Willie Jeanette Applegate

Willie Jeanette Applegate, 94, of Tollesboro, Kentucky died Monday, July 24, 2017 at the Care Center at Kenton Pointe. Mrs. Applegate was the widow of Orville Leroy Applegate who died in 1996. The couple had been married for fifty-four years at the time of Mr. Applegate’s death. Mrs. Applegate was engaged in farming for seventy-three years. Besides farming, she formally had been employed with US Shoe Company and later with Licking Valley Senior Citizens Group and she was a member of the Bethel United Methodist Church and attended the Pine Valley Christian Church. She was born in Trinity, Kentucky on September 25, 1922 the daughter of the late George and Clara Hilterbrand Mason. She is survived by her two children, Dean Applegate (Connie) of Tollesboro, KY and Judy Applegate Newman of Lucasville, OH; her two grandchildren, David Dean Applegate (Amy) and Derby Newman Akers (Rob) and two great-grandchildren, Abby Sue Applegate and Caryl Lyn Akers. Besides her husband and her parents, she was preceded in death by her son-in-law, Dr. Mitchell Newman and her eleven siblings, Tincy Garrett, Dorthella Henderson, Etta Murell Beasley, Georgetta Roush, Arno Mason, Uldine Russell, Emory Mason, Ivan Mason, Gladys McDonald, Ray Mason and Edra Pyles. Funeral services for Willie J. Applegate will be held at the Pine Valley Christian Church at 11:00 AM Saturday, July 29, 2017 with Rev. Phil Cropper officiating. Burial will follow in the Pine Valley Cemetery. Pallbearers will be David Dean Applegate, Bradley Schultz, Jim Meadows, Rob Akers, Jack Roush and Terry Beasley. Honorary pallbearers will be Frank Roush, Sammy Applegate, Clenton Applegate and Bobby Doyle . Visitation will be held on Friday, July 28, 2017 at the Barbour and Son Funeral Home from 6 to 8 PM. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Pine Valley Christian Church, Pine Valley Road, Tollesboro, Kentucky 41189.