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Date of these obituaries: 07-09-1999
Dorothy Clark, shared energy, skill and wisdom
Dorothy T. Clark pursued every phase of her life with energy and pride.
As a young mother, she sewed her children's clothes.
Christmas gifts were her handiwork - needlepoint, tole painting, hand-woven baskets.
She taught Sunday school and became a sounding board for high school students who would gather at her Carroll County home for heartfelt discussions on everything from life and love to God and family.
When her children went off to college, she became secretary for the Carroll County Cooperative Extension Service in 1969 and stayed 18 years, becoming a mentor for young extension agents and other working women.
She was president of Carrollton's Business and Professional Women's Club.
She taught Sunday school at Cove Hill Baptist Church and was a past director and treasurer of the Whites Run Baptist Association Women's Missionary Union.
"She was warm and caring and honest," said her daughter, Pat Taphorn of Villa Hills.
"Other people always came first with her. She was a very good listener, and she never tried to tell you what you should do. She would steer you in the right direction."
Mrs. Clark met her husband, Richard, while in high school.
He was a farmer and also worked for the Ameri can Can Co.
Mrs. Clark attended business college and put her office skills to work at her church, and later at the extension office.
The young family moved to a farm in Campbellsburg, outside of Carrollton, and Mrs. Clark fell in love with farm life and country gardens.
"After they retired, she wouldn't move back to the city," Mrs. Taphorn said.
When she started battling cancer several years ago, she focused on others rather than herself. "When the minister would visit her, he'd ask how she was doing. She always said 'I'm doing pretty well. But I heard so-and-so was sick. How are they. Do they need anything?" Mrs. Taphorn recalled.
"She was a lady in all things. Even when she was hurting."
She also leaves her husband, Richard R. Clark; son, Allen Clark of Crestwood; another daughter, Joy Roberts of New Liberty; brother, Allen Tilley of Florence; and three grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Cove Hill Baptist Church.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Tandy-Eckler-Riley Funeral Home in Carrollton, and from 1 to 2 p.m. Sunday at the church.
Burial will be in IOOF Cemetery, Carrollton.
Memorials are suggested to Cove Hill Baptist Church Building Fund, in care of Tandy-Eckler-Riley Funeral Home, 809 Highland Ave., Carrollton, Ky., 41008.
Jerry Scott Bickers, 60, of Carrollton, died Wednesday at his home.
He was a retired truck driver and a member of the Warsaw Lions Club and the Fort Pierce, Fla., American Legion post.
Survivors include his mother, Sophia Scott Bickers of Carrollton; and a sister, Betty Gene Raisor of Sanders.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Ghent Masonic Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 tonight at Tandy-Eckler-Riley Funeral Home, Carrollton.
Elizabeth June Hardman, 78, of Lehigh Acres, Fla., formerly of Covington, died Saturday in Florida.
She was a homemaker. Her husband, Harold G. Hardman Sr., preceded her in death.
Survivors include sons, Billy Hardman of Villa Hills, Mike Hardman of Covington, Tim Hardman of Independence, and Chris Hardman and Harold Hardman Jr., both of Lehigh Acres; daughters, Bernadine Vickers and Barbara O'Toole, both of Lehigh Acres, Becky Kleier of Orlando, Fla., Pat Davis of Florence and Kathy Walls of North Fort Myers, Fla.; a sister, Christine Dunnahew of Cincinnati; 28 grandchildren and 47 great-grandchildren.
Services were Thursday at Lee Memorial Park Funeral Home, Lehigh Acres.
Burial was in Lee Memorial Park Cemetery, Lehigh Acres.
Wilford "Billy" Jackson, 56, of Hebron, died at 11:01 a.m. Wednesday at St. Elizabeth Medical Center South, Edgewood.
Mr. Jackson was an electrician with the Kentucky State Highway Department.
Survivors include a son, Jerry Jackson of Burlington; daughters, Belinda McIntosh of Florence, Georgianna Jackson of Seymour, Ind., and Billie Traft of Hebron; 11 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Services will be at the convenience of the family.
Middendorf-Bullock Funeral Home, Hebron, is handling arrangements.
Jean Kiefer, 80, of Fort Thomas, died Thursday at her home.
She was a retired office manager with Anesthesiology Associates and a member of Christ Church United Church of Christ, Fort Thomas.
Her husband, Robert P. Kiefer, died in 1971.
Survivors include daughters, Paula J. Brumfield of Worthington, Ohio, and Phyllis Kiefer of Fort Thomas; a son, Robert D. Kiefer of Cincinnati; a sister, Wilma Graves of Fort Thomas; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Muehlenkamp-Erschell Funeral Home, Fort Thomas.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 tonight at the funeral home.
Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery, Southgate.
Portia Mae Ludwick, 58, of Dover, Tenn., died Monday at her home.
She was a homemaker.
Survivors include her husband, John Russell Ludwick; sons, Brian Edward Watson, Charles John Watson and Ricky Lee Watson, all of Cincinnati; a daughter, Tara Derai Staples of Dillsboro, Ind.; her father, John L. Collins Sr. of Lafollett, Tenn.; brothers, Charles E. Collins of Covington and John L. Collins Jr. of Florence; a sister, Brenda Davis of Cincinnati; and four grandchildren.
Services will be at 4 p.m. today at Christ Church in Glendale, Ohio.
Jehovah's Witness services will be at a later date.
Memorials are suggested to the American Cancer Society, 7730 U. S. 42, Suite C6, Florence, Ky., 41042.
Anglin Funeral Home, Dover, Tenn., is handling arrangements.
James Rigney, 69, of Ludlow, died at 2 a.m. Friday at St. Elizabeth Medical Center South in Edgewood.
Arrangements are pending at Ronald B. Jones Funeral Home, Ludlow.
