Stories from Monday, November 13, 2006

Funeral services for Della Mae Layne of Dayton, Ohio, sister of Joe Russell Scott of Shelbyville and Anna Keele of Wartrace, will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at House of Wheat Funeral Home in Dayton, Ohio. She died Friday following an extended illness.

Funeral services for Stella McClure Holmes, 95, of Shelbyville, who died Monday at Bedford County Nursing Home, will be 10 a.m. Wednesday at Hillcrest Funeral Home. Geoff Giesemann will officiate and burial will follow in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens...

Funeral services for William Elam Lynch, 85, of Fosterville, who died Sunday at his home, will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Fosterville Church of Christ. Billy Patton and Carter Woodruff will officiate and burial will follow in Fosterville Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 4-8 p.m. Tuesday at Woodfin Memorial Chapel in Murfreesboro, which is in charge of arrangements...

A Shelbyville man was seriously injured when he was thrown through the sunroof of his SUV during an accident early Sunday morning. Ali Mohamed Warsami, 24, Anthony Lane, was transported from the accident site, on U.S. 231 North in front of Shelbyville Municipal Airport, to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville by LifeFlight helicopter...

From school programs in the middle of the week, through a reception to get vets together with employers and to the Veterans Day Parade on Saturday, not to mention Sunday sermons on the topic, Bedford County residents honored the men and women who have and those who are serving in the military...

A member of the Bedford County Solid Waste Authority wants to know what happened to the minutes of a hearing held by the state over a leak at the Quail Hollow Landfill nearly three years ago. Bill Lewis, the newest member of the Authority and who lives near the landfill, has requested information about what was done by the state regarding the case...

Bedford County Utility District has approved a quarter million dollar contract to extend water service to a couple dozen households several miles west of Shelbyville. "Getting water service will just be a wonderful thing," said Kim Neeley, a member of the Mt. Lebanon Methodist Church. "The church has been there since the mid-1800s and its well has gone bad."...

Shelbyville's David Orr received his long-awaited lung transplant over the weekend, according to posts by his wife Donna at the web site david-orr.livejournal.com. Orr, who was profiled by the Times-Gazette in October, suffered from Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), a disease in which progressive scarring in the lungs occurs from an unknown cause. ...

NASHVILLE -- The Baltimore Ravens scored 20 unanswered points in a 27-26 come-from-behind win over the Tennessee Titans on Sunday afternoon at LP Field. The Titans (2-7) did have a chance to win on their final possession that started at their own 34-yard line with 1:50 left on the clock...

Funeral services for Pauline Bush Woods, 82, of Shelbyville, who died Sunday at Harton Regional Medical Center in Tullahoma, will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with the Rev. Chad Conn and the Rev. Carson Rust officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery...