice was among Mr. Croll's top horses, finishing second to Alysheba in the 1987 Kentucky Derby and Preakness before spoiling the colt's Triple Crown bid with a 14-length win in the Belmont. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/403186.html http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/403186.html Tue, 13 May 2008 02:03 EDT
They were talking about Dottie Rambo, perhaps the most prolific songwriter of her time and the greatest songwriter to come out of Kentucky.

The death of Rambo, who was killed Sunday when her tour bus crashed in Missouri, has affected people throughout the world, especially those in the gospel music industry.

Rambo, 74, was known as the queen of gospel music. Not only was she widely known for her own recordings, but some of the more than 2,500 songs she wrote were recorded by artists such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Whitney Houston, Vince Gill and Dolly Parton. It has been said that there's hardly a modern hymnal that doesn't have at least one Dottie Rambo song in it.

"It was hard to sing gospel music and not record a Dottie Rambo song," said gospel singer Kenny Bishop, adding that his family's first album included Rambo's song Too Much To Gain To Lose .]]> http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/361919.html http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/361919.html Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:05 EDT
Dith died at a New Jersey hospital Sunday morning of pancreatic cancer, according to Sydney Schanberg, his former colleague at The New York Times. Dith had been diagnosed almost three months ago.

Dith was working as an interpreter and assistant for Schanberg in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, when the Vietnam War reached its chaotic end in April 1975 and both countries were taken over by Communist forces.

Schanberg helped Dith's family get out but was forced to leave his friend behind after the capital fell. They were not reunited until Dith escaped 41/2 years later. Eventually, Dith resettled in the United States and went to work as a photographer for the Times.

It was Dith himself who coined the term "killing fields" to describe the horrifying clusters of corpses and skeletal remains of victims he encountered on his desperate journey to freedom.]]> http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/354969.html http://www.kentucky.com/219/story/354969.html Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:36 EDT