Elizabeth E. Curran

Published 12:00 am Saturday, December 24, 2005

Elizabeth Ellis Curran, 92, of Bowling Green died Dec. 21, 2005, at The Medical Center.

The Hopkinsville native was a graduate of Randolph Macon College. She was a member of State Street United Methodist Church for 60 years, a former member of the Literary Book Club, the American Association of University Women and the League of Women Voters. She was a daughter of the late Louis Ellis and Elizabeth Haig Hannan Ellis. She was the wife of the late Thomas R. Curran, who was a former retired vice president of United Press International for Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the former vice president for Latin America, headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for UPI’s predecessor company, United Press. She was also the wife of the late Dr. G.Y. Graves, a surgeon and gynecologist, who, with Dr. J.T. Gilbert, founded Graves-Gilbert Clinic on State Street in 1931.

Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to the Thomas R. Curran Scholarship for Journalism, College Heights Foundation, One Big Red Way, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green KY 42101, or the Commonwealth Health Foundation, in memory of Dr. G.Y. Graves, P.O. Box 1868, Bowling Green KY 42102-1868.

Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday at Johnson-Vaughn-Phelps Funeral Home. Private graveside service will be at a later date.

Survivors include two daughters, Kay Graves Starks and her husband, John, of Louisville and Nancy Graves Durham and her husband, Don, of Carriere, Miss.; two grandchildren, Kim Durham Read and her husband, Jason, and Russell Durham and his wife, Candice; and three great-grandchildren, Reagan and William Read and Noah Durham.