Lee County KY Obituaries

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Joe ISAACS
The Beattyville Enterprise (Beattyville, KY)
Thursday, 31 May 1951
Funeral services with Masonic rites were held Thursday afternoon for Joe Isaacs, 79, who died at his home near New Zion last Wednesday of a heart ailment.
Mr. Isaacs was the last surviving member of the family of Will Isaacs, a one time prominent Owsley and Jackson farmer.
Mr. Isaacs left surviving him his wife, Mary Jane Farmer Isaacs; four sons, McKinley Isaacs, Lexington; Robert Isaacs, Lexington; Charlie Isaacs, Cincinnati, and Ben Isaacs, Norwood, Ohio. Two daughters also surviving are Mrs. Gladys Wright of Hazard and Mrs. Effie Lakes of Lexington.
Burial was in the New Zion Cemetery with Rev. Walter of Manchester, officiating.
Thoas attending the funeral from Beattyville were Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Farmer, Mr. and Mrs. Calloway Elkins, Betty Faye Howell, and Mrs. Gladys Shackelford.
Mrs. Isaacs is the sister of Mr. Floyd Farmer.

Sarah Susan Combs ISAACS
The Beattyville Enterprise (Beattyville, KY)
Thursday, 21 October 1954
Susie Isaacs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tinsley L. Combs, was born April 18, 1869 and died on October 16, 1954, at 7:45 p.m. at the age of 85.
She was united in marriage to Isaac B. Isaacs in 1888 and to this union was born seven sons, which are living and two daughters deceased. She was united in the Christian Church about 23 years ago. She has lived a faithful life ever since. She was a kind, loving mother, and made friends with all she met.
The survivors are three sisters, three brothers, seven sons, 43 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren, and a host of relatives and friends.
The funeral service was conducted by Rev. George Botner and Rev. Hubert Baker.

William Preston ISAACS
The Lexington Herald (Lexington, KY)
Tuesday, 9 February 1954
Beattyville, Feb. 8 - William Preston Isaacs, 76-year-old retired oil field worker and former deputy sheriff and magistrate of Lee county, died late Sunday at his home at Idamay after a long illness.
A native of Owsley county, he had resided in Lee county for many years. He was a member of the Beattyville Baptist church.
Surviors include his wife, Mrs. Gertie Frisby Isaacs; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Kincaid, Middletown, Ohio; a brother, Dexter Isaacs, Dry Ridge; four sisters, Mrs. Dovie Breeding and Mrs. Rachael Tincher, Idamay; Mrs. Maggie Tirey, Beattyville, and Mrs. Kate Gilum, Chicago, Ill.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Idamay schoolhouse by the Rev. George Fox. Burial will be in the Brandenburg cemetery at Heidelberg. Congleton Brothers funeral home is in charge of arrangements.

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