Upson County GaArchives Obituaries.....Easley, Roy W. November 25 1985
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Virginia Crilley
Mr. Roy W. Easley, Sr.
Mr. Roy W. Easley, Sr., 94, of Bardstown, Ky. died on Monday, Nove. 25, 1985 at 
Ireland Army Hospital at Fort Knox.  Funeral services were conducted Friday, 
Nov. 29, at Arch L. Heady Fern Creek Funeral Home at 11 a.m.
Interment was held in Cave Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Easley was a former Louisville police chief and safety director and U.S. 
Marshal. He lived in Bardstown, and was a native of Frankfort and a retired 
Army brigadier general  He retired in 1959 as president of the old Southern 
Liquor Distribution Co., and had been a federal prohibition agent.
He was appointed police chief in 1926 and according to news reports, was the 
city's first safety director.  He ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Louisville as 
a Republilcan in 1945.
He had been an executive director of the Kentucky Disable Ex-servicemens's 
Board, and had also been director of the Department of Welfare's Correction 
Department.  In 1921 he helped organize the 149th Infantry Division of the Army 
National Guard, and was appointed commander in 1935.  During World War 11 he 
was assistant division commander of the 38th " Cyclone" Division in the 
Phillippines, and received the Bronze Star and other honors.
He is survived by his wife, the former Fay O'Nan of Bardstown, one son, Col. 
Roy W. Easley, Jr. of Arlington, Va., seven daughters;  Sara Blackwell of The 
Rock, Willie Dropp of Fairfax, Va., Thelma Wehrley, Ella Seewer, Catherine 
Carnell, Beulah Collins, and Betty Bryson, two sisters;  Mrs. homer Davis of 
Williamsburg and Mrs. A. G. Davis of Lexington.  Nineteen grandchildren and 20 
great grandchildren also survive.

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