Terry Kenneth Mullins
August 30, 1954 - July 8, 2020
Terry Kenneth Mullins, 65, of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky died July 8, 2020, at the Chandler Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Terry was born August 30, 1954, to Annette Mullins and the late Hiram Mullins, Jr. in Breeding’s Creek in Knott County. In addition to his mother, Terry is survived by his wife Brenda, daughter and son-in-law Tara and John Coleman, son Wesley, granddaughter Ainsley Coleman, sister Teresa Cornett (Darrell) and brother Trent.
Terry’s most important friendships were with Conley and Norma Craft. The Mullins and Craft families worked together building a wonderland in the woods, their compound of cabins on Cave Run Lake where Terry played host for gatherings of family and friends.
In high school, Terry met Brenda Craft in their Freshman Algebra class and began a fifty-year relationship together. The life they built was maintained by sacrifices both Terry and Brenda made for the benefit of their marriage. Terry knew to keep Brenda’s car maintained and full of gas, and Brenda always left Terry alone when Marty Brennaman had a Cincinnati Reds baseball game to call on the radio.
They raised two children and gave them over four decades of support, tough love, compassion and friendship. In his last years, Terry’s life was sweetened by his new duties of being a grandfather, something he approached with a boyish sparkle to his face that appeared the first time he held Ainsley. He filled his years with her gathering blackberries, helping her identify trees and birds, and taking her for her first tractor rides.
The opportunity to extract coal next to the man he admired most, his father, lured Terry to underground mines early in life. In a few years, he mastered the machinery, processes and management of coal mining. Men twice his age trusted Terry with their lives as he guided them through their dangerous work of explosions, compromised air and the pervasive threat of a cave-in.
As a teacher, Terry once again applied his work ethic, resilience and leadership. No teacher has ever been described more with the phrase “tough but fair.” He guided his students to reach for great things, while also emphasizing rules and discipline. A Montgomery County High School Teacher of the Year, Terry’s greatest honor was when a guidance counselor would tell him a concerned parent requested their child get assigned to Mr. Mullins’ class because he was a needed male role model.
August 30, 1954 - July 8, 2020
Terry Kenneth Mullins, 65, of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky died July 8, 2020, at the Chandler Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Terry was born August 30, 1954, to Annette Mullins and the late Hiram Mullins, Jr. in Breeding’s Creek in Knott County. In addition to his mother, Terry is survived by his wife Brenda, daughter and son-in-law Tara and John Coleman, son Wesley, granddaughter Ainsley Coleman, sister Teresa Cornett (Darrell) and brother Trent.
Terry’s most important friendships were with Conley and Norma Craft. The Mullins and Craft families worked together building a wonderland in the woods, their compound of cabins on Cave Run Lake where Terry played host for gatherings of family and friends.
In high school, Terry met Brenda Craft in their Freshman Algebra class and began a fifty-year relationship together. The life they built was maintained by sacrifices both Terry and Brenda made for the benefit of their marriage. Terry knew to keep Brenda’s car maintained and full of gas, and Brenda always left Terry alone when Marty Brennaman had a Cincinnati Reds baseball game to call on the radio.
They raised two children and gave them over four decades of support, tough love, compassion and friendship. In his last years, Terry’s life was sweetened by his new duties of being a grandfather, something he approached with a boyish sparkle to his face that appeared the first time he held Ainsley. He filled his years with her gathering blackberries, helping her identify trees and birds, and taking her for her first tractor rides.
The opportunity to extract coal next to the man he admired most, his father, lured Terry to underground mines early in life. In a few years, he mastered the machinery, processes and management of coal mining. Men twice his age trusted Terry with their lives as he guided them through their dangerous work of explosions, compromised air and the pervasive threat of a cave-in.
As a teacher, Terry once again applied his work ethic, resilience and leadership. No teacher has ever been described more with the phrase “tough but fair.” He guided his students to reach for great things, while also emphasizing rules and discipline. A Montgomery County High School Teacher of the Year, Terry’s greatest honor was when a guidance counselor would tell him a concerned parent requested their child get assigned to Mr. Mullins’ class because he was a needed male role model.
