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4 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1993 LOUISVILLE AREA DEATHS Church leaders hopefiil after talk with Clinton Ralph W. "Mouse" Baker, 41, died Monday at Audubon Regional Medical Center. He was a native of Jeffersonville, a former employee of Brown Williamson Tobacco president of Beggar Motorcycle Club and an employee of Colgate-Palmolive Co. in Clarksville, Ind. Survivors: his wife, Coynetta Baker of Jeffersonville; six daughters, Tonya, Latoya, Yasmin, Amber, Shalea and Sherisa Baker, all of Jeffersonville; his parents, Daisy and Ralph Baker four brothers, Willis and John Ben Robinson and Winston and David Baker, all of Jeffersonville; three sisters, Eddie Mae Claycomb, Darlene Gary and Lisa Fountain, all of Jeffersonville; and four grandchildren.

Funeral: 11 a.m. Friday, New Lincoln Park Missionary Baptist Church, 900 French Jeffersonville. Burial: Walnut Ridge Cemetery, Jeffersonville. Visitation: the church, 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Thursday.

Arrangements: Perryman's Mortuary. Elsie R. Bell, 76, of 1600 Garland formerly of St. Matthews, died Wednesday at Audubon Regional Medical Center. She was a retired domestic Katherlne Speer, 82, formerly of Jeffersontown, died Wednesday at Christian Health Center.

She was the former Katherine Tucker, a retired employee of Kelly Services and a member of Jeffersontown Christian Church. Survivors: a daughter, Donna Ritz; and a grandchild. Funeral: 10:30 a.m. Friday, Foreman Funeral Home, 10600 Taylors-ville Road, Jeffersontown. Burial: Jeffersontown Cemetery.

Visitation: 2-9 p.m. Thursday. Memorial gifts: her church. Bert W. Thomas, 74, formerly of Louisville, died Monday in Flint, Mich.

He was a retired employee of General Motors Corp. Survivors: four sisters, Sallie T. Owens, Ella T. Clayton, Lucy T. Lucas and Mildred T.

Bard; and three brothers, Charles, James and Joseph Thomas. Funeral: 11 a.m. Saturday, Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church, 635 S. 22nd St. Burial: Green Meadows Memorial Cemetery.

Visitation: G. C. Williams Funeral Home, 1935 W. Broadway, 7-9 p.m. Friday.

Mary Virginia Tyree, 54, Pavilion Healthcare Center, died Tuesday at St. Anthony Medical Center. She was the former Mary Mattingly, a native of Marion County and a Catholic. Survivors: three daughters, Virginia Stafford of Crestwood, Betty Jean Wayne and Georgia Lee LOUISVILLE Ralph W. "Mouse" Baker, 41 Elsie R.

Bell, 76 Earl John Berger, 70 Ruth Schneider Borders Pearlie Breeding, 74 Frances Evelyn Brown, 83 Houston E. "Dave" Davidson 79 William W. Ditsch 67 (Story, this page) Kenneth Stafford Flood, 83 Carl Ellis Green, 65 Louie Emerson Grlder, 38 Edwin Haas, 80 Catherine E. Wise Harrett, 65 Margaret Kate Hatter, 72 Hubert Joiner, 85 Sister Mary Catherine Kohler, 76 Herbert C. Lovelace, 76 Deborah M.

Pryor McAllister, 26 Christina H. Merlmee, 81 Raymond F. Miller 83 Joseph Fredrick Mlnnich, 78 John Allen Morrison, 81 Charles C. Osgood, 71 Chester Pfau, 74 Martin Ray, 91 Sister Mary Robert Rodgers, 72 Virginia Griffin Roland, 46 Katherlne Speer, 82 Bert W. Thomas, 74 Mary Virginia Tyree, 54 Joseph A.

"Bear" Woods, 36 Edward Miller of Crestwood and Walter Miller; a sister, Freda Bohr-man; and seven grandchildren. Funeral: 11 a.m. Friday, Embry-Bosse Funeral Home, 2723 Preston Highway. Burial: Resthaven Memorial Park. Visitation: 2-5 and 7-9 p.m.

