Terry Mobley was born Terry Bailey Mobley on December 9, 1943, in Harrodsburg, Kentucky to Cecil Mobley and Beatrice Bailey Mobley. Mobley played for Kentucky from 1962 to 1965, earning national attention for a clutch shot against Duke University during the Sugar Bowl Classic in 1963. He went on to build the university’s fledgling fundraising…
Terry Mobley
Sam Harper
Sam Harper was born Samuel Milage Harper, III, on November 27, 1943, in Fulton, Kentucky, to Sam and Jane Harper. His father was well known for the old Kentucky country hams he cured and sold. Harper was a guard for the University of Kentucky Wildcats basketball team from 1962 to 1964. In high school, Harper…
Randy Embry
Randy Embry was born August 9, 1943, in Owensboro, Kentucky. Nicknamed “Chick,” he starred at Owensboro High School under former Wildcat Bobby Watson, earning All-America recognition, twice receiving All-State honors and being named Kentucky Mr. Basketball in 1961. Embry scored 1,617 career points, including 777 as a senior and a school-record 50 in one game,…
Don Rolfes
Transferred to Cincinnati Obituary – ROLFES, Cincinnati Enquirer (September 26, 1996) Donald P., beloved husband of Shirley Williams Rolfes, dear father of Angela Rolfes Caudill, Stephen, Christopher and Gregory Rolfes all of Harrison, grandfather of Jeffery and Justin Caudill, brother of Joan Rolfes Suding, St. Peters and brother-in-law of Merle Williams. Age 53. No visitation. Mass of Christian Burial St. John…
John Adams
John Adams was born May 15, 1943, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Adams hailed from Rising Sun, Indiana, a small Indiana community 25 miles down river from Cincinnati. His father was a chemist and his mother worked at an insurance agency. Adams averaged 21 points and 22 rebounds a game in his final schoolboy campaign at Rising…
Denny Radabaugh
George Critz
George Critz, pronounced CRY-ts, played forward for the University of Kentucky Wildcats basketball team during the early 1960s. Standing at 6’3″ and weighing 194 pounds, he was part of a talented roster under the legendary coach Adolph Rupp. Critz was born George Andrew Critz on November 13, 1942, in Wadsworth, Ohio, to Velma Ruth Andrews…
Ron Kennett
Ron Kennett was born Ronald Leroy Kennett on September 11, 1942, and grew up in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. A gifted three-sport athlete at Lawrenceburg High School, he earned All-Eastern Indiana Athletic Conference honors in basketball and baseball in 1960 and 1961 and first-team All-State recognition in both sports as a senior. Kennett scored 400 points during…
Cotton Nash
Cotton Nash was born Charles Francis Nash on July 23, 1942, in Jersey City, New Jersey. He discovered basketball after his family moved to Indiana, where former Kentucky national champion Cliff Barker coached him at Jeffersonville High School. Nash later became a multi-sport sensation at Lake Charles High School in Louisiana. Nicknamed “The Bayou Bomber,”…
Charles Ishmael
Obituary – Charles Ford (Chili) Ishmael, Lexington Herald-Leader (January 13, 2018) Charles Ford (Chili) Ishmael passed away peacefully following a three-year journey with pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer on January 11, 2018 in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, with his wife and their three daughters by his side. A lifelong resident of Mt. Sterling, Chili was born on June 21, 1942 to Adrian…