Ken Eubanks

Published 12:00 am Wednesday, January 4, 2006

Ken Eubanks, 65, of Bowling Green died at 1:04 p.m. Jan. 3, 2006, at The Medical Center.

The Jackson, Tenn., native was owner of Olympic Karate and House of Fitness. He was vice president of the North American Sport Karate Association, president of Regional Sport Karate Circuit and was an eighth degree black belt with over more than years of experience teaching men, women and children. He was promoter of the Bluegrass National World Karate Championships and Bowling Green Classics Karate Championships, a Hall of Fame member and a member of Diamond Nationals, Battle of Atlanta, American Karate Association and the U.S. Open, and has won numerous other karate honors. He was a son of the late Willie Odill Eubanks and Virginia Pillow Bowman of Cedar Grove, Tenn., who survives.

Funeral is at 2 p.m. Friday at J.C. Kirby & Son Funeral Home, Lovers Lane chapel, with burial in Bowling Green Gardens. Visitation is from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Other survivors include his wife, Kim Young Eubanks; three sons, Marty Eubanks and his wife, Laura, and B.T. Webb, all of Bowling Green, and Ricky Eubanks and his wife, Rhonda, of Cedar Grove; a daughter, Heather Webb of Bowling Green; four brothers, Anthony Eubanks and his wife, Jimmie, and Terry Eubanks and his wife, Pam, all of Cedar Grove, Mike Eubanks of Milan, Tenn., and Barry Eubanks and his wife, Ena, of Gadsden, Tenn.; three sisters, Betty Nelms and her husband, Tom, of Griffin, Ga., Phyllis Cooper and her husband, Tony, of Gainesville, Ga., and Deanna Sego and her husband, Keith, of Lexington, Tenn.; five grandchildren, James Ricky Eubanks, Kathy Jo Aberle, Casstile Rath, Andrew Eubanks and Haley Eubanks; two great-grandchildren, Autumn Haley Aberle and Savanna Elise Eubanks; and several nieces and nephews.