Obituary for Audrey L. “Tootsie” Smith

AUDREY L. “TOOTSIE” SMITH Audrey L. “Tootsie” Smith, 85, of Connersville, passed away on Tuesday, December 1, 2020, at Rosebud Village in Richmond. She was born February 26, 1935, in Berea, Kentucky, and is the daughter of the late Graden Wagers and Emma Barnes Wagers. She graduated from Richmond High School in 1953. On June 28, 1953, …

Obituary for Brian Scott York

BRIAN SCOTT YORK Brian Scott York, 55, of Connersville, passed away due to complications from multiple sclerosis on Tuesday, December 1, 2020, at Reid Health in Richmond. He was born on April 15, 1965, in Connersville, and is the son of the late Everett “Bud” York and Ardis Carlson York. He had worked for several …

Obituary for Mark Albert Sterwerf

MARK ALBERT STERWERF Mark Albert Sterwerf, 84, of Connersville, passed away early Tuesday morning, December 1, 2020, at Reid Health, Richmond. One of seven children of William and Mary Zwissler Sterwerf, Mark was born in Mount Healthy, Ohio, on January 25, 1936, and was raised in Franklin County. He graduated from Brookville High School with …

Obituary for Theodore “Ted” Joseph Seibert

THEODORE “TED” JOSEPH SEIBERT Theodore “Ted” Joseph Seibert, 50, of Connersville, went home to be with the Lord Tuesday afternoon, December 1, 2020, at Reid Health of Richmond. Ted was born in Connersville on February 6, 1970, one of three children of Robert and Margaret Offutt Seibert, and he was a 1988 graduate of Connersville …

Obituary for Thomas “Tom” P. Corcoran

THOMAS “TOM” P. CORCORAN Thomas P. “Tom” Corcoran, of Sunman, was born on December 5, 1961, in Cincinnati, a son to William Thomas and Helen Murphy Corcoran. He married Shawn Bross in Cheviot, Ohio, on April 16, 1994, and she survives. Tom worked as a roofer and in construction for many years. He enjoyed the outdoors, especially fishing …

Franklin County Sheriff Peter Cates’ October report

Franklin County Sheriff’s Department press release Franklin County Sheriff Peter Cates has released a monthly report of activity for the month of October. Sheriff’s deputies responded to 1,168 calls for service in October which is a 20 percent increase over the 934 calls in October of 2019. Among the calls of service investigated were:                       …

Fayette County has an additional two deaths associated with COVID-19; Indiana’s number of daily positive tests soars to 8,527

By John Estridge from ISDH data Fayette County recorded two more COVID-19-related deaths in numbers reported by the ISDH on Thursday, December 3. Also, after relatively better numbers, Indiana’s number of positive test results went back into the stratosphere with 8,527 reported, taking that total to 359,430. Indiana also said an additional 60 deaths were …

21-year-old Sunman man charged with Level 5 Felony after accident causing injuries on Ind. 1

By John Estridge A Sunman man was charged with a Level 5 Felony after an accident on Indiana 1 north of Brookville recently. According to a Franklin County Sheriff’s Department press release, Dalton C. Beard, 21, at 4:20 p.m., Monday, November 23, was operating a 1998 Honda CRV eastbound on Duck Creek Road when he …

How my blog malfunctioned and I either disabled a computer or caused a person to start drinking

A Column by John Estridge I am requesting prayers for the technician I talked to for more than two hours concerning my blog’s malfunction. If that person was not a drinker before our conversation, I’m afraid that person is now. Really, I am not sure it was a person or a computer-generated conversation. If it …