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Herbert J. Holzheimer Jr., leading interior designer
CHAGRIN FALLS - Herbert J. Holzheimer Jr., 64, a top decorator of churches, restaurants and luxury homes, died of heart failure Thursday at University Hospitals. He owned Holzheimer and Holzheimer Interiors in Chagrin Falls and West Palm Beach, Fla. He was a resident of both communities.
Holzheimer was known for his trademark use of crystal in the cafes and country clubs that he decora ted. One of his favorite designs was of St. An selm Catholic Church in Chester Town ship.
He was born in Cleveland, where he grew up in the decorating business. He trained under his late grandfather, Frank, and his late father, Herbert J., in the family firm while he was a student at Cathedral Latin School near their University Circle studio. He also attended John Carroll University. After 22 years he struck out on his own with Herb Holzheimer Jr. Interiors. He expanded to Florida in the early 1980s.
He was active with charities in West Palm Beach, where he chaired committees that produced the Red Cross Ball and the Heart Association Ball.
He was a member of Shaker Heights Country Club.
Holzheimer is survived by sons, Herbert J. III of Mayfield Heights and Scott of Russell Township; a daughter, Cindy Matejcik of Chagrin Falls; seven grandchildren; a brother; and four sisters.
Services will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, 496 E. Washington St., Chagrin Falls.
Memorial donations may be made to the Cleveland Institute of Music, 11021 East Blvd., Cleveland 44106.
Arrangements are by the Stroud-Lawrence Funeral Home of Chagrin Falls.
Dena Goodman, 84,
was interior designer
BEACHWOOD - A memorial service for Dena Goodman, who helped run one of the East Side's premier women's apparel stores, will be at 11 a.m. today at Berkowitz-Kumin-Bookatz Memorial Chapel in Cleveland Heights. Goodman, 84, of Beachwood, died May 28.
She was a woman of many interests and abilities.
At one time she was an interior designer and was an ardent supporter of liberal causes, the Democratic Party and a Jewish homeland in Israel.
A St. Louis native, Goodman moved to Cleveland when she was 17. She was a strong supporter of the labor movement and Zionist organizations.
She and her late husband, Charles, opened Goodman's Dress Shop on Taylor Rd. and moved the store to Warrensville Center Rd. in 1954. It closed in 1957.
She later embarked on a career in interior design and combined work on large-scale commercial projects with work on residential projects.
Survivors include her daughter, Shari Ann of North Brunswick, N.J.; son, David of Cleveland Heights; a brother; and four grandchildren.
It was her wish that any contributions in her memory be made to any organization that helps those who are suffering.
Frank Kral, 81, operated Shorty's Meats downtown
GARFIELD HEIGHTS - Frank Kral, who operated Shorty's Meats in the New Central Market in downtown Cleveland for 23 years, died Friday at Marymount Hospital.
Kral, 81, opened his business in the 1960s. He retired when the market was closed to make way for the Gateway sports complex.
He was born in Cleveland and graduated from West Technical High School in 1938. He was a truck driver with an Army tank unit in Europe during World War II.
Before he opened the meat market, he worked with his father and brother in the Kral Coal Supply Co. on Broadway in Cleveland.
Kral married
Irene Zgrabik 55 years ago. They lived in Garfield Heights for 43 years.
In addition to his wife, survivors include a son, Ronald of Bainbridge Township; daughters, Delphine Sykora of North Royalton and Christine Havel of Garfield Heights; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Sauer's Funeral Home, 4801 Memphis Ave., Cleveland.
Emma K. Hamilton, 90, first black to lead American Baptist Women
SHAKER HEIGHTS - Emma Kay Nichols Hamilton, who traveled the world as president of American Baptist Women of the American Baptist Church, USA, died last Monday at St. Vincent Charity Hospital. When she was elected at a national convention in the 1970s, it was noted that she was the first black to head the organization. She served for three years.
Hamilton, 90, was born in Louisville, Ky., where she worked for Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Co. after she graduated from high school. She moved to Ohio when the company established a Cleveland office. Hamilton later worked in the payroll departments of governmental agencies, including the Army.
