July 17, 2008

Lt. Col. Marion Scott Street, 85
Lt. Col. Marion Scott Street, 85, USAF, Ret., died July 9, 2008. He was born in Irvine Aug. 17, 1922, to Essye Scrivner Street and Robert Street. His mother died when he was young. He was raised by May and Russell Shearer and the family of Hallye and Franklin Stevens. He was a lifelong member of the First Christian Church.  Friends that preceded him in death include Eloise Masters Mackey, “CC” Shumate Flaherty, Mary Jo Strong Gould, Beryl Seale Hunt, Jean Lannin Keyser, Frances Long Denney, Georgiana Brakefield Kane, Alma Stevens, Eunice MacIntosh Mays, Jean Johnson Reedy,  Wayne Christopher, Harold Patrick, Wallace Bragg, Raymond “Ink”  Benton, W.T. Farmer, Leon Noland,  Robert Reedy, Bill Stevens, and numerous others. 
His senior year he scored the highest score yet achieved on the Kentucky General Scholastic Exam. He graduated from Irvine High School in the spring of 1939, then completed his freshman year at the University of Kentucky. He served in the Kentucky National Guard, Company 14, 149th Infantry,  from 1936-1939. In the spring of 1940, he was appointed to the West Point Military Academy where he finished four years of education in three years. Thus he graduated a year early, with the famous “Bastard Class” of June, 1943.  He then chose to train in the United States Air Force. 
Lt. Street, based in Weathersfield, England, served with the Ninth Air Force, the 416 Bomber group and the 669 Squadron. He piloted an A-20 for 55 missions from England, bombing enemy targets in France. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the highest flying honor the USAF awards, for bringing in a badly damaged plane and saving his crew members. He flew intensively in the month leading up to D-Day,  and participated in the D-Day assault. When the Allies took Paris, he re-located there, and flew his final 10 missions in an A-26. When he completed his tour, he continued to serve in Europe, as the pilot for the USAFE Chief of Ordnance and Armament. He returned from Europe as Capt. Street. Reporting for duty in Texas in 1945, he was supervising a training pilot who hit a flock of birds. The plane flipped,  and Scott was critically injured, to the point where he could not fly again. He continued to serve another 20 years in the USAF as a civil engineer, retiring in 1965. He spent his remaining years in Florida with his family.
He is preceded in death by Wilma, his wife of 60 years. 
Survivors include his four children, their spouses and children:  Marian Sue Street, Ph.D. and daughter Leah Scarlett; Thomas Lamar Street, wife Cathy and daughter Erin Summer;  Patricia Jo Street, husband Michael Costello and sons Mack Scott and Patrick Thomas;  and Wilma Jeanne Street, Ph.D., husband Clif Dopson, M.D. and daughter Lorna Street Dopson; and a brother, Robert Lamar Street, of Winchester, and family, and his sisterly cousin Ann Franklyn  Hardy, of Irvine,  and her family. 
A celebration and memorial service was conducted at 2 p.m.  Monday, July 14 at Lewis Funeral Home with burial at the West Irvine Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Tom Street, Mack Costello, Patrick Costello, Clif Dopson, Robert Scott Street and Terry Minter. 

Malinda Stamper, 70
Malinda Raleigh Stamper, age 70, Doe Creek Road, Irvine died Wednesday, July 9, 2008, at the St. Joseph Hospital East after a long illness.  She was born March 20, 1938 in Breathitt County, the daughter of the late Woodrow and Evelyn Akeman Raleigh.  She was a homemaker and had lived in Estill County for the past 20 years. 
Survivors include her husband, Hiram Stamper; eight daughters, Alma Salley and Edna Hall, both of Winchester, Linda Stokley of Clay City, Kaye Childers of Mt. Sterling, Tina Stamper, Brenda Plowman, Pam Childers, and Kathy Gilbert, all of Irvine; two sons, Hiram Stamper, Jr. and Terry Wayne Stamper, both of Winchester; three sisters,  Dora Stamper and Mollie Smith of Winchester, and Mary Jane Browning of Berea; four brothers, Jesse Raleigh, Sam Raleigh and Junior Raleigh, all of Winchester, and Brown Raleigh of Florida; 24 grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by one brother, Earl Raleigh.
Funeral services were conducted Friday, July 11 at 11 a.m. at the Warren F. Toler Funeral Home Chapel by Bro. David Campbell with burial at the Arewood and Stamper Cemetery. 
Pallbearers were  Stevie Plowman, Jr., Henry Burton, Richard Childers, Jr., Hiram Stamper, III       Vernon Hall, Jr. and George Stokley, III.

William Logsdon, 57
William Harvey Logsdon, 57, of Crab Orchard, husband of Charlotte Farthing Logsdon, died Thursday, July 10, 2008 at St. Joseph Hospital-Berea after a short illness. He was born February 12, 1951 in Loriane Ohio, a son of the late Harvey and Ethel Rice Logsdon. He was a member of Westside Baptist Church in Berea.
Survivors in addition to his wife, Charlotte, are two sons, William David Logsdon of Richmond and Cpl. Harvey Snowden Logsdon USMC; four daughters, Deborah Lee and Sharon Marie, both of Irvine, Ethel Lynn of Florida, and Joetta Faye Buston of Lexington; four sisters, Helen Patron and Cheryl Brown of Loraine, Ohio, Betty Ann Gadd of Berea and Alma Wilson of Tennessee; two brothers, Wade Hampton Logsdon of Amherst, Ohio and James Edward Logsdon of Loraine, Ohio; and six grandchildren.
Services were conducted at 2 p.m., Sunday at Lewis Funeral Home by Bro, Allen Livingood with burial at the Logsdon cemetery.
Pallbearers were Jimmy and Allen Woolf, Wade Hampton, Jr., Michael and Chuck Farthing and George Pastron. Honorary pallbearers were Paul David Jett, Wade Hampton, Sr., Larry Gergen, Rick Smith Nathan and Bryan Buston.

Stevie Rader, 50
Stevie R. Rader, 50, Beavercreek, Ohio, died Saturday, July 5, 2008. He was a member of the Beavercreek Moose Lodge.
Survivors in addition to his mother, Celia Gay Rader, are one daughter, Sara Bemme; four sisters, Judy McCartney and husband Jim, Brenda Schneider, Peggy Rigney and Tina Sersern; one brother, Dan Rader; nieces and nephews, Chad, Chris, Kyle, Jessica, Tony, Daniel, Cole and Alex; and numerous other family members and friends.
Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at the Warren F. Toler Funeral Home Chapel by Bro. Henry Johnson with burial at the West Irvine Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Chad Schneider, Jim McCartney, Greg Birchfield, Tim Abney, Tad Creamer and Dallis Abney.

Richard Wyles Hickman, 55
Richard Wyles Hickman, 55, Cherry Street, son of the late Raymond Wyles and Gertude Cox Hickman, died June 30 at his home after a short illness. He was born December 12, 1952 in Madison County and was a construction worker.
Survivers include two sisters, Judy Hickman and Sue Popp both of Irvine; a niece Carrie Ann Tackett and a nephew Christopher William Popp; two great nieces, Audrey Faith and Sarah Elizabeth Tackett and several cousins.
Memorial services will be conducted at 4 p.m., Saturday, July 19 at the Irvine Free Methodist Church with Pastor Nick Clark and Gary Powell officiating.  Friends may call at the church at 3:30 p.m.