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Manager Eric Gogel, Production Manager Cindy Petty, Adv. Sales Nancy Copley, Adv. Sales • • • • • • Published every Wednesday by the Pike County Publishing Co. Telephone 354-8500 820 Poplar Street P.O. Box 68 Petersburg, Indiana 47567 • • • • • • Entered at the Post Office in Petersburg, Indiana for transmis- sion through the mails as Period- ical Mail, postage paid at Peters- burg, Indiana. Published weekly. (USPS 604-340) AnnuAl Cook-out Board of Trustees: Jerry Barrett, Allen Aust, Bill Ross and Rev. Terry Beadles To the friends and families of Barrett Bethel Cemetery, the Board of Trustees will have our EvEryonE wElComE. Hamburgers and drinks furnished. Bring your own lawn chairs and a covered dish. Monday, May 26 (Memorial Day) The cook-out will be at the cemetery and will start after the Veterans ceremony. MARY (PEGGY) HALL Oct. 22, 1920 - April 27, 2014 In our time of sorrow and loss of our beloved mother and grandmother, Mary (Peggy) Hall. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks and ap- preciation to all our friends, neighbors and relatives. Special thanks to Father Dave Fleck for his wonderful sermon. Special thanks also to Jean Kinman, pallbearers, Dr. Woodland, Deacon- ess Hospital, Curtis Funeral Home, Winslow Eagles Club, Good Samaritan Home Employees and Muren Church of God for a wonderful dinner. The Hall Family donations needed oak Hill Cemetery Winslow, Indiana Dear friends of Oak Hill Cemetery, it's that time of year again when we have to ask for your help. If we are to keep the cemetery mowed and in good shape, we need your donations. Due to low interest rates, we don't get much interest money for maintenance. Your donations will be greatly appreciated. Send donations to Kenneth L. Curtis or one of the other trustees: P.o. Box 99, Winslow, in 47598 Sincerely, Paul Poehlein, Robert Erwin, Terry Strobel, Richard Tisdale, Diane Foster, Doug Foster, Kenneth L. Curtis SunSet Cemetery If anyone is interested in making donations to Sunset Cemetery, you may send them to: Patti Barnett 1585 N. County Road. 500 E. Winslow, IN 47598 We will also be collecting during memorial Day weekend at the cemetery. All donations are greatly appreciated. We would like to thank Coleman's Mowing Service and others for always keeping the cemetery looking beautiful. You may contact Greg Poehlein at 812-789-5405 for more information pertaining to the pur- chase of plots. Thank You The family of Prentice "Udell" Nichols wishes to express our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all our relatives, friends and neighbors for their kindness and support during the time of our loss of our husband, father and great-grandfather. Thank you to all who came to pay your respects and also to all who couldn't come but were re- membering him. Thank you for all the flowers and cards, and to those who prepared the wonderful dinner. Also thanks to the Old Udell's Gang, and to Curtis Funeral Home and all who cared for him in the last 14 months. Your kindness will never be forgotten. Vonda, Terry, Marsha, Roger, Danny and Tara Williams Cemetery West Highway 56, Bowman, IN To the faithful friends of Williams cemetery: The long, cold winter is over. Spring has arrived and so has the mowing season. Please assist with the mowing expenses as you have so faithfully done in the past. The only other revenue we have is the sale of burial plots. Donations may be sent to: Carol Moore 2614 W. St. Rd. 56 Petersburg, IN 47567 812-354-6634 Jerry Johnson 3728 W. St. Rd. 56 Petersburg, IN 47567 812-354-6779 DonalD l. DeffenDoll Donald L. Deffendoll, 78, of Jasper, passed away at 11:50 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, 2014, at Kentucky Baptist East, in Louisville, Ky. He was born on Dec. 12, 1935, in Petersburg to Norman and Grace (Har- ris) Deffendoll. He married Bernice Kunkler on June 29, 1957, in St. Anthony Catho- lic Church, St. Anthony, Ind. Donald was a 1954 grad- uate of Petersburg High School. After high school, he served in the U.S. Air Force as a jet engine me- chanic stationed at Andrews AFB in Washington, D.C. He retired from Memori- al Hospital and Health Care Center in 1991 and worked there as a clinical engineer. He was employed there for 21 years. He was one of the first certified emergency technicians when the am- bulance service was start- ed in Dubois County. He was a member of St. Jo- seph Catholic Church, a life member of the Jasper Moose Lodge #1175, Jasper Rifle and Gun Club, Jasper R/C (Radio Control) Flyers and American Legion Post # 147. Surviving are his wife, Bernice Deffendoll; two daughters, Donna Deffen- doll and Darlene Deffen- doll, both of Jasper; one sis- ter, Carrie Loveall, of Jasper; also nieces and one nephew. He was preceded in death by one sister, Lola Bell. Funeral services were at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 13, 2014, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, with burial in Fair- view Cemetery. American Legion Post #147 conduct- ed military graveside rites. Visitation was from 3-7 p.m. Monday, May 12, 2014, at the Becher-Kluesner Downtown Chapel in Jasper. Jasper Moose Lodge #1175 was in charge of a memorial service at 6 p.m. on Monday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Joseph Catholic Church or to a fa- vorite charity. Donna m. butrum Donna M. Butrum, 77, of Petersburg, died at 5 a.m. Friday, May 9, 2014, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville. She was born in Bicknell, Dec. 21, 1936, to Earl and Mabel (Lucas) Ward. She married Dick Butrum on Oct. 27, 1926, and he sur- vives. She was a member of Petersburg First United Method Church. She was a retired school bus driver. Surviving besides her husband, Dick, are two sons, Gregory Ward Butrum and Robert Butrum, both of Lou- isville, Ky., and six grand- children. Funeral services were at 10 :30 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, May 13, 2014, at Harris Fu- neral Home, with Rev. Mel Camp officiating. Burial was in Walnut Hills Cemetery. yeah, it's that fast! net edition Z M www.PressDispatch.net/Subscribe The Press-Dispatch. No matter where you live. Something newsworthy? Give us a call— 812-354-8500 Hole filled in near end of 'Charger Bridge' Petersburg City Services manager Gary mcCandless uses a backhoe to fill a dangerous hole near the end of the "Charger bridge" on Cherry St. over Prides Creek. mcCandless said he noticed the hole near the sidewalk on the bridge that has been closed for sev- eral years. "I was worried someone might be walking on the bridge at night and not see it. So we are trying to fill it in," said mc- Candless. A-3 Wednesday, may 14, 2014