Obituary: SABETTI, Mary Louise 1924-1998, Bullitt Co., KY

Article / SUMMER Issue 1998
By Paul Urbahns




A Friend Of History: Mary Sabetti dies...

It came as a shock to the membership of Ancestral Trails, that Mary Sabetti died of cancer 
recently. Mary was described by ATHS President Paul Urbahns as "a friend of history and for 
that she will be remembered." Sabetti started the first cemetery book series on Bullitt County 
along with Doris Owen. Because of their efforts researchers will benefit for many years to 
come.

Her most current book, published by Ancestral Trails, was the Early Hardin County Census and 
Tax Lists. Sabetti volunteered to do the census material and completed the Hardin County 1810, 
1820, 1830 Census before failing health required Carolyn Wimp to complete the project.  
She will be missed, and our lives will be emptier without her.



The obituary follows:
 
Mary Louise Sabetti aged 74, of Mount Washington, Ky died on Friday March 27, 1998, at the 
Hospice of Louisville Inpatient Unit.

She was the former Mary Chambers, a native of Boone, IA., a retired medical office clerk and 
an Army Air Force veteran of World War II.

She was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the VFW Post 5710, a Kentucky Colonel, Ancestral 
Trails Historical Society organizer and past president of the Bullitt County Genealogical 
Society, a member of Senior Friends, a life member of Washington County Historical Society in 
Salem, Ind., and a Protestant.

She is survived by her husband, Remo P. Sabetti; one daughter, Lori Kelly of Vine Grove; one 
son, Paul Entrekin of Pensacola, Fla.; her mother Florence Chambers of Fox River, Ill.; one 
sister, Virginia Ferguson of Pleasantville, Calif.; two brothers, George Chambers of Jordon, 
Ark., and Walter Smith of Crystal Lake, Ill.; several nieces and nephews; and six grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. on Monday , March 30, 1998 at the MacFarland-Troutman 
Funeral Home in Mount Washington, Ky. with Bro. Jim Hume officiating.  Burial followed in the 
Highland Gardens in Mount Washington, Ky.