New FCHS principal announced

Jinny Hurdle, of Maysville, has been offered and accepted the position of Fleming County High School principal for the coming year. Ms. Hurdle will replace Mr. Brad Sorrell, who is retiring after 11 years in this position.

Ms. Hurdle is a native of Alabama and was educated in Alabama, Arkansas and an international boarding school in Wales. She graduated with honors from Vanderbilt University, completed her master’s degree at the University of Mississippi and has worked on her doctorate at Ole Miss.

Ms. Hurdle has served in Mississippi as a high school English teacher, high school assistant principal and a district level administrator. She has also been Coordinator of Testing and Instruction in the Holly Springs school district in Mississippi.

She comes to us from Riverside Publishing Division of Houghton Mifflin where she has worked with Riverside’s Edusoft Division, which provides benchmark testing software.

Ms. Hurdle is an avid sports fan and is excited and ready to wear black and gold this next year to cheer on the Panthers as well as get involved with the other student organizations at FCHS.

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Services for Mrs. Ramey Friday, May 2

Beth Eula Basford Ramey, age 91, of Sunset Locust Road, Hillsboro passed away Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at the Fleming County Hospital in Flemingsburg.
She was born Feb. 20, 1917, in Hillsboro and was the daughter of the late James and Arizona Dickerson Basford.
Her husband, Estell Wade Ramey, passed away April 23, 1999. She was also preceded in death by three brothers, Howard, Lucian, and Clayton Basford; three sisters, Lillian Whitton, Edna Mae Reed, and Hazel Saunders; two sons, Estell Wade Ramey Jr., and Charles Kenneth (Charlie) Ramey; and one daughter, Dorothy Lee Ramey.
Mrs. Ramey is survived by two daughters, Lou Ellen Johnson and husband, Billy and Bertie Ann Cooper and husband, Charlie, all of Flemingsburg; one son, Lucian Eugene (Sam) Ramey of Hillsboro; one daughter-in-law, Susan Ramey of Elizaville; 14 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
Mrs. Ramey was a homemaker and member of the Hillsboro United Methodist Church.
Services will be conducted at 1 p.m., Friday, May 2, 2008, at the Hutton Funeral Home with the Rev. Billy Harmon and the Rev. Gail Skaggs officiating.

Burial will follow in the Hillsboro Cemetery. Grandchildren will serve as pallbearers.
Visitation is after 6 p.m., today, May 1, 2008, at the Hutton Funeral Home, Hillsboro.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations are suggested to the Hillsboro Christian Church; Hillsboro United Methodist Church; Pioneer Trace Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Flemingsburg; or Hospice of Hope Maysville.