It was after she joined Antioch Baptist Church in 1943 that she had outstanding success in working in organizations. She was chosen on three separate occasions to preside over the church's Missionary Society. She also was president of the Greater Cleveland American Baptist Association and the first woman president of the trustees of the Cleveland Baptist Association. She was state and national chairwoman of the Love Gift Society and national vice president of Christian Services. She served on the board of Convention Managers of the Baptist World Alliance.
In 1976, Antioch Church established the Emma K. Hamilton Circle, which carries out programs of American Baptist Women.
She and her husband, William L., a retired insurance executive, lived in Shaker Heights. They married
in 1940 and helped raise a niece, Scarlette Lea, also of Shaker Heights.
In addition to her husband and niece, her survivors include a sister.
Services will be at noon tomorrow at Antioch Baptist Church, 8869 Cedar Ave., Cleveland 44106. Arrangements are by the E.F. Boyd & Son Funeral Home of Cleveland.
Memorial donations may be made to the Missionary Society at the church.
Bernard J. Nelson, restaurateur, jock'
SHAKER HEIGHTS - A chance to try out with the old Cleveland Rams football team brought Bernard J. "Barney" Nelson to Northeast Ohio in 1939.
He didn't make the team, but he got something valuable, nonetheless - a home for 60 years.
Nelson, 87, who was also awarded the Bronze Star for his service in World War II and went on to establish a chain of family-style restaurants in the Cleveland area, died Thursday at his Shaker Heights home.
Nelson, born in White Plains, N.Y., was a baseball, basketball and football star in the Hudson Valley. As the country was emerging from the Depression, he was playing in a football league in the East when he took a shot at the NFL.
"It would have been wonderful. He would have loved it, " said his wife, Rachel Wayne Nelson. "He was a real jock."
He was sufficiently impressed with Cleveland that he stayed and "almost considered himself a native Clevelander, " said his wife, the former director of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library System.
When the United States went to war, Nelson volunteered.
"He felt that we were in trouble and somebody had to beat Hitler, " his wife said. "He felt this very strongly."
What he didn't know when he enlisted was that he would fight in the South Pacific.
Nelson was a mortar- and machine-gun officer who served in two invasions and four campaigns in New Guinea and the Philippines.
After he returned from his three-year stint in the service, Nelson became a restaurateur. He eventually owned 11 Greater Cleveland restaurants that bore his name and was in the business until the early 1960s.
He then started the B.J. Nelson Management and Marketing Co. He still had one active client at the time of his death.
In addition to his wife, survivors include daughters, Barbara Nelson and Mandy Carver, both of Los Angeles, and Beverly Comer of Columbus; and a grandson. A son, Buddy Joe, is deceased.
Services will be at noon today at Shapiro Funeral Services in Orange.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Friends of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library, 2345 Lee Rd., Cleveland Heights 44118.
George P. Wakefield, 91, inventor, chronicler of Great Lakes tales
TOPPING, Va. - George P. Wakefield, an inventor of lighting fixtures and magnetic paper dolls, spent his life collecting stories about Lake Erie sailors and ships.
He grew up listening to the yarns of old salts and admiring the schooners and freighters that cruised by his home at the mouth of the Vermilion River, which is now the site of the Great Lakes Historical Society's Inland Maritime Seas Museum. He shared his colorful tales in columns and articles he wrote for nautical, historical and Vermilion-based publications, including the historical society's Inland Seas magazine.
Wakefield, 91, died Saturday at the Riverside Walter Reed Hospital in Gloucester, Va.
Six days before Wakefield's death, the Inland Seas Museum held a reception in recognition of his recently published book, "Lure of the Lakes, " which is a compilation of his columns. The book is available at the museum.
For 38 years before retiring in 1970, Wakefield designed products for F.W. Wakefield Brass Co., a lighting-fixture company founded by his father in Vermilion. During World War II, he developed infrared signal lights used by the Navy to send coded messages ship to ship in the Pacific without being detected by Japanese forces.
He held 18 patents for his work at the company and four for other projects. In the 1940s, he invented a paper doll called "Magic Mary, " which featured a tiny magnet that held its dresses in place. The Milton Bradley toy company's 1946 catalog hailed the creation as "new and revolutionary." Magic Mary and its younger sisters, like Magic Mary Ann and Magic Mary Jane, were popular into the 1970s.
