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From: "Kelly Courtney-Blizzard" <>
Subject: [KYF] SHELBY CO OBIT Ralph Wilson "Judge" Mitchell
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 13:48:09 -0400

November 18, 1992
SHELBYVILLE, Ky. -- Ralph Wilson "Judge" Mitchell, a former Shelby County
judge and state representative, died yesterday at his home. He was 80.
Mitchell, a Democrat, was appointed county judge by Gov. Lawrence Wetherby
in 1952 and served until 1964.
He was elected to the state House of Representatives in the late 1960s and
served for five years.
He began practicing law in Shelbyville in 1946 and had served as attorney
for the Shelby County Water District, Old Masons Home, Shelby County Board
of Education and Shelby County Rural Electric Cooperative Corp.
Mitchell also served as Shelby County chairman for Bert T. Combs' campaign
for the Democratic nomination for governor in 1955.
Mitchell was a former chairman of the Legislative Audit Committee, a former
president of the Kentucky County Judges Association and a former member of
the Child Welfare Commission and the Shelby County Social Service
Commission.
He was a native of Green County, a Marine sergeant during World War II and a
member of First Presbyterian Church and Solomon Masonic Lodge 5.
Survivors include his wife, the former Mary Brainard Bell; two sons, Ralph
Seldon Mitchell of Lexington and Courtney W. Mitchell of Cincinnati; a
stepson, Hunt Garner; and six grandchildren.
The funeral is 11 a.m. tomorrow at Shannon Funeral Home, with burial in
Grove Hill Cemetery. Visitation at the funeral home is 4 to 9 p.m. today.
The family requests that memorial gifts go to the Lapsley Scholarship Fund
at Mitchell's church.

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