Born 9/6/1897
Died 9/9/1958
Son of James Patrick 'Jim Short' Hourigan and Grace Ann Johnson
Born 7/16/1909
Died 4/29/2000
Daughter of James H. Calvert Sr.
and Clovia Tharp
EX-SHERIFF ROY B. HOURIGAN DIES OF HEART ATTACK AT 61
Funeral services for Roy B. Hourigan, Sr., 61 year old former Marion County sheriff who died unexpectedly of a heart attack Tuesday morning were held at 3 pm yesterday at Haysville Baptist Church. Burial was in the church cemetery. The ex-sheriff collapsed and died in a yard at the rear of his Danville Highway grocery, nine miles east of Lebanon. The body was found there at 1:30 pm by a cousin, Garland Hourigan, who investigated after finding the store closed. Coroner Kobert Borders said death occurred about five hours earlier. His wife, Mrs. Naomi Calvert Hourigan, Danville area supervisor for the State Department of Economic Security, said Mr. Hourigan appeared to be feeling well when she left for work at about 8 am.
EMPLOYED BY L. & N.
A native of Marion County, son of the late James Patrick and Grace Johnston Hourigan, he studied telegraphy as a young man and for 19 years was employed as a telegraph operator for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Marion and Boyle counties. Owner and operator of a Danville Highway farm, he served as deputy sheriff form 1932-36 and as sheriff form 1936-40. In recent years, he retired from farming and opened the grocery where he died. He was twice married. His first wife, Mrs. Mary Chambers Hourigan, now lives at Bowling Green.
SURVIVORS LISTED
Survivors, in addition to his present wife, include three sons and six daughters, all born to the first marriage. They are David Hourigan, New Market; Wilson Hourigan, Bowling Green; Roy B. Hourigan, Jr., Gravel Switch; Mrs. Robert Allen, St. Joseph; Mrs. Edward Straney, Jeffersontown; Mrs. Bruce Crain, Gravel Switch; Mrs. Mary Margaret Burkett, Danville; Mrs. Arthur Burch, Atlanta, and Mrs. Herman Davis, Frankfort, Germany. Also surviving are a sister, Mrs. Robert Ray, Danville, and a brother, Sam Hourigan, Lebanon. The body was at Bosley Funeral Home until the last rites yesterday. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. J. C. Porter, of Russell Springs. Masonic rites were conducted at the grave by representatives of T. W. Wash Lodge, Gravel Switch, of which Mr. Hourigan was a member.
Naomi Calvert Hourigan, 90, Gravel Switch, died at 8:26 am April 29, 2000, at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center, Danville. Born July 16, 1909, in Riley, Hourigan attended elementary school in Riley and graduated from Lebanon High School and attended the University of Kentucky. After receiving her teaching certificate, she taught elementary school for six years in the Riley, Penick and Beech Fork Schools. Together with her husband, they operated the Blue Star Grocery and Filling Station. She worked with the Works Progress Administration and was a disaster relief worker for the American Red Cross traveling throughout the United States. She also worked for the Public Assistance Agency in many capacitites supervising offices in Danville, Louisville, and Frankfort along with many statewide assignments. She retired in 1974 after 25 years of service to the Commonwealth of Kentucky. She was preceded in death by: her husband, Roy B. Hourigan Sr. in 1958; parents, James H. and Clovia Tharp Calvert Sr.' and three brothers, J. H., Jr., William Keith and Garland Calvert. Survivors include: her godson, Bill Burkett and his three daughters of Musckogee, Oklahoma; two step-sons, Wilson of Lexington and Roy B. Hourigan, Jr., of Gravel Switch; four step-daughters, Alice Chambers of Perryville, June Bridgewater of Louisville, Jean Burch of Lancaster, South Carolina, and Darnelle Davis of Walland, Tennessee; and four sisters, Dixie Staley of Jeffersonville, Indiana, Lucille Moran of Manchester, Conn, Helen Winningham of Middletown, and Lois Bailey of Campbellsville; a special caregiver, Betty Mattingly of Gravel Switch; 24 step-grandchildren; and several nieces and newphews. Funeral services were held May 2 at Bosley Funeral Home, Lebanon, with burial in Hourigan Cemetery. Revs. Timothy Burkett Dearhamer and Robert Barr officiated. Bosley Funeral Home, Lebanon, was in charge of arrangements.
