Former governor Louie B. Nunn’s funeral Tuesday
Published 12:00 am Monday, February 2, 2004
GLASGOW Louie Broady Nunn, 56th governor of Kentucky, died Jan. 29, 2004, at his Versailles home.The Park native attended Bowling Green Business School, University of Cincinnati and University of Louisville School of Law, served in the infantry and Air Force during World War II, practiced law in Glasgow, where he met and married Beula Cornelius Aspley in 1950, served as county judge of Barren County from 1952 to 1956 and was governor of Kentucky from 1967 to 1971. He was a son of the late Waller Harrison and Mary Roberts Nunn.Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at First Christian Church of Glasgow, with burial in Cosby Cemetery near Park. Visitation is in progress until 2 p.m. today at the Capitol rotunda in Frankfort and will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at A.F. Crow & Son Funeral Home.Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to the Kentucky Mansions Preservation Foundation Inc., P.O. Box 132, Lexington, KY 40588 and to the Oral History Department at the University of Kentucky.Survivors include his children, Jennie Lou Nunn Penn and her husband, John, of Frankfort and their daughters, Margaret Cornelius of Alexandria, Va., Rachel Roberts of Lexington and Jessica Paige Penn of Frankfort; and state Rep. Steve Nunn and his wife, Tracey Damron, of Glasgow and their three children, Mary Elizabeth, Robert Issac and Katharine Courtney Nunn, all of Bowling Green; a sister, Virginia Nunn Strobecker and her husband, Edwin, of Park; two stepchildren, Joe W. Aspley Jr. and his wife, Jean, and their daughter, Paula, of Lexington, and Donald Bruce Aspley and his wife, Brenda, of Greenville, Tenn., and their three children, D. Bruce Aspley Jr. of Atlanta, James William Aspley of North Carolina and Rebecca Youngblood of California; three children of stepdaughter Mary Susan Aspley Krieger, who died in 1977, Stephen Leslie Krieger and his wife, Robin, Mary Catherine Krieger May and her husband, Kerry, of Maryland, and Elizabeth Krieger May of Tennessee; and 15 great-grandchildren.