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C-10 Wednesday, July 26, 2017 The Press-Dispatch 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 MARTIN EDWARD SALTERS Martin "Marty" Edward Salters, 49, of Lake Charles, La., passed away on July 16, 2017. He was born on Nov. 13, 1967, in New Albany, to Lloyd and Lula Belle (Thombleson) Salters. He was a native of Prince- ton, where he attended high school and was the Indiana State Wrestling Champion in 1986. He also attended In- diana University. He and his wife, Susan, moved to Lake Charles three years ago. He worked as a poker dealer for the Isle of Capri. He loved to play poker and watch just about any kind of sporting event. More than anything else, he loved his two children, Elijah and Zo- ey. Those left to cherish his memory are his parents, Lloyd and Lula Belle Salters; his wife, Susan; their chil- dren, Elijah and Zoey; two brothers, Mike (Debbie) Salters and Mark (Chris) Salters; along with six neph- ews and two nieces. A celebration of life will take place at 1 p.m. on Fri- day, July 28, 2017, at Thurs- day Church, 218 Main St., in Vincennes. DONNA LEE DEFFENDOLL Donna Lee (Hast) Deffen- doll, 72, of Evansville, went to be with Jesus on Friday, July 21, 2017, at the Linda E. White Hospice House, while she listened to her children and their spous- es share memories of time spent with her. She was met by her beloved Daddy and husband, Glen. She was born August 7, 1944, in White County, Ill., to Cletus Hast and Reba (Harris) Hast. She is survived by two daughters, Susan (Frank) James, of Boonville, and Amy ( John) DeVries, of Evansville; a son, Steve (Kendra) Barnett, of Evans- ville; many grandchildren, step-grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Glen Def- fendoll, in 2011. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, July 26, 2017, at Pierre Fu- neral Home, 2601 W. Frank- lin Street, Evansville, with Rev. Dan Caldwell and Rev. Tyrone Edwards officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery in Camp- belltown. Visitation was from 4 un- til 8 p.m. on Tuesday at the funeral home and will be on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to service time. In lieu of flowers, the fam- ily requests that memori- al contributions be made to the Easter Seals Rehabilita- tion Center, 3701 Belleme- ade Avenue, Evansville, IN 47714 or the Vanderburgh County Humane Society, P.O. Box 6711, Evansville, IN 47719 -6711. PEACE of MIND Let our 125 years of experience aid you in your selection of a meaningful memorial. SCHUM MONUMENTS, INC. Dale, Indiana www.SchumMonuments.com 937-4921 Local Representative RONALD WOODS 789-2009 REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Hoffman Farms LLC conveys to Hudson Farms LLC, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Allysa M. Simmons conveys to Cynthia J. Knepp, real estate as re- corded in Pike County. The Secretary of Housing and Ur- ban Development conveys to House Chef LLC,real estate as recorded in Pike County. Mary L. Kramer aka Mary L. Rob- ertson conveys to Mary L. Kramer, Charles Layne Robertson, Danny Lee Robertson, Deanna Ingersoll and Lori Henson, real estate as re- corded in Pike County. Carol A. O'Rourke quitclaims to Kelsey C. O'Rourke, real estate as recorded in Pike County. John R. Hornbrook and Molly C. Hornbrook convey to Molly C. Horn- brook Living Trust and John R. Horn- brook Living Trust, real estate as re- corded in Pike County. David K. Henson and Lisa L. Bot- to fka Lisa L. Henson convey to Da- vid K. Henson, real estate as record- ed in Pike County. Larry J. Chandler conveys to Luke Chandler and Amanda Chandler, re- al estate as recorded in Pike County. Phyllis E. Dipietrantonio, Paul L. Head and Annabelle Head convey to Michael E. Head, real estate as re- corded in Pike County. Keith Steer, Kevin Steer, Kent Steer and Leeanne Price quitclaim to Gregory A. Willis, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Wesley E. Garris quitclaims to Nancy K. Garris, real estate as re- corded in Pike County. Dana Truitt conveys to Michael W. Truitt and Dana Truitt, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Jeffery T Clark and Joni L. Clark convey to Joni L. Clark, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Kelsey C. O'Rourke conveys to Ad- am E. Riker and Stardom K. Riker, re- al estate as recorded in Pike County. Kimberly Canzoneri, Nancy Nix- on, Brian Robertson, Gareth Rob- ertson, Kathy Robertson, Kendra Mankins Robertson, Ryan Robert- son, Elaine Tucker, Malinda Wirey, Newton Thompson deceased, Ely Thompson deceased, and unknown heirs or devisees convey to Brenda June Loos, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Wyatt Rauch Farms, Inc. conveys to Melvin Hamm and Estate of Mel- vin Hamm, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Randy Hamm, Personal Represen- tative and Estate of Melvin Hamm convey to Wyatt Rauch Farms Inc., real estate as recorded in Pike Coun- ty. Casey