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Monday, April 03, 2017Memorials to the Back Pack Program at Grace United Methodist Church of Sullivan are appreciated. All arrangements were under the care of the Eaton Funeral Home in Sullivan and Bourbon, MO.
Monday, January 09, 2017Services for Brenda J. (Umfleet) Roberts, age 76 of Bourbon, MO, were conducted 7 p.m. Thursday, December 29, 2016 at the Eaton Funeral Home in Sullivan with Mr. Tommy Wigger officiating.Visitation for Brenda was from 4-7 p.m. Thursday evening at the Eaton Funeral Home, Sullivan, MO.Brenda Joyce Umfleet was born on September 12, 1940 in Fredricktown, MO to Clyde and Geneva (Strickland) Umfleet. She grew up and attended school in Fredricktown. As a young woman, she moved to Sullivan where she worked various jobs in the area while raising her family. Brenda enjoyed cooking, gardening and spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was passionate about raising and showing Jack Russell Terriers. She loved the holidays and was described as a feisty, hardheaded lady.Brenda is survived by her husband Emerson Roberts of Bourbon; seven children: Harold (Skip) Massey of Joplin, Brad (Lisa) Massey of Leasburg, Lisa (Dave) Almany of St. Louis, Tina (Pat) Cantwell of Corinth, TX, Suzy (Dan) Presley of Sullivan, Beth Fleming of...
Monday, December 12, 2016Friends may send condolences to the Batson family at www.eatonfuneralhome.comAll arrangements were under the care of the Eaton Funeral Home of Sullivan and Bourbon, MO. « PreviousRio Grande – Christmas SaleNext »Lankford ‘Dusty’ Ray Whitehurst...
Monday, October 10, 2016Champaign-area restaurants, Abigail's and Country Inn, as well as 16 Arby's, three G.D. Ritzy's, and three Daddy-O's Restaurants in Champaign-Urbana, Danville, Bradley, Bourbonnais, Peoria and Moline, Ill., and Davenport, Bettendorf and Muscatine, Iowa.Bill served the Central Illinois and Eastern Iowa area as a businessman, mentor and philanthropist until his semi-retirement in 2011 when he became chairman of the board at FMS. After his full retirement in 2015, Bill continued his philanthropic activities through the William P. Myers Foundation.Because he lived in a children's home as a youth, Bill understood the philosophy of "giving a hand up, not a hand out." In 1981, he established the William P. Myers Education Fund to assist Cunningham Children's Home youths with education and job training beyond the high school level. Bill also supported other Cunningham projects, such as participating in the annual Kendall Gill Golf Outing, volunteering for and attending Christmas and Thanksgiving celebrations, supporting music and recreational programs, and making a major gift commitment to their $15 million Lighting the Way Capital Campaign.Furthermore, Bill gave generously of time and money to a variety of charities. He provided food, funding and equipment for Special Olympics; served as a mentor, counselor and adviser at L.W.'s Place, a drug and alcohol treatment center in Champaign; donated time as a counselor and community advocate for Family Life Skills Learning Center, a faith-based agency that teaches individuals how to stop the cycle of abuse and build a healthy home; and provided food, money and monthly volunteer staffing for Daily Bread Soup Kitchen in Champaign.Additional practical ways to help others help themselves included providing educational and job training programs at FMS, which hired individuals with developmental disabilities and worked directly with high school students in School-to-Work programs, and granting food service scholarships at the UI, Northern Iowa University, Parkland Community College and Danville Area Community College through the William P. Myers Foundation, established in 2001.Bill is survived by his wife, Adele; two children, Nathalie Pearson and Mark (Renee) Myers; four stepchildren, Elizabeth (Andy) Varner, Jane (Trent) England, Mike (Kari) Pankey and Tim Pankey; and six grandchildren, Jessica Pearson, Kathleen Varner, Michael Varner, Grace Pankey, Kate Pankey and Joe Pankey.Bill is remembered as a loving husband, a kind and generous father, a fun and supportive grandfather, a wise mentor, a trusted friend and a man who deeply loved the Lord Jesus.If one prayer sums up Bill's life, it is this:God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,Courage to change the things I can,And wisdom to know the difference.Funeral arrangements are b...
