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Obituaries carolyn s. fitzgerald Carolyn S. Fitzgerald, 76, of Winslow, died at 11:08 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013, at Golden Living Center in Petersburg. She was born in Petersburg, Jan. 14, 1937, to William Chew and Juanita (McDaniel) McDaniel. Surviving are two sons, Steve English and William C. English; a daughter, Sandra Delap; a brother, Emil Kays; nine grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren. A-3 Wednesday, January 1, 2014 the Crane Naval base and retired after 34 years of service. He was a member of Washington Christ United Methodist Church. Funeral services were Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013, at 10:30 a.m. at Gill Funerdon G. miley al Home in Washington, Don G. Miley, 81, of Wash- with Rev. Ken Wells and ington, died Monday, Dec. Rev. Dean Stuckey officiat23, 2013. ing. Burial was at Sugarland He was born March 11, Memory Garden Mausole1932, and also raised in Pe- um with full military rites. tersburg. edythe fisher He served in the Navy for four years, and worked at Edythe Fisher, 96, of LawFuneral services were Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013, at 1 p.m. EST at Harris Funeral Home in Petersburg, with Dr. Charles Baxter officiating. Burial was in Walnut Hills Cemetery, Petersburg. renceville, Ill., died Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013, at Amber Manor Care Center in Petersburg. She was born in Lawrenceville, Ill., March 9, 1917, the daughter of Kenneth M. and Bertha L. (Pinkstaff) Davis. She married Oscar F. Fisher June 11, 1938, and he preceded her in death Oct. 6, 2007. Surviving are a son, William (Linda) Fisher, of Champaign, Ill.; and two daughters, Sandra K. (Charles) Martin, of High- land, Ill. and Mary K. (Silas) Ashley, of Petersburg; nine grandchildren; 17 greatgrandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Her parents; two sisters, Winifred Ford and Rayburn Eshelman; and brother-inlaw, Charles Eshelman, preceded her in death. Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013, at Emmons-Macey and Steffey Funeral Home. Burial was in Lawrenceville City Cemetery. H A look back on the second half of 2013 Form Continued from page 3 • Rachel Stephens, 30, of Stendal, suffered head and back injuries, when she and Michael Cook, 31, were rushing their one week old infant to the hospital. Police said Cook was driving fast and ran up on a Pike County Highway paving crew and swerved off the road to miss the paving crew. • Fire destroyed a production building owned by CountryMark located on the Cart Road. • The Pike County Board of Education approved the transfer of $1 million to the Rainy Day fund to help cover salaries, benefits and utilities for the remainder of the year. • Andrew Satterfield's trial on charges he murdered his mother was scheduled for November 18. • Pike Central Abe Jensen was honored for his scholastic achievement by four colleges, as they paid for him to fly to their schools to tour them. He toured Swathmore College near Philadelphia, Grinnell College in Iowa, Middlebury College and Colorado College in Colorado Springs. • Jared Simmons was sworn in as a Petersburg Police Officer. He replaced Chad Tharp, who earlier moved to the Pike County Sheriff's Department. • Cody Willis, 19, of Petersburg, suffered a compound leg fracture when he crashed an ATV while riding with friends. • Marcial Wood, 44, of Winslow, was injured in an early morning crash when he ran off the Cato-Winslow Road on the way to work. • Jon Nance, 22, of Campbelltown saved his father Jeff's life when he collapsed with a heart attack. Jon, who had just recently completed paramedic training, immediately started CPR on his father and kept him alive until EMTs arrived. • Kenneth Ray Gideon, Jr., 25, and Jonathan L. Shoultz, 32, both of rural Petersburg, were arrested on charges of manufacturing meth, a class B felony, and possession of meth. • R.C. Klipsch, of Petersburg, scored his first ever hole-in-one on Prides Creek Golf Course's fifth hole on Sept. 17. However, Klipsch and his wife, Karen, did not see the ball go into the hole, having lost sight of the ball as it sailed toward the green, into a blinding evening sun. • Former Press-Dispatch Sports Editor Mike Johansen passed away at 3:18 a.m. on Sept. 29, at the Terre Haute