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Woman faces theft charges as $150K is missing By Dave Pearce A 78-year-old Posey County woman was arrested this week and faces charges of theft. According to information provided in the Probable Cause Affidavit released by Posey County Prosecutor Travis Clowers, Frances Sue Terrell of Locust Street in Mount Vernon will now face the charges. According to information provided by Clowers’ office, between March 10, 2010 and May
28, 2013, Terrell exerted unauthorized control over the property of the Lloyd Quinn Trust and/or Lillian Dee Ann McGennis and /or Joan Parrish with the intent to unlawfully take control of property in excess of $100,000. According to the affidavit, members of the Quinn family met with Indiana State Police Detective Alan Sherretz to report ‘embezzlement’ of funds from the Quinn Estate.
Frances Terrell John Hegeman is the attorney for the estate while
Terrell was the trustee of the estate. Family members complained that Terrell had not been communicating with the family concerning the finances of the estate. Family members told police that Terrell blamed the lack of communication on attorney Hegeman. Family members indicated that in 2010, the value of the estates was in excess of $2.7 million and that Terrell had compensated herself in the amount of
$200,000 for the 2010 year alone. According to attorney Hegeman, a partner attorney of Kahn, Dees, Donovan & Kahn, LLP., Terrell had been ‘self-dealing’ with the assets of the estates involved for three years. According to Hegeman, Terrell’s responsibilities or duties as the Trustee of the Estate included holding the assets and making sure the investments were safe. Terrell was respon-
sible for paying the bequeathals to the beneficiaries and making sure the assets were productive. According to family members, Terrell’s total compensation for the time period 2010 through 2012 should have been around $50,000. Instead, the family has records showing that the she had paid herself well over $150,000. Terrell was arrested but was released on a $5,000 cash bond.
Two hospitalized in stabbing at Twin Lakes, another in jail By Dave Pearce sentenced on February 27, The Posey County Sher1992, in Vanderburgh Couniff’s Department is investy Circuit Court, of a felony tigating altercations which charge of Voluntary Manultimately led to two men beslaughter, a Class A Felony, ing transported to the hospiwhich was committed on or tal suffering injuries on July about 1990. 29. The injuries are alleged Armstead was convicted to have been inflected by a and sentenced on April 14, knife. 2009, in the Vanderburgh Derrick Demarco ArmCounty Circuit Court, of a stead faces a myriad of Felony charge of Operatcharges in this incident but ing a Motor Vehicle while even more seriously, now intoxicated on or about Defaces the charge of being a cember 6, 2008. Derrick Armstead Habitual Offender. Armstead On Monday, July 29, at has accumulated at least two (2) prior un- approximately 7:56 p.m., Posey County related Felony convictions unrelated to the Dispatch Center received a call requesting felonies charged in these Counts. Armstead Continued on Page A6 was convicted on February 12, 1992, and
Cynthiana residents get their ‘Night Out’ with Posey officers By Theresa Bratcher Posey County residents are invited to join the over 37 million neighbors across 15,000 communities in celebration of the 30th annual National Night Out, scheduled for 6 p.m., Tuesday, August 6, 2013. National Night Out is a community-police awareness-raising event in the US, held the first Tuesday of August. The event has been held annually since 1984 and is sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch in the United States and Canada. The event is meant to increase awareness about police
programs in communities, such as drug prevention, town watch, neighborhood watch, and other anti-crime efforts. Posey County’s first National Night Out was organized by Sheriff Greg Oeth and the event has been held in at the town park in Cynthiana since it’s inception. Oeth shares, “My police career has been predominately centered in Posey County and I have driven past that park many, many times. When the time came to choose a spot, I couldn’t think of a better place to host this event. In my mind, it will always be held there.”
