2009-01-15
Collection: 2009
Title
2009-01-15
2009-01
Subject
Carey, David Keith
Hoover, Baybie
Description
Obituaries published in the Augusta Daily Gazette
Creator
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas]
Publisher
Augusta Public Library, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Date
2009-01-21
Rights
In Copyright
Format
Clippings
Language
English
Type
application/pdf
Identifier
b13#5 2009
Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas], “2009-01-15,” Digital Augusta, accessed May 16, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/1851.
Text
David K. Carey
David Keith Carey, age 53, a pilot for J-W Operating Company, Wray, Colo., son of Harry and Betty Carey of Augusta, passed away Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009.
David graduated from Augusta High School in 1973, where he participated in football and wrestling.
A memorial service was held on Monday, Jan. 19, at the First Christian Church in Wray, Colo.,
Other survivors include: his wife,, Sue; daughters, Cheyanne (David) Hinkle, Jennifer (Ivan) Leek, Terri (Chris) Blecha, Amy Sullivan, Renee (TyRell) Odell, and Jessica; siblings, Connie Self, Karen and Chester Hufman, Betty Jo and Harry Wheat, Jim and Theresa Carey, all of Augusta, Annamae Carey of Columbia, La, Mike and Deb Carey of Thornton, Colo., and Sharon and Doug Corder of Alva, Okla; nine grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
David was preceded in death by one son, Beaux Jardeen.
Memorials may be made to the David K. Carey Memorial Fund.
Spellman-Schmidt Funeral Home of Wray, Colo, had charge of arrangements.
Baybie Hoover
Services will be conducted Thursday for Baybie Hoover, 92, a blind ordained minister who
sang her wayy from the farmlands of Kansas to New York City,
where for years she entertained passersby with
her huge repertoire of gospel hymns.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. at Garrison Cemetery, rural Haverhill, where she will be buried next to her lifelong friend, Virginia Brown, who died on April 11,1987.
Hoover died Jan. 16, 2009 at Stapeley in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa., a Quaker-sponsored retirement community where she had resided the last 12 years.
Hoover, who was born Nov. 15, 1916, in Puxico, Mo., was placed in the Kansas School for the Blind in 1928 and soon became friends with Brown, a fellow storyteller and musician.
In 1980, the two blind women were featured in an award-winning documentary, “A Lady Named Baybie,” which was aired over the Public Broadcasting Service. The film by Martha Sandlin was shown in 22 countries and was met with much acclaim.
Hoover and Brown preached and “pitched” as they called their moneyraising efforts with a tin cup across the U.S. to New York. While slowly making their way up Broadway in 1948, they were stopped by a policeman. Hoover explained they were trying to raise money to cover their expenses. The officer said, “I don’t even see you.” Hoover laughed, “Well officer, we don’t see you either.”
The pitching brought them independence they had failed to get from working in blind workshops and helped them establish New York’s first church for the blind the Radio Gospel Church on Gates Avenue in Brooklyn.
“Streetwork turned my life around,” Hoover said.
“I love to sing to the people. I love to have people come up and talk to me.
I feel like I’m performing. Like I’m making my little contribution.”
Hoover and Brown, who played the accordion, could sing two hours straight without singing the same hymn twice. An album of their work, produced by a grant from the National Endowment on the Arts, was accepted into the Smithsonian Institute’s Folk Music Collection.
Hoover was active in the Lighthouse for the Blind Players, an amateur theatrical group in Manhattan.
Hoover leaves no relatives. She is survived by a host of friends, including Sarah Clark, her companion and caretaker, and Ellen Kaplan, her guardian.
Headley Funeral Chapel in Augusta is in charge of arrangements.
Original Format
Published with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited.
Title
2009-01-15
2009-01
Subject
Carey, David Keith
Hoover, Baybie
Description
Obituaries published in the Augusta Daily Gazette
Creator
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas]
Publisher
Augusta Public Library, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Date
2009-01-21
Rights
In Copyright
Format
Clippings
Language
English
Type
application/pdf
Identifier
b13#5 2009
Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas], “2009-01-15,” Digital Augusta, accessed May 16, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/1851.Text
David K. Carey
David Keith Carey, age 53, a pilot for J-W Operating Company, Wray, Colo., son of Harry and Betty Carey of Augusta, passed away Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009.
David graduated from Augusta High School in 1973, where he participated in football and wrestling.
A memorial service was held on Monday, Jan. 19, at the First Christian Church in Wray, Colo.,
Other survivors include: his wife,, Sue; daughters, Cheyanne (David) Hinkle, Jennifer (Ivan) Leek, Terri (Chris) Blecha, Amy Sullivan, Renee (TyRell) Odell, and Jessica; siblings, Connie Self, Karen and Chester Hufman, Betty Jo and Harry Wheat, Jim and Theresa Carey, all of Augusta, Annamae Carey of Columbia, La, Mike and Deb Carey of Thornton, Colo., and Sharon and Doug Corder of Alva, Okla; nine grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
David was preceded in death by one son, Beaux Jardeen.
Memorials may be made to the David K. Carey Memorial Fund.
Spellman-Schmidt Funeral Home of Wray, Colo, had charge of arrangements.
Baybie Hoover
Services will be conducted Thursday for Baybie Hoover, 92, a blind ordained minister who
sang her wayy from the farmlands of Kansas to New York City,
where for years she entertained passersby with
her huge repertoire of gospel hymns.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. at Garrison Cemetery, rural Haverhill, where she will be buried next to her lifelong friend, Virginia Brown, who died on April 11,1987.
Hoover died Jan. 16, 2009 at Stapeley in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa., a Quaker-sponsored retirement community where she had resided the last 12 years.
Hoover, who was born Nov. 15, 1916, in Puxico, Mo., was placed in the Kansas School for the Blind in 1928 and soon became friends with Brown, a fellow storyteller and musician.
In 1980, the two blind women were featured in an award-winning documentary, “A Lady Named Baybie,” which was aired over the Public Broadcasting Service. The film by Martha Sandlin was shown in 22 countries and was met with much acclaim.
Hoover and Brown preached and “pitched” as they called their moneyraising efforts with a tin cup across the U.S. to New York. While slowly making their way up Broadway in 1948, they were stopped by a policeman. Hoover explained they were trying to raise money to cover their expenses. The officer said, “I don’t even see you.” Hoover laughed, “Well officer, we don’t see you either.”
The pitching brought them independence they had failed to get from working in blind workshops and helped them establish New York’s first church for the blind the Radio Gospel Church on Gates Avenue in Brooklyn.
“Streetwork turned my life around,” Hoover said.
“I love to sing to the people. I love to have people come up and talk to me.
I feel like I’m performing. Like I’m making my little contribution.”
Hoover and Brown, who played the accordion, could sing two hours straight without singing the same hymn twice. An album of their work, produced by a grant from the National Endowment on the Arts, was accepted into the Smithsonian Institute’s Folk Music Collection.
Hoover was active in the Lighthouse for the Blind Players, an amateur theatrical group in Manhattan.
Hoover leaves no relatives. She is survived by a host of friends, including Sarah Clark, her companion and caretaker, and Ellen Kaplan, her guardian.
Headley Funeral Chapel in Augusta is in charge of arrangements.
Original Format
Published with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited.