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Louis William “Bill” Sroufe, 72 of Ripley, Oh., died Tuesday, June 18, 2013. He was a farmer, a United States Army Veteran and a member of the Beebe Chapel in Ripley. Mr. Sroufe was born March 9, 1941 in Ripley, the son of the late Stanley Alexander and Florence Delores (Board) Sroufe, Sr.. He was also preceded in death by one son, Jason Sroufe; four sisters, Frances Ross, Victoria Elaine Sroufe, Doris Jenkins and Linda Allen; one brother, Stanley Alexander Sroufe, Jr.. Mr. Sroufe is survived by one sister, Jacqueline Wallace of Cincinnati, Ohio and two brothers – Ronald Sroufe of Columbus, Oh., and Gordon Sroufe of Galloway, Oh. Funeral services have been set for 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 22, 2013 at Cahall Funeral Home in Ripley. Rev. James Settles will officiate. Visitation has been set for 9 to 10 a.m. on Saturday at the funeral home. Interment will be in Maplewood Cemetery in Ripley with military honors provided by the Courts-Fussnecker American Legion Post #367 of Ripley, Ohio. The Cahall Funeral Home, Ripley, served the family.
Thomas L. Carpenter, 66, Sardinia died Tuesday, June 18 , 2013. He operated Carpenter Mower and Small Engine repair for many years. He is survived by 1 sister, Brenda Ellis. Funeral services have been set for Friday, June 21, 2013 at 1 p.m. at the Beam-Fender Funeral Home in Sardinia. Visitation has been set for 11 a.m. until time of service Friday. Burial in Mt. Orab Cemetery, Mt. Orab, Oh. The Beam-Fender Funeral Home, Sardinia, served the family.
Emma Jane Black, 86, Winchester, passed away Tuesday, June 18, 2013. She was born in Hamersville, Oh., on November 25, 1926 the daughter of the late Walter and Marie (Higby) Fithen. Besides her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Black who passed away in 2002; son-in-law, David Klein; two brothers, Richard and Freddie Fithen; and sister, Clara Best. She is survived by one son and daughter-in-law, Robert and Donna Black of Bel-Are, Ks., two daughters, Karen Klein of Winchester and Barbara Black and Elwood Barnes of Batavia; three brothers, William of Bethel, Harold of Florida, and Earl Fithen of Goshen; two sisters, Ethel Carrington of Georgetown and Mary Ellen Latham of Georgetown; 9 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren. Funeral services has been set for Saturday, June 22, 2013 at 11 a.m. at the Wallace-Thompson Funeral Home, BradfordSullivan Chapel in Winchester. Burial will follow in Linwood Cemetery. Visitation will be held on Friday, June 21, 2013 from 6 till 8 p.m. at the Wallace-Thompson Funeral Home, BradfordSullivan Chapel in Winchester. The Wallace-Thompson Funeral Home, Bradford-Sullivan Chapel in Winchester, served the family.
Twilla Dawn Hauke, 66 of Ripley, Oh., died Thursday, June 13, 2013. She was a former employee of Lazarus and prior to that, a former employee of U.S. Shoe in Ripley. She was also a member of St. Michael Catholic Church in Ripley, a former member of the DAV Auxiliary and a former member of the Citizen’s Concerned for Youth. Mrs. Hauke was born February 15, 1947 in Maysville, Ky., the daughter of the late Glenn and Mary Ruth (Applegate) Leasoure. Mrs. Hauke is survived by her loving husband of 51 ½ years, Floyd Hauke; three daughters, Thela Mc(Kelly) Cormick, California, Ky., Toni (Joey) England, Ripley, and Tammy Hauke of Ripley, four grandchildren, Ryan (Mike) Bartunek, North Port, Flor., Shawn (Breanne) McCormick, California, Ky., Jordan England and fiancée Melissa Mitchell, Ripley, and Dalton England, Ripley, one great grandson, Brody Bartunek; two sisters, Denise (Bill) Sweet, Ripley, and Tara (John) McFarland, Louisville, Ky., many nieces, nephews and friends. Mass of Christian Burial has been set for 11 a.m. on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at St. Michael Catholic Church in Ripley. Rev. Dohrman Byers will be the Celebrant. Visitation has been set for 5 to 8 p.m. on Monday, June 17 at Cahall Funeral Home in Ripley. Interment will be in Maplewood Cemetery in Ripley. If desired, memorial contributions may be made to: The Ripley Fire Department, The Ripley Life Squad or St. Michael Church. The Cahall Funeral Home, Ripley, served the family.
