Photos and flowers are displayed for Stuart Hearell's memorial service on Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, at Goad Funeral Home in Scottsville, Ky. (Austin Anthony / photo@bgdailynews.com)

SCOTTSVILLE — More than 50 people from elected officials to lawyers, hairdressers, nurses, ministers, police officers, secretaries and other professionals filed in to Goad Funeral Home on Friday evening to pay their final respects to Stuart Hearell, known locally as “the man in a suit.”

Hearell, 59, was found Dec. 25 in a shallow grave in Scottsville after another man walked in to the Scottsville Police Department the night before and confessed to killing Hearell.

Hearell lived in Cornerstone Manor as a ward of the state. He often walked the streets of Scottsville impeccably dressed in a long-sleeve dress shirt, sport coat and dress pants. Many people knew him from him looking inside windows or at his reflection in windows to primp. He walked Scottsville’s streets often.

Two local pastors, Chris Calvert and Danny Patrick eulogized Hearell. Both knew him.

“ ‘Sir, do you have the time?’ ” is how he started his conversations in his high-pitched voice, Calvert said.

“I was blessed to have the privilege to get to know him,” Calvert said. “He treated everybody humbly.”

As Calvert studied the nearly full chapel inside the funeral home, he talked about the love of Jesus and the love the people of Scottsville show even to someone some of them barely knew.

“This shows that people love one another,” Calvert said.

Patrick, who once shared a meal with Hearell at the local Dairy Queen, said he was honored to help conduct the services. On the day he and Hearell ate together he told him he loved him and asked Hearell if he had been saved. Hearell said he had, as a boy. Patrick later learned that Hearell used to sing with his mother who played piano at a Pentecostal church in Livingston County.

“Only in Scottsville could you come to a service like this for a man who knew so few and the place be so full,” Patrick said.

Hearell had once told Patrick that he thought the people of Scottsville were “real nice.”

“I love this community,” Patrick said. “We have some of the finest police officers and finest leaders in this community.

“All I can say is he’s in the hands of a just, loving and merciful man,” he said. “I’d like for him to have had a different ending.”

Scottsville City Councilwoman Beverly Anderson didn’t know Hearell. She had seen him walking around Scottsville as many others had.

“He was part of our community,” Anderson said.

“This is Scottsville,” she said of the crowd that showed up to pay their final respects. “There is a bond of people here that is a togetherness.”

A local hairdresser sat at the end of a one of the rows and wept as she remembered the man who frequented her salon, where customers would give Hearell money and he would return with Drumstick ice cream cones.

“He was a really sweet person,” said Lesa Keen, a salon customer. “It’s wonderful so many people came out.”

Another salon customer, Teresa Rose, the wife of Scottsville Police Detective John Rose, who investigated Hearell’s homicide, also remembered him from the hair salon. John Rose attended the funeral as well.

“He was just a sweetheart,” Teresa Rose said of Hearell. “He was quiet. He seemed very humble.”

The Roses’ daughter Kelley Rose, who works in a downtown law office, remembered Hearell looking at his reflection in her office window and grooming his eyebrows.

Allen District Judge Martha Harrison knew Hearell after he came before her in a court matter.

“I really did care about him” Harrison said. “He was just a person who faced difficulties. There wasn’t a mean bone in his body.”

Goad Funeral Home held Hearell’s service free of charge.

Tommy Mulhall, 43, of 619 Cartertown Spur Road, is charged with murder in Hearell’s death.

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