Published: August 05, 2008 01:40 pm         

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Robert Allen Gardner
1937-2008

HILLSBORO – Robert Allen Gardner, age 71, of Grange City, Kentucky, passed away Friday, August 1, 2008.

He was born January 27, 1937, in Hillsboro, Kentucky, and was the son of the late James Russell and Katherine Dell Ishmael Gardner. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers, James Darnell Gardner and Kenneth Earl Gardner, and one sister, Bernice Marie Willet.

He is survived by two sons, James Allen Gardner and wife Beth of Fayetteville, West Virginia, and Gary Wayne Gardner of Oak Hill, West Virginia; one daughter, Peggy Ann Sturdivant and husband Jerry of Cynthiana, Kentucky; and five grandchildren.

Other survivors include two brothers, Clarence Freed Gardner and wife Dorothy of Dayton, Ohio, and Sterling Wayne Gardner of Springboro, Ohio; three sisters, Minnie Pearl Adams of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mary Frances Smith and husband Jim of Loveland, Ohio, and Brenda Joyce Clark and husband Dallas of Loveland, Ohio; and many nieces and nephews.

Robert served in the U.S. Army from 1955–1957. He was a heavy equipment operator and owner and operator of a trucking company.

Funeral services will be conducted 2 p.m. Thursday, August 7, 2008, at Hutton Funeral Home with the Rev. Randy Hawkins and Brother Gerald Saunders officiating. Burial will follow in the Hillsboro Cemetery. Full military rites will be conducted at the graveside by Flemingsburg Franklin Sousley VFW Post 1834 and American Legion Post No. 5.

Pallbearers will be Glennis Lewis, Tim Robinson, Dennie Adams, Gary Snedegar, Clarence Gardner, and Chris Gardner.

Visitation is Thursday, August 7, 2008, from 11 a.m. until the funeral service at 2 p.m. at the Hutton Funeral Home, Hillsboro, Kentucky.

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Dr. Nancy Lee Peterson
1959-2008

MOREHEAD - Dr. Nancy Lee Peterson found the peace she desired on Thursday, July 24, 2008, at St. Claire Regional Medical Center in Morehead, Kentucky after five years of battling breast cancer with courage and dignity. She was preceded in death by her father, Leo Herman Peterson, on January 16, 2007. She is survived by her husband, Glen Colburn; their son, Henry Alexander Colburn; her step-son, Maxwell Travis Colburn; her mother, Mary Frances Peterson; her sisters and their husbands, April Peterson Kampa and Jan Kampa, and Barbara Peterson Yusufzai and Sohail Yusufzai; her brother and his wife, Peter Christian Peterson and Danelle Peterson; and numerous nephews and nieces.

Dr. Peterson was born on March 8, 1959, in Ridgecrest, California, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area city of Sunnyvale, California. She graduated from Fremont High School in 1977, earned a BA in English from Pacific Lutheran University in 1982, and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1993 with an MA in English and PhD in Rhetoric and Composition. She was hired as an Assistant Professor of English that year at Morehead State University, where she became Coordinator of the General Education Writing Program and later Director of the Morehead Writing Project; she served for two years as Director of the Rural Sites Network for the National Writing Project. On June 24, 1995, Nancy married Glen Colburn, and on October 27, 1997, Henry was born.

Honored for her achievements as an educator and leader by the University, the Kentucky Writing Project, and the National Writing Project, Dr. Peterson was passionate about writing and the teaching of writing. Her travels throughout eastern Kentucky taught her to love the region, and her experiences with the region’s educators and students taught her to love its people. She was an avid reader and a sparkling conversationalist. She had a ready laugh, a quick wit, and an inexhaustible capacity for empathy, compassion, and generosity, all of which she bestowed liberally on family, friends, students, and complete strangers alike. Her example and her love live on in the hearts of all who knew her. The world is a better place for having been blessed with her too-brief time in it.

The family asks that those who wish to honor her memory in some tangible way make donations in Dr. Peterson’s name to one of the several organizations she supported herself, including the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, World Vision, Pacific Lutheran University, First Baptist Church of Morehead, Morehead Habitat for Humanity, and Morehead State University (particularly Morehead State Public Radio or the Department of English, Foreign Languages, and Philosophy). Arrangements by Care Cremation Service.