Local obituaries for Glasgow and Barren County in Kentucky

Charles Huff
Dec 18, 2012
Kenneth Huff 81 of Glasgow died Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at the U of L Hospital in Louisville. Born in Cumberland County, he was the son of the late Charlie and Vangie Hurt Huff. Kenneth was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War and was an employee of the NAPA store in Glasgow for over 27 years. He...

Robert David "Robby" Grinstead
Dec 15, 2012
Robert David 'Robby' Grinstead 65 of Glasgow died Saturday, December 15, 2012 at Barren County Health Care after a long, brave battle with cancer. He is the son of the late Sewell and Doris Rutledge Grinstead. Robby was a Viet Nam Veteran serving in the U.S. Army and was a self-employed painter and wallpaper hanger. He was a member...

Barbara Coats
Dec 15, 2012
Barbara Jane Coats 'Boo' 68 of Glasgow died Saturday, December 15, 2012 at The Medical Center at Bowling Green. She was born on September 25, 1944 in Barren County. She was the daughter of the late Edgar Morris Francis and Cora Elizabeth Landrum of Glasgow who survives. She was a homemaker and of the Baptist Faith. In addition to...

Ruth Carpenter
Dec 15, 2012
Ruth Aylene Carpenter 60 of Bowling Green, KY died Saturday, December 15, 2012 at The Medical Center at Bowling Green. Born in Glasgow she was preceded in death by her parents Ramzey McCawley and Mary Ruth Meadows Barrick. Mrs. Carpenter was a member of Gethsemane Baptist Church. Survivors include her husband Ivan Carpenter of Bowling Green; 2 daughters Tina...

Sherryl Swift
Dec 12, 2012
Sherryl Ann Swift 63 of Glasgow died Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at T. J. Samson Community Hospital after a long illness. She was born in Glasgow the daughter of the late Corbert O'Shea Boston and Winona McGuire Polson of Louisville who survives. Sherryl was the child care director of T. J. Samson Day Care and was a member of...

Jackie Coulter
Dec 12, 2012
Jackie Allen Coulter 53 of Edmonton died '12-12-12' at his home. He was born in Glasgow and was an employee of Dickerson Lumber Co. Jackie was a U.S. Army Veteran and a member of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Sulphur Well. He is survived by his wife of 32 years Debbie Coulter; his 4 children...

Brenda Stockton
Dec 10, 2012
Brenda Joyce Stockton 58 of Glasgow died Monday December 10, 2012 in Glasgow. Born in Barren Co. she was the daughter of the late James Childress and Aline Sublett Curd. She was a member of the Hopewell Baptist Church where she served on the Usher board and was a former member of the choir. Brenda worked as a LPN...

Rosemary Pirtle
Dec 9, 2012
Rosemary Coe Colter Pirtle 80 of Glasgow died Sunday, December 9, 2012 at her home. She was born in Monroe County the daughter of the late James Robert Coe and Doyle Russ Pitcock Coe. Rosemary was an employee at Handmacher/Glasgow Mfg. for 26 years and Bank 1 in Lexington for 10 years. Survivors include a daughter Lee Ann Wyatt-Caudill...

Dennis Gilland
Dec 8, 2012
Dennis Ray Gilland, Sr. 67 of Glasgow died Saturday December 8, 2012 at T. J. Samson Community Hospital. He was born in Baltimore, MD the son of the late Raymond Gilland and Hazel Zuloft Gilland of Maryland who survives. Mr. Gilland was a sales associate at Lowes in Glasgow and was a veteran serving in the U.S. Air Force....

Pearl Greer
Dec 8, 2012
Pearl Pritchard Greer 104 of Glasgow died Saturday, December 8, 2012 at the Barren County Health Care in Glasgow. The Barren County native was the daughter of the late William Crittenden and Eva Taylor Pritchard. Her husband was the late Leo Page Greer. In 1956 Mrs. Greer founded Greer's Florist which she owned and operated and which continues as...

