Hey Gang, I fould Louise Hatmaker's obit on the Hazard webpage. Louise Hatmaker, 79, Publisher/Journalist, Dies Louise Hatmaker, 79, was a pioneer woman journalist in Appalachia, starting her career as a reporter for the Hazard Herald Newspaper. She died on Sunday in Hazard. Hatmaker was the former editor, publisher, and owner of the Jackson Times and Beattyville Enterprise, and was inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame earlier this year. She was proud of her her Kentucky mountain heritage, and traced her lineage through her mother, Zada Baker Combs Bolton, to John Combs, an Englishman who crossed the Atlantic on the Magnolia and landed at Jamestown in 1619; since 1735, six generations of Combses have claimed Eastern Kentucky as home, and produced such notables as Governor Bert Combs and the immortal Earle Combs, who played the outfield for the New York Yankees with a 12 year batting average of .325. Louise Hatmaker is survived by one daughter - Cynthia Segers of Spring, TX., one brother - Newell Bolton of Hilton Head, S.C., and two grandchildren. Visitation will take place from 6 until 8 pm Friday at the Engle Walker Funeral Home in Hazard. The funeral will be held at the First Baptist Church on Saturday. Burial will follow in the Baker Family Cemetery in Hazard. Lynda