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Stanley Layton Lunsford

Stanley Layton Lunsford, 68, passed away on Thursday, June 14, 2018 in Tennessee. Funeral service was held Monday, June 18, at Vankirk-Grisell Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Brafford Cemetery.

Billy J. Jones

Billy J. Jones, 79, of Corbin, passed away on Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at Baptist Health Corbin. Born in Laurel County, he was the son of the late Perry Jones and Mattie Hill Jones. Billy was a member of Greenland Baptist Church and had been an engineer for CSX Railroad. In...

Betty Dizney Black

Betty Dizney Black, 97, the widow of John Bill Black and the daughter of Scott and Hazel Dizney, passed away June 11, 2018 in Federal Way, Washington. She was born in Corbin on November 2, 1920. She graduated from High School, married John Bill and with him raised Bill and...

Darrell Rose

Darrell Rose, 51, of Williamsburg, passed away suddenly on Tuesday, June 12, 2018, at Baptist Health Corbin. He would have been 52 on June 13th. He is survived by his children, Lindsey Rose, 26, Katelyn Rose, 22, and Carolyn Paige Rose, 19; and his wife/partner, Yvonne Hatfield;...

Dorothy Hopkins Cassidy

Dorothy Hopkins Cassidy, 94, passed away in Tullahoma, TN, on June 11, 2018. She was born February 1, 1924, to Jane and Manning Lovings in Laurel County. Dorothy went back to school in her forties. She earned multiple degrees and taught twenty some years in public schools at...

Teresa Ann Bunch

Teresa Ann Bunch, 51, of Hwy. 904 Williamsburg, passed away Thursday, June 14, 2018 at U.T. Medical Center in Knoxville, TN. She was born July 5, 1966 in Whitley County, to the late Junior Lloyd and Ollie Mae Griffith Bunch. Along with her parents she was preceded in death by a...

Shirley McCracken

Shirley McCracken, 79, of Corbin passed away Wednesday, June 13, 2018. Born February 21, 1939, she was the daughter of the late Robert and Lucy Bowling. She was a member of Central Baptist Church. In addition to her father and mother, she was preceded in death by her husband,...

Robert “Bob” Ralph Asher

Robert “Bob” Ralph Asher, 80, of Corbin passed away Monday, June 11, 2018. Born June 10, 1938, he was the son of the late Shelby Asher, Sr., and Bernice Morgan Asher. A devoted father, grandfather, and great grandfather, he was also a U.S. Navy veteran, a Kentucky Colonel, a...

Patsy Lloyd Webb

Patsy Lloyd Webb, 74, of Corbin, passed away on Tuesday, June 12, 2018 in Lexington. Born in Corbin, Patsy was the daughter of the late Donald A.  Lloyd and Maxine Lloyd Mitchell who survives. In addition to her father, she was preceded in death by her sister Saundra “Sunny”...

Wooton ranks 2nd in Nation, 4th in World for impressive beard

Who would have guessed that a decision made in June 2014, to grow a beard to complete his persona as a pirate for Halloween of that year, would have turned into such a wild adventure for Lance Wooton of Lily, KY? That is exactly what happened four years ago this month for the...