Local obituaries for Glasgow and Barren County in Kentucky
Cecil Embry
Nov 28, 2014
Cecil J. Embry, 85, of Butler County, passed away Friday, November 28th, 2014 at his residence. He was born on July 7th, 1929 in Butler County. He was the son of the late Vannie and Mary (Brooks) Embry. He served in the Army during the Korean Conflict and later received a Purple Heart for his service. Cecil was a...
Olin Abston
Nov 27, 2014
Olin Glen Abston 82 of Glasgow died Thursday, November 27, 2014 at the T. J. Samson Community Hospital. Born in Barren County he was the son of the late Charlie Perk & Ethel Mae Bradley Abston. Mr. Abston attended the Bethel Independent Baptist Church and was retired from Dickerson Lumber Company after 47 years. Survivors include his wife of...
Macel Young
Nov 26, 2014
Young, Macel Fay (Goff), 90, passed away on November 26, 2014Born on April 7, 1924, in Grayson County, Kentucky to the late Connie and Alta (Byers) Goff, she was a graduate of Caneyville High School and a long-time member of the Caneyville Baptist Church.In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Veechel Anderson Young;...
Charles Gentry
Nov 24, 2014
Charles Wayne Gentry 74 of Glasgow died Monday, November 24, 2014 at his home. Born at Mt. Hermon, KY he was the son of the late Lester and Anna Beulah Combs Gentry. Charles was retired from SKF, was a member of the H. B. Grant Lodge #610 F&AM at Etoile and was a member of the Dover Baptist Church....
Marshall Garrett
Nov 23, 2014
Marshall Garrett 55 of Glasgow died Sunday, November 23, 2014 at Monroe Health and Rehab Center in Tompkinsville. Marshall was the son of the late Bennona and Eliza Mae Garrett. He was a former employee of T. J. Samson Hospital and a farmer. He is survived by an Uncle James Garrett of Glasgow, a lifelong friend Velva White of...
Michael Humphrey
Nov 22, 2014
Michael Lee Humphrey 63 of Temple Hill died suddenly Saturday, November 22, 2014 as a result of a farming accident while cutting a tree. The accident happened on the farm his family has farmed for eight generations. Mike was a lifelong resident of Temple Hill. He was a member of the 1969 Temple Hill High School graduating class and...
Frankie June Wells
Nov 22, 2014
Frankie June Wells, 88, of Glasgow, Kentucky passed away Saturday, November 22, 2014, at NHC Healthcare after an extended illness. June was born April 10, 1926 to the late Tom and Frankie Atkinson Morrison. She was preceded in death by her husband, Glatys Wells, and brother, Billy Joe Morrison. She was a member of the South Green Street Church...
Allen Shaw
Nov 21, 2014
Allen Palmore Shaw 67 of Glasgow died Friday, November 21, 2014 at his home. Born in Glasgow he was the son of the late Ewing Palmore and Nina Jewell Basil Shaw. Mr. Shaw was self-employed carpenter and member of the Coral Hill Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife Linda Shugart Shaw; 2 daughters Tina Staples husband Tommy, Angie Johnson...
James Furlong
Nov 20, 2014
James 'Poke' Furlong 76 of Glasgow died Thursday, November 20, 2014 at his home. Born at Beckton, he was the son of the late Leslie and Millie Bell Hawkins Furlong. Mr. Furlong was a farmer and his hobbies were hunting and fishing He is survived by a daughter Milie Grider (Stephen) of Glasgow; a son Melvin Furlong (Teresa) of...
Ruth Ann Francis
Nov 20, 2014
Ruth Ann Francis 77 of Glasgow went to be with the Lord on Thursday November 20, 2014 at the T.J. Samson Community Hospital. She was born in Metcalfe County the daughter of the late Jack & Nettie (Sartain) Edwards. She was a Homemaker and of the Church of Christ faith. Survivors include her husband of 59 years Howard Francis...
