Dewey "Monk" Falls, 66, a former Harlan County magistrate and a former Cumberland police officer, died of cancer at at his home.
Falls, a resident of College Road, was a magistrate of District 3 in Harlan County for 11 years. He retired during his third term in the mi-1970's because of ill health.
He was a miner for U.S. Steel Corp. at Lynch for 20 years. He was laid off from that job in 1962 and later went on to work as a Cumberland police officer, a post he held for about three years.
Falls was a member of several organizations, including Fields Lodge No. 832 F&AM and Oleika Shrine Temple in Lexington.
Survivors include his wife Arlee Yeary Falls; two sons, Robert Falls of Grand Blanc, Mich., John Falls of Cumberland; four daughters, Cora Robbins of Valdosta, GA., Jo Worley of Augusta, GA., and Ann Boggs and Ernestine Sergent, both of Cumberland; two sisters; and 19 grandchildren.
Published Dec. 15, 1982 in the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Falls, a resident of College Road, was a magistrate of District 3 in Harlan County for 11 years. He retired during his third term in the mi-1970's because of ill health.
He was a miner for U.S. Steel Corp. at Lynch for 20 years. He was laid off from that job in 1962 and later went on to work as a Cumberland police officer, a post he held for about three years.
Falls was a member of several organizations, including Fields Lodge No. 832 F&AM and Oleika Shrine Temple in Lexington.
Survivors include his wife Arlee Yeary Falls; two sons, Robert Falls of Grand Blanc, Mich., John Falls of Cumberland; four daughters, Cora Robbins of Valdosta, GA., Jo Worley of Augusta, GA., and Ann Boggs and Ernestine Sergent, both of Cumberland; two sisters; and 19 grandchildren.
Published Dec. 15, 1982 in the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Dewey "Monk" Falls, 66, a former Harlan County magistrate and a former Cumberland police officer, died of cancer at at his home.
Falls, a resident of College Road, was a magistrate of District 3 in Harlan County for 11 years. He retired during his third term in the mi-1970's because of ill health.
He was a miner for U.S. Steel Corp. at Lynch for 20 years. He was laid off from that job in 1962 and later went on to work as a Cumberland police officer, a post he held for about three years.
Falls was a member of several organizations, including Fields Lodge No. 832 F&AM and Oleika Shrine Temple in Lexington.
Survivors include his wife Arlee Yeary Falls; two sons, Robert Falls of Grand Blanc, Mich., John Falls of Cumberland; four daughters, Cora Robbins of Valdosta, GA., Jo Worley of Augusta, GA., and Ann Boggs and Ernestine Sergent, both of Cumberland; two sisters; and 19 grandchildren.
Published Dec. 15, 1982 in the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Falls, a resident of College Road, was a magistrate of District 3 in Harlan County for 11 years. He retired during his third term in the mi-1970's because of ill health.
He was a miner for U.S. Steel Corp. at Lynch for 20 years. He was laid off from that job in 1962 and later went on to work as a Cumberland police officer, a post he held for about three years.
Falls was a member of several organizations, including Fields Lodge No. 832 F&AM and Oleika Shrine Temple in Lexington.
Survivors include his wife Arlee Yeary Falls; two sons, Robert Falls of Grand Blanc, Mich., John Falls of Cumberland; four daughters, Cora Robbins of Valdosta, GA., Jo Worley of Augusta, GA., and Ann Boggs and Ernestine Sergent, both of Cumberland; two sisters; and 19 grandchildren.
Published Dec. 15, 1982 in the Lexington Herald-Leader.
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