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Besides the typical holiday festivities this December, the very first cohort of University of the Cumberlands’ Master of Science in Nursing – Family Nurse Practitioner (MSN – FNP) program also got to celebrate their graduation. Fourteen students received their master’s degrees...

Inabelle Campbell, 91, of Williamsburg, departed this life on Sunday, December 30, 2018 at her home. She was born on June 13, 1927 in Buckhannon, West Virginia to the late James Martin Fox and Edna Victoria (Raynor) Fox. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her...

James “JT” Thomas Franklin Cathers, 73, passed away on Monday, December 31, 2018 at his home. He was born in Whitley County, and was a retired carman with CSX railroad in Corbin and he was a veteran of the US Army. James was a member of the First Pentecostal Church in Corbin and...

Phillip Marvin Bays, 56, of Connersville, IN formerly of Williamsburg, passed away Monday December 31, 2018 at the Reid Health System in Richmond, IN. He was born December 31, 1962 in Corbin, to the late Eldon and Naomi Carroll Bays. Along with his parents he was preceded in...

Richard Vaughn Smith, 76, a resident of Batavia, OH passed away December 31, 2018. He was the son of the late Joseph Alman and Ruth Floyd Smith. Richard taught elementary school for 52 years with 30 years at West Clermont School. He was the beloved husband of Claudia Lee (nee...

Wendy Renea Robinson Shepherd, 49, of London, was born October 21, 1969, in Detroit, MI, to John Mitchell and Judy Jones Robinson, and passed away at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, on Monday, December 31, 2018, surrounded by her loving family and some of...

Rev. Larry Day, 73, of Corbin, went home to be with the Lord on Monday, December 24, 2018, at the Greg & Noreen Wells Hospice Center of Hazard, Kentucky. Born May 1, 1945, in Kenova, West Virginia, Larry was the son of the late Ralph Mitchell & Dora Jean (Alcorn) Day....

Barbara Nantz, 91, of Corbin passed away Monday, December 31, 2018. Born July 29, 1927, she was the daughter of the late John and Claracie Wesley Dabney. She was a member of Oak Grove Baptist Church. In addition to her father and mother, she was preceded in death by her husband,...

Charles B. ‘C.B.’ Ely Jr., 77, of Corbin passed away Dec. 31st, 2018 at the UK Bluegrass Hospice Center in Lexington, after a long fight with cancer. Born May 30th, 1941, in Pennington Gap, VA., to Charles and Betty Ann Ely, where he lived until his father transferred to...

Marvin F. Thomas, 70, of Newport, KY departed this life on Tuesday, December 18, 2018. He was born on April 5, 1948 in Whitley County, to the late Finley and Rachel (Powers) Thomas. He was also preceded in death by his son, David Thomas; two brothers, Harold and Arville Thomas;...