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Metropolis IL Obituaries and Death Notices
Monday, January 09, 2017Murray.February5: Jerry Newcomb, 78, of Grand Rivers. First fire chief of the Grand Lakes Fire District and played an integral part of the fire department for 36 years.10: Paul Edward Corzine, 92, of Metropolis, Illinois. With wife Lydia, owned and operated the Egyptian Trail Restaurant in Metropolis for 42 years. Well-known for their delicious donuts, homemade bread and pies, and especially their generosity.11: Charles Edward Thompson Jr., 59, of Paducah. Local founder of the nonprofit "Heart USA," a program that helped people in need receive low cost or free medications.12: Bennie Purcell 86, of Murray. Murray State basketball star; helped the Racers win their first OVC basketball championship in 1951; first Racer to reach 1,000 career points; retired jersey no. 21. Toured with the Harlem Globetrotters. Former MSU assistant basketball coach and later MSU's tennis coach with 11 championships, including 10-straight OVC men's tennis championships in the 1980s. Named OVC Coach of the Year eight times. Six-time hall of fame selection including: National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) (1969), Murray State Athletics (1969), Ohio Valley Conference (1990), Kentucky USTA (1994), Intercollegiate Tennis Association (1999) and Mount Vernon High School (2011).14: William Amos "Bill" Usher, 86, of Paducah. Founded the local Christmas Cop organization. Owner and manager of Usher Transport for many years. President or Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Greater Paducah Industrial Development, Rotary Club, KITM (KY, IL, TN, MO) Traffic Club, Kentucky Motor Transport Association, National Tank Truck Carriers, Paducah Country Club, presided as president for two years as they transitioned to the new golf course. County chairman of the Democratic Party for 20 years, and helped found the GPIDA, Paducah's first industrial development group.14: Albert Timothy Daniels, 75, of Paducah. Career in broadcasting, disc jockey, known as Dr. Dan Daniels. He also worked as a program manager and marketing representative in the broadcast industry. His unique voice was heard on many on-air commercials. Albert played the first Beatles recording in this area just weeks before their "Ed Sullivan Show" appearance.14: Tot Waldon, 84, of Bandana. Served on the Ballard County School Board for 20 years. In 1968 he was one of the original 12 people to help organize the Ballard County Country Club and served as the fourth president.20: Patricia J. English, 78, of Calvert City. In 1989, opened Paducah's oldest quilt shop, "Quilter's Alley."21: Virginia Ruth (McClain) Stacey, 88, of Paducah. With her husband Coy, owned and operated Stacey's Restaurant in Paducah f...
Monday, October 10, 2016San Francisco, but, just like most of today’s living residents, couldn’t afford to spend their afterlives in the expensive metropolis.In the year 1900, San Francisco was a city crowded by the dead. During the gold rush, gold miners, merchants and immigrants from all around the world flocked here in search of a better life, bringing with them disease, and as the death toll rose, the 27 cemeteries filled to the brink of overflowing. They were considered a health hazard, but most importantly, they were taking up a large chunk of prime real-estate, so in 1902, the City and the County Board of Supervisors banned further burials in the city and forced larger cemeteries like Laurel Hill and Calvary Cemetry to move their residents outside the city. The fight to keep the dead in their original resting places lasted a few decades, but by 1942, only two cemeteries remained in San Francisco – The San Francisco National Cemetery and the Mission Dolores Cemetery. They are still around today, but neither is accepting new burials.Over 150,000 dead bodies were moved from San Francisco to the small town of Colma, a small community established in 1892, when Archbishop Patrick Riordan decided to create a new necropolis in a valley five miles south of...
Monday, September 19, 2016Breughel.Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff -- still painting today in their 80s and 90s – are more expressionist, but still invoke the plain, battered surroundings of a weary metropolis. And Michael Andrews wrapped up his short career with pure landscape, pictures literally infused with the sand and dirt in his paintings.Go see “London Calling” at the Getty first, then head to the Huntington, to see a dozen recently acquired or loaned prime British paintings from before World War 2, some of which strongly influenced the Getty painters. David Bomberg (1890 - 1957), The Slopes of Navao, Picos de Europa, 1935, oil on canvas. Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical GardensThere’s pioneering modernist David Bomberg, with whom both Auerbach and Kossoff studied. You can see in their work Bomberg’s bold use of layered paint and colors, and a leaning toward abstraction. "Mornington Crescent with the Statue of Sickert’s Father-in-Law," 1966, by Frank Auerbach at the Getty Museum's new London Calling exhibit, but ... John RabeThere’s Stanley Spencer, whose powerfully emotional work with its combining of plants, humans, and animals foreshadowed themes of Lucien Freud.Walter Richard Sickert is represented by one of his placidly unsettling "ennui" studies. He’s the Godfather of most modern English painting, and in his later years revised his style in keeping with the younger generation he sometimes mentored.There is the sardonic "Cubist Museum" of Wyndham Lewis, who carried the avant garde torch in British painting until he lost faith in modernism and found equal fame as a novelist.And there’s a fine, subtle portrait by Gwen John, the only woman painter in either of these shows.It’s 28 miles from the Getty to the Huntington, but you should make the trip to see “London Calling” and “Blast.” Together, they provide a rich, continuous century’s span of English figurative art we’ve seldom seen here.
Monday, August 29, 2016Friday, Sept. 9, from 5 to 10 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 10, from 12 to 10 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 11, from 12 to 7 p.m.St. Anna Greek Orthodox Church was founded in 2002 and is part of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Jersey. The parish worshiped in temporary facilities until June 2013, when the new parish on Voorhees Corner Road opened. The ministries of St. Anna support various charities including the HMC Breast Cancer Foundation, Country Arch Nursing Home, Safe in Hunterdon, Make a Wish NJ, American Heart Association, Bonnie J Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, UNICEF, the Children’s Medical Fund and Autism Assistance Fund of the National Ladies Philoptochos, and the St. Nicholas National Shrine at Ground Zero.Visit stannagoc.org for more information.Read or Share this story: http://mycj.co/2bnoKhkLet'...
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Monday, January 09, 2017Murray.February5: Jerry Newcomb, 78, of Grand Rivers. First fire chief of the Grand Lakes Fire District and played an integral part of the fire department for 36 years.10: Paul Edward Corzine, 92, of Metropolis, Illinois. With wife Lydia, owned and operated the Egyptian Trail Restaurant in Metropolis for 42 years. Well-known for their delicious donuts, homemade bread and pies, and especially their generosity.11: Charles Edward Thompson Jr., 59, of Paducah. Local founder of the nonprofit "Heart USA," a program that helped people in need receive low cost or free medications.12: Bennie Purcell 86, of Murray. Murray State basketball star; helped the Racers win their first OVC basketball championship in 1951; first Racer to reach 1,000 career points; retired jersey no. 21. Toured with the Harlem Globetrotters. Former MSU assistant basketball coach and later MSU's tennis coach with 11 championships, including 10-straight OVC men's tennis championships in the 1980s. Named OVC Coach of the Year eight times. Six-time hall of fame selection including: National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) (1969), Murray State Athletics (1969), Ohio Valley Conference (1990), Kentucky USTA (1994), Intercollegiate Tennis Association (1999) and Mount Vernon High School (2011).14: William Amos "Bill" Usher, 86, of Paducah. Founded the local Christmas Cop organization. Owner and manager of Usher Transport for many years. President or Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Greater Paducah Industrial Development, Rotary Club, KITM (KY, IL, TN, MO) Traffic Club, Kentucky Motor Transport Association, National Tank Truck Carriers, Paducah Country Club, presided as president for two years as they transitioned to the new golf course. County chairman of the Democratic Party for 20 years, and helped found the GPIDA, Paducah's first industrial development group.14: Albert Timothy Daniels, 75, of Paducah. Career in broadcasting, disc jockey, known as Dr. Dan Daniels. He also worked as a program manager and marketing representative in the broadcast industry. His unique voice was heard on many on-air commercials. Albert played the first Beatles recording in this area just weeks before their "Ed Sullivan Show" appearance.14: Tot Waldon, 84, of Bandana. Served on the Ballard County School Board for 20 years. In 1968 he was one of the original 12 people to help organize the Ballard County Country Club and served as the fourth president.20: Patricia J. English, 78, of Calvert City. In 1989, opened Paducah's oldest quilt shop, "Quilter's Alley."21: Virginia Ruth (McClain) Stacey, 88, of Paducah. With her husband Coy, owned and operated Stacey's Restaurant in Paducah f...