Thursday. Memorial gifts: Hospice of Louisville. Joseph Fredrick Mlnnich, 78, Shelbyville, formerly of Louisville, died Tuesday in Knoxville, Tenn. He was a native of Covington, Ohio, a retired printing salesman, a Catholic and a member of the National Horseshoe Pitching Association. Survivors: a daughter, Jolynn Newhouse of Knoxville; three sons, Gary Minnich of Bloomington, Douglas Minnich of Dayton, Ohio, and Randy Minnich of Middletown; nine grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren.

Memorial service: 11 a.m. Friday, Willhite-Ballard-Heady Funeral Home, 11507 Main Middletown. Memorial gifts: Fort Sanders Hospice, 1901 Clinch Knoxville, Tenn. 37916. John Allen Morrison, 81, died Tuesday at Summerfield Manor.

He was a native of Elizabethtown, a retired carpenter for the Al Schneider and a member of Ormsby Heights Baptist Church and Parkland Masonic Lodge 638. Survivors: a sister, Jennie Logs-don of Elizabethtown. Funeral: 2 p.m. Friday, Owen Funeral Home, 5317 Dixie Highway. Burial: Louisville Memorial Gardens West.

Visitation: noon-9 p.m. Thursday. Memorial gifts: his church or Glendale Children's Home. Charles C. Osgood, 71, died Wednesday at Audubon Regional Medical Center.

He was a native of Fulton, a retired taxpayer-service representative for the Internal Revenue Service, a former desk clerk for Trinity Towers, an Army veteran of World Earl Haas; and a grandchild. Funeral: 11 a.m. Friday, Jack Rowe Funeral Home, League City. Graveside service: 1 p.m. Saturday, Evergreen Cemetery.

Visitation: noon-9 p.m. Thursday. Memorial gifts: charity or church of the donor's choice. Catherine E. Wise Harrett, 65, died Wednesday at Norton Hospital.

Survivors: her husband, Paul Harrett four daughters, Carolyn Creal of Laconia, Barbara Lane, Janet Ketterer and Frances Willis; a son, Paul Harrett her mother, Eunice J. Ruppel; 12 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Funeral: 9 a.m. Saturday, St. Clement Catholic Church, 5431 Johnsontown Road.

Burial: Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation: Owen Funeral Home, 5317 Dixie Highway, 5-9 p.m. Thursday and noon-9 p.m. Friday. Margaret Kate Hatter, 72, died Tuesday at her home.

She was a former employee of Brown Williamson Tobacco Corp. and a member of Farmdale Baptist Church. Survivors: two sisters, Martha L. Penrose of Juneau, Alaska, and Nellie Frick. Funeral: 10 a.m.

Saturday, Highlands Funeral Home, 3331 Taylors-ville Road. Burial: Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation: 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday. Memorial gifts: Annie Armstrong Home Mission Offering, in care of her church.

Hubert Joiner, 85, formerly of Louisville, died Monday in Bowling Green. He was a native of Butler County, a retired welder for Louisville Gas Electric Co. and a member of Reedyville Masonic Lodge 438 in Roundhill and the Church of Christ. Survivors: his wife, the former Hazel Phelps; four sons, Harold Joiner of Fayetteville, Herschel Joiner of Bowling Green, Hayward Joiner of Carrollton and Hubert T. Joiner; a daughter, Sue Birchak; a sister, Bernice Bryant of Morgan-town; 15 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.

The funeral was Wednesday at Johnson-Vaughn Funeral Home, Bowling Green. Burial: Threkel Cemetery, Butler County. Sister Mary Catherine Kohler, 76, died Wednesday at Nazareth Home. She was a native of Sturgis, and a member of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth for 55 years. She retired as a teacher and had taught at Most Blessed Sacrament School and Presentation Academy.

Survivors: three brothers, Joseph and Louis Kohler, both of Bellevue, and John Kohler of Highland Heights. Memorial Mass: 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nazareth Home, 2000 Newburg Road. Visitation: Nazareth Home, after 9 a.m. Thursday.

Burial: 2 p.m. Thursday, Nazareth Cemetery, Nelson County. Arrangements: Barrett Funeral Home. Memorial gifts: Sisters of Charity of Nazareth Retirement Fund. Herbert C.