Monday, July 04, 2016Homer Simpson and footnotes citing singer John Prine, and he began a ruling to uphold Maker's Mark's rights to its traditional red wax seal with a six-page discourse on the history of bourbon. "All bourbon is whiskey," he wrote, "but not all whiskey is bourbon."Martin, a Democrat who was appointed in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter, clashed with conservatives on the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, most notably with his Louisville colleague, Judge Danny Boggs, who once wrote that Martin and fellow liberals tampered with rules to delay executions of criminals and would issue a stay "based on a hot dog label."Buy PhotoJudge Boyce F. Martin Jr., with former Attorney General Janet Reno in 2002. (Photo: The Courier-Journal)In an interview from his summer home in Maine, Martin announced in July 2013 that he was retiring in part because both he and his wife, Anne Ogden, were fighting illnesses. He was battling prostate cancer at the time."I want to go out at the top of my game rather than having to be carried up and down from the bench,” he said then.But legal blogs later disclosed that his decision to retire ended an investigation into allegations that he made questionable travel reimbursement requests. The claims were referred to the Justice Department's public-integrity section, which investigates possible crimes by public officials. It decided later not to prosecute.A family spokesman said at the time that Martin was a "distinguished judge with a lifetime commitment to public service and integrity" and had voluntarily repaid all of his travel expenses during a four-year period in question.In one of his most controversial decisions, Martin wrote the opinion for the court in Grutter v. Bollinger, upholding the use of affirmative action at the University of Michigan Law School. The decision was upheld by the Supreme Court.But Boggs accused Martin in a published opinion of tampering with the case by delaying a vote until two conservatives retired, sparking a conservative legal group to unsuccessfully seek Martin's impeachment.Martin later said he did nothing wrong in the affirmative action case but regretted the loss of collegiality on the court.Martin relished oral arguments and fencing with lawyers.New York lawyer Christopher D. Barnstable-Brown, one of 150 law clerks whom Martin mentored, said upon his retirement that “he always reminded us that the cases were not just about sterile briefs and legal questions but about the real reason the cases were there – the people involved.”span class="mycapture-non-priority-vertical-image mycapture-...
Monday, June 13, 2016John Prine song “Paradise,” about coal mining in Muhlenberg County, Ky., in an environmental ruling.In 2012, he delivered a 19-page opinion extolling the singularity of Kentucky bourbon in affirming a trademark-infringement decision against Jose Cuervo, a tequila brand. His opinion for a unanimous appeals panel found that the red dripping wax seal on Cuervo’s premium $100 Reserva de la Familia tequila bottles too closely resembled the signature coating that had covered the cap of Maker’s Mark bourbon since 1958.Quoting Justice Hugo Black, Judge Martin said he “was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon” and declared, “All bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon.”A fierce opponent of the death penalty and the author of an opinion voiding a Michigan law banning what abortion opponents call partial-birth abortions, Judge Martin drew fire from conservatives for his opinions and his judicial practices.Danny J. Boggs, a fellow appeals judge, accused him of delaying a vote in the affirmative action case, in which the Sixth District court ruled, 5 to 4, until two conservative judges were no longer eligible to participate in the ruling.An internal report by another appellate judge, Alice M. Batchelder, concluded that Judge Martin’s conduct raised “an inference that misconduct has occurred,” but no further action was taken. Judge Martin said Judge Batchelder’s conclusion was “factually incorrect.”Judge Boggs also accused Judge Martin and his liberal colleagues of frivolously issuing stays of execution in capital punishment cases based on pretexts as flimsy as “a hot dog label.”But in a 2005 dissent, Judge Martin said that in his experience, “only one conclusion is possible: That the death penalty in this country is arbitrary, biased and so fundamentally flawed at its very core that it is beyond repair.”When Judge Martin retired in 2013 after 34 years on the Sixth Circuit court, an inquiry into his travel reimbursements, initiated by a conservative colleague, was referred to the Justice Department. The department decided not to pursue the complaint after Judge Martin voluntarily repaid the entire $138,500 he had received as reimbursements during a contested four-year period, even though, he said, only a fraction had been challenged.Boyce Ficklen Martin Jr. was born in Boston on Oct. 23, 1935. His father was an assistant dean at Harvard Business School and an economics professor. His mother was the former Helen Artt.He graduated from Davidson College in North Carolina with a bachelor of arts degree in 1957 and from the University of Virginia School of Law, which he attended while serving in the Army Reserve.After serving as a federal prosecutor, teaching and practicing privately, Judge Martin was elected the first chief judge of Kentucky’s newly created Court of Appeals. President Jimmy Carter nominated him to the federal appeals court in 1979. He was chief judge from 1996 to 2003.His first wife, the former Mavin Hamilton Brown, died in 1997. They had four children. In addition to his son Boyce, he is survived by his second wife, the former Anne Brewer Ogden; another son, Robert C.G. Martin II; two daughters, Mavin H. Martin and Julie M. Hudson; eight granddau...
