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Houston County Mayor George Clark said his office received a call Monday morning to inform them Hardin had passed away that morning.  "He was a good man and did a great job for this county over the years," Clark said. "He will be missed." Hardin, 75, a former pastor at Erin Church of Christ and the Stewart Church of Christ, was born Nov. 13, 1942. He had battled cancer since 2013. He had been a firefighter for 44 years and was Erin fire chief before becoming chief of the Houston County Fire Department.  Visitation will be Friday, June 22, from 4-8 p.m. at Nave Funeral Home in Erin. The funeral will be Saturday, June 23, at 10 a.m. at Houston County High School in Erin. This story will be updated.

Mary Catherine York, 93, formerly of Owensboro, passed away on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, at Miller’s Merry Manor in Rockport, Indiana. She was born March 17, 1925, in Daviess County, Kentucky, to the late Lawton and Pearl Kennedy Mickel.Mary Catherine was retired as office manager for Dixon, White, and Baumgarten Radiologists and was a member of Eaton Memorial Baptist Church. She was a graduate of Owensboro Senior High School.She was also preceded in death by her husband, William F. York, in July 2003, and a brother, J. W. Mickel.Mary Catherine is survived by her daughters, Nancy Nave Marshall and husband, Leland, and Sherri York McDaniel and husband, Larry, all of Owensboro; four grandchildren, Billy Nave and wife, Meredith, of Philpot, Kentucky, Todd Nave and wife, Amy, of Philpot, Ryan McDaniel and wife, Ashley, of Owensboro, and Clay McDaniel and wife, Emi, of Atlanta, Georgia; seven great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren; and sister-in-law, Joretta Mickel, of Hartford, Kentucky.The funeral service for Mary Catherine York will be 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, at Glenn Funeral Home and Crematory. Burial will be in Owensboro Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be from 12 p.m. until 2 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.The family would like to thank the staff of Miller’s Merry Manor for their love and compassionate care they gave our mother.Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Western Kentucky, 3419 Wathens Crossing, Owensboro, KY 42301.Memories and condolences for the family of Mary Catherine York may be shared at www.glenncares.com.Support Our JournalismPlease consider subscribing today and support our work in the community. If you are already a subscriber, thank you very much. Subscribers get access to our daily email newsletter of every headline and obituary from the last 24 hours as well as access to OC Healthy, our new community wide initiative to help Ohio County get healthier.Other posts that may interest youLike this:Like Loading...

Montcalm County Public Defender Matt Nave, at right, explains details of the county’s new indigent defense budget to Montcalm County’s Finance & Personnel Committee on Monday as Montcalm County Maintenance Director Scott Wright listens. — DN Photo Elisabeth WaldonOn Monday, Montcalm County’s Finance & Personnel Committee unanimously voted to approve the indigent defense budget and move forward with creating new office space for Public Defender Matt Nave and Administrative Assistant Sonja Rasmussen, who have been working from a makeshift office in the main corridor of the courthouse.The creation of the office of public defender was done to comply with new Michigan standards to theoretically provide better legal defense to poor people accused of a crime (all eight standards proposed by the Michigan Indigent Defense Commission can be read at michiganidc.gov online).Nave’s new office will be located in the Montcalm County Court Complex in what is currently a lobby next to a wall of windows near District Court. The county has a budget of about $25,000 to spend on office space construction. One estimate provided by JBS Contracting Inc. in Mount Pleasant was for about $34,099, while a second estimate provided by Kool Construction of Howard City was for about $30,700. Neither bid included additional costs for furniture and security. Commissioners recommended the full board accept the bid from Kool Construction, as recommended by Montcalm County Controller-Administrator Bob Clingenpeel and Maintenance Director Scott Wright.Commissioners asked Nave if he saw any security concerns in working out of an office with a wall of windows facing the court parking lot.“Obviously, floor to ceiling windows are a security concern anywhere in the building, but I don’t see any additional security concerns,” Nave said. “There’s still a court security guard at the main entrance.”Nave, who previously worked in the Montcalm County Prosecutor’s Office as the Probate/Juvenile Court prosecu...