===================================================================== Match: Bowles Source: [email protected] From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [KYTAYLOR] John Walker Gabehart Obituary - 1948 This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ddicken77 Surnames: Gabehart, Harden, Smith, Dabney, Jones, Rice, Farbeck, Eads, Raffety, Porter Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.taylor/11023/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The News-Journal, October 21, 1948 Funeral services for John Walker Gabehart, 56 years of age, were held Sunday afternoon, Oct. 17 at 2 p.m. from the Mannsville Methodist Church with Rev. LaFon in charge assisted by Rev. Irvin Gaddis. Burial was at the Elkhorn Cemetery. Mr. Gabehart, son of Mrs. Lucy Harden Gabehart and the late James Gabehart, died at his home near Mannsville, October 14 at 11:35 p.m. He had been in ill health for several months. He professed faith in Christ recently and was a member of the Elkhorn Methodist Church. He united in marriage to Miss Minnie Dell Smith in 1912, who survives. To this union six sons and four daughters were born, surviving are Del, Ralph, Earnest, Weldon, Mrs. Maurice Dabney, Mrs. Dewey Jones, Mrs. Edwin Rice, all of Taylor County; Mrs. Paul Farbeck of Milwaukee, Wisc.; Hubert Gabehart of Marseilles, Ill. Samuel Creel preceded his father 17 years ago. Besides mother, wife and children, he is survived by seven brothers and three sisters, Ewing, Leona, Otha, Gi! lbert, all of Taylor County; Ed Gabehart of Long Beach, Calif.; Onie Gabehart of Jamestown; Walter Gabehart of Marseilles, Ill.; Mrs. Kenneth Eads of Leitchfield; Mrs. Mary Raffety and Mrs. Marvin Porter, both of Louisville; seven grandchildren and many other relatives and friends. Pallbearers were: Aldon, Bryce, Edmond, and Carl Gabehart, Robert and Theadore Benningfield. Honorary pallbearers were Cosley Buchanan, Fletcher Cox, Raymond Bowles, William Murray, George Harmon, Chandler Ford, Clentie Bowen, Hynes Caffee, Fred Wright, Wilbur Whitley, Bruce Dabney, and Grasbee Bowen. Flower girls were: Mrs. Velma Bohanon, Mrs. Maxine Phillips, Mrs. Hylma Minor, Misses Lucille Cox, Juanetta Johnson, Sonya Caffee, Ester Cox, and Jean Phillips. Kentucky Death Records Index, rootsweb GABEHART, JOHN W; age 56; death place TAYLOR; residence TAYLOR; death date 14 Oct 1948; Volume 044, Certificate 21832 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. =====================================================================