Obituaries
Dawson Springs, KY Obituaries
Local obituaries for Dawson Springs & Hopkins County
Brenda Joyce Rhye
Jul 16, 2022
Brenda Joyce Rhye, age 55, of Nortonville, KY passed away on July 16, 2022 at Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville. Born on April 12, 1967 to Dorothy Minton Rhye and James Franklin Rhye, She was a graduate of Madisonville North Hopkins High School and she obtained an Associate Degree from Madisonville Community College. Brenda had a unique variety of collections that...
Barry Edward Boucher
Jul 8, 2022
Barry Edward Boucher, age 69, of Dawson Springs, KY passed away on Friday, July 8, 2022 at his residence. Mr. Boucher was born on March 29, 1953 in Madisonville, KY to the late Jerry and Joyce Haile Boucher. He was a 1971 graduate of Dawson Springs High School and a graduate of the Richmond Police Academy in Richmond, KY and...
Claude Marion Dutton
Jul 6, 2022
Claude Marion Dutton, Jr., age 54, of Dawson Springs, KY and previously of Earlington, KY passed away on Wednesday, July 6, 2022 at Baptist Health Deaconess, Madisonville, KY. Mr. Dutton was born in Rochester, NY on February 1, 1968 to the late Claude Marion Dutton, Sr., and Margie Elizabeth Richardson Dutton. He worked in the sawmill industry for many years...
Mary Elizabeth Hooper
Jul 4, 2022
Mary Elizabeth Hooper, age 81, of Dawson Springs, KY passed away on Monday, July 4, 2022 at her residence. Ms. Hooper was born on May 25, 1941 to the late Amplis Owen McGregor and Anna Louise Hopper McGregor. She had several vocations; however, toward her working career she was a restaurant cook who was best known for her chocolate and...
Lisa Kay Jones
Jun 28, 2022
Lisa Kay Jones, age 41, of Princeton, KY (displaced from Dawson Springs as a result of the tornado of 12/10/2021) passed away on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 at the Caldwell County Medical Center, Princeton, KY. Ms. Jones was born on September 13, 1980 in Bastrop, LA to Edward Rayford Jones and Rosie Mae Adamson Jones. She was of the Christian...
Richard Jones "Dickie" Hardwick
Jun 28, 2022
Richard Jones “Dickie” Hardwick, age 67, of Dawson Springs, KY passed away on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 at his residence. Mr. Hardwick was born on February 10, 1955 to the late James Carter Hardwick and Ruthleen Jones Hardwick. He was a 1973 graduate of Dawson Springs High School. Mr. Hardwick worked for 25 years as an underground coal miner and...
Lorie Ann Dunning
Jun 27, 2022
Lorie Ann Dunning, age 57, of Dawson Springs, KY passed away on Monday, June 27, 2022 at Baptist Health Deaconess, Madisonville, KY. Mrs. Dunning was born on April 30, 1965 in Madisonville, KY to Billy Rex Brewer and Dorothy Suttles Brewer. She was a 1982 graduate of South Hopkins High School. She worked for many years with the Hopkins County...
Darlene Cheryl Eleanor Cole
Jun 22, 2022
Darlene Cheryl Eleanor Cole, age 78, of Dawson Springs, KY passed away on Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at Baptist Health Deaconess, Madisonville, KY. Ms. Cole was born on September 18, 1943 in Vancouver, British Columbia to the late John Haig and Ethel Lodge Haig North. She drove a school bus for over 30 years for the Hopkins County Schools and...
Opal Marie Ryan Quintana
Jun 15, 2022
Opal Marie Ryan Quintana, age 81, of Dawson Springs, KY passed away on Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at her residence. Ms. Quintana was born on April 9, 1941 in Marion, KY to the late Lonnie McCoy Ryan and Bessie Lee Fritts Ryan. She was a hair dresser and owned her own beauty shop for many years. She was of the...
Betty Sue Berry
Jun 10, 2022
Betty Sue Berry, age 82, of Dawson Springs, KY passed away on Friday, June 10, 2022 at Deaconess Gateway in Newburg, IN. Mrs. Berry was born on June 29, 1939 in Madisonville, KY to the late Nolan Settle and Evelyn Pearl Calvert Settle Renshaw. She received nursing training at Madisonville Community College and worked for 27 years as a LPN...
