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He was a former teacher with Bullitt County Schools. He loved playing bingo, fishing, and basketball.LARRY LEE FRYEHe was preceded in death by his parents, Dewey Frye and Ina Green Frye; and two brothers, Dennis Frye and Darrell Frye.He is survived by three siblings, Richard (Kathleen), Lennie Frye, and Ronnie Frye, all of New Haven.The funeral is 6 p.m. Friday, June 9, 2017, at Maraman Billings Funeral Home in Shepherdsville with burial at Edlin Hill Cemetery at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 10.Visitation is 3-6 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.The Maraman Billings Funeral Home in Shepherdsville is in charge of arrangements.-30-Share this:...

She was an employee of Kindred Hospital as a tax accountant. She was a native of Schenectady, N.Y., and was a member of Boston Christian Church.She was preceded in death by her father, Henry David Thompson.She is survived by her husband, Kenneth Phelps of Boston; four children, Brad Lambright of Cox’s Creek, Rebecca Daily (Chris) of Shepherdsville, Amanda Price (Tom) of Lanesville, Ind., and Mickey Phelps (Erin) of Boston; her mother, Sandra Thompson of Auburndale, Fla.; two brothers, David Thompson (Barbara) and Tim Thompson (Lori), both of Louisville; and four grandchildren Henry Daily, Aubrey Phelps, Preston Phelps and Waylon Phelps.The funeral is 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 6, 2017, at Maraman Billings Funeral Home in Shepherdsville with the Rev. Mike Bradford officiating. Burial is in the Boston Christian Church Cemetery in Boston.Visitation is 2-8 p.m. Monday, June 5, 2017, and after 9 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.The Maraman Billings Funeral Home in Shepherdsville is in charge of arrangements.-30-Share this:...

WOODWARD — It was just a statement made between two brothers.Over a year ago, Chris and Donald Hobbs were spending time together in the way brothers do, working quietly shoulder to shoulder, breathing the same air, drinking the same brand of beer."It was Christmas before last and I was building gun cabinets out of cedar and he saw what I was doing and said, ‘I like this. When I die just build me a casket out of this,'" said Chris, of Woodward.And so recently, Chris spent 36 hours doing just that for his brother, who died suddenly.Without stopping, Chris and his other brother Richard labored, honed, sanded and shaped cedar wood into a one-of-a-kind casket so that in some way, a part of him could accompany his brother one last time on a journey he couldn't take with him.Last week, about 100 mourners and family gathered to lay Donald R. "Duck" Hobbs to rest in the handmade cedar casket his brothers made for him. According to the staff at Billings Funeral Home, it is only the second handmade casket they have ever had presented for the burial of a family member.The work was hard but meaningful and a way for Donald's brothers to work through their grief, Chris said."You know, I guess some people cry and others get angry or say angry things, and I build with wood," he said. "For me, I guess this is the best way for me to love my brother."The casket was made with locally harvested red cedar logs. Years earlier, the brothers had worked together harvesting the wood and kept it for the last couple of years in Chris Hobbs' sawmill at his home southwest of Woodward."It worked out well because we had the wood right there in the mill because we had harvested it and it was just there curing all this time," Chris Hobbs said.He began his labor of love just hours after he and his family had stood by Donald's bedside and said their final goodbyes at AllianceHealth in Midwest City. Hobbs succumbed to a sudden cardiac arrest. He was 50 years old."We had gone on Monday to Billings Funeral Home to make plans and then I called Glen...