Carlos ‘Tank’ Bryant

CAVE CITY — Carlos “Tank” Bryant, 72, passed away Wednesday, May 13, 2009, at his home.

He was a son of the late William and Mayme Grissom Bryant, a farmer and a member of the Concord Baptist Church.

He is survived by his wife, Mae; one son: Freddie Lee Bryant of Hiseville; one stepson: Bobby Joe Jewell of Columbus, Ind.; two step daughters: Becky Brown of Green County; one brother: Jack Bryant of Bonnieville; two sisters: Hazel Smith and Audrey Sallee, both of Horse Cave; four grandsons, two great-grandchildren, eight step-grandchildren, seven step-great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

Tank was preceded in death by seven brothers: Willard, George, Tom, Matt, Doot, Pete and Jim Bryant; one sister, Ruby Atwell; and four baby sisters.

Funeral services for Carlos “Tank” Bryant will be 11 a.m. Saturday in the chapel of Sego Funeral Home, Munfordville, with burial in Concord Cemetery. Visitation will be Friday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and after 9 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

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Dale Stuart Mobley

HARDYVILLE — Dale Stuart Mobley, 50, passed away Friday, May 1, 2009 at his home.

Dale was born in Elizabethtown on Sept. 6, 1958. He spent his summers in Hardyville with his grandparents, Walter and Francis McKinney, helping on the farm. While attending East Hardin High School in Glendale, he worked at Hardin Brothers Oil Company Service Center as a tow truck driver and manager. Leaving high school at the age of 16, he was employed by Crucible Magnetics in Elizabethtown as a machine operator. In 1977 his parents moved to the Hart, Barren County area and at the age of 19 he joined the U.S. Navy. He was stationed on the USS Coral Sea CV-43. As a Petty Officers Electricians Mate he served during the Carter administration. His ship twice spent 268 days circling the Indian Ocean during the Iranian Crisis. Dale was initiated into the King Neptunes World by going through the Shellback Initiation twice. The crew, twice, earned Meritorious Unit Commendations, an Expeditionary Medal and the Navy Sea Service Commendation for remaining at sea in excess of 90 days continuously on more than one occasion. During his enlistment, he crashed landed on Oman in a 707 military transport while returning to the ship from escorting a prisoner to Treasure Island. They were given until dark to leave the country or be taken prisoner. They were flown by helicopter to Deigo Garcia where they boarded a military mail carrier. Upon return they crashed a second time on the flight deck of the USS Coral Sea. He separated from service with an honorable discharge in Alameda, Calif., in 1984 and remained in the California Bay area to work. He was a member of the IBEW Local 6 out of San Francisco working at major naval shipyards in the bay area as an electrician, electronics technician installing radar tracking systems, radio systems and missle launching systems on military vessels which required a top secret level FBI security clearance and U.S. Department of Defense clearance. With the shipyard closures in the late 1980s, he began long haul trucking for C.R. England, delivering freight coast to coast. He became disabled from that line of work, he began attending Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, Ca., majoring in electronics. He maintained a 4.0 average while also working full time for Amtrak in Oakland, Calif., as an electrician, foreman and supervisor. He also worked for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad in Richmond, Calif.. as a locomotive electrician. When he tired of playing with trains, he was employed by S.B.C. Pacific Bell Telephone Company in Oakland, Calif.. as an electrician, where he revamped their telephone and DSL installation precedures that are still in place today.

In 1985 Dale met his wife Barbara in Alameda, Ca., where she was a teacher at Lum Elementary. They married on February 12, 1988 in Reno, Nevada. Dale and Barbara returned to Kentucky in 2001 to assist the running of the McKinney Family Farm after the passing of his mother. He was employed at Sumitomo in Edmonton for 4 years before leaving to farm full time. They bought a farm in 2003 and acquired the family farm in Barren County in 2007. He raised black Angus cattle, donkeys and poultry doing business as Ass 'n' Nine Farms. Dale was a member of the Park United Methodist Church, Hart County Cattlemans Association, an avid fisher, coin collector, member of Alcoholics Anonymous since 1982, he was actively involved in 12 step work and practiced those principles in all his affairs.

Survivors include his wife of 21 years: Barbara Cantu Mobley of Hardyville; his father: Shelby Mobley of Hardyville; a brother: David (Sherice) Mobley of Horse Cave; a niece: Lauren Quinn Armstrong of Louisville; one daughter: Cecilia Martinez-Perez of Milpitas, Calif.; grandchildren: Christopher Perez and Alyssa Perez of Milpitas, Calif.; cousin: Kathy (Bill) Freeman, aunt Juanita Rickett, Aunt Anne (Richard) Elam and uncle Edward (Mary Lou) Mobley, all of Elizabethtown. Lifelong friends, Danny (Patricia) Atwell, good friends, Willie (Jan) Doyle of Hardyville, cousin-in-law, Rebecca (James) Brown of Arroyo Grande, Calif., and their son, Andrew (Erin) Brown of Pohnpei, Micronesia and additional relatives and friends too numerous to mention but no less dear to his heart.

Dale was preceded in death by his mother, Margie McKinney Mobley of Hardyville; sister, Valerie Armstrong of Griderville; maternal grandparents, Walter and Francis McKinney of Hardyville; fraternal grandparents, Edward and Daisy Mobley of Elizabethtown; great-uncles, Arvin (Maggie) McKinney, Paul McKinney, Roscoe (Maxine) McKinney, and great-aunts, Annie (Carl) Lockett, Lela (Nat) Branstetter, all of Hardyville.

Celebration of life will be at Winn Funeral Home, Horse Cave, on Saturday, May 16, 2009, at noon. Remains will be scattered to the four winds in a private ceremony on his Grandpa Walter’s farm with a memorial marker placed at Cosby Cemetery. Visiting begins 10 a.m. Saturday, May 16, 2009, at Winn Funeral Home.