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Monday, April 03, 2017Memorials to the Back Pack Program at Grace United Methodist Church of Sullivan are appreciated. All arrangements were under the care of the Eaton Funeral Home in Sullivan and Bourbon, MO.
Monday, January 09, 2017Services for Brenda J. (Umfleet) Roberts, age 76 of Bourbon, MO, were conducted 7 p.m. Thursday, December 29, 2016 at the Eaton Funeral Home in Sullivan with Mr. Tommy Wigger officiating.Visitation for Brenda was from 4-7 p.m. Thursday evening at the Eaton Funeral Home, Sullivan, MO.Brenda Joyce Umfleet was born on September 12, 1940 in Fredricktown, MO to Clyde and Geneva (Strickland) Umfleet. She grew up and attended school in Fredricktown. As a young woman, she moved to Sullivan where she worked various jobs in the area while raising her family. Brenda enjoyed cooking, gardening and spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was passionate about raising and showing Jack Russell Terriers. She loved the holidays and was described as a feisty, hardheaded lady.Brenda is survived by her husband Emerson Roberts of Bourbon; seven children: Harold (Skip) Massey of Joplin, Brad (Lisa) Massey of Leasburg, Lisa (Dave) Almany of St. Louis, Tina (Pat) Cantwell of Corinth, TX, Suzy (Dan) Presley of Sullivan, Beth Fleming of...
Monday, December 12, 2016Friends may send condolences to the Batson family at www.eatonfuneralhome.comAll arrangements were under the care of the Eaton Funeral Home of Sullivan and Bourbon, MO. « PreviousRio Grande – Christmas SaleNext »Lankford ‘Dusty’ Ray Whitehurst...
Monday, October 10, 2016Champaign-area restaurants, Abigail's and Country Inn, as well as 16 Arby's, three G.D. Ritzy's, and three Daddy-O's Restaurants in Champaign-Urbana, Danville, Bradley, Bourbonnais, Peoria and Moline, Ill., and Davenport, Bettendorf and Muscatine, Iowa.Bill served the Central Illinois and Eastern Iowa area as a businessman, mentor and philanthropist until his semi-retirement in 2011 when he became chairman of the board at FMS. After his full retirement in 2015, Bill continued his philanthropic activities through the William P. Myers Foundation.Because he lived in a children's home as a youth, Bill understood the philosophy of "giving a hand up, not a hand out." In 1981, he established the William P. Myers Education Fund to assist Cunningham Children's Home youths with education and job training beyond the high school level. Bill also supported other Cunningham projects, such as participating in the annual Kendall Gill Golf Outing, volunteering for and attending Christmas and Thanksgiving celebrations, supporting music and recreational programs, and making a major gift commitment to their $15 million Lighting the Way Capital Campaign.Furthermore, Bill gave generously of time and money to a variety of charities. He provided food, funding and equipment for Special Olympics; served as a mentor, counselor and adviser at L.W.'s Place, a drug and alcohol treatment center in Champaign; donated time as a counselor and community advocate for Family Life Skills Learning Center, a faith-based agency that teaches individuals how to stop the cycle of abuse and build a healthy home; and provided food, money and monthly volunteer staffing for Daily Bread Soup Kitchen in Champaign.Additional practical ways to help others help themselves included providing educational and job training programs at FMS, which hired individuals with developmental disabilities and worked directly with high school students in School-to-Work programs, and granting food service scholarships at the UI, Northern Iowa University, Parkland Community College and Danville Area Community College through the William P. Myers Foundation, established in 2001.Bill is survived by his wife, Adele; two children, Nathalie Pearson and Mark (Renee) Myers; four stepchildren, Elizabeth (Andy) Varner, Jane (Trent) England, Mike (Kari) Pankey and Tim Pankey; and six grandchildren, Jessica Pearson, Kathleen Varner, Michael Varner, Grace Pankey, Kate Pankey and Joe Pankey.Bill is remembered as a loving husband, a kind and generous father, a fun and supportive grandfather, a wise mentor, a trusted friend and a man who deeply loved the Lord Jesus.If one prayer sums up Bill's life, it is this:God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,Courage to change the things I can,And wisdom to know the difference.Funeral arrangements are b...
