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58 Name..................................City .......................State ................Deceased Charley Greene Dixon Jr.......Barbourville...........KY ..............June 23, 2014 Virgil Thomas Fryman Jr. .....Lexington...............KY................July 10, 2014 Daniel G. Grove ...................Port Charlotte ........FL ................July 15, 2014 Robert Martin Losey ............Huntington ............WV ..............May 20, 2014 John A. Nold ........................Naples ...................FL..................Jan. 8, 2014 John W. Oakley ....................Nicholasville..........KY .............Sept. 22, 2013 Name..................................City .......................State ................Deceased Hugh M. Richards ...............London ..................KY..................July 1, 2014 Steven K. Robison ...............Seymour ................IN ...................Oct. 7,2013 Robert Kendall Rowe...........Bonnieville ............KY...............Nov. 22, 2013 Andrew Trevor Smith ...........Frankfort ...............KY ...............Feb. 21, 2014 Barry L. Standley.................Evansville..............IN ................July 19, 2014 Norman L. Wilson Jr.............Louisville ...............KY ..............April 14, 2014 B&B; • 9.14 As a final tribute, the Bench & Bar publishes brief memorials recognizing KBA members in good standing as space permits and at the discretion of the editors. Please submit either written information or a copy of an obituary that has been published in a newspaper. Submissions may be edited for space. Memorials should be sent to sroberts@kybar.org. O ver 1 7 ,0 0 0 at t o r neys ar e l i cens ed t o p r act i ce i n t he s t at e o f K ent uck y. 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Main St., Frankfort, KY 40601-1812 * Announcements sent to the Bench & Bar's Who, What, When & Where column or communication with other departments other than the Execu - tive Director do not comply with the rule and do not constitute a formal roster change with the KBA. Assistant Attorney General Beth Myerscough passed away June 20, 2014, after battling cancer for a number of years. At the time of her death, Myerscough was still working in the Office of Attorney General, and has the distinction of being the longest serving female assistant attorney general in Kentucky history – 34 plus years, an honor that deserves recognition. During her years of service, she served in five different divisions in the Attorney General's Office, and served seven attorneys general, beginning with then Attorney Gen- eral, now governor, Steve L. Beshear. Myerscough was one of the early prosecutors in the Special Prose- cutions Division, which was created to handle cases where local prosecutors have a conflict of interest, and she took on child abuse cases at a time when many such crimes were not reported, much less prosecuted. In one of her cases, Anastasi v. Commonwealth, 754 S.W.2d 860 (Ky. 1988) (Myerscough was the prosecutor as well as appellate counsel), the defendant's conviction for first degree sex- ual abuse of four child victims was upheld by both the Court of Ap- peals and Kentucky Supreme Court, and is often cited as precedent for admissibility of a defendant's prior bad acts in child sexual abuse cases. During her tenure in the Criminal Appellate Division, one of Myer- scough's cases was accepted for decision by the United States Supreme Court, and she prepared then Attorney General Fred Cow- an to give the oral argument. Myerscough's overriding humility be- lied her brilliant mind, and was one of the reasons jurors loved her; always a quick study, she was one of the rare persons who never had a television in her home. Her sense of humor was most evident in her storytelling; she could never get very far into a story before she was laughing at herself – she had one of those laughs that is conta- gious, engaging, and somehow always lifted the spirits of those around her. Beth Myerscough's work as an assistant attorney general and dedication to public service over the last 34 years made a differ- ence and left the world a better place. BEFORE YOU MOVE...