Wanda Fork
Jun 9, 2022
Wanda Fork, age 93, of St. Charles, KY passed away on Thursday, June 9, 2022 at her daughter’s residence in Dawson Springs, KY. Mrs. Fork was born on March 3, 1929 to the late Ernest Carroll and Mona McGregor Carroll. She was a 1947 graduate of Nortonville High School. During her working life she became the office manager of WTTL...
Ted R. Armstrong
Jun 6, 2022
Ted Armstrong, age 89, of Dawson Springs, KY passed away on Monday, June 6, 2022 at Baptist Health Deaconess in Madisonville, KY. Mr. Armstrong was born on February 1, 1933 to the late Claude Armstrong and Maggie French Armstrong. He retired in 1983 after working for 28 years as a supervisor at South Central Bell. Mr. Armstrong served his country...
Dudley Riley
Jun 6, 2022
Dudley Riley, age 99, of Dawson Springs, KY passed away on Monday, June 6, 2022 at the Western Kentucky Veterans Center, Hanson, KY. Mr. Riley was born on August 11, 1922 to the late Sam Riley and Minnie Menser Riley. He began working at the VA Hospital at Outwood near Dawson Springs, KY and expanded his career as an administrator...
Gary "Buddy" Farris
May 29, 2022
Gary “Buddy” Farris, age 73, of St. Charles, KY passed away on Sunday, May 29, 2022 at Mid-Town Deaconess in Evansville, IN. He was born September 15, 1948 to the late Nolie Farris and Flossie Camplin Farris. Mr. Farris worked for fifteen years as the superintendent of water for the the city of Earlington, KY. Mr. Farris is survived by...
Debra Lee Porter
May 25, 2022
Debra Lee Porter, age 63, of Dawson Springs, KY passed away on Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at Caldwell County Medical Center, Princeton, KY. Ms. Porter was born April 28, 1959 to the late Robert Norman Haile and Mary Louise Ladd Haile. She was a beloved mother, grandmother and housewife, and she was a member of the Landmark Apostolic Church. Ms....
David H. Cannon
May 23, 2022
David H. Cannon, age 82, of St. Charles, KY passed away on Monday, May 23, 2022 at his residence. Mr. Cannon was born September 6, 1939 to the late Ewell Cannon and Hazel “Irene” Fruit Addison. During his later working years, he was a tree trimmer. Previously, he had served as the Chief of Police of Dawson Springs in the...
Cherry Sue Jennings Oldham
May 21, 2022
Cherry Sue Jennings Oldham, age 90, of Dawson Springs, KY passed away on Saturday, May 21, 2022 at Baptist Health Deaconess Hospital in Madisonville, KY. Mrs. Oldham was born July 20, 1931 to the late L.V. Wright and Myrtle Jane Dockery Wright. She worked for many years as the Activities Director at New Dawson Springs Nursing Facility and was a...
Tina Marie Hilt
May 12, 2022
Tina Marie Hilt, age 54, of Dawson Springs, KY passed away on Thursday, May 12, 2022 at Baptist Health Deaconess, Madisonville, KY. Ms. Hilt was born on November 10, 1967 in Detroit, Michigan to the late Robert Loyd Hilt and Ruby Katherine Haskins. She was a beloved mother and homemaker. She was of the Christian Faith. She was preceded in...
William Lee Knight
May 6, 2022
William Lee Knight, age 53, of Crofton, KY passed away on Friday, May 6, 2022 at Baptist Health Deaconess Hospital in Madisonville, KY. Mr. Knight was born on January 4, 1969 in Princeton, KY to the late Thomas Earl Knight and Betty Gray Green. He was a welder at Martinrea in Hopkinsville, KY for 12 years and was previously employed...
Virginia Lee "Trinket" Mcgregor
May 1, 2022
Virginia Lee “Trinket” McGregor, of Dawson Springs, KY passed away on Sunday, May 1, 2022 at Tri-Star Centennial Medical Center, Nashville, TN. Mrs. McGregor was born October 3, 1951 to Claude Shiver and Marjorie Annette Hollingsworth Jacobs in Savannah, GA. She worked in the education field for 27 years with the Hopkins County Board of Education. Between 1996 and 2018...
