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We dedicate this page, in loving memory, to our
dearly departed Brothers who have laid down the
working tools of this life. May they come before the
Supreme Architect of the Universe and be welcomed as
good men and worthy craftsmen. |
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Bro. Jean Hart
Blain 90, of Florence, formerly of
Dry Ridge, died Saturday April 26 at St.
Elizabeth Medical Center, Edgewood.
He was a mail
carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, a
World War II Navy veteran, owner of
Blain Hardware in Dry Ridge, member of
Dry Ridge Baptist Church, 60 year member
and past master of Crittenden-Dry Ridge
Lodge 694 F&AM, Dry Ridge Chapter 306
Order of the Eastern Star, Grant County
Fair Board, Rural Letter Carrier’s
Association, Naval Minewarfare
Association, Young at Heart Club, Dry
Ridge City Council and a scorekeeper for
Dry Ridge High School and Grant County
High School basketball games.
His first wife,
Helen Bradford Blain, died in 1972; and
second wife, Mary Jane Blain, died in
2004.
Survivors include
his daughters, Linda Gritton and
Margaret Blain; sons, Bradford Hart and
Richard A. Blain; sister, Jeanette B.
Kells; six grandchildren; and two
great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be
4-8 p.m. Wednesday April 30 at Eckler-Hudson-McDaniel
Funeral Home, Dry Ridge. A second
visitation will be 10-11 a.m. Thursday
May 1 with service following at Dry
Ridge Baptist Church. Burial will be in
Hill Crest Cemetery, Dry Ridge.
Memorials: Dry
Ridge Baptist Church Building Fund, 19
Broadway, Dry Ridge, KY 41035. |
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Bro. Clarence
R. Stamper - Passed away on April
17, 2008 at St. Elizabeth Hospice,
Edgewood, KY. Bro. Clarence was born on
September 19, 1923 in Wolfe County, KY.
He was a member of the Elliston Baptist
Church, a World War II Air Force
veteran, a retired printer for H. S.
Crocker, Norwood, OH., a member of
Crittenden-Dry Ridge Lodge #694 F & AM,
a member of Indra Consistory of the
Scottish Rite and a Shriner.
Bro. Stamper was
preceded in death by his father; John
Taulbee Stamper, mother; Ella Edwards
Stamper, sister; Reva Landrum and
brothers; Chester Stamper, Eugene
Stamper, Richard Stamper and Russell
Stamper Survivors include his wife;
Betty F. Dowell Stamper, daughters;
Bonnie Jean Conover and Joann Anglin,
brothers; Donald E. Stamper and Clyde
Stamper, 3 Grandchildren and 3 Great
Grandchildren. Visitation will be on
Sunday from 4-8 pm with a Masonic
Service to the be held Sunday night at
7:30 pm. Funeral services will be held
on Monday, April 21, 2008, 11:00 am at
Eckler-Hudson-McDaniel Funeral Home,
with burial in the Hill Crest Cemetery,
Dry Ridge. |
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Bro. Norman Ferguson,
78, of Dry Ridge died Sunday, April 6, 2008, at
University Hospital in Cincinnati. He was a
retired supervisor with Cincinnati Bell and an
Army veteran of the Korean War. He served as a
deacon of Dry Ridge Baptist Church for over 50
years and also taught Sunday school. He served
as mayor of Dry Ridge from 1962 to 1964 and
again from 1986 to 1998. He also served on the
Dry Ridge City Council in 1962 and again from
January 2007 to the present.
He also served on the city's ethics board and
board of adjustments after retiring as mayor.
Ferguson Boulevard and the Ferguson tennis
counts, both in Dry Ridge, were named in his
honor. He was a member of the Crittenden-Dry
Ridge Lodge No. 694 F&AM, a member of the Grant
County Adult Education Committee, a board member
of the Spears Foundation and board of directors
of Clear Creek. In addition, he served on the
selection committee for the Kentucky League of
Cities, executive board member of the Crittenden
Baptist Association and a member of the
Williamstown Kiwanis. Survivors include his
wife, Mildred Porter Ferguson; daughters, Debbie
F. Meadows of Tampa, Fla., and Linda Gruen of
Paint Lick, Ky., and four grandchildren.
Funeral services were held April 9 at Dry Ridge
Baptist Church. Burial was in New Bethel
Cemetery in Verona. Memorials are suggested to
the Dry Ridge Baptist Church Building Fund, 19
Broadway, Dry Ridge, KY 41035.
Eckler-Hudson-McDaniel Funeral Home in Dry Ridge
handled the arrangements. |
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Bro. Danny Greenwell |
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Bro. Danny Greenwell
(Fellow Craft Mason) - Passed away on February 29, 2008 as a
result of a vehicle accident. Bro. Danny was 47 years old. |
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