J. Collins conveys to Charles G. Heller and Judy L. Heller, real es- tate as recorded in Pike County. Karen A. Hayden quitclaims to Robert K. Hayden and Karen A. Hayden, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Matthew Raney conveys to Josh- ua J. Vest, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Clarence Louis Beck, Colleen G. Ervin, Jennifer L. Cornett, Vic- ki L. McClure, Peggy D. Williams, Kristeena C. Rhodes, Martin Beck, Sandra Beck and Vicki L. McClure convey to Douglass Bawel as co-trust- ee, Luke Bawel as co-trustee, Jeff Bawel as co-trustee, Land Trust 2005 and Land Trust 2005 of Dubois County, real estate as recorded in Pike County. Pursuit of the Cure by Star Parker Liberal values are bankrupting us Recently, Gallup published the re- sults of its annual Values and Beliefs poll. The headline of the report speaks for itself: "Americans Hold Record Liberal Views on Most Moral Issues." Gallup has been doing this poll since 2001, and the change in public opinion on the moral issues surveyed has been in one direction – more liberal. Of 19 issues surveyed in this latest poll, responses on 10 are the most lib- eral since the survey started. Sixty-three percent say gay/lesbi- an relations are morally acceptable – up 23 points from the first year the question was asked. Sixty-two per- cent say having a baby outside of mar- riage is OK – up 17 points. Unmar- ried sex, 69 percent – up 16 points. Divorce, 73 percent – up 14 points. More interesting, and of greater consequence, is what people actually do, rather than what they think. And, not surprisingly, the behavior we ob- serve in our society at large reflects these trends in values. Hence, the institution of tradition- al marriage is crumbling, Americans are having fewer children, and, com- pared with years gone by, the likeli- hood that children are born out of the framework of marriage has dramati- cally increased. Undoubtedly, the liberals in aca- demia, in the media, in politics, see this as good news. A fter all, doesn't removing the "thou shalt not's" that limit life's options liberate us? Isn't the idea of freedom supposed to be, according to them, that you have a green light to do whatever you want, as long as you're not hurt- ing someone else? But here's the rub. How do you measure if you are hurting someone else? No one lives in a vacuum. We all live in a country, in communities. We are social beings as well as individu- als, no matter what your po- litical philosophy happens to be. Everyone's behavior has consequences for oth- ers. For instance, more and more research shows the correlation between the breakdown of the tradi- tional family and poverty. In 2009, Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution published his "success sequence." According to Haskins, someone who completes high school, works full time, and doesn't have children until after mar- riage has only a 2 percent chance of being poor. A new study from the American En- terprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies focuses on millennials – those born between 1980 -1984. And this study reaches conclusions simi- lar to those of Haskins. According to this study, only 3 per- cent of millennials who have a high school diploma, who are working full time, and who are married before hav- ing children are poor. On the other hand, 53 percent of millennials who have not done these three things are poor. Behavior increasing the likelihood of poverty does have consequences on others. American taxpayers spend al- most a trillion dollars a year to help those in poverty, a portion of whom would not be in this sit- uation if they lived their lives differently. But the same liberals who scream when Re- publicans look for ways to streamline spend- ing on antipoverty pro- grams like Medicaid, scream just as loudly at any attempt to expose young people to biblical values that teach traditional marriage and chastity outside of marriage. The percent of American adults that are married dropped from 72 percent in 1960 to 52 percent in 2008. The percentage of our babies born to unmarried women increased from 5 percent in 1960 to 41 percent by 2008. This occurred against a backdrop of court orders removing all vestig- es of religion from our public spac- es, beginning with banning school prayer in 1962, and then the legaliza- tion of abortion in 1973. In 2015, the Supreme Court redefined marriage. Losing all recognition that person- al and social responsibility matters, that the biblical tradition that exist- ed in the cradle of our national found- ing is still relevant, is bankrupting us morally and fiscally. We are long overdue for a new, grand awakening. Star Parker is an author and pres- ident of CURE, Center for Urban Re- newal and Education. Contact her at www.urbancure.org. Tech Solutions by Scott A. Hartley Cryptocurrencies: Not just for the black market Bitcoin. Cryptocurrency. You may recognize those terms being associated with