ARTHUR ESTEL PARTON 60, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DIED FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3RD 2003 AT 9:45AM, IN LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY, MR PARTON WAS BORN JANUARY 2ND 1943, TO JAY ESTEL PARTON AND BESSIE CATHERINE LOUISE HELTON-PARTON, IN LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA, HE WAS THE GRANDSON OF THE LATE DORA NETTIE HELTON AND JOHN .W.PARTON/PARTIN , OF KNOX CO. KENTUCKY AND THE LATE RUBY ESMERALDA ELEANOR WILSON AND DAVID.L. HELTON , OF GRAINGER CO. TENNESSEE. HE LIVED HIS CHILDHOOD YEARS IN LOS ANGELES, GRADUATING FROM SAMUEL MUIRS JUNIOR HIGH, AND GEORGE WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL, HE WORKED FOR THE JACK IN THE BOX CHAIN IN SO.CALIFORNIA, AS WELL AS TEXACO, HE MOVED TO LOUISVILLE IN 1972 WITH HIS PARENTS, AND WORKED AS A SECURITY GUARD IN LOUISVILLE , UNTIL HE WAS NO LONGER ABLE TO WORK, MR PARTON, LIVED WITH HIS PARENTS UNTIL THEIR DEATHS IN 1974, WHEN HE MOVED BACK TO CALIFORNIA, BUT HIS LOVE FOR KENTUCKY AND IT'S PEOPLE BROUGHT HIM BACK, MR PARTON MARRIED JUDY M. LEWIS PARTON OF LOUISVILLE,KENTUCKY IN 1981, AND HELPED TO RAISED HER 3 CHILDREN FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, THE COUPLE DIVORCED IN CALIFORNIA , UPON ARTHURS RETURN TO LOUISVILLE, HE MET HIS LONG TIME COMPANION MS CLARCIE RATCLIFF, THE COUPLE SEPERATED IN 2001, AFTERWHICH ARTHUR LIVED ALONE, MR PARTON WAS A LONGTIME MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF THE LATTER DAY SAINTS, AND HELD THE BISHOP FRED ROMNEY AS A FRIEND AND DEAR TO HIS HEART, MR PARTON WAS ADMITTED TO THE JEWISH HOSPITAL THE LAST WEEK OF SEPTEMBER, AND PUT UNDER THE CARE OF GUARDIAN CARE OF KENTUCKY, WHERE HE RECIEVED EXCELLENT ATTENTION AND CARE, UPON HIS REQUEST HE WAS MOVED TO THE NORTON HOSPICE THURSDAY AFTERNOON , WHERE HE RECIEVED WONDERFUL AND LOVING CARE UNTIL HIS DEATH FRIDAY, OWENS FUNERAL HOME OF JEFFERSONVILLE WAS CHOSEN TO HANDLE THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR HIS CREMATION, WITH VOGT CREMATION SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE, AFTER CREMATION HE WAS TAKEN HOME TO ENID OKLAHOMA, IN THE CARE OF HIS SISTER, HE WAS PRECEEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS JAY AND BESSIE PARTON, A NEWBORN SISTER CORA LEE PARTON, BROTHERS RICHARD HAROLD PARTON, AND ROY TERRELL PARTON, AND SISTER BETTY LOU PARTON WOOLARD, ALL OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, ARTHUR LEAVES BEHIND MANY TO MOURN HIM, A SISTER DEBORAH ' DORA LEE ' PARTON, NIECE EMMANUELLA DAWN PARTON,AND GRAND-NIECE ESMERALDA BESSIE PARTON OF ONE HOUSEHOLD IN ENID,OKLAHOMA, A GOD-NIECE, ' LE RHONDA' LISA LYNN HAYES OF NEW YORK, WHOM HE HELPED TO RAISE, UNTIL THE DEATH OF HIS PARENTS, AS WELL AS A BROTHER JOHN DAVID PARTON OF ENID OKLAHOMA, AND A BROTHER ROBERT ALFRED PARTON OF ILLINIOS AND MANY NIECES AND NEPHEWS,AND GRAND-NIECES AND NEPHEWS IN THE U.S. IN KENTUCKY HE LIVES BEHIND A MULTITUDE OF FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, HE WAS A WONDERFUL SON, BROTHER ,UNCLE, AND FRIEND AND HE WILL BE DEARLY MISSED BY ALL THOSE THAT LOVES HIM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~