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Bert Combs: 1911-1991

Bert Combs: 1911-1991 Appalachia contributed Kentucky's most widely admired governor in modern times. Here he is remembered by one of the state's leading journalists, a longtime friend. Bert Combs: 1911-1991 John Ed Pearce Bert Combs never really left the mountains of Eastern Kentucky from which he sprang. For though time took the boy from the mountains, it never took the mountains from the boy, or from the man that he became. He traveled far in the earth, he rose to fame and prominence in high office, but always he came back to the hills where he began. There is pathos in the fact that the tragic accident that took his life in December 1991 occurred near the home in the foothills of Powell County that he had built for his retirement. It is significant that he had chosen to be buried almost within sight of Clay County's Beech Creek, where he was born in 1910. For while he had gone out, his heart had remained there, and it was there that he wanted it to rest. From the hills of Clay County, Combs went down to the Bluegrass to Lexington, where he received a law degree from the University of Kentucky, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Bert Combs: 1911-1991

Appalachian Review , Volume 20 (1) – Jan 8, 1992

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University of North Carolina Press
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1940-5081
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Abstract

Appalachia contributed Kentucky's most widely admired governor in modern times. Here he is remembered by one of the state's leading journalists, a longtime friend. Bert Combs: 1911-1991 John Ed Pearce Bert Combs never really left the mountains of Eastern Kentucky from which he sprang. For though time took the boy from the mountains, it never took the mountains from the boy, or from the man that he became. He traveled far in the earth, he rose to fame and prominence in high office, but always he came back to the hills where he began. There is pathos in the fact that the tragic accident that took his life in December 1991 occurred near the home in the foothills of Powell County that he had built for his retirement. It is significant that he had chosen to be buried almost within sight of Clay County's Beech Creek, where he was born in 1910. For while he had gone out, his heart had remained there, and it was there that he wanted it to rest. From the hills of Clay County, Combs went down to the Bluegrass to Lexington, where he received a law degree from the University of Kentucky,

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 1992

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