Elsie Wood
Dec 8, 2012
Elsie Opal Wood 90 of Glasgow died Saturday December 8, 2012 at the Glenview Healthcare Facility in Glasgow. She was born in Barren County the daughter of the late Earl Durham and the late Lela Britt Durham. Mrs. Wood was a homemaker and member of Concord Baptist Church. Survivors include her son Steve Wood of Glasgow; 1 brother Max...
Mary Beeler
Dec 5, 2012
Mary Lou Beeler, 85, of Caneyville, passed away Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at the Norton Hospital in Louisville, KY. She was born on May 24, 1927 in Yeaman, the daughter of the late Warren B. and Pinkie Smith. She was a Post Master in Spring Lick for over 20 years, a housewife, and also a beautician. Mary Lou was...

Janice Bowman
Dec 5, 2012
Janice Marguriette Bowman 88 of Glasgow died Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at her home after an extended illness. She was born in Marrowbone, KY the daughter of the late James and Addie Whitlow McWherter, longtime residents of Summer Shade, KY. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Dr. C.G. 'Garland' Bowman and a...
Charles Casey
Dec 1, 2012
Charles Edward Casey, 75, of Caneyville passed away Saturday, December 1, 2012, at his residence. He was born May 10th, 1937 in Grayson Co. KY, the son of Fred and Lillie Hayse Casey. He had been a laborer at Louisville Metal and Scrap. He is survived by his three daughters: Cathy (Donnie) Franks of Caneyville, Lisa (Danny) Johnson of...

Ewing "Doc" Kingrey
Dec 1, 2012
Ewing Palmore 'Doc' Kingrey 71 of Glasgow died Saturday, December 1, 2012 at the T. J. Samson Community Hospital. Born in Barren Co. he was the son of the late Radford & Frances Hood Kingrey and husband of the late Barbara Combs Kingrey. Mr. Kingrey was a member of the Dover Baptist Church and a veteran of the U....

David Tharp
Nov 30, 2012
David Lee Tharp 61 of Glasgow died Friday, November 30, 2012 at Franklin-Simpson Nursing and Rehab Center in Franklin, KY. He was born in Glasgow the son of the late William Ralph Tharp and Evie Lee Harlow Tharp of Glasgow who survives. David was a 1969 graduate of Glasgow High School and was a former employee of Sorensen Mfg....

June Mathews
Nov 29, 2012
June Mathews 86 of Glasgow died Thursday, November 29, 2012 at her home. She was born in Glasgow the daughter of the late William Watson and Helen Mansfield Wilkinson. Mrs. Mathews was a homemaker and a former employee of Handmacher in Glasgow. She was a member of the Siloam Baptist Church. She is survived by her husband of 67...

Edward Morgan
Nov 27, 2012
Edward Jewell Morgan, 89, of Coral Hill, died Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, at TJ Samson Community Hospital. Jewell was born on April 27, 1923, in Barren County. He was the youngest of 13 children born to the late Wade and Nancy Elizabeth Morgan. Jewell spent most of his adult life as a farmer in the Coral Hill community. In...

James "Boone" Houchens
Nov 25, 2012
James Daniel 'Boone' Houchens 40 of Glasgow died Sunday, November 25, 2012 at his home after a sudden illness. He was born in Glasgow the son of the late James Clifton Houchens and Alma Jean Gassaway Moss. Boone was a truck driver for Eugene Houchens Trucking and a farmer. He is survived by his sister Sandy Houchens of Glasgow;...

Ruth Rigsby
Nov 25, 2012
Ruth Elizabeth Piercy Rigsby 92 of Glasgow died Sunday, November 25, 2012 at Barren County Health Care. The Barren County native was the daughter of the late Joseph Riley and Lena Bailey Piercy and was the wife of the late Basal William Rigsby. Mrs. Rigsby owned and operated Mema's Day Care Nursery and Rigsby's Greenhouse and she was also...
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