Monday, October 10, 2016San Francisco, but, just like most of today’s living residents, couldn’t afford to spend their afterlives in the expensive metropolis.In the year 1900, San Francisco was a city crowded by the dead. During the gold rush, gold miners, merchants and immigrants from all around the world flocked here in search of a better life, bringing with them disease, and as the death toll rose, the 27 cemeteries filled to the brink of overflowing. They were considered a health hazard, but most importantly, they were taking up a large chunk of prime real-estate, so in 1902, the City and the County Board of Supervisors banned further burials in the city and forced larger cemeteries like Laurel Hill and Calvary Cemetry to move their residents outside the city. The fight to keep the dead in their original resting places lasted a few decades, but by 1942, only two cemeteries remained in San Francisco – The San Francisco National Cemetery and the Mission Dolores Cemetery. They are still around today, but neither is accepting new burials.Over 150,000 dead bodies were moved from San Francisco to the small town of Colma, a small community established in 1892, when Archbishop Patrick Riordan decided to create a new necropolis in a valley five miles south of...
Monday, September 19, 2016Breughel.Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff -- still painting today in their 80s and 90s – are more expressionist, but still invoke the plain, battered surroundings of a weary metropolis. And Michael Andrews wrapped up his short career with pure landscape, pictures literally infused with the sand and dirt in his paintings.Go see “London Calling” at the Getty first, then head to the Huntington, to see a dozen recently acquired or loaned prime British paintings from before World War 2, some of which strongly influenced the Getty painters. David Bomberg (1890 - 1957), The Slopes of Navao, Picos de Europa, 1935, oil on canvas. Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical GardensThere’s pioneering modernist David Bomberg, with whom both Auerbach and Kossoff studied. You can see in their work Bomberg’s bold use of layered paint and colors, and a leaning toward abstraction. "Mornington Crescent with the Statue of Sickert’s Father-in-Law," 1966, by Frank Auerbach at the Getty Museum's new London Calling exhibit, but ... John RabeThere’s Stanley Spencer, whose powerfully emotional work with its combining of plants, humans, and animals foreshadowed themes of Lucien Freud.Walter Richard Sickert is represented by one of his placidly unsettling "ennui" studies. He’s the Godfather of most modern English painting, and in his later years revised his style in keeping with the younger generation he sometimes mentored.There is the sardonic "Cubist Museum" of Wyndham Lewis, who carried the avant garde torch in British painting until he lost faith in modernism and found equal fame as a novelist.And there’s a fine, subtle portrait by Gwen John, the only woman painter in either of these shows.It’s 28 miles from the Getty to the Huntington, but you should make the trip to see “London Calling” and “Blast.” Together, they provide a rich, continuous century’s span of English figurative art we’ve seldom seen here.
Monday, August 29, 2016Friday, Sept. 9, from 5 to 10 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 10, from 12 to 10 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 11, from 12 to 7 p.m.St. Anna Greek Orthodox Church was founded in 2002 and is part of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Jersey. The parish worshiped in temporary facilities until June 2013, when the new parish on Voorhees Corner Road opened. The ministries of St. Anna support various charities including the HMC Breast Cancer Foundation, Country Arch Nursing Home, Safe in Hunterdon, Make a Wish NJ, American Heart Association, Bonnie J Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, UNICEF, the Children’s Medical Fund and Autism Assistance Fund of the National Ladies Philoptochos, and the St. Nicholas National Shrine at Ground Zero.Visit stannagoc.org for more information.Read or Share this story: http://mycj.co/2bnoKhkLet'...