Lovelace, 76, died Tuesday at Suburban Medical Center. He was a salesman for Brinkhaus Buick and Pontiac in Shelbyville, a member of Harry R. Kendall Masonic Lodge 750 and a former Windy Hills city councilman. Survivors: his wife, the former Clare Dunn; two sons, Donald C. Lovelace of Bartlett, 111., and Richard D.

Lovelace of Evansville, three sisters, Mayme Wathen of Atlanta, Kathryn Beeler of Rumson, N. and Ruth Broomfield; and two grandchildren. Funeral: 11 a.m. Friday, chapel of Harvey Browne Memorial Presbyterian Church, 311 Browns Lane. Burial: Resthaven Memorial Park.

Visitation: Pearson's, 149 Breckenridge Lane, 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. Thursday. Memorial gifts: church memorial fund. Deborah M. Pryor McAllister, 26, North Pole, Alaska, died there Friday after an illness.

She was a native of Louisville. Survivors: her husband, David McAllister of North Pole; her parents, Kenneth Sr. and Constance Pryor; a brother, Kenneth Pryor a sister, C. Niecy Pryor; and grandparents, Marion and Lina Glenn and Joseph Pryor Sr. Funeral: 11 a.m.

Saturday, Green Street Baptist Church, 519 E. Gray St. Burial: Green Meadows Memorial Cemetery. Visitation: G. C.

Wil-liams Funeral Home, 1935 W. Broadway, 7-9 p.m. Friday. Christina H. Merlmee, 81, died Wednesday at Christopher East Health Care Facility.

bhe was the former Christina Homm Survivors: a son, Dr. Thomas J. Merimee of Gainesville, a daughter, Frances Anderson of Win-netka, a sister, Anna Furmall; seven grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren. Funeral: 10 a.m. Saturday, Ratter-man's-Bardstown Road, 3800 Bards-town Road.

Burial: Calvary Cemetery. Visitation: 5-9 p.m. Friday. Memorial gifts: Bridgehaven East. Raymond F.

Miller 83, died Tuesday at his home. He was a retried electrician and a Navy veteran of World War II. Survivors: his wife, the former Mary Margaret Horning; two sons, of By MARK E. Staff Writer Mccormick Belle Miller McMaster went to perhaps the most prominent person in the world on behalf of some of the world's least prominent. McMaster, director of the social-justice and peacemaking ministry unit of the Presbyterian Church (U.SA), was part of a 35-person religious delegation that met with President Clinton last month to discuss the plight of urban youth and mass starvation and oppression in Africa.

The church leaders represented the National Council of Churches of the USA and Protestant and Orthodox churches. Clinton invited them for an hour of conversation on for- eign and domestic issues. The religious leaders hope it was the beginning of a dialogue with the president that they say they haven't enjoyed in past administrations. Others attending the March 24 meeting included the Rev. Syngman Rhee, president of the National Council of Churches; the Rev.

James Andrews, stated clerk of the Presbyterians' General Assembly; and the Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick, director of the Presbyterians' global-mission ministry unit. It was sandwiched between Clinton's meeting with the Russian foreign minister and the taping of a news program. Topics included job training for inner-city youths and loans for small businesses in depressed urban areas. They also discussed human-rights violations -and starvation in Zaire and Sudan and invited Clinton to consult them on foreign affairs because many of the organizations have churches in world hot spots.

McMaster said members of a sis-, ter church in Zaire said the U. S. has more influence over their lives than their own government. They requested that she ask Clinton to alter U. S.

policy toward their country. "There has been great suffering and struggle on that continent," she said. "Sometimes, U.S. foreign policy in Angola, Zaire and Liberia has been a part of the problem." McMaster said Clinton "listened carefully and responded. I was so nervous, but once I started, he was really paying attention, and it felt more like a dialogue." Kirkpatrick, director of the global-mission unit, also noted Clinton's openness and receptiveness.

He said he hoped other meetings would follow. The group was given contacts in various governmental offices to help them in their endeavors, he said. "We're building a relationship between denomination and the government," Kirkpatrick said. "This is the first time in several administrations that there has been a direct dialogue with the NCC and the government." Pleasure Ridge Park man, 67, is killed by car A 67-year-old Pleasure Ridge Park man was killed yesterday morning when a car struck him while he stood in the median of Dixie Highway. William W.