Monday, July 04, 2016Homer Simpson and footnotes citing singer John Prine, and he began a ruling to uphold Maker's Mark's rights to its traditional red wax seal with a six-page discourse on the history of bourbon. "All bourbon is whiskey," he wrote, "but not all whiskey is bourbon."Martin, a Democrat who was appointed in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter, clashed with conservatives on the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, most notably with his Louisville colleague, Judge Danny Boggs, who once wrote that Martin and fellow liberals tampered with rules to delay executions of criminals and would issue a stay "based on a hot dog label."Buy PhotoJudge Boyce F. Martin Jr., with former Attorney General Janet Reno in 2002. (Photo: The Courier-Journal)In an interview from his summer home in Maine, Martin announced in July 2013 that he was retiring in part because both he and his wife, Anne Ogden, were fighting illnesses. He was battling prostate cancer at the time."I want to go out at the top of my game rather than having to be carried up and down from the bench,” he said then.But legal blogs later disclosed that his decision to retire ended an investigation into allegations that he made questionable travel reimbursement requests. The claims were referred to the Justice Department's public-integrity section, which investigates possible crimes by public officials. It decided later not to prosecute.A family spokesman said at the time that Martin was a "distinguished judge with a lifetime commitment to public service and integrity" and had voluntarily repaid all of his travel expenses during a four-year period in question.In one of his most controversial decisions, Martin wrote the opinion for the court in Grutter v. Bollinger, upholding the use of affirmative action at the University of Michigan Law School. The decision was upheld by the Supreme Court.But Boggs accused Martin in a published opinion of tampering with the case by delaying a vote until two conservatives retired, sparking a conservative legal group to unsuccessfully seek Martin's impeachment.Martin later said he did nothing wrong in the affirmative action case but regretted the loss of collegiality on the court.Martin relished oral arguments and fencing with lawyers.New York lawyer Christopher D. Barnstable-Brown, one of 150 law clerks whom Martin mentored, said upon his retirement that “he always reminded us that the cases were not just about sterile briefs and legal questions but about the real reason the cases were there – the people involved.”span class="mycapture-non-priority-vertical-image mycapture-...
Monday, June 13, 2016John Prine song “Paradise,” about coal mining in Muhlenberg County, Ky., in an environmental ruling.In 2012, he delivered a 19-page opinion extolling the singularity of Kentucky bourbon in affirming a trademark-infringement decision against Jose Cuervo, a tequila brand. His opinion for a unanimous appeals panel found that the red dripping wax seal on Cuervo’s premium $100 Reserva de la Familia tequila bottles too closely resembled the signature coating that had covered the cap of Maker’s Mark bourbon since 1958.Quoting Justice Hugo Black, Judge Martin said he “was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon” and declared, “All bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon.”A fierce opponent of the death penalty and the author of an opinion voiding a Michigan law banning what abortion opponents call partial-birth abortions, Judge Martin drew fire from conservatives for his opinions and his judicial practices.Danny J. Boggs, a fellow appeals judge, accused him of delaying a vote in the affirmative action case, in which the Sixth District court ruled, 5 to 4, until two conservative judges were no longer eligible to participate in the ruling.An internal report by another appellate judge, Alice M. Batchelder, concluded that Judge Martin’s conduct raised “an inference that misconduct has occurred,” but no further action was taken. Judge Martin said Judge Batchelder’s conclusion was “factually incorrect.”Judge Boggs also accused Judge Martin and his liberal colleagues of frivolously issuing stays of execution in capital punishment cases based on pretexts as flimsy as “a hot dog label.”But in a 2005 dissent, Judge Martin said that in his experience, “only one conclusion is possible: That the death penalty in this country is arbitrary, biased and so fundamentally flawed at its very core that it is beyond repair.”When Judge Martin retired in 2013 after 34 years on the Sixth Circuit court, an inquiry into his travel reimbursements, initiated by a conservative colleague, was referred to the Justice Department. The department decided not to pursue the complaint after Judge Martin voluntarily repaid the entire $138,500 he had received as reimbursements during a contested four-year period, even though, he said, only a fraction had been challenged.Boyce Ficklen Martin Jr. was born in Boston on Oct. 23, 1935. His father was an assistant dean at Harvard Business School and an economics professor. His mother was the former Helen Artt.He graduated from Davidson College in North Carolina with a bachelor of arts degree in 1957 and from the University of Virginia School of Law, which he attended while serving in the Army Reserve.After serving as a federal prosecutor, teaching and practicing privately, Judge Martin was elected the first chief judge of Kentucky’s newly created Court of Appeals. President Jimmy Carter nominated him to the federal appeals court in 1979. He was chief judge from 1996 to 2003.His first wife, the former Mavin Hamilton Brown, died in 1997. They had four children. In addition to his son Boyce, he is survived by his second wife, the former Anne Brewer Ogden; another son, Robert C.G. Martin II; two daughters, Mavin H. Martin and Julie M. Hudson; eight granddau...
