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Dr. Steve Aaron eulogized by friends, remembered by many at Saturday service "When a great and good man dies, the sky of this world is luminous long after he is out of sight." - Allan Mercer Parnell at passing of his friend Steve Aaron By Linda Marcum Waggener linda@columbiamagazine.com The large chapel at Highlands Funeral Home in Louisville was not big enough to hold the crowd of relatives and friends wanting to pay their last respects to William Stephen Aaron, a man who blazed like a shooting star in and out of our fields of vision. His close friend since Centre College days, Greensburg native Bill Gorin, had said, "I never went anywere with Steve Aaron where at least one person didn't know him, whether it was over to Wal-Mart or to Mexico." At the eulogy service it was, as he'd asked for it to be, close friends sharing thoughts of experiences shared in his lifetime: There was laughter with tears as his friend, Don Brown told a Steve-story that hit home. "I remember the first time I ever met Steve Aaron. He had that kind of impact on you." Brown recalled the story of a trial where he recruited Steve to testify. He won the case and, since it was his first, he proudly sent a copy of the trial tape to his Mother. "I called her up later, anxious to hear her thoughts," Brown said, "and asked her what she thought of my first trial, first success? 'Oh, I just loved that Dr. Aaron' were my mother's first words." After a lawyer-pause, Brown said he had to have a serious talk with Steve because 'trial lawyers don't like to be upstaged', but that hadn't gotten in the way of their long friendship. There was laughter with tears when Adair County native Allan Parnell described a few of the outrageously funny occasions Steve led him into during their long friendship. "One of the things his wife Lynda and I marvel over," Allan said, "is how many unique places, near and far, Steve explored and then shared with the people he cared about. You all know how he loved good fried chicken and homemade pies. He said we had to have some from this special place down the road one evening when we were togehter and so we took off to Dale, Indiana to a place called Wendell's. They were closing when we got there but Steve negotiated with them until they sold us a couple of pies to go. He drove down the road to a rest stop where we got coffee out of a machine and ate our pies to the awful smells of a local hog farm . . . laughing as we did." There were tears when Adair County native Dr. John David Walker, long time partner and friend said, "Steve always put saving the lives of his patients first, no matter what it took . . . that's what makes it so tough for us to accept that there was nothing we could do to save Steve's life." Tears flowed when Columbia's Judy Somerville, sang the old Christian favorite, In The Garden, and there were smiles with tears as the service came to a close when Steve's sister, Jane Caroline Aaron, played his favorite song softly on the keyboard: Solace, by Scott Joplin. Cremation was chosen and interment of the remains will be at a later date in the Reeves Family Cemetery. Click here: for a photo and link to Dr. Steve Aaron's obituary Click here: for an announcement of Steve as Medical Director of Medicaid Click here: for a link that gets you to a Washington Post feature story about Steve and his famous mule operation In June, 2005, we featured a link to a feature story in the Lexington Herald Leader which is no longer active, but our note and link drew the following comment from a fellow Adair Countian, Benny Breeding, with one of a growing number of 'Steve-stories': The influence of the mammoth jack on Kentucky's mule-breeding industry could explain something I remember from the 1970's when I most recently lived in your fair commonwealth. There was a weekly TV show called something like On The Road With Byron Crawford. Mr. Crawford travelled the state in search of colorful characters and stories to feature on his weekly telecasts. In this particular case, Mr. Crawford had heard that a delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture from the nation of Colombia was in Kentucky for the purpose of buying mules. Mr. Crawford was able to track down the Colombians, but attempts at an interview were initially frustrated by the fact that the Ag experts did not speak English and the interpreter did not seem to know much about mules. It did not help that the interpreter kept referring to the animals as "jackasses". Finally, the interpreter explained why they had travelled such a great distance to buy mules. "Kentucky mules are highly valued", he said, "because of their size". When asked to elaborate, the interpreter said "It is no secret that some of the biggest jackasses in the world come from Kentucky". Mr. Crawford suggested that he might have asked one question too many. At any rate, the influence of the mammoth jackmight have created the size that so impressed the Colombians. Ben Breeding Seabrook, Texas This story was posted on 2005-09-25 10:40:08
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