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Contact us Customer Service Executive Editor Fallon 765-213-5876 Advertising Obituaries Postal information Palladium-Item, USPS is published Monday through Sunday at 1175 North A Richmond, IN 47374. Periodicals postage paid at Richmond, IN 47374. Postmaster: Send address changes to Customer Service, PO Box 94090, Albuquerque, NM 87199-9940 Obituaries Circulation Department Questions on how to start your home delivery? Interested in getting a digital edition? Would you like to have all your news on-the-go with the Pal-Item mobile or tablet apps? Call The Palladium-Item Circulation Department today toll-free at 1-888-725-2472. Helen Lucile (Butler) Hollingsworth, Russiaville, died at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, December 11, 2019, at Waterford Place in Kokomo, where she had been in residence since May 2014.
Many thanks to all on staff there through these 5 years whose presence, friendship, and service enhanced daily life. It is appropriate that 98 years 2 months and 12 days of life concluded on the 203rd anniver- sary of statehood (December 11, 1816), since her husband death at 89 years 9 months and 6 days occurred on the birthday of our nation, July 4, 2004. Helen was born on September 28, 1921 on the Stratton-Butler farm, in northeast Honey Creek Township of Howard County in the home built of native timber from the nearby woodland by her parents Earl J. and Hazel O. (Miller) Butler, following their marriage in 1912.
They preceded her in death in 1967 and 1982, as did her older siblings, Ralph M. Butler (2003) Mary Elizabeth (Robertson) and Esther L. Davis (2007) Ralph W. Helen was the last of her gen- eration of first cousins and their spouses. Helen graduated from Russiaville High School in 1939 as valedictorian, where she was involved in music and art activities.
Two of her 14 classmates survive her, Joan (Arbuckle) Whitehouse and Betty (Newby) Walker. She was a 10-year member of 4-H, honored to attend the Indiana State Fair School in 1939, the opening year of the 4-H buildings and the Coliseum. In order to learn business skills, including shorthand, typing, and bookkeeping, which had been eliminated from the RHS curriculum during the Depression era, Helen continued her education at the Kokomo Business College. She secured employment in the offices of the Continental Steel Corporation on South Main Street, 1940-1944. Later, through the years she assisted in her State Farm Insurance office in the Union Bank Building.
On October 16, 1943, in the parsonage of the Friends Church at Anderson, she was married by the Rev. John Compton, a family to Isaac Allen Hollingsworth of Russiaville. They made their home in Russiaville throughout their 60-year marriage, interrupted only by absence for duty with the U.S. Army during 1944-1946, including the occupation forc- es in Korea. Helen, with her business skills, was an instrumental support of Ike and his personal interests (Russiaville Water Works until 1958 and plumbing and electrical contracting), as well as in his service as Chief of the Russiaville Volunteer Fire Department from its founding in 1942 until his death in 2004.
In 2003, Ike was honored with the Sagamore of the Wa- bash award for his civic achievement. In 2018, Grant Street in downtown Russiaville was designated as Ike Hollingsworth Lane, in tribute to Ike and Helen and their community service. In March 2018, the Cosand family farm (1 mile east of Russiaville) was recognized as a 150th anniversary homestead, through the research and documentation provided by Helen. Fortunately, she was able to be in attendance at the statehouse ceremony along with other generations of the family. During childhood, the Butler family attended the neighborhood Lynn Friends Meeting, 2 miles east of Russiaville, transferring to Russiaville Friends Meeting in 1929.
Helen remained an active member of that meeting, serving in many roles, including Presiding Clerk, Recording Clerk, Ministry and Counsel, Missions Committee, and the United Society of Friends Women. Ike and Helen were the longtime custodians of the meetinghouse, caring for the physical aspects of keeping the building and grounds in tip-top condition. Recovery and rebuilding of home, church, business, and RVFD were a major focus of the Hollingsworth family following the devastation of the Palm Sunday Tornado on April 11, 1965, a landmark of which forever demarcated the and aspects of life for all in the Rus- siaville community. Beyond the local congregation, Helen participated in the Greater Kokomo Area Church Women United, the Western Yearly Meeting of the Friends Church (Plainfield) years as the Benevolence Treasurer, President of the USFW, Outreach Friends United Meeting (Richmond IN), and the United Society of Friends Women International. From childhood, Helen appreciated many opportunities to be in attendance at annual and triennial conferences of the wider body of the Religious Society of Friends, making regional, national, and international acquaintances.