Regional Hospital, where he had underwent 1040 open heart surgery five days earlier. Johansen was hired as sports editor in March 2003 and continued in that position until July 2013. Johansen grew up in Iowa and graduated from the University of Missouri's School of Journalism. He worked for 25 years at the Eastern Arizona Courier in Safford, Ariz., near Phoenix, prior to coming to Pike County. • James Earl Daniel, Jr., 41, of Centerville, Tenn., was charged with four counts of sexual misconduct with a minor on Sept. 30 after a home health nurse reported she had walked in on Daniel as he was having sex with a teen girl at a house she was working in at the time. The teen girl told police Daniel had given her alcohol on Sept. 8 and that she and Daniel had sex about six to eight times between then and Sept. 16, when the nurse walked in on them. Daniel, who reportedly attempted to commit suicide after being interviewed by police, was charged with one count of sexual misconduct with a minor and three counts of sexual misconduct with a minor, deviate sexual misconduct. Both charges are class B felonies and are punishable by a sentence of six to 20 years. • The Pike County School Corporation's Board of School Trustees approved a proposal to raise the school board's tax levy from 96.82 cents per $100 valuation in 2013 to $1.7362 in 2014 – an increase of 76.8 cents that would generate an additional $4,046,648 in revenue – on Sept. 30. The proposed tax levy increase was based on an assessed value estimated at $650,000,000 in 2014, which is 13 percent less than the county's 2013 assessed value of $747,575,854. The total budget request for 2014 was $24,492,395, a 21.1 percent increase over the 2013 budget of $20,229,483. "This is the highest budget that we've asked for in a few years," Pike County Superintendent of Schools Suzanne Blake said. "Maybe ever." • The Pike County Library Board nixed two proposals dealing with the old Barrett Memorial Library branch building on Main Street in Petersburg during its meeting on Oct. 1. By identical 4-3 votes, the board voted against giving an option to the county to buy the building for $30,000, and against turning it into a history/genealogy center by moving the exhibits from the Pike County Library Museum into the building, as well as about 100 years of U.S. Individual Income Tax Return (99) IRS Use Only—Do not write or staple in this space. Celebrating 20 Years of Service Cell: Member of National Association 812-789-3852 October • Senior Kaylee Hadley, the 17-year-old daughter of Brad and Jo Hadley, was crowned 2013 Fall Homecoming Queen and junior Chloe Keepes, the 16-yearold daughter of Stan and Tricia Keepes, was crowned 2013 Fall Homecoming Princess during festivities before the Pike Central-Gibson Southern football game on Oct. 4. • Pike Central High School freshman Abby Hillyard earned second-team all-conference honors while placing 18th in the Pocket Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships at Southridge on Oct. 5. Hillyard, one of five freshmen to post a top-20 finish in the girls' varsity division, completed the muddy 3.1-mile course with a time of 22:49. • A Petersburg boy was seriously injured on Oct. 10 after being struck by a pickup truck while riding his bi- Pregnant... or think you are? • Free pregnancy testing • Free counseling and info. on pregnancy options. • Confidential counseling for women & men who are suffering from post-abortion syndrome. • Residential Care • Health and assistance referrals. • Training and education. • Assistance in getting baby and maternity clothes PEACE of MIND By Appointment WEdnESday nEW yEaR'S day Jan.1 11- 4PM EST 25% Off STOREWidE (discounts in store only) Select from over 10,000 bolts of quality quilting fabric, supplies, books, etc. 401 E. Main • Washington • 812-254-6063 Reg. Hours: Mon.