Obituaries
Nicholasville, KY Obituaries
Local obituaries for Nicholasville and Jessamine County, KY
June Marie Schweppe
Jun 7, 2024
June Marie Schweppe, 86, widow of Emil Leroy Schweppe, passed away Friday, June 7, 2024. She was born in Portland, Oregon, on September 17, 1937, to the late Everett Campbell and Estella Page Campbell. She is survived by her daughters, Teresa Westerfield (Johnny), Sheryl Shafer, and Debbie Demland; grandchildren, Tyler Bingham, Brandi McDowell, Brittney Bingham, Jordan Bingham, Jon Shafer...
Robert W Rettie
Jun 7, 2024
Robert W. Rettie (86) died peacefully in his sleep on June 4, 2024. Bob was a Navy veteran and traveled throughout his life for both work and pleasure, raising his family in a wide variety of countries, cities and towns around the world. Retirement brought him to Lexington where he spent his days making lead soldiers, painting watercolors, playing...
Randall Lewis Beck
Jun 6, 2024
Randall Lewis Beck, 60, husband of Lora Caudill Beck, passed away Thursday, June 6, 2024, at his home on Murphy Lane, Nicholasville, Kentucky. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on November 6, 1963, to the late Glenn Lewis Beck and Mary Alice Speer Beck. He is survived by his wife, Lora; brother, David Beck; sister, Margaret Lay; and numerous...
Rickie Lee Erlewein
Jun 5, 2024
Rickie Lee Erlewein, 54, husband of Jill Marie Dickison Erlewein, passed away Wednesday, June 5, 2024, at his home on Platt Drive, Nicholasville. He was born in Sandwich, Illinois, on March 16, 1970, to Darrell Gene Erlewein and Marlene Arvin Erlewein. Rickie worked as a machine operator for West Rock. He is survived by his wife, Jill; parents, Darrell...
Laney Kalen Hall
Jun 3, 2024
Laney Kalen Hall, 42, husband of Max Hall, passed away Monday, June 3, 2024. He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, on November 24, 1981, to the late Lainey Hall and Carla Tufts. Kalen was a State Trooper with the Kentucky State Police and an active Southland Christian Church member. Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Max; stepson,...
Frances Sherrow
Jun 2, 2024
Frances Sherrow, 85, of Lancaster, Kentucky, passed away Sunday, June 2, 2024, at Ephraim McDowell Hospital in Danville. She was born in Lexington, Kentucky, on August 7, 1938, to the late Cyrus Thomas Walls and Helen Irene Arnold Walls. She is survived by her son, Johnny Willard Edwards, Jr.; brothers, Everett Walls, Charles Walls (Patricia), and Johnny Walls; sisters,...
Fredrica "Ricky" M. C. Smith
Jun 2, 2024
Fredrica “Ricky” M. C. Smith, wife of Richard L. Smith of Nicholasville Kentucky died on Sunday 2 June 2024. She was born to the late Arthur J. and Bettina W. H. Canfield in Bridgeport Connecticut on 27 April 1940. Ricky was lovingly revered as our family’s leader and as a pillar of our Nicholasville community. Ricky enjoyed gardening, the...
Muriel Lee Farley Morris
May 30, 2024
Muriel Lee Farley Morris, 78, widow of Daniel Lee Morris, passed away on Thursday, May 30, 2024, at Nicholasville Health and Rehab in Nicholasville, Kentucky. She was born on June 12, 1945, in Mingo County, West Virginia, to the late Edgar Farley and Anna Marie Napier Farley. Muriel was a member of Edgewood Baptist Church and worked at the...
Marilyn Doner Stutzman
May 23, 2024
Marilyn Doner Stutzman, 77, wife of Ronald Dean Stutzman, of Arkport, New York, passed away Thursday, May 23, 2024, at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center in Danville, Kentucky. She was born in Gormley, Ontario, Canada, on August 5, 1946, to Lloyd Doner and Dorothy Timbers Doner. Marilyn was a member of Buena Vista Wesleyan Church, (where a Memorial Service...
Billy Wayne Mastin, Sr.
May 19, 2024
Billy Wayne Mastin, Sr., 72, widower of Susan “Suzie” Maxine Cuzick Mastin, passed away Sunday, May 19, 2024, at St. Joseph Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. He was born in Lexington, Kentucky, on January 16, 1952, to the late Andy Marion Mastin and Adeline Becknell Mastin. Billy was a retired custodian at Thomson-Hood Veterans Center in Wilmore, Kentucky. He is...
