May 3, 2007

OBITUARIES

Frances G. Reed
Frances Geneva Reed of Russellville, Ky., passed away peacefully at Friends Care Community on May 1, 2007. She was 93. Since 2001, she had resided in Yellow Springs to be near family. Born Feb. 6, 1914, in Olmstead, Ky., she was the daughter of Harold and Sadie Bagby.

Frances will be remembered in Russellville for her long career in retail and accounting. She was an avid, talented, and productive quilter and she continued that hobby into her last days. In Ohio she particularly enjoyed her visits to the Yellow Springs Senior Center, where she found many new friends. And she was always in attendance at her grandson’s performances in theatrical events.

Mrs. Reed was a member of the First Baptist Church in Russellville, and attended services at the First Presbyterian Church in Yellow Springs.

She was preceded in death by her husband, W.K. Reed; two sisters, Louise Downing and Eunice Blick; and a brother, Harold Bagby Jr.

She is survived by her son, Walter; grandson, Glenn Reed, of Yellow Springs; her remaining sister, Glenna Robertson of Sumter, S.C.; and a number of nieces and nephews.

Services will be held at Young Funeral Home in her hometown of Russellville, Ky.

Laurence E. Bailey

Laurence E. Bailey of Yellow Springs died on Saturday, April 28. He was 77.

He was born May 12, 1929, to Floyd E. and Thelma N. (Spriggs) Bailey in Greene County. Laurence was a farmer all of his life and a member of the Farmer’s Bureau. He enjoyed his family, working on old tractors and cars, and gardening and working with flowers.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and one brother, Hollis Bailey.

Laurence is survived by his wife of 57 years, Lois J. (Boots) Bailey; children, Judith L. Middleton of Beavercreek, Kathleen and Ross Gobble of North Carolina, Steven Bailey of Yellow Springs, and Nancy Bailey and fiancé, Perry Fitch, of Fairborn; and grandchildren, Austin, Dylan, Nicolle, and Ashlyn Bailey.

Visitation was held Wednesday May 2, 10 a.m., in the Jackson Lytle Williams Funeral Home, Yellow Springs, with Pastor Kenneth Moore officiating. Interment followed in Glen Forest Cemetery.

Miller memorial set

On his 100th birthday, Antioch College and The Antioch Review will host a memorial service to commemorate the life of distinguished emeritus professor of literature Nolan Miller. The service will be held at Antioch College’s Glen Helen Building on Saturday, May 5, at 2 p.m., and will be followed by a reception.

Nolan Miller died at the age of 99, after years of teaching, writing and editing. He accepted a faculty appointment at Antioch in the English and literature department as writer in residence in 1946. Staying past his original one-year agreement, Miller taught many students, including Rod Serling, Richard Kaplan, and former Poet Laureate Mark Strand. He worked extensively with The Antioch Review and became its first fiction editor in 1965.

Gifts in memory of Nolan Miller may be made to The Antioch Review, P.O. Box 148, Yellow Springs, OH 45387. For more information, call 937-769-1365.