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Brell & SonFuneral Home

Maysville’s Only Locally Owned & Operated

Funeral Home

606-564-3641 Palmer Funeral Home6264 Brooksville Germantown Rd.

Germantown, KY

606-883-3182www.palmerfh.com

METCALFE- HENNESSEY Funeral Home301 East 4th. St., Augusta, KY

606-756-2270www.mhfuneralhome.com

MOORE & PARKERFUNERAL HOMES

305 Elizabeth S., Augusta, KY

606-756-2101www.mooreandparkerfh.com

Hwy. 10, Brooksville, KY

606-735-2114www.mooreandparkerfh.com

Palmer Funeral Home6264 Brooksville Germantown Rd.

Germantown, KY

606-883-3182www.palmerfh.com

Meeker Funeral Home308 Columbus Street

Russellville, OH

937-377-4182www.meekerfuneralhomes.com

Wilson Home for Funerals, Inc.

35 West 2nd StreetManchester, Ohio937-549-3363

www.wilsonhomeforfunerals.comDavid K. Wilson Jane E. Wilson

Cahall Funeral Homes

204 W. State St., Georgetown

937-378-63841011 S. 2nd St., Ripley

937-392-1112

ADAMS County

Thompson-MeekerF U N E R A L H O M E

216 West Mulberry StreetWest Union, OH 45693

937-544-2133www.meekerfuneralhomes.com

ROBERTSON COUNTY

Funeral HomeHwy. 62, Mt. Olivet, KY

606-724-5000

LEWIS County

Barbour & Son Funeral Home

Tommy Barbour Billy BarbourRt. 10, Tollesboro, KY

606-798-3241

ROBERTSON County

FUNERAL DIRECTORYFor your convenience

CONVENIENTDIRECTORY

FLOWERS & PLANTS

MAYSVILLE

FLEMINGSBURGLasting

ImpressionsFlowers & Gifts

109 S. Main Cross(606) 845-0103 1-800-230-9800

564-9091

Grimes Greenhouse Nursery & Florist122 Metcalfe Rd.(606) 267-31411-877-476-0222

grimesgreenhouse@alltel.net

AUGUSTAAmy’s

Blue Daisy128 Main Street(606) 756-2821

www.amysbluedaisy.com

Maysville Flower Shop

177 E. 2nd St.564-3766

EWING

freshly cut and arranged by these fine florists

Carol Jean Flowers

inside Pet & Hobbies481 Moody Dr.606-564-6836

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Eagle’s Lodge139 East 2nd Maysville, Ky

564-4505MEMBERS ONLY

MODERN LAUNDRY& DRY CLEANING CO.

APPLIANCES & FURNITURE

McRobert’sFurniture Mart

16 W. 2nd

564-9848

AGING

Tom Clarke

Long Term Care Insurance

119 Sutton St. • Maysville, KY606-564-5527

LODGE

Moose Lodge11 E. 2nd St.Maysville, KY

606-564-5266Members & Invited Guests Welcome

Jewelry

46 W. 2nd St. Maysville, KY

606-564-5578

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LAUNDRY

-OUR 118th YEAR-Try our “Super Shirt” Service

Bring your Dry Cleaning with your shirts.

31 East 2nd St.Maysville, Ky • 564-5561

Thank You For All Your Business!

exquisite art treasures

151 East Second StreetMaysville, KY

606-564-0321

PAWN

LODGE

Danita’s CoiffeursHAIR SALON & BARBER SHOP

Evening & Saturday’s208 Market St. Maysville

606-564-0078

HAIR SALON

EYEWEAR & HEARING

HEARING AID CENTERFree Hearing Tests & Evaluation

103 E. Second St.Across From Domino’s Pizza

1-800-686-7410 or 564-3512

CATERING

Creative Cateringfor all Occasions!

Box Lunches • Drop Off Catering•Sit Down Dinner •Corporate Catering

606-564-4250dcase@maysvilleky.net

CHRISTIAN STORES

49 West Second St.Maysville, KY

Tues.-Fri., 9-5 • Sat., 9-1

606-563-8449

BANQUETSThe Limestone

CenterNO RENTAL FEE!with catering purchase

Bernard Coughlin Blvd.

1-800-785-8639Abby@lundyscatering.com

Maysville Community & Technical College

1755 U.S. 68Maysville KY 41056

606-759-7141 ext. 66120

COLLEGE

DENTISTS

Maysville’s Friendly Dentist

DR. JAMES E. ADAMS19 E. 3rd St.

564-9033

JOIN US FOR WORSHIPPalm Sunday, April 17

Sunday School at 9:30 and Worship at 10:45

Maundy Thursday, April 21, 6 p.m.Communion and Table Worship

April 22 at 12 noonBeginning at 10:00, walk to service from Bluegrass

Shopping Center (weather permitting),trolley available for those not able/wishing to walk

Easter Sunday, April 24Breakfast at 9:00 and Worship at 10:45

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FUNERAL SERVICESTODAY

Perry A. Johnson — 1 p.m., Trinity United Methodist Church, Maysville.

Clair Kimball Jr. — 2 p.m., Cahall Funeral Home, Ripley, Ohio.

Bonnie Lou Kiskaden — 6 p.m., Moore and Park-er Funeral Home, Augusta.

Michael L. Poynter — 1 p.m., Dickerson Funeral Home, Vanceburg.

Barbara Tomlin — 1 p.m., Wilson Home for Funerals, Manchester, Ohio.

SATURDAYCharlotte McBride

Baker — 2 p.m., Moore and Parker, Brooksville.

