Stephen Howard Free

Stephen Howard Free J.D.,Ph.D. May 13, 1946 - January 24, 2013 Stephen Howard Free, J.D., Ph.D., 66, of Hanover, Indiana died on January 24, 2013 at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Steve was born on May 13, 1946 in Terre Haute, Indiana, to Stephen A. and Marian Combs Free. He married Kathleen Walsh Free on September 19, 1981. Steve was an enthusiastic and lifelong scholar. He was a graduate of Greenfield High School and completed his undergraduate degree at Indiana University-Bloomington. He was a graduate of the Stanford Law School, and obtained a Ph.D. in psychology from Ball State University. In his varied career, Steve was an associate/partner in the Noblesville law firm of Christian, Waltz, White, Klotz, and Free, and was a partner in the law firm of Holt, Fleck and Free. In addition to his law practice, Steve served as Noblesville City Court Judge from 1989-1991, and as attorney for the town of Arcadia IN. Steve was a member of the California and Indiana Bar Associations. After leaving the practice of law and earning a doctoral degree in psychology, Steve worked for Seven Counties Services of Louisville KY, and later as a forensic evaluator for the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center in LaGrange, KY, from which he retired in 2012. It is difficult to convey Steves spirit and intellect in words. He was insatiable in his quest for knowledge, and appeared to effortlessly retain it all. He was a "phone buddy" on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and won a substantial prize for a friend with a total of 7 words! On a 2011 transatlantic crossing on the ocean liner Queen Mary 2, Steve was the American representative on the winning trivia team, delighting the audience with his knowledge of Old and New World trivia. Steves hobbies included American-made high performance cars, photography, extensive and varied reading, Indonesian cooking, film noir, and gardening. He was an award- winning theater director for the Hamilton County Theater Guild, sang opera and tunes from the Great American Songbook in an enthusiastic baritone, and was the gentle if bemused guardian of a series of pets imposed upon him by his wife. Add a keen wit, a kind heart, an unwavering sense of fairness, and a logical, disciplined mind, and you will have a picture of a man who will be sadly missed by his wife, family and friends. Steve McAmis, nephew. A Funeral Should memorial is friends Home, survived Steve god-daughter service desire, Pasco was by will preceded his memorial Chapel, Kristin be wife, held Kathleen; Kathleen in 1780 at contributions death 2:00 West by pm, his Walsh, his Main father, Saturday, mother, made and Street, Stephen 10 be Marian February nieces, Greenfield, made A. Combs to Free; 6 2, the nephews, 2013 Indiana charity sister Free. at Susan Stillinger and 46140. of their one Free choice. Family great-