Wakefield, who served on the Vermilion school board for 12 years, graduated from Vermilion High School in 1928. He studied engineering at Fenn College and Ohio University.
He was a trustee of the Great Lakes Historical Society, commodore of the Vermilion Boat Club, director of the Great Lakes Cruising Club and recording secretary for the Inter-Lakes Yachting Association. He was past president of the Vermilion Rotary and Vermilion Chamber of Commerce.
Wakefield and his wife, Mary, whom he married
in 1936, moved from Vermilion to Virginia in 1998. Mrs. Wakefield died the following year. Mr. Wakefield moved to Topping, Va., last year.
He is survived by daughters, Alice Parsons Wakefield of Hayes, Va., Mary Wakefield Buxton of Urbanna, Va., and Georgia Wakefield Huger of Milford, N.J.; four grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and a brother.
Private services were held yesterday under direction of Bristow-Faulkner Funeral Home of Saluda, Va.
Donations may be made to the Great Lakes Historical Society, Inland Seas Maritime Museum, 480 Main St., Vermilion 44089.
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Loretta C. Quade, led Friends of Shaker Square
SHAKER HEIGHTS - Loretta Catherine Quade, who was instrumental in the preservation of the historic Shaker Square neighborhood and a leader in Shaker Heights organizations, collapsed and died at her home Sunday.
She was 52. A heart attack is suspected as the cause of death.
Quade served two terms as president of Friends of Shaker Square, a development group that helped renovate and maintain homes, businesses and public spaces. She was given Northern Ohio Live's award for the Best Neighborhood Preservation Project in Northeast Ohio.
She was president of the League of Women Voters of Shaker Heights for two years and a trustee of Shaker Family Center. She served as chief administrative aide to former Shaker Heights Mayor Stephen Alfred.
"Loretta's ebullience was contagious. She ignited the efforts of many others for community causes, " said her husband, Steven S. Kaufman.
They had met while they were classmates at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. They married
at the Hillel Foundation in University Circle 10 days after they graduated in 1975.
Quade was born in St. Louis. She earned a degree in American studies with magna cum laude honors at the University of Minnesota. She was a lawyer with the Small Business Administration in the 1970s and a trial lawyer with the U.S. Labor Department for five years until 1981. She left the practice of law to be a full-time homemaker.
She graduated last year as a professional fellow of the CWRU Weatherhead School of Management.
In addition to her husband, Quade survivors include daughters, Sara and Leah Kaufman; her mother, Frankie Hall of Minneapolis; and two sisters.
Services were yesterday at Berkowitz-Kumin-Bookatz Memorial Chapel of Cleveland Heights.
Memorial donations may be made to Loretta C. Quade Memorial Fund, c/o Shaker Schools Foundation, 15600 Parkland Dr., Shaker Heights 44120.
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Sister Marie Frances Burgess, one of the last Shakers
NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine - Sister Marie Frances Burgess, one of the world's last members of the Shaker sect, died Monday at 81.
Her death at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker village left the religious group's only remaining community with six members.
The Shakers, formally known as the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearance, originated in England in the 1770s and at their peak had several thousand followers. They were nicknamed because of their enthusiastic motions during prayer services.
In 1783, Shakers settled at Sabbathday Lake, one of about 20 Shaker communities established in the United States at one time or another. The Maine village is the only one left.
In 1822, the North Union colony of Shakers settled in what is now Shaker Heights, Ohio. By 1889, the community had declined, and the few remaining members left the area.
Members of the community take a vow of poverty and live the motto "hands to work and hearts to God." Their simple, efficient furniture designs became famous.
They also take a vow of celibacy, which limited the sect's growth to converts and the adoption of orphans. They do not, however, shun the modern world and maintain their own Web site: https://www.shaker.lib.me.us
Burgess entered the community in 1939, when she was 19, and filled many roles. She knitted mittens and scarves and made candy, dolls and dusters sold in the community's store. She worked in the raspberry patch and baked bread and biscuits.
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