Ditsch of 7911 Trillium Drive, was taken to University of Louisville Hospital after the 6:28 a.m. accident. He had massive head and leg injuries and was pronounced dead at 7:30 a.m., said Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Bob Carter. Anthony Q. Peck, 25, of the 6400 block of Venango Drive, meant to make a left turn when he drove onto the median just south of Greenwood Road.

He apparently didn't notice Ditsch, said Officer Wendy Peters, spokeswoman for the county police. No charges have been filed, she said. Ditsch, formerly of North Western Parkway, was a retired quality-control inspector for the old International Harvester where he worked 34 years; an Army veteran of World War II; and a member of Cherry Street Church of Christ in New Albany, Ind. His survivors include his wife, the former Margaret Martin; a daughter, Gloria Sprinkle; two sons, George A. Ditsch of Elizabeth, and William W.

Ditsch a stepdaughter, Deborah Angelini; a stepson, Robert Meany; two brothers, Carl and Robert Ditsch; 10 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Schoppenhorst Underwood Funeral Home, 19th and Market streets, with burial in Louisville Memorial Gardens West. Visitation is from 5 to 9 p.m. today and from 10 a.m.

to 9 p.m. tomorrow. a Survivors: four sisters, Georgia Loving and Charity Vaughn, both of Shepherdsville, Ester Taylor and Mary Ann Watkins; a brother, Nathaniel Rucker and nieces and nephews, including Darnell Taylor, Mary Louise Taylor and Tonia Kennedy, all of whom cared for her. Funeral: 12:30 p.m. Saturday, St.

Elizabeth United Primitive Baptist Church, 857 S. 22nd St. Burial: Louisville Cemetery. Visitation: the church, 5-9 p.m. Friday.

Arrangements: Perryman's Mortuary. Earl John Berger, 70, formerly of Louisville, died Saturday in Nice-ville, Fla. He was native of Cressona, a retired employee of Corhart Refractories, an Army veteran of World War II and a member of Bethel Baptist Church. Survivors: two daughters, Christine Schuetter and Catherine Hughes; two sons, Charles L. and James E.

Ferguson; his mother, Vera Berger of Pennsylvania; a brother, Jack Berger of Pennsylvania; 21 grandchildren; 41 greatgrandchildren; and two great-greatgrandchildren. Funeral: 10 a.m. Saturday, Arch L. Heady Southern Funeral Home, 3601 Taylor Blvd. Burial: Floyds-burg Cemetery, Crestwood.

Visita tion: 5-9 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday. Ruth Schneider Borders, Brownsboro Hills Nursing Home, died there Wednesday. Survivors: a sister, Frances Goldsmith.

The body was cremated. Arrangements: Pearson's. Pearlie Breeding, 74, formerly of Louisville, died Tuesday at her home in Frankfort. She was retired co-owner of Carl's Drive-In restaurant in Whitesburg and a former state employee. Survivors: two sons, Carl Breed ing of Lexington and Woody Breeding of Indian Rocks Beach, two daughters, Donelda Cook of Columbus, and Mina Feddern; two brothers, Curt Taylor of Frankfort and Andrew Taylor of Lexington; three sisters, Beulah A.

Gallant of Tampa, Lydia T. Montgomery of Rome, and Nancy S. Hancock of Frankfort; and four granddaughters. Funeral: 11 a.m. Friday, Everidge Funeral Home, Whitesburg.

Burial: Pendleton Cemetery, Whitesburg. Visitation: after 7 p.m. Thursday. Memorial gifts: Operation Bright-side memorial tree fund. Frances Evelyn Brown, 83, died Wednesday at her home.

She was the former Frances Hart-man, a retired employee of the old Kaufman-Straus and a member of Carlisle Avenue Baptist Church and Order of Eastern Star Liberty Chapter 245. Survivors: her husband, Joseph A. Brown; a daughter, Jo Ann Pike-Marcum; a sister, Henrietta McNett of Gardena, four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Funeral: 11 a.m. Friday, Owen Funeral Home, 5317 Dixie Highway.

