Robert "Bob" Sanders
Dec 13, 2021
Mr. Robert "Bob" Sanders, age 78, of Murray, Kentucky, died on Monday, December 13, 2021, at Baptist Health Paducah in Paducah, Kentucky. He was retired from Alcoa Aluminum in West Lafayette, Indiana; He was also retired from National Guard; He was a Veteran of the United States Army; He was of a member of the Jefferson United Methodist Church in...
Barbara Myers Smotherman
Dec 13, 2021
Mrs. Barbara Myers Smotherman, age 87, of Murray, Kentucky, died on Monday, December 13, 2021, at her home. Mrs. Smotherman was born on October 23, 1934, in Lynn Grove, Kentucky to the late Chester B. Myers and Lucy Murdock Myers. She was a homemaker and a member of the Williams Chapel Church of Christ. In addition to her parents, she...
Richard (Rick) K. Orr
Dec 10, 2021
Richard (Rick) K. Orr passed from this life on December 10, 2021, after asudden illness.A resident of Wichita Falls, Texas, for the past 25 years, Rickwas a native Tennessean, born in Memphis in 1953. Murray, Kentucky, washis home for most of his growing up years. He was a Murray High Tiger,then studied journalism at Murray State University, where he was...
Gracie Lee Hopkins
Dec 10, 2021
Mrs. Gracie Lee Hopkins, age 88, of Murray, Kentucky, died on Friday, December 10, 2021, at the Murray-Calloway County Hospital. Mrs. Hopkins was born in Calloway County, Kentucky on May 14, 1933, to the late Bonnie and Delcie Crass. Mrs. Hopkins worked at and retired from Murray State University bookstore. She was a lifelong member of the Glendale Road Church...
Barbara Jean Hodges
Dec 10, 2021
Ms. Barbara Jean Hodges, age 68, of Murray, Kentucky, died on Friday, December 10, 2021, at the Murray-Calloway County Hospital in Murray, Kentucky. Ms. Hodges was born in Murray, Kentucky, on May 27, 1953, to the late Cecil Eldridge and Vonnie (Hicks) Eldridge. Ms. Hodges was of the Baptist faith. Ms. Hodges is survived by two sons, Bryant Hodges of...
Megan Cossey
Dec 8, 2021
Megan Cossey, age 27, of Murray, Kentucky, died on Wednesday, December 8, 2021.She was born on March 17, 1994, in Murray, Kentucky to Ken Cossey and Sheila Scott Cossey. Mrs. Cossey is preceded in death by her paternal grandfather, Kenneth Cossey; maternal grandmother Shirley Scott and one cousin, Nick Adams. Survivors include her wife, Cheyenne Robinson Cossey, of Murray, Kentucky;...
Joanne Overby Cavitt
Dec 7, 2021
Mrs. Joanne Overby Cavitt, age 91, of Murray, Kentucky, died on Tuesday, December 7, 2021, at the Murray-Calloway County Hospital in Murray, Kentucky.Mrs. Cavitt was born on November 11, 1930, in Graves County, Kentucky to the late Luby Curtis Overby and Kathleen (Snow) Overby. She was self employed making custom home furnishings, worked as the bookkeeper for Murray Lumber Company,...
Dorothy L. Foster
Dec 5, 2021
Mrs. Dorothy L. Foster, age 86, of Murray, Kentucky, died on Sunday, December 5, 2021, at the Murray-Calloway County Hospital in Murray, Kentucky. Mrs. Foster was born on April 3, 1935, in Thibodaux, Louisiana to the late Lonnie Rollison and Josephine Fakier Field. She was a homemaker and a member of the Westside Baptist Church in Murray, Kentucky. In addition...
Barbara Nell Gorz
Dec 5, 2021
Ms. Barbara Nell Gorz, age 75, of Madisonville, Kentucky, died on Sunday, December 5, 2021, at the Baptist Health Hospital in Madisonville, Kentucky.Ms. Gorz was born on April 23, 1946, in Hardin, Kentucky to the late AB Knight and Ruth (Rudolph) Knight. She was a homemaker and of the Baptist Faith.Survivors include one daughter, Kim Baker and husband Bob of...
Nancy M. Lewandowski
Dec 3, 2021
Mrs. Nancy M. Lewandowski, age 93, of Murray, Kentucky, (formerly of Dunkirk, New York) died on Friday, December 3, 2021, at her daughters' home. Mrs. Lewandowski was born in Washington, North Carolina, on July 13, 1928, to the late John Harris and Nancy (Robinson) Harris. Mrs. Lewandowski retired in 1994 from the Dunkirk Evening Observer as Assistant Circulation Manager for...