-Sat. 10-5 EST Online Catalog with 8,000 items www.StitchingPostQuilts.com days earlier. According to the probable cause affidavit, neither Osborn, Parks or Stafford were involved in the original fight, but only got involved as they were trying to break the fight up. • The Pike Central High School's marching band, despite what director John Miller described as "a pretty solid performance" during the ISSMA Class C Regional Contest at Center Grove on Oct. 19, came up short in its bid for a spot in the semi-state competition. The Charger Brigade, led by senior drum major Sarah D'Esposito, was one of six bands that received a "silver" rating, but only one – Boonville – was among the 10 bands that earned a semistate berth. • Pike Central High School freshman Abby Hillyard became the school's first female cross country runner to advance to semistate since 2010 by placing 18th in the regional meet on Oct. 19 at Prides Creek Park. Hillyard completed the 3.1-mile course in 21 minutes and 10 seconds, just seven seconds off her personal-best time of 21:03. • A Velpen teen was injured Oct. 21 when she crashed while texting. Shelby Wininger was driving a 1996 Jeep Laredo north on Highway 257 when she ran off the road, hit a driveway and trees, then overturned and came to a rest against a pole barn. Wininger, who suffered a possible broken nose and a leg laceration, was found on the ground beside the vehicle when emergency response personnel arrived at the scene. Sheriff Jeremy Britton said Wininger admitted to police she was texting when the accident occurred. • The City of Petersburg's Board of Public Works & Safety approved a proposed interlocal agreement with the Pike County Commission for the construction of sewer service to the area of the Interstate 69 interchange on Oct. 21. 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Stephens was taken by ambulance to the Petersburg Elementary School, from where he was taken by an air ambulance to Deaconess Hospital in Evansville. He was later transferred to Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville. • A Mt. Carmel man was killed in a mining accident in a Pike County deep mine on Oct. 11. Larry G. Schwartz, 59, was struck by a shuttle car while working at the Five Star Mining Company's Prosperity Mine, located about seven miles west of Petersburg on Highway 56. A spokesman for Vectren, which owns the mine and contracts Five Star Mining to operate it, said Schwartz was conscious and alert when he was brought out and taken by LifeFlight to Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, where he later died from his injuries. • A Winslow man and his friend were rescued out of a 60-foot-tall tree after they crashed an ultralight aircraft into the tree on Oct. 11. James Cutler, 65, and his passenger, Richard Yahraus, 59, of Corydon, crashed into the tree near the French Lick Airport. Using a bucket truck with a 60-foot boom supplied by Orange County REMC, the aircraft was secured, and both occupants were harnessed and tethered with ropes and transferred from the aircraft to the bucket. Neither man was injured. • Two Petersburg men, Leslie M. Osborne, 23, and Zachary D. Parks, 22, were charged with involuntary manslaughter on Oct. 17 after they allegedly attempted to stop a fight at a Jasper bar. On Oct. 16, Timothy R. Stafford, 41, died of a closed head injury believed to have occurred during a 3 a.m. fight at JR's Bar four Call:1-877-257-1084 or Locally Call: 1-812-354-2814 washpcc@sbcglobal.net www.washingtonpregnancycenter.com THACKER TAX SERVICE 704 E. Haub Street Haubstadt, IN 47639 Office: 812-615-0071 records being stored in the basement of the Pike County Courthouse. • Petersburg Common Council president Fran Lewis, who has Type-1 diabetes, became the first person in the United States to receive an artificial pancreas device. The device, used alongside an insulin pump, tracks its wearer's blood sugar and sounds an alarm whenever it reaches dangerously high or low levels. It can also turn off the insulin pump if the wearer does not respond to the alarm, a situation which usually means the wearer is faint from a low blood sugar level. • Former Otwell Elementary School Principal Rick Fears filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the Pike County School Corporation on Oct. 3 in U.S. District Court in Evansville. Fears, who had served as principal at Otwell Elementary School for seven years, was terminated on Sept. 3 after the school board concluded that evidence presented during a seven-hourlong hearing on Aug. 27 supported the cancellation of his contract on the grounds of "neglect of duty" and "other just and good cause." GUIDE TO THE We think of you in silence, We often speak your name. Now all we have are memories, And your picture in a frame. Your memory is our keepsake, With which we'll never part. 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