Burial: Resthaven Memorial Park. Visitation: 11 a.m.-5 and 7-9 p.m. Thursday. Houston E. "Dave" Davidson 79, of 735 S.

23rd died Wednesday at Jewish Hospital. He was a native of Cincinnati, a retired clerk for Collins Hardware Store and an Army veteran of World War II. Survivors: his wife, the former Georgia Bunton; a son, James Davidson; a daughter, Brenda Coleman of Jacksonville, three sisters, Frances Jones, Edith Davidson and Ruth Alexander, all of Cincinnati; and five grandchildren. Funeral: 10 a.m. Saturday, First Congregational Methodist Church, 3810 Garland Ave.

Entombment: Evergreen Mausoleum. Visitation: A.D. Porter Sons Funeral Home, 1300 W. Chestnut after noon Friday. Kenneth Stafford Flood, 83, died Wednesday at his home.

He was a native of Henry County; retired welder for the old Louisville Nashville Railroad Wayne; her mother, Georgia Lay Mattingly; five brothers, Tommy and James Mattingly, both of Lebanon, and Richard, Phillip and Billy Mattingly, three sisters, Mary Kennedy and Nancy Proctor, both of Crestwood, and Anna Bowman; and two grandchildren. Funeral: 10 a.m. Friday, Stoess Funeral Home, Crestwood. Burial: St. Aloysius Cemetery, Pewee Valley.

Visitation: 3-9 p.m. Thursday. Joseph A. "Bear" Woods, 36, of 708 Laurel Jeffersonville, died Wednesday at Audubon Regional Medical Center after an illness. He was a native of Louisville and a roofer and house mover.

Survivors: a daughter, Susan D. Woods; his father and stepmother, Arley and Glenda G. Woods of Jeffersonville; two half sisters, Juanita Benard of Lexington and Pat Coulter of Hillview; two stepsisters, Renee Wilkins of New Albany, and Kim McPherson of Jeffersonville; and a stepbrother, Jon Alexander of Jeffersonville. Funeral: 11 a.m. Friday, Christ Gospel Church International, East Ind.

62, Jeffersonville. Burial: Walnut Ridge Cemetery, Jeffersonville. Visitation: Coots Funeral Home, 120 W. Maple Jeffersonville, 4-9 p.m. Thursday.

KENTUCKY DEATHS ALBANY Morris Gibbons, 77; Nell Waid, 69 BARBOURV1LLE Beachel Smith, SO BENTON Lydia Archer, 63; Mattle Daman, 95 BEREA Charlie Edward King, 96 BOWUNQ GREEN Opal G. Coombs. 65; Clyde A. Johnson, 70; Robert Charles Mot-toy 80 BURKES VI LLE Fred Wright, 79 CADIZ Harrison Baker, 77 CAMPBELLS VI LLE Ethel B. Watson CARROLLTON Anna Mae Deatherage, 61 CORBIN Elsie Bundy Dees, 69 DANVILLE Theresa Rosenauer Avritt, 88; Maggie Mae Roach, 93; Travis E.

Swain, 68 EARUNGTON veatrlce Fitch, 87 i ELIZABETHTOWN Donald Lee Harper, 56 FRANKFORT Janis B. Mullins, 66; John Sottesz, 78 FRANKLIN Ruby Hudson, 81; Bruce Stat 64 GEORGETOWN Tolbert Williamson. 69 HARDINSBURQ Rachel Driskell, 61 HARRODSBURG Martha Logue Claunch, 84 HOPKINSV1LLE Mae Newton Mathie, 97 JACKSON Isachar Combs, 72 LAWRENCEBURQ John W. Buckley, 75 LEITCHFIELD Ullle B. Skaggs, 55 LEXINGTON Katie Lee Stivers.