Surviving are two daughters and a son-in-law, Peggy Ann Hollingsworth of Connersville and Russiaville, and Alma Sue and John Edward Pierce of Plainfield. Grandchildren are David Allen Pierce, Ph.D., and wife Sara Michelle Pierce, M.D., of Fishers, and Holly Suzanne Hook and husband Isaac David Hook of Crawfordsville. Great-grandchildren are Charles Allen Pierce and Kaitlyn Marie Pierce of Fishers. Other survivors are: nephew Jared William Butler and wife Martha of Culver IN; nieces Odel (Butler) David Strange, Frankfort IN; Barbara (Davis) and George Wilson, Gainesville FL; Beverly (Davis) Eppley, Michigantown IN; and Emily Jane (Hollingsworth) husband Smith, Rock Island IL; great-nieces and great-nephews with their families. In addition to her husband Ike, parents, and siblings, Helen was preceded in death by great-niece Jenny Michelle Butler (1989) brother-in- law and sister-in-law Frank H.
(1991) and Dora O. (1996) Hollingsworth IL Richmond and their son William Penn Holling- sworth (2019) Ilean (2013) Yukon as well as father-in-law and mother-in-law Calvin Wasson (1942) and Mary I. (Newlin) (1967) Hollingsworth Helen also was influenced by her late grandpar- ents, Jared (1923) and Susan Butler, Alice V. (Fritz) Miller Floyd (1964) and husband Morgan C. Floyd (1935), and great-grandfather Hiram Fritz (1931), all of Russiaville.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Monday, December 16, 2019, at Stout Son Funeral Home, 200 East Main Street, Russiaville, with pastor, the Rev. James A. Lyon, officiating. Burial will follow in the New London Friends Cemetery.
Friends may call from 2 6 p.m. on Sunday, December 15, 2019 at the funeral home. Memorial contributions honor- ing life of Christian service may be made to the Russiaville Friends Church. Messages of condolence may be left online at www.stoutandson.com. The family has entrusted arrangements to friend and neighbor Jeff Stout, assisted by his sons Jeffrey Kennard Stout and Jacob Wallace Stout.
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illegally. Over the budget year that ended Sept. 30, of- arrested about 143,000 people, about 13,000 fewer than the previous year, and deported more than 267,000. More than 92,000 of the arrests were of people with criminal convictions, Al- bence said, including for homicide, kid- napping, sexual assault and assault. ICE were diverted to help with the border crisis, which overall arrests, Albence said at a news conference in Dallas, where the largest number of arrests occurred 16,900 and where a high level of cooper- ation with local law enforcement.
Local law enforcement does not help ICE in so-called sanctuary cities such as New York and Chicago. Nearly 300 of the Dallas-area arrests were made in April during a raid at a technology company one of the largest such enforcement actions in a decade. There was a drastic increase in the number of families crossing the border last year at least 473,000 for the bud- get year, nearly three times the previous full-year record for families. Most were coming from Central America. While the numbers surged, Home- land Security agents and were overwhelmed because families with small children require much more care.
Border pleaded for help, but it until the summer, when reports of squalid conditions and surging num- bers of detainees and children dying were published, that Congress autho- rized $4 billion in emergency funding. That funding expired at the end of the year. Many of those families were released while their asylum requests wind through the U.S. courts a practice President Donald Trump has derided as Homeland Securi- ty have said they would detain families, but ICE has not been funded for that, and Albence said it would be to implement under existing law. The emergency funds from Congress did not include additional bed space for immigration detention.
At one point, ICE was detaining some 56,000 people. Albence said inadequate funding has the agency. can only buy the number of beds that Congress appropriates us he said. Border crossings are declining amid crackdowns by Mexico at its border plus U.S. policies that have sent more than 50,000 asylum seekers back to Mexico to wait out their claims, and have made anyone who crossed through a third country inadmissible for asylum.
Al- bence said ICE has recently been able to pull some resources back from the bor- der but is still spread thin. ICE agents arrested fewer people in 2019 Jake Bleiberg and Colleen Long ASSOCIATED PRESS Enforcement and removal officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest and detain immigrants who are deemed to be in the U.S. illegally. KEITH J.
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