Louis Kostoff, 70 Louis Kostoff, 70 of Sardinia, Oh., passed away Saturday, June 15, 2013. He was a carpenter. He is survived by his wife Martha, 2 sons Michael Kostoff, Kenneth Kostoff, 2 grandchildren Josh Kostoff, Kodi Kostoff and 1 sister, Lois Whited. Funeral services will be held at the convenience of the family. The Beam-Fender Funeral Home, Sardinia, served the family.
The Rapture It is important to watch what is happening in the Middle East today. In your Bible in Matthew chapter 24, there is a conversation going on between Jesus and His disciples. Beginning in verse 3 it states: “And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.” We are seeing the pestilences, the earthquakes, the wars, and the rumors of wars now, but the Bible says the end is not yet. Ladies and Gentlemen, before the end comes the rapture is going to take place. We are not staying around here to the end. The rapture is not spelled out in the book of Matthew because at this point it is still a secret. In the book of I Corinthians chapter 15, the Apostle Paul tells us: “Behold, I shew you a mystery;” This was not known before. He said: “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” It tells us about it again in I Thessalonians 4:1317. Verses 16-17 tells us: “...and the dead in Christ shall rise first:” that is the ones in the graves, “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” Now watch, this no doubt is going to be the rapture taking place right here in verse 8 in Matthew. Once the rapture has taken place and the Christians are gone, anti-Semitism is going to go wild. Right now the Christians hold it somewhat in check. America has a lot of strong Christians that make their voice known all over this nation that we are in favor of Israel. But what about when we are gone? According to several newspapers I have read ant-Semitism is going like a forest fire out of control. In Australia they were throwing eggs at Jews going to the synagogue, they were burning synagogues down, and etc., etc., etc. They said it was the worst outbreak since Hitler of World War II, and it is happening now. In Matthew it goes on to say that they shall even
Esther Black, 85 Esther Black, 85 of Ripley, Oh., passed away Tuesday June 18, 2013. She was born August 3, 1927 in Brown County, Oh., the daughter of the late Virgil and Bessie (Black) Purdin. Esther was a homemaker and a member of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah Witness in Russellville. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Ezra Black. She is survived by 1 son; Larry Black of Ripley, 2 daughters; Sandy Black of Ripley, Cathy (Ronald) Wilson of Aberdeen, 2 grandsons; Heath Wilson, Seth (Kelly) Wilson, 3 great grandchildren; Haley, Saige and Leighton and several nieces and nephews. Graveside serviceshave been set for Friday June 21, 2013 at 11 a.m. at the Linwood Cemetery in Russellville under the direction of the Meeker Funeral Home. There will be no visitation. The Meeker Funeral Home, Russellville, served the family.
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hate one another. Sometimes a Jew will deny being one to keep from being persecuted. Others will die before they would deny it. Look at Pearl over there in Pakistan. They put a knife to his throat and when he would not deny being a Jew they slit his throat from ear to ear. After that they decapitated him, which is the manner of the Moslem religion. What will they do in the Great Tribulation? The Bible says that there will be beheading. We are seeing some of these things coming to pass. In verse 14 Jesus said: “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” I have heard some of my preacher friends say that we have to get the gospel out because when we do, Jesus is coming back. They are out of context. The context here is the Tribulation period and we are not here at that time. We are going to be home. The Bible tells us so. We know this is the middle of the Tribulation period because of verse 15: “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)” Daniel spoke about this event in the middle of the 70th week. He said that the prince would break the covenant. “..for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate,” (Daniel 9:27). The 70th week is the last week or 7-year period of the Great Tribulation. Therefore, we have already been gone for 3-1/2 years before verse 15 takes place. Amen? The unsaved Jews, along with others, are the ones who are going to see this happen. The 144,000 elect of God will be Jewish preachers (Rev. 7&14) preaching the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. We do not preach the gospel of the kingdom. We preach the gospel of the grace of God. We are under the dispensation of grace up until the rapture, then it will be the gospel of the Kingdom just like John the Baptist was preaching. We, that are saved, are all part of the Kingdom of God. Now, differentiate, the Kingdom of God is here now, but the kingdom of heaven is not here; otherwise Christ would be reigning and instead of praying “thy kingdom come” we would be praying, “they kingdom has come.” Amen?
