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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, August 7, 2019 C-7 OBITUARIES Submit obituaries: Call: 812-354-8500 Email: obits@pressdispatch.net or bring in a hard copy: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg Deadline: 5 p.m. on Monday Down on the Farm by Hans Schmitz, Purdue Extension Posey County Big Times in National Ag Policy Obituary Deadline 5 p.m. Every Monday 2 master bedrooms and 3 bathrooms with solid wood doors and hardwood trims. 4 bedrooms with one master bedroom and 3 bathrooms, including a family room with a fireplace. Luxurious 5 bedroom home. 814 NIBLACK BLVD., VINCENNES • 1-800-743-7004 • WWW.BAIRDVINCENNES.COM HOMES Hurry! Once these are gone...they are gone! HURRY! Get an out-of-this-world home! MARY C. ESAREY VAUGHN Mary would like to let you know that her work on Earth is done. She received a call, an offer she could not refuse for an appointment from which she will not be returning. This appoint- ment has many bonuses, she will be with family and friends she has not seen in years. When the call came in late on July, 28, 2019, she was with her best friend, Es- ter Johnson, and her three daughters, Lily Fiscus, Mi- chelle Whiting and Barbara Baumgart, also known as the "Vaughn girls." She was loved by many and enjoyed meeting new people. She never met a stranger. She was the happi- est sitting on the porch with her coffee and yes, smoking. Anytime you would talk to her about her grandchil- dren, she was smiling. In honor of Mary, we would like to ask you to write your congressman and ask him to ban shoes. She thought everyone should get back to the way our good Lord brought us into the world, no shoes, #bare- foot. She also wanted us to have a bonfire to burn her bras and undies, but we are pretty sure there is a county ordinance against that. Surviving are her three daughters, Lily ( Vince) Fis- cus, Michelle (Darrel) Whit- ing and Barbara (Chuck) Baumgart; her loving grand- children she so adored, Bil- lie, Jake, Casey, Tyler, Dan- iel, Joe, Roni, Lynne, Mad- die, Chloe, Lydia and Emma; great-grandchildren, Laney, Logan, Lexie, Quinn, No- elle, Thad, Aiden, Corban, Brody, Tray, Kaly and Bryn- lee; five sisters, Phyllis Cole- man, Nancy LeMond, Susie Jones, Paula Luker and An- nie Selma Esarey; and her best friend, Esther Johnson. She was preceded in death by her son, Ronnie Vaughn, Jr.; parents, James and Lil- lian Esarey; three brothers, Daniel, Tommy and Donnie; and two sisters, Karen Rob- erts and Twighla Russel. All family and friends are invited to share stories at a celebration of Mary's life at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Au- gust 17, 2019, at the Muren Church of God in Winslow, with Pastor Joe Esarey offi- ciating. Cremation will be by Pierre Funeral Home in Evansville. The family would like to thank Deaconess Hospital, Heritage Hospice and nurse Shannon for their kind and loving care. literature and was in the Browning Literature Cub. She also served on the Pike County Library Board. Survivors include her husband, Raymond L. Hedden, of Washington; sons, Randall Hedden, of Phoenix, Ariz., Wayne (Amy) Hedden, of Win- chester, Ind.; daugh- ter, Karen (Mike) De- Coursey, of Bicknell; brother, Jerry (Sue) Lett, of Elizabethtown, Ky.; seven grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Ron, Ed, Steve and David Lett; and her sister, Patty Hinkle. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m., Wednes- day, August 7, 2019, at Goodwin-Sievers Funer- al Home, 2020 State St., Washington, with Pastor Mike DeCoursey officiat- ing. Burial will follow in New Veale Creek Ceme- tery. Visitations will be from 10 a.m. until service time on Wednesday at the fu- neral home. Online memories may be shared with Joyce's family and friends at www.goodwinsievers- fh.com. Goodwin-Siev- ers Funeral Home is hon- ored to assist the Hedden family. VAUGHN JOE TOOLEY Vaughn Joe Tooley, 79, husband, father and grandfather, passed away on Thursday, July 11, 2019. He was born Septem- ber 19, 1939, in Oakland City, to Vaughn Tooley and Macle (Garrison) Tooley. He was a UMWA mem- ber for over 40 years, working at Old Ben Coal Mine # 2 in Petersburg until his retirement in 2000. He was known for his carved walking sticks he whittled and his wander- ing nature. He lived in Indiana, and then spent time in Florida and Cali- fornia also during his re- tirement years. He is survived by his brother, Robin (Cammie) Tooley; his sister, Tanyia ( Jerry) Oakley; his sons, Jamie (Emily) Tooley and Travis (Daniely) Tooley; his daughter, Belinda (Tooley) Shuler; and six grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; and brother, Tommy Michael Tooley. Services were at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, July 30, 2019, at the Huntingburg SDA Church in Huntingburg. PEACE of MIND Let our 130 years of experience aid you in your selection of a meaningful memorial. SCHUM MONUMENTS, INC. Dale, Indiana www.SchumMonuments.com 812-937-4921 Local Representative RONALD WOODS 812-789-2009 The Market Facilitation Program dominated agricultural news last week, mainly because details released were plentiful and affected the imme- diate farm management decisions for many producers. Then the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee re- duced the federal funds rate to two per- cent, which tends to benefit local agri- culture. Finally, hints on additional tar- iffs on Chinese goods were released, shoring up any chances for large scale purchases of US agricultural goods in that market. The Market Facilitation Program released details on payments per acre farmed based on individual county. For those outside agriculture, an acre is a football field with the end zones. For Posey County, the rate is 68 dollars. For Gibson County, the rate is 65 dol- lars. Vanderburgh is allocated 74. If a farmer had one thousand acres of el- igible crops, and not all crops are eli- gible, the Posey County farmer could receive up to 68,000 dollars. Howev- er, the whole rate is not allocated all at once. Fifty per cent comes through for those signing up acres now. The other fifty will be allocated, if trade disputes are not settled, in two addi- tional payments planned for October and January, maybe. Meanwhile, prevented plant- ing acres were not covered. Unless one got a cover crop planted on that ground by Au- gust 1. This announcement was made on July 25. The cov- er crop ground would receive 15 dollars per acre. Those that chose to plant cover crop have to tell Farm Service Agency they plant- ed by ten days after they plant, mean- ing producers who just made the dead- line have until August 10 to certify to the FSA. Sign-ups at the FSA office for the Market Facilitation Program are running from now until December 6. The federal funds rate is the rate at which banks charge each other to loan money. The target rate was low- ered to 2 to 2.25 per cent last week, with the effective or actual rate soon to follow. The rationale is simple. The Federal Reserve changes things in or- der to keep unemployment low and the inflation rate between two and four per cent. Inflation is less than two per cent, so something had to be changed. Consumers never get as good a rate as banks, be- cause banks should be a more secure loan recipi- ent. The best consumers get the prime rate, previ- ously 5.50 per cent. With the reduction in federal funds rate, the prime rate probably drops to 5.25 per cent. Farmers tend to take on quite a bit of debt. Lower interest rates mean lower interest payments on new debt. August began with news of new tar- iffs on Chinese goods beginning in September. The US was already last in line for agricultural purchasing from China, so the real effects on agricul- ture would not be great in scope. How- ever, this action signals that the war in trade potentially escalates, which was one consideration in the creation of the Market Facilitation Program. For more information, contact Hans at hschmitz@purdue.edu or 812-385 - 3491. Humble brag: I am very adept at burning bridges. I may have a little arsonist in me. Emotional arsonist, that is, not the Smokey Bear kind of arsonist. That said, when I was about 13 years old and trying desperately to look cool, my mom sneaked into my bedroom and did a random search of my backpack. There she found a Ca- boodle—because it was the '90s. In- side the Caboodle she found a lighter and a pack of... tissues. She confront- ed me about the lighter and demand- ed to know whether I was smoking cigarettes. I told her I most certain- ly was not smoking cigarettes. I had tried it once, and it had made me cough and had burned and had abso- lutely not been for me. "Then what's the lighter for? " she demanded. My mom is not someone to mess with. When she asks a question, you had better answer. So I told her the truth. The lighter was for smoking. "But you just said you're not smok- ing! " she exclaimed, more than a tad exasperated —which, of course, was beyond reasonable. "I said