Erma J. Bradford — 2 p.m., Bentonville Church of Christ in Christian Union, Bentonville, Ohio.

Eugene Combess — — 2 p.m., Brell and Son Fu-neral Home, Maysville.

Mildred Fryman — 1 p.m., Palmer Funeral Home, May’s Lick.

Betty Nolder — 1 p.m., Felicity Christian Church, Felicity, Ohio.

DEATHS LOCALLYMRS. BAKER

BROOKSVILLE | Char-lotte McBride Baker, 65, died Wednesday, March 28, 2012, at University of Kentucky Medical Center.

She was born on Jan. 22, 1947, to the late James Ward and Marie Long Mc-Bride.

She was a member of Mount Olivet Christian Church and attended New Hope Christian Church.

She is survived by her husband, Glen J. Baker whom she married June 25, 1966.

She is also survived by two children, Shari (Tony) Heminger of Dover and Adam (Crystal) Baker of Maysville; three grand-children, Ryan Heminger, Kaylee and Maycie Baker; her brothers and sisters,

Bill McBride, John Mc-Bride, Randy McBride, Nancy Staggs and Amy Maynard, all of Mount Olivet, Linda Honan of Maysville, and Donald Ray McBride of Lexington.

She was preceded in death by a brother, James Ward McBride Jr.

Services will be 2 p.m., on Saturday at Moore and Parker Funeral Home in Brooksville.

Burial will bein Brooks-ville Cemetery.

Visitation will be 6-9 p.m., on Friday at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to The Hope Lodge, 1500 College Way, Lexington, Ky. 40502.

Condolences may be sent to mooreandparkerfh.com.

CHRIS TALBOTTAP Writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. | It may be impossible to overstate the importance of bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs to American music. A pioneering banjo player who helped create modern country music, his sound is instantly recognizable and as intrinsically wrapped in the tapestry of the genre as Johnny Cash’s baritone or Hank Williams’ heartbreak.

Scruggs died Wednesday morning at age 88 of natural causes. The legacy he helped build with bandleader Bill Monroe, guitarist Lester Flatt and the rest of the Blue Grass Boys was evident all around Nashville, where he died in an area hospital. His string-bending, mind-blowing way of picking helped transform a regional sound into a national pas-sion.

“It’s not just bluegrass, it’s American music,” bluegrass fan turned country star Di-erks Bentley said. “There’s 17- or 18-year-old kids turning on today’s coun-try music and hearing that banjo and they have no idea where that came from. That sound has probably always been there for them and they don’t realize someone in-vented that three-finger roll style of playing. You hear it everywhere.”

Country music has tran-scended its regional roots, become a billion-dollar

music and tourist enterprise, and evolved far beyond the classic sound Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys blasted out over the radio on The Grand Ole Opry on Dec. 8, 1945.

Though he would even-tually influence American culture in wide-ranging ways, Scruggs had no way of knowing this as he nervously prepared for his first show with Monroe. The 21-year-old wasn’t sure how his new picking style would go over.

“I’d heard The Grand Ole Opry and there was tremendous excitement for me just to be on The Grand Ole Opry,” Scruggs recalled during a 2010 interview at Ryman Auditorium, where

that “big bang” moment oc-curred. “I just didn’t know if or how well I’d be accepted because there’d never been anybody to play banjo like me here. There was String-bean and Grandpa Jones. Most of them were come-dians.”

There was nothing jokey about the way Scruggs at-tacked his “fancy five-string banjo,” as Opry announcer George D. Hayes called it. In a performance broadcast to much of the country but unfortunately lost to history, he scorched the earth and instantly changed country music. With Monroe on mandolin and Flatt on gui-tar, the pace was a real jolt to attendees and radio listeners

far away, and in some ways the speed and volume he laid down predicted the power of electric music.

Tut Taylor, a friend of the Scruggs family who heard that first performance on the radio in his Georgia home, called it an unbeliev-ably raucous moment “a lot like some of the rock ‘n’ roll things they had, you know. But this was a new sound.

It was a pretty sound and a welcome sound.”

Scruggs’ use of three fingers — in place of the limited clawhammer style once prevalent — elevated the banjo from a part of the rhythm section — or even a comedian’s prop — to a lead instrument that was as versatile as the guitar and far more flashy.

Country great Porter Wagoner probably summed up Scruggs’ importance best of all: “I always felt like Earl was to the five-string banjo what Babe Ruth was to base-ball. He is the best there ever was, and the best there ever will be.”

His string-bending and lead runs became known worldwide as “the Scruggs picking style” and the ver-satility it allowed has helped popularize the banjo beyond the traditional bluegrass and country forms. Today the banjo can be found in almost

any genre, largely due to the way he freed its players to experiment and find new space.

That was exactly what Ralph Stanley had in mind when he first heard Scruggs lay it down.

A legendary banjo player in his own right, Stanley said in an interview last year that he was inspired by Scruggs when he first heard him over the radio after returning home from military service in Germany.

“I wasn’t doing any play-ing,” Stanley said. “When I got discharged I began listening to Bill and Earl was with him. I already had a banjo at that time, but of course I wanted to do the three-finger roll. I knew Earl was the best, but I didn’t want to sound like him. I wanted to do that style, but I wanted to sound the way I felt and that’s what I tried to do.”

Bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs dies at age 88

MARK HUMPHREY, ASSOCIATED PRESSIn this photo taken Aug. 9, 1982 file photo, bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs plays his banjo. Scruggs’ son Gary said his father passed away Wednesday morning at a Nashville, Tenn., hospital of natural causes. He was 88.

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