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Bethel Community Church, located in Tom Biggs Hollow at McRoberts, will hold special services Saturday, Sept. 6, at 6 p.m. The speaker will be Johnny Collier and the singers will be Unity. A revival will begin Sept. 7 at 6 p.m., and continue through Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. nightly. There will be different speakers each night. Roger Bentley is pastor of the church. More ... Funeral services for Elsie Sexton, 62, of Whitesburg, were held August 28 at Letcher Funeral Home. Burial was in the family cemetery at Colson. A daughter of the late Gladys Sexton, she died August 25 at Rockcastle Hospital and Respiratory Care Center. More ... Jerry Cornett, 48, died September 1 after a long illness. Reared at Linefork, he was a son of the late Evan and Isiebelle Daniels Cornett. He was a brother of the late Marvin Cornett. Cornett was a transformer specialist for American Electric Power for 25 years and dabbled with digital media when he was unable to work. More ... Geneva Profitt died August 31 at her home at Camp Branch. She was 84 years old. A daughter of the late Nathan and Elizabeth Stidham Lucas, she was married to the late Donald Lester Profitt. Mrs. Profitt was a member of the Blair Branch Regular Baptist Church. More ... Rita J. Gibson, 75, of Pekin, Ind., died August 24 in Ohio. Born at McRoberts, she was a daughter of the late William and Harriett Wright Potter. She was the widow of Elbert E. Gibson. Mrs. Gibson was a member of the Free Gospel Church Fellowship in Pekin, Ind. More ... Funeral services for James Lowell Caudill, 76, of Jeremiah, were held August 28 at Letcher Funeral Home. Burial was in the Hampton Cemetery at Letcher. A son of the late Alva and Betty Caudill, he died August 26 at Pikeville Medical Center. He was the father of the late Dean Caudill, and the grandfather of the late Jamie Blair. More ... Opal Lorene Ellison Roark of Commiskey, Ind., died August 25 in Madison, Ind. She was 81 years old. A daughter of the late Roscoe and Stella Cornett Ellison, she was married to the late Jonah M. Roark. She was the stepmother of the late Curliss Roark, and the sister of the late George Cornett and William Ellison. More ... Patsy Ann Little Branham, 61, died August 28 at her home in Whitesburg. She was a daughter of the late Lish and Flora Click Little. More ... Funeral services for F. Paul Kirkland, 84, of Whitesburg, were held August 28 at the First Baptist Church in Whitesburg. Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery in Eustis, Fla. A son of the late Paul and Louise Kirkland, he was born in Eustis, Fla. He died August 25 at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington. More ... Roger G. Morton, 56, of Sandlick, died August 25 at Hazard Appalachian Regional Hospital. Born in Letcher County, he was a son of Nola Hensley Morton and the late William Morton. He is survived by his wife, Teresa Gibson Morton; three daughters, Rebecca Maggard, Danville; Tara Profitt, Whitesburg; and Katie Morton, Sandlick; two sons, Roger Morton Jr. More ... |
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