90 LONDON Arlene Cress Hibbard, 42 MADISONVILLE Jessie Wyatt, 83 MAGNOLIA Nannie Homback, 91 MANCHESTER Jlmmie Collins, 72; Richard "Dick" Wagers, 81 MARION Bruce E. King, 85 MONTICELLO Wlllard Crlswell, 57; Floyd New, 79 MOREHEAD Willowden Wdd EasterllngM MORGANTOWN Heazle Brown, 73; Geneva Smith, 65 MOUNT VERNON Lloyd S. Cox, 74 NORTONV1LLE John West, 84 1 OWENSBORO John Elsworth Decker, 63' James A. Howard 61; Cassle Meyer, 97-Lucille M. Newcom, 78; J.

Henry O'Bryan, PADUCAH Ulllan Harper, 66; James Lovan. 61; Minnie Reed, 84; Billy Tidwell. 67; Etymon Yarbrough, 79 PAINTSVILLE Plna Rattlff, 82 PRESTONSBURG Bertha Hicks, 74 RICHMOND Bemlece P. Turpin, 72 RUSSELL SPRINGS Edna Ellen Roy, 70 SHELBYVILLE Christine L. Wilson, 69 SMITHS GROVE Guy Gibson, 81; Maray- ette H.

Watt, 72 SUMMER SHADE Jessie Smith, 68 TOMPKINSVILLE John B. Lesley, 78 WHITLEY CITY Bessie Strunk, 90 INDIANA DEATHS BORDEN James Arthur Mann, 101. died Wednesday. Funeral; 2 p.m. Friday, Weathers Funeral Home, Salem, visitation; 3-9 pm Thursday and after 8 a.m.

Friday. JEFFERSONVILLE The funeral for Raymond C. Halladay, 37, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Coots Funeral Home. Visitation: after 10 a.m.

Thursday. He died Sunday. NEW ALBANY George Lewis Fete. 72. died Tuesday.

Funeral; 11 am. Thursday Kraft Funeral Home. Visitation: after 6 Thursday. NEW ALBANY Zelie B. Smith, 86, died Wednesday.

Funeral: 1 p.m. Friday, Seabrook Funeral Home. Visitation: 3-9 p.m. Thursday and after 9 a.m. Friday.

7 SELLERSBURG Brittanl Lynn Leonard, 14-year-old daughter of Larry P. and Susan Leonard, died Tuesday. Funeral: 11 a.m. Friday, St. Michael Catholic Church, Charles-town, visitation: Grayson Chartestown Funeral Home, 1-9 p.m.

Thursday and after 8 a.m, where he had worked 29 years; and a member of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Young at Heart and Senior Jewels. Survivors: two sons, Henry D. Flood of Walhalla, S. and Ernest Ray Flood; a daughter, Linda Moore; two stepsons, James G. Carnforth of Virginia Beach, and Richard B.

Carnforth of Shepherdsville; a stepdaughter, Joan Mattingly of Shepherdsville; nine grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. Funeral: 11:30 a.m. Friday, Arch L. Heady Okolona Funeral Home, 8519 Preston Highway. Burial: Evergreen Cemetery.

Visitation: 2-9 p.m. Thursday. Memorial gifts: American Lung Association or Hospice of Louisville. Carl Ellis Green, 65, formerly of Louisville, died Monday in Los Angeles. He was a retired Baptist minister and a Navy veteran of World War II.

Survivors: seven children; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Funeral: 1 p.m. Saturday, True Worshippers of God Missionary Baptist Church, Gardena, Calif. Burial: Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Calif. Arrangements: Spalding Mortuary, Los Angeles.

Louie Emerson Grlder, 38, formerly of Crestwood, died Monday in Atlanta. Survivors: six sisters, Earlene Hensley of Dayton, Ohio, Judy Lyons of Lexington, Vera Ruwe of Lyndon, Barbara Durbin of Atlanta, Brenda Ballard of La Grange and Linda Gaines of Crestwood; and six brothers, Richard Grider of Jeffer-sontown, Ralph and Claude Grider both of Crestwood, Glenn Grider of Madisonville, Michael Grider of Atlanta and Johnny Noel Chapman of Brownstown, Ind. Memorial services: 1 p.m. Saturday, First Metropolitan Community Church, Atlanta, and 5 p.m. Monday, Hillcrest Baptist Church, 11406 Ballardsville Road.