Morris Ray Wayne
May 16, 2024
Morris Ray Wayne
September 9, 1946 – May 16, 2024
Morris Ray Wayne was born at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, on September 9, 1946. He was the first child of four children born to the late Louis (Dick) Wayne and Evelyn (Peggy) Wayne.
Morris was raised on a farm in...
Patricia Louise Butterworth
May 14, 2024
Patricia Louise Butterworth was born December 5th, 1948 in Highland, Illinois to parents Howard Ellsworth Harford and Norma Louise Wise Wilson. She passed away peacefully in her home in Wilmore, Kentucky on May 14th, 2024. She is survived by her husband Donald Butterworth, her 2 children and their families: Daughter, Amy Camuglia, her husband Joseph Camuglia, grandchildren- Nicholas Catero,...
Mary Rose Cecil
May 14, 2024
Mary Rose Flack Cecil, 87, widow of Charles Cecil, Lexington, Kentucky, passed away on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at Baptist Health Lexington. She was born in Jessamine County, Kentucky, on September 8, 1936, to the late George Flack and Virginia Corman Flack. Mary Rose worked as a cashier at Winn Dixie and Kroger for many years. She attended Gardenside...
Richard Fred Jones
May 10, 2024
Richard Fred Jones, 54, of Lexington, Kentucky, passed away on Friday, May 10, 2024, at Baptist Health Lexington. He was born on October 9, 1969, in Irvine, Kentucky, to Fred Jones and Lyda Stamper Benson. He is survived by his mother, Lyda (Fred) Benson; father, Fred (Gayle) Jones; daughter, Jessica (Billy) Garrison; sister, Elizabeth (Chip) Templeman; and two grandchildren,...
Mitchell Lindsay Mccuddy
May 10, 2024
Mitchell Lindsay McCuddy, 61, of Nicholasville, Kentucky, passed away Friday, May 10, 2024, at his home. He was born on February 3, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, to the late Sterling Lindsay McCuddy, Jr. and Sheila Juan Becknell McCuddy. He is survived by two daughters, Samantha Jo (Brandon Smith) McCuddy and Lindsay Taylor McCuddy, a brother, Duane (Debbie) McCuddy, a...
Bekham Williams
May 9, 2024
Bekham Williams, 92, husband of Roma Janet Thompson Williams whom he married in April of 1952, passed away on Thursday, May 9, 2024, at his home on Hillcrest Drive in Nicholasville, Kentucky. He was born on May 23, 1931, in Yosemite, Kentucky, to the late Eunice Williams and Maude Nichols Williams. Beckham was a United States Air Force veteran...
Latisha "Tish" Annette Morgan
May 9, 2024
Loving Mother, Latisha (Tish) Annette Morgan, 44, went to be with the Lord on May 9, 2024. Tish had lost her battle with cancer after fighting for a year and a half.
Tish was the loving mother of Adison Nevaeh Cobb (19), second mother of Olivia Pearl Wade (21) and Emily Madison Moore (14), daughter...
Barry Steele Jackson
May 9, 2024
Barry Steele Jackson, 77, widower of Marilyn Hunter Jackson, passed away on Thursday, May 9, 2024, at the Berea Health & Rehabilitation in Berea, Kentucky. Barry was a retired employee of Sylvania in Versailles, Kentucky. He was born on May 7, 1947, in Lexington, Kentucky, to the late William R. Jackson and Katherine Ann McDowell Jackson. He is survived...
Joyce Lee Roberts
May 5, 2024
Joyce Lee Roberts, 81, widow of Alwin Rankin Roberts III, passed away Sunday, May 5, 2024, at her home on Miles Road in Nicholasville, Kentucky. She was born in Roanoke, Virginia, on November 20, 1942, to the late Lawrence Edward Hamilton Mawyer and Jesse Clara Belle Gillenwater Mawyer. She is survived by her son, John Robert McLean, daughters, Julia...
Thomas Fryer Johnson
May 2, 2024
Thomas Fryer Johnson, 94, husband of Jayne Kimberly Hall, passed away on Thursday, May 2, 2024, at Thomson Hood Veterans Center in Wilmore, Kentucky. He was born in El Paso, Texas, on July 25, 1929, to the late Roe L. Johnson and Mary Theresa Mulligan Johnson. Thomas was retired from the United States Navy. In addition to his wife,...