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Lois E. Hensley, 78 Lois E. Hensley, 78, Bethel, passed away Saturday June 15, 2013. She was the loving wife of the late Herbert Hensley, mother of the late Nancy Pollaey (Russell), Linda Hensley, Herbert R. Hensley (Jenny), Kathy Moyer (Barry), David Hensley (Nancy) and Phillip Hensley, grandmother of 15 grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild, sister of Shirley Adkins, Margaret Upchurch, Phillis Carmine, Judy Wilson, Mary Abbott and Brenda Jones. She was preceded in death by her brother James Tucker. Visitation has been set at E. C. Nurre Funeral Home 177 W. Main St. (St. Rt. 125) Amelia, on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 9 a.m. until time of funeral service at 11 a.m. Interment has been set for Arlington Memorial Gardens. The E.C. Nurre Funeral Home, Amelia, served the family.
Brenda Kay Short, 62 Brenda Kay Short, 62, Sardinia died Tuesday June 11, 2013. She was a nurse aide. She is survived by her husband Mickey Short, 1 daughter Heather (Kenny) Doss and 4 sons Scotty, Mickey (Rachael), Casey (Sarah) and Cory (Jordan) Short, 11 grandchildren, 2 sisters, Beverly Pollitt and Michelle Barker, 3 brothers, George Young, Rodney Little, and Kerry Lee Campbell. Funeral services have been set for Monday June 17, 2013 1 p.m. at the Sardinia Church of Christ. visitation has been set for Sunday June 16, 2013 from 6-8 p.m. also at the Church. The Beam-Fender Funeral Home, Sardinia, served the family.
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Thomas “High Pockets” Turner, 97 Thomas “High Pockets” Turner, 97 of Georgetown, Oh., died Monday, June 17, 2013. He was born June 22, 1915 in Olive Branch, Tenn., the ninth of thirteen children born to Samuel and Ada (Wilson) Turner. When Thomas was 10 years old, his family moved to Glendale, Oh., where he attended school. Upon graduating from Glendale High School in 1934 , he attended the Tuskegee Institute for two years on a football scholarship. In 1936, Tom played shortstop for the Cincinnati Stars, the only black team in the Indiana/Ohio Baseball League. In 1940 he was drafted into the United States Army and spent five years at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona where he was an expert marksman with the rifle and taught marksmanship on the range for six weeks at a time, as a result, he lost his hearing and that kept him from WWII overseas military action. On the base, Tom applied leadership skills to organize competitive women’s sports and recreational teams. He played basketball, roller skated and was captain of the football team and the baseball team which he played first base for Army’s 9th Service Command Unit (SCU) team, which swept the 1942 military World Series. The SCU team played all over the Southwest and Northern Mexico. As a result from Tom’s reputation he was offered to play professionally in Sonora, Mexico. He played outfield, first base and pitched for the Hermosillo team in Hermosillo, Mexico from 1945-1947. After a short stint in Mexico, Tom returned to the U.S. to play for the Chicago American Giants in the Negro League. It was with that team that he hit his only home run. When is pay was cut in half, he returned to Cincinnati, Ohio to play for and manage the Valley Tigers from 19481954. He worked at Shillito’s Department Store and General Electric Aeronautical Plant. Tom organized the first women’s softball team in Lincoln Heights, Oh. He participated in the Civil Rights Movement, attending Dr. Martin Luther King’s March on Washington in 1963 and two years later he drove from Ohio to Selma, Alabama for the Selma to Montgomery March. In 1966 he and his three children moved to Seattle, Wash., where he worked for Boeing. After three years with Boeing he went to work for the City of Seattle in Parks and Recreation as senior supervisor. Tom taught and coached softball, basketball, tennis and many other sports. He retired in 1982. Tom and his second wife, Betty moved to Georgetown, in 1984 and Tom conducted exercise classes at the Senior Citizens Center. He quickly became involved in other volunteer activities at the Villa Georgetown Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and the Locust Ridge Nursing Home. Tom was awarded the “John Horn Memorial Roll Up Your Sleeves” award in 2000 by the Alzheimer Association as outstanding volunteer. In 2001 he was chosen Volunteer of the year by Points of Lights, an organization set up by President Reagan to honor worthy volunteers. He was honored by The Ohio House of Rep-
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Buford A. “Boots” Moss, 90, Bethel, passed away on Saturday, June 15, 2013. Loving husband of the late Laura Marie Moss (nee Zorens), father of Tracey M. Parm (Roy A.). Grandfather of Eric Fries (Brittney), also survived by numerous siblings, nieces and nephews. A Masonic Scottish Rite service was held at the visitation. Funeral services were held Thursday June 20, 2013 followed by Interment at Greenmound Cemetery. The E.C. Nurre Funeral Home, Bethel, served the family.
