Amster Kelley

Mr. Amster Kelley, 92, of New Castle, died Wednesday, August 14, 1985, at the King’s Daughters Hospital, Shelbyville. He was a native of Gestville, a retired farmer, a retired guard at the Kentucky State Reformatory, LaGrange, where he worked for ten years and a member of the Lockport Baptist Church.

He is survived by his wife: Mrs. Martha Loraine Long Kelley, New Castle; three daughters: Mrs. Nellie Kelley Thomas, Pleasureville, Mrs. Mary Ruth Stivers and Mrs. Josephine Kelley Floyd, both of Shelbyville; one stepdaughter: Mrs. Leroy (Wanda Carolyn) Banta, Pleasureville; one son: Truman Kelley, New Castle; one sister: Mrs. Mary S. Lawrence, Eminence; one brother: Claude Kelley, Pleasureville; one step-granddaughter; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Friday August 16th from Prewitt’s, New Castle. Dr. Clayton Klingenfus, pastor of the New Castle Christian Church, officiated. Interment was in the New Castle Cemetery.

Henry County Local August 22, 1985