Commonwealth Journal
Somerset, Kentucky
Thursday, December 19, 1996
Jesse Paul Griffin, Eubank, died Wednesday, Dec. 18, 1996, at Christ Hospital, Cincinnati. He was 87.
Born in the Estesburg community in Pulaski County, March 1, 1909, he was a son of the late Virgil and Samantha York Griffin. Jess was a former employee of Goodyear Tire Company in Akron, Ohio, and a retired employee of Kentucky Department of Highway.
Survivors include his wife, Pauline Gooch Griffin, whom he married Oct. 14, 1938; a son, Jeffrey Paul (and Sue) Griffin, Hillsboro, Ohio; two daughters, Janie Frances (and Dr. Frank H.) Catron, Corbin, and Paula Kay (and Jackson) Denham, Somerset; two sisters, Mattie Flynn, Somerset, and Maggie Reynolds, Covington; nine grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; an infant son; four brothers, Ansel, Mitchell, James F., and Roy B. Griffin; three sisters, Bertha Suttle, Lela Floyd and Nora Eubanks.
Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Friday at the chapel of Morris and Hislope Funeral Home with Bro. Harold Carter officiating.
Burial was in the Eubank Cemetery.
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Commonwealth Journal
Friday Dec. 20th 1996
Former Eubank Official Dies
A well-known northern Pulaski County business and civic leader is dead at 87.
J.P. "Jess" Griffin died Wednesday at the Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, after a long illness. He was a former chairman of the Eubank Town Board and directed the formation of the Eubank Water District, now the municipally owned Eubank Water System.
In 1971, while serving as chairman of the town board, he led the effort to secure funding for construction of a water system which initially served about 450 families and businesses in the communities of Eubank and Pulaski in Pulaski County, and Waynesburg, Dishonville, Highland and Hall's Gap in Lincoln County. The system now serves more than 3,000 customers.
During his tenure as town board chairman, Griffin was recognized as "mayor" of Eubank before the name of the town board was changed to commission headed by a mayor.
Griffin was a leader in the development of the Eubank Volunteer Fire Department, and in the early 1970s while a member of the Eubank Ruritan Club, worked to secure the city's first modern tanker for the fire department.
Griffin was superintendent of the original Pulaski County Stone Quarry in northeastern Pulaski County. He and his wife, Pauline Gooch Griffin, were the owners of Griffin's grocery at Estesburg, near Eubank.
With his brother, Roy, he operated a dairy farm in the 1950's and was an early member of the Southern Kentucky Milk Producers Association. He retired as a state government employee after serving as a quarry inspector with the state Transportation Cabinet.
Eubank Mayor Frey Todd described Griffin as a "pioneer", a front line volunteer citizen who was dedicated to the betterment of his community and who willingly devoted untold hours and personal resources to promote the welfare of the citizens of Eubank.
"Those of us who worked with Jess during those early years of groundbreaking development remember him as one of the few who truly believed in the power of the individual citizen activist. The city of Eubank honors his memory,"
Todd said.
Griffin was a life long member of the Church of Christ and at the time of his death was a member of the Eubank Congregation.
Somerset, Kentucky
Thursday, December 19, 1996
Jesse Paul Griffin, Eubank, died Wednesday, Dec. 18, 1996, at Christ Hospital, Cincinnati. He was 87.
Born in the Estesburg community in Pulaski County, March 1, 1909, he was a son of the late Virgil and Samantha York Griffin. Jess was a former employee of Goodyear Tire Company in Akron, Ohio, and a retired employee of Kentucky Department of Highway.
Survivors include his wife, Pauline Gooch Griffin, whom he married Oct. 14, 1938; a son, Jeffrey Paul (and Sue) Griffin, Hillsboro, Ohio; two daughters, Janie Frances (and Dr. Frank H.) Catron, Corbin, and Paula Kay (and Jackson) Denham, Somerset; two sisters, Mattie Flynn, Somerset, and Maggie Reynolds, Covington; nine grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; an infant son; four brothers, Ansel, Mitchell, James F., and Roy B. Griffin; three sisters, Bertha Suttle, Lela Floyd and Nora Eubanks.
Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Friday at the chapel of Morris and Hislope Funeral Home with Bro. Harold Carter officiating.
Burial was in the Eubank Cemetery.
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Commonwealth Journal
Friday Dec. 20th 1996
Former Eubank Official Dies
A well-known northern Pulaski County business and civic leader is dead at 87.
J.P. "Jess" Griffin died Wednesday at the Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, after a long illness. He was a former chairman of the Eubank Town Board and directed the formation of the Eubank Water District, now the municipally owned Eubank Water System.
In 1971, while serving as chairman of the town board, he led the effort to secure funding for construction of a water system which initially served about 450 families and businesses in the communities of Eubank and Pulaski in Pulaski County, and Waynesburg, Dishonville, Highland and Hall's Gap in Lincoln County. The system now serves more than 3,000 customers.
During his tenure as town board chairman, Griffin was recognized as "mayor" of Eubank before the name of the town board was changed to commission headed by a mayor.
Griffin was a leader in the development of the Eubank Volunteer Fire Department, and in the early 1970s while a member of the Eubank Ruritan Club, worked to secure the city's first modern tanker for the fire department.
Griffin was superintendent of the original Pulaski County Stone Quarry in northeastern Pulaski County. He and his wife, Pauline Gooch Griffin, were the owners of Griffin's grocery at Estesburg, near Eubank.
With his brother, Roy, he operated a dairy farm in the 1950's and was an early member of the Southern Kentucky Milk Producers Association. He retired as a state government employee after serving as a quarry inspector with the state Transportation Cabinet.
Eubank Mayor Frey Todd described Griffin as a "pioneer", a front line volunteer citizen who was dedicated to the betterment of his community and who willingly devoted untold hours and personal resources to promote the welfare of the citizens of Eubank.
"Those of us who worked with Jess during those early years of groundbreaking development remember him as one of the few who truly believed in the power of the individual citizen activist. The city of Eubank honors his memory,"
Todd said.
Griffin was a life long member of the Church of Christ and at the time of his death was a member of the Eubank Congregation.
Commonwealth Journal
Somerset, Kentucky
Thursday, December 19, 1996
Jesse Paul Griffin, Eubank, died Wednesday, Dec. 18, 1996, at Christ Hospital, Cincinnati. He was 87.
Born in the Estesburg community in Pulaski County, March 1, 1909, he was a son of the late Virgil and Samantha York Griffin. Jess was a former employee of Goodyear Tire Company in Akron, Ohio, and a retired employee of Kentucky Department of Highway.
Survivors include his wife, Pauline Gooch Griffin, whom he married Oct. 14, 1938; a son, Jeffrey Paul (and Sue) Griffin, Hillsboro, Ohio; two daughters, Janie Frances (and Dr. Frank H.) Catron, Corbin, and Paula Kay (and Jackson) Denham, Somerset; two sisters, Mattie Flynn, Somerset, and Maggie Reynolds, Covington; nine grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; an infant son; four brothers, Ansel, Mitchell, James F., and Roy B. Griffin; three sisters, Bertha Suttle, Lela Floyd and Nora Eubanks.
Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Friday at the chapel of Morris and Hislope Funeral Home with Bro. Harold Carter officiating.
Burial was in the Eubank Cemetery.
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Commonwealth Journal
Friday Dec. 20th 1996
Former Eubank Official Dies
A well-known northern Pulaski County business and civic leader is dead at 87.
J.P. "Jess" Griffin died Wednesday at the Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, after a long illness. He was a former chairman of the Eubank Town Board and directed the formation of the Eubank Water District, now the municipally owned Eubank Water System.
In 1971, while serving as chairman of the town board, he led the effort to secure funding for construction of a water system which initially served about 450 families and businesses in the communities of Eubank and Pulaski in Pulaski County, and Waynesburg, Dishonville, Highland and Hall's Gap in Lincoln County. The system now serves more than 3,000 customers.
During his tenure as town board chairman, Griffin was recognized as "mayor" of Eubank before the name of the town board was changed to commission headed by a mayor.