resentatives as one of the Negro Baseball League’s finest athletes and received the Heart of Brown County Award from the Brown County General Hospital Foundation. Tom was a member of the Fairview Chapel where he was active in teaching Sunday School and organizing Vacation Bible School. Mr. Turner is survived by his wife of 46 years, Lora E. “Betty” (Jackson) Turner; two daughters, Dr. Ana V. Thorne of Los Angeles, Cal., and Olga A. Turner of Chicago, Ill., one son, Glen T. Turner of Los Angeles, Cal., six grandchildren, five great grandchildren, one brother, Otis A. Turner of Cincinnati, and a host of nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 23, 2013 at the Georgetown Church of Christ, 149 Hamer Road, Georgetown, Ohio. Rev. Lee Shafer will officiate. Visitation will be from 4 - 7 p.m. Saturday at the church. Interment will be in the Maplewood Cemetery in Ripley, with military services by the Carey-Bavis American Legion Post #180 of Georgetown. If desired, memorial contributions may be made to the Thomas Turner Patient Recreation Fund, c/o Villa Georgetown, 8065 Dr. Faul Road, Georgetown, Ohio 45121. The Cahall Funeral Home, Georgetown, served the family.
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Oscar L. ‘Bud’ Berry, Jr., 60 Oscar L. "Bud" Berry, Jr., 60, Milford, Oh., died Sunday, June 16, 2013. He was the loving husband of Sandra K. (nee Flottman) Berry, dear father of Benjamin (Alisha) Berry of Loveland, grandfather of William L. Berry, son of the late Edith and Alford “Tommy” Farmer, brother of L. Jane Smith of Columbus, brother-in-law of Gary and John Flottman, also survived by nieces and nephews, Cari Longsworth, Tim Smith, Tori (Aaron) Hawk, great nephew, Declan Longsworth and great nieces, Emma and Cora Hawk, Amber (BJ) Reckers, Ruthanne, Becky and Brian Flottman. Visitation has been set for 6 - 8 p.m., Monday, June 24, 2013 at E.C. Nurre Funeral Home, Bethel. Funeral service has been set for 11 a.m., Tuesday, June 25 at the funeral home. Burial will follow in the Tate Township Cemetery, Bethel. The E. C. Nurre Funeral Home, Bethel, served the family.
Mary L. (nee Morgan) Ellison, 80 Mary L. (nee Morgan) Ellison, 80, passed into eternal rest Tuesday, June 11, 2013. She was the beloved wife of the late Fred Ellison, loving daughter of the late Harry and Louella Morgan, loving mother of Wanda (Larry) Anderson and Ronald (Joan) Ellison, Mary was preceded in death by her sister, Irene Gast and her brothers, Donald, Herbert, Harry, Olen and George Morgan, cherished grandmother of Tammy O’Toole, Angie Hook, Tabitha Strickland, Chris Anderson, Robbie Ellison, John Gulf and Jeremy Rabon, also survived by 14 great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandchild and many nieces and nephews. Services were held Friday, June 14, 2013. The Maham Funeral Home, Williamsburg, served the family.
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