James "Jay" Brinkley
Nov 19, 2014
James Lee 'Jay' Brinkley 28 of Glasgow died Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at the University of Louisville Hospital in Louisville. Born in Rocky Mount, NC he is the son of Alan and Joanie Johnson Grimes of Mt Dora, FL. In addition to his parents he is survived by his wife Rachael Kinslow Brinkley of Glasgow; 2 daughters Taylor Brinkley...
William Hall Melton
Nov 17, 2014
William Hall Melton 65 of Glasgow died Monday, November 17, 2014 at his daughter's home in Glasgow. Born in Burkesville, he was the son of the late Fred and Mary Dyer Melton. Mr. Melton was a truck driver for B.R. Retreading and a member of the Trinity Church of the Nazarene. He is survived by 2 sons Micky Melton...
Mamie Bartley
Nov 17, 2014
Mamie Bell Walden Bartley 101 of Glasgow, died Monday, November 17, 2014 at T. J. Samson Community Hospital. Born in Tennessee, she was the daughter of the late Marvin and Martha Sprowls Walden. Mrs. Bartley was a former employee of Handmacher and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign War Ladies Auxiliary and the Bethel Independent Baptist Church....
Charline Bowles
Nov 16, 2014
Charline A. Bowles 70 of Glasgow died Sunday, November 16, 2014 at the NHC Healthcare Facility in Glasgow. Born in Glasgow she was the daughter of the late Charlie and Helen Bishop Gassaway. Charline was a deputy jailer with the Barren County Correctional Facility. She is survived by one son Walter Scott Anderson of Glasgow; three grandchildren Dalton and...
Robert Thum
Nov 16, 2014
Robert William 'Dutch' Thum, Sr. 87 of Glasgow died Sunday, November 16, 2014 at T. J. Samson Community Hospital. Born in Columbus, OH he was the son of the late John Joseph Thum and Greta Smith Thum. Mr. Thum was a former school teacher at Hiseville and was a construction superintendent with Ernest Simpson Construction Co. and Jones, Nance...
Jill Bailey
Nov 15, 2014
Jill Roaden Bailey 77 of Glasgow died Saturday, November 15, 2014 at her residence. Born in Harlan County, KY she was the daughter of the late O. G. and Stella Fritts Roaden. Ms. Bailey was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Glasgow and formerly active in the B&PW Clubs. She was a graduate of the University...
Melvie Hart
Nov 15, 2014
Melvie Hart, age 62 of Clarkson passed away Saturday, November 15, 2014 at Hosparus Inpatient Care Center in Louisville, Kentucky. She was born January 10, 1940 in Leitchfield, Kentucky the daughter of the late Garnald and Irene (Miller) Hill. She is survived by her son Greg Hart of Clarkson, two uncles, Merle Hill and Paul Miller, many cousins and...
Margaret Cox
Nov 14, 2014
Margaret Lee Nunnally Cox 85 of Glasgow died Friday, November 14, 2014 at Hospice House of Southern Kentucky in Bowling Green. Born at Summer Shade, KY she was the daughter of the late Leroy and Neva Gossett Nunnally. Mrs. Cox was a former employee of New Farmers National Bank and a library assistant at Red Cross Elementary School and...
Charlene Higdon
Nov 14, 2014
Charlene Higdon, age 53 of Clarkson passed away Friday, November 14, 2014, at the Hosparus Inpatient Care Center in Louisville. She was born November 21, 1960 in Grayson County, KY the daughter of Charles Damon Stinnett & Nellie Cockriel-Stinnett. She is survived by her husband, Omer Higdon of Clarkson, one son, Billy Joe Higdon of Leitchfield (Valerie Parker), one...
Robert Edwards
Nov 11, 2014
Robert Allen Edwards, 73, of Glasgow, KY died Tuesday, November 11, 2014 at NHC Healthcare Center. Born in Horse Cave, KY on September 25, 1942, he was the son of the late Willard Harrison Edwards and Maisia Landrum Edwards. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Jennifer Edwards Banks, one sister, Blanche E. Johnson Combs and a nephew,...
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