Griffin was a leader in the development of the Eubank Volunteer Fire Department, and in the early 1970s while a member of the Eubank Ruritan Club, worked to secure the city's first modern tanker for the fire department.
Griffin was superintendent of the original Pulaski County Stone Quarry in northeastern Pulaski County. He and his wife, Pauline Gooch Griffin, were the owners of Griffin's grocery at Estesburg, near Eubank.
With his brother, Roy, he operated a dairy farm in the 1950's and was an early member of the Southern Kentucky Milk Producers Association. He retired as a state government employee after serving as a quarry inspector with the state Transportation Cabinet.
Eubank Mayor Frey Todd described Griffin as a "pioneer", a front line volunteer citizen who was dedicated to the betterment of his community and who willingly devoted untold hours and personal resources to promote the welfare of the citizens of Eubank.
"Those of us who worked with Jess during those early years of groundbreaking development remember him as one of the few who truly believed in the power of the individual citizen activist. The city of Eubank honors his memory,"
Todd said.
Griffin was a life long member of the Church of Christ and at the time of his death was a member of the Eubank Congregation.
Somerset, Kentucky
Thursday, December 19, 1996
Jesse Paul Griffin, Eubank, died Wednesday, Dec. 18, 1996, at Christ Hospital, Cincinnati. He was 87.
Born in the Estesburg community in Pulaski County, March 1, 1909, he was a son of the late Virgil and Samantha York Griffin. Jess was a former employee of Goodyear Tire Company in Akron, Ohio, and a retired employee of Kentucky Department of Highway.
Survivors include his wife, Pauline Gooch Griffin, whom he married Oct. 14, 1938; a son, Jeffrey Paul (and Sue) Griffin, Hillsboro, Ohio; two daughters, Janie Frances (and Dr. Frank H.) Catron, Corbin, and Paula Kay (and Jackson) Denham, Somerset; two sisters, Mattie Flynn, Somerset, and Maggie Reynolds, Covington; nine grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; an infant son; four brothers, Ansel, Mitchell, James F., and Roy B. Griffin; three sisters, Bertha Suttle, Lela Floyd and Nora Eubanks.
Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Friday at the chapel of Morris and Hislope Funeral Home with Bro. Harold Carter officiating.
Burial was in the Eubank Cemetery.
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Commonwealth Journal
Friday Dec. 20th 1996
Former Eubank Official Dies
A well-known northern Pulaski County business and civic leader is dead at 87.
J.P. "Jess" Griffin died Wednesday at the Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, after a long illness. He was a former chairman of the Eubank Town Board and directed the formation of the Eubank Water District, now the municipally owned Eubank Water System.
In 1971, while serving as chairman of the town board, he led the effort to secure funding for construction of a water system which initially served about 450 families and businesses in the communities of Eubank and Pulaski in Pulaski County, and Waynesburg, Dishonville, Highland and Hall's Gap in Lincoln County. The system now serves more than 3,000 customers.
During his tenure as town board chairman, Griffin was recognized as "mayor" of Eubank before the name of the town board was changed to commission headed by a mayor.
Griffin was a leader in the development of the Eubank Volunteer Fire Department, and in the early 1970s while a member of the Eubank Ruritan Club, worked to secure the city's first modern tanker for the fire department.
Griffin was superintendent of the original Pulaski County Stone Quarry in northeastern Pulaski County. He and his wife, Pauline Gooch Griffin, were the owners of Griffin's grocery at Estesburg, near Eubank.
With his brother, Roy, he operated a dairy farm in the 1950's and was an early member of the Southern Kentucky Milk Producers Association. He retired as a state government employee after serving as a quarry inspector with the state Transportation Cabinet.
Eubank Mayor Frey Todd described Griffin as a "pioneer", a front line volunteer citizen who was dedicated to the betterment of his community and who willingly devoted untold hours and personal resources to promote the welfare of the citizens of Eubank.
"Those of us who worked with Jess during those early years of groundbreaking development remember him as one of the few who truly believed in the power of the individual citizen activist. The city of Eubank honors his memory,"
Todd said.
Griffin was a life long member of the Church of Christ and at the time of his death was a member of the Eubank Congregation.
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