Blackburn & Ward Funeral Home

 Near the beginning of the 1900s, Claude Logan Ryley, one of Kentucky’s leading coal producers and dealers, had a fine residence constructed for his family at 161 Broadway in Versailles, Kentucky. Upon his death, he willed the home to his grandson, Ken Ryley, who sold the property to Ber Rasnick and Scott Miller in the late 1940s. In 1948, Mr. Miller and Mr. Rasnick founded the Miller-Rasnick Funeral Home. In 1957, Mr. Rasnick sold his interest in the firm to Mr. Leslie J. Blackburn, Jr., and t...