I wasn't smoking cigarettes, Mom." "So, you're smoking pot? " "Mom, did you find any pot in my backpack? I can't even handle smok- ing cigarettes." I, too, was exasperat- ed, but I'm pretty sure it was in that unfair way that 13-year-olds just wake up exasperated. Adolescents must have some pretty aggravating dreams. "So what are you smoking? " my mom demanded. "The tissues you found in my Ca- boodle. Duh." I went on to explain that I knew smoking cigarettes and pot is bad for you. But on the walk home from junior high, all the cool kids were doing it. So my friend and I would roll up our tissues—which could, from a distance, conveniently look like cigarettes or joints— and smoke them on the way home. We thought this was genius. And we would continue to think so until the day we got caught smok- ing tissues by my popular arch-nem- esis a few weeks later. My mom, how- ever, immediately thought this was the most ridiculous thing she had ev- er heard. "Smoking tissues cannot be bet- ter for your health. Also, don't they burn quickly? " I assured her that they did, in fact, burn quickly but we made sure to drop them on the ground before they singed our fingertips. Perhaps be- cause it was autumn and the ground was covered in dead leaves, my mom responded, "Great, so you'll just start a fire." Which did scare me—more than tissue toxins in my lungs did. I truly do believe that only you can prevent forest fires. You and Zeus. He's the lightning bolt god, right? That say- ing might need to be amended to, "Only you and Zeus can prevent for- est fires." It's never a good idea to leave a major god off a T-shirt that applies horrific destruction credit to mere mortals. You might enrage the god. And then what would you get? Torched earth. Which, I guess, does prove that only you can pre- vent forest fires. Don't dis- card cigarettes; wet the ar- ea thoroughly after s'mores; and don't anger the gods. But despite this dance with arson in my youth, my real skill is in burning emo- tional bridges. I have previ- ously lived in the metropol- itan areas of Washington, New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Learning to skillfully burn bridges is basically your bat mitzvah, a rite of passage in- to adulthood, if that rite of passage is about being a jerk who can't hold her tongue. The thing about bridge burn- ing and rudeness in many of these ur- ban areas is that everyone does it, so it's forgiven. The rudeness garners some respect. I have since moved to a small town where everyone knows everyone. There aren't many bridges, and for the first time in my life, lashing out is seen as, well, what it is: rude. The lesson has been one I've been a tad slow to learn. In all fairness, I was the one who thought smoking tissues was a good idea. This week, my son is participat- ing in the most amazing wilderness camp. They build shelters and make fires and pretend to be fairies pranc- ing in the wood. A number of parents, a few of whom I've had spats with in the past, have asked for an adult ver- sion. I've asked to join. I heard bridge building will be one of the wilderness workshops—Zeus permitting. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Roy G. Freyberger, TOD quitclaims to Kelsey Freyberger, Jada Maxwell, Casey Freyberger and Lacy Freyberger, real es- tate as recorded in Pike County. Cameron J. Willis conveys to Matthew Stanley and Shelby Stanley, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Donna L. Hartke PR and Dale C. Hart- ke Estate convey to Ruth Hartke, real es- tate as recorded in Pike County. Theresa S. Dreiman, FK A Theresa S. Lamar, conveys to Theresa S. Dreiman and Gregory G. Dreiman, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Heidi Hartke conveys to Brandon C. Alldredge and Makenzie A. Alldredge, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Indiana Department of Transportation quitclaims to Mark A. Sturgeon, real es- tate as recorded in Pike County. Jordan A. Jones and Jamie L. Jones convey to Larry J. Masters and Brenda S. Masters, real estate as recorded in Pike County. JOYCE ANN HEDDEN Joyce Ann Hedden, 84, passed away at 12:03 p.m. Saturday, August 3, 2019, at The Villages at Oak Ridge. She was born June 8, 1935, in Daviess County, the daughter of Hampton and Martha Aline (Boger) Lett. She married Raymond L. Hedden on July 10, 1951. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Peters- burg and was a schoolteach- er for Pike County Schools for many years. 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