Charles Newton

Charles E. Newton, 92, of Owensboro passed away Wednesday, November 21, 2018 at Owensboro Health Regional Health Hospital. Charles was born in Fordsville, Kentucky on September 11, 1926 to the late Emmett Newton and Lillie Sanders Newton. He retired from ARKLA Corp. as a welder and was a World War II U.S. Navy veteran. Charles was a member of First Free Will Baptist Church, the AMVets, and a former member of the American Legion. Charles enjoyed cooking, collecting coins, guns, civil war mementoes, and entering the backyard Bar-b-que cook off at the Bar-b-que festival. Along with his parents, Charles was preceded in death by his wife, Margaret Rice Newton, his daughters, Glenda Simmons and Charlotte Stogner, his sisters: Lucille, Margaret, Mildred, Betty, Dorothy, Linda, Susie, Bonnie, Evelyn, Lillian; his brothers, Danny, James, and Kenneth. Charles is survived by his children, Charles (fianc