Terry Kenneth Mullins
August 30, 1954 - July 8, 2020
Terry Kenneth Mullins, 65, of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky died July 8, 2020, at the Chandler Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Terry was born August 30, 1954, to Annette Mullins and the late Hiram Mullins, Jr. in Breeding’s Creek in Knott County. In addition to his mother, Terry is survived by his wife Brenda, daughter and son-in-law Tara and John Coleman, son Wesley, granddaughter Ainsley Coleman, sister Teresa Cornett (Darrell) and brother Trent.
Terry’s most important friendships were with Conley and Norma Craft. The Mullins and Craft families worked together building a wonderland in the woods, their compound of cabins on Cave Run Lake where Terry played host for gatherings of family and friends.
In high school, Terry met Brenda Craft in their Freshman Algebra class and began a fifty-year relationship together. The life they built was maintained by sacrifices both Terry and Brenda made for the benefit of their marriage. Terry knew to keep Brenda’s car maintained and full of gas, and Brenda always left Terry alone when Marty Brennaman had a Cincinnati Reds baseball game to call on the radio.
They raised two children and gave them over four decades of support, tough love, compassion and friendship. In his last years, Terry’s life was sweetened by his new duties of being a grandfather, something he approached with a boyish sparkle to his face that appeared the first time he held Ainsley. He filled his years with her gathering blackberries, helping her identify trees and birds, and taking her for her first tractor rides.
The opportunity to extract coal next to the man he admired most, his father, lured Terry to underground mines early in life. In a few years, he mastered the machinery, processes and management of coal mining. Men twice his age trusted Terry with their lives as he guided them through their dangerous work of explosions, compromised air and the pervasive threat of a cave-in.
As a teacher, Terry once again applied his work ethic, resilience and leadership. No teacher has ever been described more with the phrase “tough but fair.” He guided his students to reach for great things, while also emphasizing rules and discipline. A Montgomery County High School Teacher of the Year, Terry’s greatest honor was when a guidance counselor would tell him a concerned parent requested their child get assigned to Mr. Mullins’ class because he was a needed male role model.
August 30, 1954 - July 8, 2020
Terry Kenneth Mullins, 65, of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky died July 8, 2020, at the Chandler Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Terry was born August 30, 1954, to Annette Mullins and the late Hiram Mullins, Jr. in Breeding’s Creek in Knott County. In addition to his mother, Terry is survived by his wife Brenda, daughter and son-in-law Tara and John Coleman, son Wesley, granddaughter Ainsley Coleman, sister Teresa Cornett (Darrell) and brother Trent.
Terry’s most important friendships were with Conley and Norma Craft. The Mullins and Craft families worked together building a wonderland in the woods, their compound of cabins on Cave Run Lake where Terry played host for gatherings of family and friends.
In high school, Terry met Brenda Craft in their Freshman Algebra class and began a fifty-year relationship together. The life they built was maintained by sacrifices both Terry and Brenda made for the benefit of their marriage. Terry knew to keep Brenda’s car maintained and full of gas, and Brenda always left Terry alone when Marty Brennaman had a Cincinnati Reds baseball game to call on the radio.
They raised two children and gave them over four decades of support, tough love, compassion and friendship. In his last years, Terry’s life was sweetened by his new duties of being a grandfather, something he approached with a boyish sparkle to his face that appeared the first time he held Ainsley. He filled his years with her gathering blackberries, helping her identify trees and birds, and taking her for her first tractor rides.
The opportunity to extract coal next to the man he admired most, his father, lured Terry to underground mines early in life. In a few years, he mastered the machinery, processes and management of coal mining. Men twice his age trusted Terry with their lives as he guided them through their dangerous work of explosions, compromised air and the pervasive threat of a cave-in.
As a teacher, Terry once again applied his work ethic, resilience and leadership. No teacher has ever been described more with the phrase “tough but fair.” He guided his students to reach for great things, while also emphasizing rules and discipline. A Montgomery County High School Teacher of the Year, Terry’s greatest honor was when a guidance counselor would tell him a concerned parent requested their child get assigned to Mr. Mullins’ class because he was a needed male role model.
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