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THE LEDGER INDEPENDENT THURSDAY, 03.22.2012 | A5
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DEATHS LOCALLYMR. COMBESS
ABERDEEN | Eugene Combess, 67, of Aber-deen died at his residence March 20, 2012.
Among his survivors he leaves his sons, Tony and Troy Combess.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Brell and Son Funeral Home.
MRS. GIBBS
MAYSVILLE | Debra Kay Gibbs, 51, of Maysville, died Monday, March 19, 2012, at University of Ken-tucky Medical Center in Lexington.
She was a former em-ployee of the Children’s Crisis Center and a mem-ber of Bethel Baptist Church.
Mrs. Gibbs was born in Maysville on Jan. 10, 1961, daughter of the late Charles Russell “Rusty” Routt Sr. and Helen De-cembly Routt.
Survivors include her husband, Roger Gibbs; one son, Terron (Nichole) Routt of Maysville; four daughters, Jamie (William) Buford of Frankfort, Jayda
Gibbs and Katherine (Na-than) Reed of Maysville, and Tasha Brown of Cin-cinnati; 11 grandchildren; three sisters, Leana Livers, Betty Routt and Rosezetta Routt, all of Maysville; and a host of other family and friends.
She was preceded in death by, a brother Charles Routt Jr.; and a sister, Shirley Johnson.
Services will be con-ducted at 2 p.m., Saturday at Bethel Baptist Church in Maysville with Rev. Christopher Lee officiat-ing.
Burial will follow in the May’s Lick Cemetery.
Visitation is noon-2 p.m., Saturday, at the church.
Arrangements by Palmer Funeral Home in May’s Lick.
Condolences to www.palmerfuneralhome.net.
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ABERDEEN, Ohio | Mar-ilyn Watson Hafer McCord of Aberdeen, died March 19, 2012.
Among her survivors
is her husband, Joseph D. McCord; and her son, Jus-tin Hafer.
Services for Marilyn will be 2 p.m., Saturday, March
24, 2012, at Brell and Son Funeral Home.
Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m., Friday at the fu-neral home.
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— 11 a.m., First Christian Church, Salem, Ind.
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Jay Dunnavan — 11 a.m, New Hope Christian Church, Washington.
Debra Gibbs — 2 p.m., Bethel Baptist Church, Maysville.
Ernst “Rudy” Gut-man — 1 p.m., Thompson-Meeker Funeral Home, West Union, Ohio.
Marilyn Watson Hafer McCord — 2 p.m., Brell and Son Funeral Home, Maysville.
SYDNEY | Mountaineer Lincoln Hall, who was rescued a day after being given up for dead near the summit of Everest in 2006, died Wednesday of cancer in Australia. He was 56.
Hall reached the peak of the world’s highest moun-tain but became gravely ill from oxygen deprivation during the descent. His guides helped him initially then left to save their own lives.
American guide Dan-iel Mazur, his two clients and a Sherpa guide were just two hours from the 29,035-foot peak on the morning of May 26 when they came across Hall, who had been left alone a day earlier.
“I was shocked to see a guy without gloves, hat, oxygen bottles or sleeping bag at sunrise at 28,200 feet height, just sitting up there,” Mazur told The As-sociated Press days after the rescue.
Mazur said Hall’s first words to him were: “I imagine you are surprised to see me here.”
Mazur’s team pulled Hall away from the slopes, gave him bottled oxygen, food and liquids and radioed the base camp to tell Hall’s surprised team he was still alive.
After he was helped down the mountain, he was taken to a clinic in Ne-pal’s capital for treatment
of a chest infection, fluid on his brain and frostbitten fingers.
He expressed no resent-ment about being left on the mountain, friend and spokesman Simon Balder-stone said in Katmandu at the time. “We shared a joke or two, which is always a good sign,” he said.
Balderstone was among those who confirmed his death at a Sydney hospital, a year after Hall had been diagnosed with mesothe-lioma.
A foundation he helped establish, Australian Himalayan Foundation, raised money for schools in the Himalayas. Hall remained committed to that work until his death, Balderstone said.
“Lincoln was an amaz-ing human being,” he said Wednesday. “The world was such a better place for his presence and now so much the poorer for his absence.”
Hall’s dramatic rescue on Everest left Mazur and his team too exhausted to resume their climb, but he said he had no regrets.
“You can always go back to the summit but you only have one life to live,” he told AP in 2006. “If we had left the man to die, that would have always been on my mind. ... How could you live with yourself?”
Hall was born in Can-berra, Australia’s national
capital, and climbed many of the world’s highest peaks. He wrote books and articles and had pho-tos published in climbing magazines.
Fellow mountaineer Pe-ter Cocker accompanied Hall on his first trip to the Himalayas in 1978.
“He was truly the cool-
est person you could ever be in a tight spot with,” Cocker said.
Mesothelioma is a rare cancer of the lungs most often caused by asbestos exposure. Hall was exposed to it while doing construc-tion work early in his life.
He is survived by his wife and two sons.
Lincoln Hall, mountaineer left on Everest, diesAUSTRALIAN MOUNTAINEER DIES OF MESOTHELIOMA
ASSOCIATED PRESSThis May 26, 2006 photo released by Project-Himalaya.com shows Australian mountaineer Lincoln Hall in a tent at Mount Everest’s advanced base camp at 6,400 meters (20,997 feet). Hall, who had been given up for dead near the summit of Everest in 2006 has died of cancer. Friends and climbing partners said he died Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at a Sydney hospital a year after being diagnosed with mesothelioma. He had been exposed to asbestos doing construction work early in his life.
RECRUITSFROM A1
Mason County Demo-cratic Party Chairman James L. “Buddy” Gal-lenstein said there is a need for precinct captains within his party and is inviting interested per-sons to attend a precinct gathering on March 31 at 10 a.m.
The Democrat party precinct gathering is held at the 16 precincts around the county and elections will be held to fill the po-sition of precinct chair, co-chair and youth chair,
which represents voters under the age of 35. In-terested persons must be a registered voter in the Democrat party.
The persons elected to fill the precinct chair positions will then be in-vited to the Mason County Democrat Convention to elect delegates to repre-sent the party at the state and national conventions, Gallenstein said. The precinct chairs will also vote to select members of the executive commit-tee. A vote will also be held to send a delegate(s) to represent the party at the Fourth District Con-vention. The date of the
Mason County Democrat Convention hasn’t been announced, but it will be held at the Mason County Courthouse.
Gallenstein said duties of the precinct captain/chair will be explained at the precinct gathering on March 31, but questions may be directed to his at-tention before that by call-ing 606-564-1140.
Hunter said those in-terested in volunteering with the Mason County GOP should contact him via email at [email protected] or Ruth Chamblin at [email protected].
If you are a registered
voter, but are unsure of your precinct designation, contact the Mason County Clerk’s office at 606-564-3341 or by visiting www.masoncountyclerkky.com.
The following is a list of the 16 Mason County vot-ing precincts; Maysville1; Maysville2; Maysville3; Maysville4; Plugtown; Dover8; Minerva9; Fern-leaf and Germantown 10 and 11; Murphysville and Sardis 12-13-13A; May’s Lick 14 and 15; Washington 17 and 17A; Kenton Station 16A; Hilltop 16; Helena and Lewisburg 18-19-19A: Limestone and Plumville 20 and 21; Rectorville and Orangeburg 21A and 22.