Arrangements: Wages Sons Funeral Home, Stone Mountain, Ga. Edwin Haas, 80, formerly of Louisville, died Tuesday in Galveston, Texas. He was a retired accountant for Union Carbide Co. in Seadrift, Texas, a former employee of American Standard, and a member of Moody United Methodist Church in Galveston and Masonic Lodge 1040 in Victoria, Texas. Survivors: a son, Edwin W.

Haas of League City, Texas; a daughter, Marilyn Curtis of Tokyo; a brother, Boy, 17, faces trial as adult in murder Associated Press HARLAN, Ky. A 17-year-old Michigan boy charged with murder in the bludgeoning of a woman will be considered an adult if he goes to trial, an official said yesterday. Harlan District Judge Phillip Hamm certified Larry DeClue. of Pontiac, as an adult during a status hearing, Harlan County At' torney Alan Wagers said. Wagers said DeClue's case will go to a grand jury today, along with that of Robert McMahan, 18, of Clarkston, Mich.

The two were charged in the March 25 death of Diana Bum-gardner, 51, a widow living in a rural area. They allegedly broke into her home, beat her beyond recognition with a table leg, stabbed her with a screwdriver and tried to set her body on fire. Because cigarettes were the only item missing from the home, police have speculated the crime was committed for "kicks." War II and a Baptist. Survivors: two brothers, William B. Osgood of Richmond and Glenn R.

Osgood. Funeral: 7 p.m. Thursday, Embry-Bosse Funeral Home, 2723 Preston Highway. Burial will be private. Visitation: 2-5 p.m.

Thursday. Memorial gifts: Hospice of Louisville. Chester Pfau, 74, formerly of Louisville, died Tuesday at a nursing home in Mooresville, Ind. He was a retired supervisor for the U.S. Postal Service and an Army veteran of World War II.

Survivors: his wife, the former Marie Voit of Martinsville, two sons, Raymond W. Pfau ot San Antonio and Dr. David E. Pfau of Fern Creek; two daughters, Barbara P. Klemesrud of Martinsville and Sharon P.

Haughton of Tallahassee, a sister, Marionette Pfau; 15 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Funeral: 1 p.m. Friday, St. Stephen Lutheran Church, 5903 Bards-town Road. Burial: Resthaven Memorial Park.

Visitation: Heady Fern Creek Funeral Home, 5406 Bards-town Road, 3-8 p.m. Thursday and the church, after 11 a.m. Friday. Memorial gifts: church memorial fund. Martin Ray, 91, died Saturday at Jewish Hospital.

He was a retired construction worker. Funeral: 11 a.m. Saturday, George R. Mason Funeral Home, 977 S. Preston St.

Burial: Louisville Cemetery. Visitation: 7-9 p.m. Friday. Sister Mary Robert Rodgers, 72, formerly of Louisville, died March 28 in Baltimore. She was native of Ekron, a member of the Oblate Sisters of Providence and a former member of St.

Peter Claver Catholic Church. She had taught at schools in Virginia, Mississippi, Florida, Washington, D. and Baltimore. Survivors: two brothers, Edward T. and Joseph W.

Rodgers; and a sister, Anna L. Blincoe. The funeral was Thursday at Our Lady of Mount Providence Convent, Baltimore. Burial: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore. Memorial Mass: 5 p.m.

April 17, Christ the King Catholic Church, 718 S. 44th St. Memorial gifts: Our Lady of Mount Providence Convent, 701 Gun Road, Baltimore, Md. 21227-3899 Virginia Griffin Roland, 46, of 4305 Golfland Court, Floyds Knobs, formerly of Louisville, died Tuesday at Jewish Hospital after an illness. She was a native of Brundidge, an administrative assistant at the Presbyterian Center and a member of Republican Woman's Club.

Survivors: her husband, Sammie Roland; two daughters, Shana E. Roland and Cynthia Hoosier, both Floyds Knobs; her father, Hubert Griffin; two sisters, Betty Lowe of Cincinnati and Terrie Oliver of Montgomery, two brothers, Hubert Jr. and David Griffin; and two grandchildren. The body was cremated. Memorial service: 11 a.m.

Saturday, Shawnee Presbyterian Church, 101 S. 44th St. Arrangements: A. D. Porter Sons Funeral Home.

Memorial gifts: education committee of the church..