cybercrim- inals holding your personal infor- mation hostage. Often you're in- structed to pay the ransom using Bitcoin, if you want your files de- crypted. Despite the negative connota- tion, Bitcoin and other cryptocur- rencies are becoming a popular al- ternative form of payment and po- tentially profitable investment ve- hicles. WHAT ARE CRYPTOCURRENCIES? Cryptocurrencies basically are digital assets designed to work as a medium of exchange, according to Wikipedia. Even though many of them have the term "coin" in their name, they usually don't come in phys- ical form. The website blockgeeks.com provides a great summary: "Cryptocurrencies are digital gold. Sound money that is secure from political influence. Cryp- tocurrencies are a fast and com- fortable means of payment with a worldwide scope, and they are pri- vate and anonymous." They also highlight five attrac- tive qualities of using cryptocur- rency either as a method of pay- ment or investment vehicle: 1. Irreversible: A fter confir- mation, a transaction can't be re- versed. By nobody. And nobody means nobody. Not you, not your bank, not the president of the Unit- ed States, not Satoshi, not your miner. Nobody. If you send mon- ey, you send it. Period. No one can help you, if you sent your funds to a scammer or if a hacker stole them from your computer. There is no safety net. 2. Pseudonymous: Neither transactions nor accounts are connected to real world identities. You receive Bitcoins on so-called ad- dresses, which are ran- domly seeming chains of around 30 characters. While it is usually possi- ble to analyze the trans- action flow, it is not nec- essarily possible to con- nect the real world iden- tity of users with those addresses. 3. Fast and global: Trans- action are propagated nearly in- stantly in the network and are confirmed in a couple of minutes. Since they happen in a global net- work of computers they are com- pletely indifferent of your physical location. It doesn't matter if I send Bitcoin to my neighbor or to some- one on the other side of the world. 4. Secure: Cryptocurrency funds are locked in a public key cryptography system. Only the owner of the private key can send cryptocurrency. Strong cryptogra- phy and the magic of big numbers makes it impossible to break this scheme. A Bitcoin address is more secure than Fort Knox. 5. Permissionless: You don't have to ask anybody to use crypto- currency. It's just a software that everybody can download for free. A fter you installed it, you can re- ceive and send Bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies. No one can pre- vent you. There is no gatekeeper. BIG-NAME STORES ACCEPT IT Bitcoin, the most popular cryp- tocurrency developed in 2009, is accepted as a valid form of pay- ment by a growing number of re- tailers. Overstock.com, Expedia.com, Target, Subway, Whole Foods, Dell, Dish Network, and dozens of others will allow you to buy products or services and pay with Bitcoin. BETTER RETURNS THAN THE STOCK MARKET Teeka Tiwari, edi- tor of the Palm Beach Letter, en- courages his investors to purchase Bitcoin and other select crypto- currencies for investing. His research shows investing in cryptocurrencies outperforms the stock market by huge per- centages. He admits, of course, it is more volatile and risky and no one should put their entire nest egg into it. HOW DO YOU GET IT The easiest way to obtain Bit- coin and other cryptocurrencies is by buying them through an ex- change service. Coinbase is one of the most popular and easiest to use. For more details on cryp- tocurrencies and step-by-step in- structions on how to obtain them, visit http://bit.ly/cryptocurrenc- yguide. NOTE: Information provided in this column is not intended to pro- vide any form of financial or invest- ment advice or counseling. Seek as- sistance from a qualified investment advisor before purchasing or invest- ing in any cryptocurrencies. Scott A. Hartley is the President/ CEO of Calibre Computer Solutions in Princeton. For computer tips, in- formation, and free software tools, check out our website at http:// www.calibreforhome.com. DOR A J. BEYER Dora J. Beyer, 80, passed away on Monday, July 24, 2017. She was born in Pike County on March 16, 1937, the daughter of David A. and Maude E. (Rumble) Grubb. Dora worked for seven years with the Selective Ser- vice System in Petersburg and Vincennes. She worked 32 years with Citizen's State Bank of Petersburg, retiring in March of 1995. She was preceded in death by her parents; and one brother, John A. Grubb, of Red Bud, Ill. Surviving are her hus- band, William Beyer; sev- en stepchildren; nine step-grandchildren; six step-great-grandchildren; a nephew, Michael (Laurie) Grubb; a great-niece, Ka- sey Grubb (fiancé Matt Pin- son); and a great-nephew, Ja- son Grubb. Private graveside ser- vices will be conducted on Saturday, July 29, 2017, at Walnut Hills Cemetery in Petersburg. 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