This will be the third NNO event for the town of Cynthiana. Oeth reports that last year between 150-200 people attended the ‘picnic style’ event, not including members from several area police departments, council members, fire departments, Posey County Prosecutor Travis Clowers, Senator Tomes and EMTs that attended. Oeth gives a big shout out to Patty Wilson who has gotten on board the last two years and basically organized the whole event. He laughingly shares how all he has to do is walk
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Stan Huelsman, a resident of Ft. Branch, takes part in the VFW Car Show Sunday afternoon in Wadesville. It took Huelsman 12 years to build this car in his garage. It is a copy of a Shelby Roadster. Photo by Dave Pearce
Posey students get glimpse of real ‘ER’ in summer experience By Lois Gray Two North Posey High School Seniors can say they spent two weeks of their summer vacation donning surgical scrubs, operating the million dollar DaVinci robot, working in the emergency room and being in the first group to tour a new hospital being built in Indianapolis. Dora Meyer and Amy Priest attended the prestigious Health Science Institute in June at Deaconess Hospital with 27 other high school students from around the Tri-State. They were selected from among 102 applicants for the residential program designed to give students a first-hand look at what doctors and other health professionals actually do. The Institute is a partnership between the hospital and the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation. The intense schedule started with morning lectures during breakfast at 6:30 a.m., tours of facilities during the afternoon, and working with hospital personnel until 10 p.m. in the evening. The two girls learned how to put casts on each other, take vital signs and determine triage after a simulated emergency, using themselves as injured victims covered in fake blood. Field trips went to Purdue University Pharmacy and Veterinary Schools, IU School of Medicine Animal Research Labs and to Riley Children’s Hospital and Wishard Burn Center. Local excursions took them to the county morgue, rehab hospitals and to both universities. At the concluding banquet of the Institute, Dora was one of two Mental Attitude Award Winners voted on by her peers. She received this honor, in part, when the others listened to the moving words she spoke in her final summary speech. Many students spoke about seeing a birth or a death and what a life changing experience it was to them. Dora, who spoke last, stood up and said “I never did see a birth or a death these past two weeks. I’ve seen something even better—everything in between. I’ve seen the middle.” She described through anecdotes how her life was touched by the simple beauty of people living it. “I talked to a couple who was happily taking home their baby born 95 days ago from
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the Neonatal Care Unit. I watched a Superman doctor carefully contemplate what suture to make on the operating table. I listened as a very sick patient took the time to compliment me on my sweet voice and then said to someone else she did it because everyone needs a compliment now and then.” Dora observed four surgeries which was exciting for her, even though she says that they are not like the Grey’s Anatomy television show. She commented that doctors are swift, humorous, and compassionate and nurses are strict, loving and get the job done. “I shadowed a nurse who took the time to write my name on the white board in every patient’s room,” she said. “That was so nice.” Dora would like to be a nurse or do surgery. She summarized the experience with “I will forever take the goals of HSI with me. I know I can experience frightening things, tear jerking things and be bettered by it.” Amy brought a smile to the group during her speech when she said that “some nurses thought I was crazy to give up two weeks of summer to get up so early and work so hard. I didn’t really know what a hospital entailed and it sure was a dose of reality for me.” Amy listed seeing the first and last breath of life, the DaVinci robot, and a new hospital being born in Indianapolis as truly memorable things. While at Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis, Amy realized she met a mentor. She heard a lecture given by the pediatrics geneticist and knew that was what she wanted to explore as a career. After talking with Dr. Lah afterwards, Amy made arrangements to visit and shadow her in the future. “I want to be mentally stimulated each day and do research. I find lab work incredibly fascinating. It’s not for everyone, but it is for me. I just love the machines and everything associated with lab work,” she explained. Amy felt that HSI affected her personally, too. “It was scary being shy and leaving home, I wondered how I would do for
Inside this issue... Retrospective ................... A4 Community .......... A5 Social ...................... A6 Legals ........................ B3-4, 6, 8 Deaths ................ A3 Sports .................. B1-2 Classifieds .................. B7-8 Church .................. A7 Bus/Ag ............. A12-13
two weeks. I did not just survive, I thrived,” she said with a big smile. Dora and Amy are graduates of the 23rd Health Science Institute, begun in 1991. “We are always interested in showcasing the medical professions to promising students” said Deaconess CEO Linda White. She spoke to the students at the beginning of the experience and the wrap-up banquet and made it a point to meet many of them personally in-between. “We want them to know a hospital is not just buildings, it’s the people who work there and give so much of themselves every day.”
Pictured in their surgical scrubs before using the DaVinci Surgical Robot at Gateway Hospital are Amy Priest, left. and Dora Meyer. Photo submitted
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