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Robert Esz, 13, of Mt. Orab
Robert Adam Esz, 13, of Mt. Orab, Ohio, died Thursday of injuries suffered in an automobile accident near Gallup, N.M.
He was an eighth-grader at Western-Brown School, where he played football and baseball.
Services: noon Wednesday at Cahall Funeral Home, Ripley, Ohio. Visitation: 10 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 08-18-1997
CHARLES CRAIG JR., 55, of Clifton, died Wednesday. He was a restaurateur. Services: 2 p.m. today at Hall-Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills. Visitation: 1 p.m. at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 08-18-1997
M. DONALD DOYLE, 81, of Madeira, died Friday. He was a manager with Cincinnati Milacron, an industrial management professor and an Army veteran. Services: 11 a.m. today at T. P. White Funeral Home, Mt. Washington . Memorials: Parkinson's Disease Association for Research.
Date of announcement: 08-18-1997
LUCILLE ANNA ERNST, 83, of Cincinnati, died Saturday. She was a retired nurse's aide. Mass: 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary Church, Arnheim, Ohio. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Beam-Fender Funeral Home, Sardinia, Ohio. Memorials: char ity of donor's choice.
Date of announcement: 08-18-1997
ALPHA P. WESSELER FREE, 64, of Brookville, Ind., died Saturday. He was retired from Ford Electronics. Services: 11 a.m. EST Wednesday at Cook Funeral Home, Brookville. Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorials: Leukemia Society.
Date of announcement: 08-18-1997
Dianna G. Leinen, served St. Jude Church
Dianna G. Leinen, longtime organist and pastoral associate at St. Jude Church in Bridgetown, died Sunday. She was 61.
Mrs. Leinen, of Green Township, coordinated the church's bereavement ministry, healing Masses, prayer group and ministry to the elderly and shut-ins.
She leaves her husband, Eldon Leinen; sons Gregory, Jeffrey and Zachary, all of Green Township; daughter Maria Graves of Green Township; and two grandchildren.
Mass: noon Thursday at the church. Visitation: 4 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Neidhard-Minges Funeral Home, Westwood. Memorials: St. Jude Church building fund.
Date of announcement: 08-19-1997
ANNA ELIZABETH BOND, 60, of Clifton, died Sunday. She was an executive secretary with the University of Cincinnati. Services: 7 p.m. Thursday at Hall-Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills. Visitation: 6 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 08-19-1997
FRED HATCHER, 68, of Bond Hill, died Friday. He was a self-employed plumber and a 
Korean War veteran. Services: 11 a.m. Thursday at Hall-Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 08-19-1997
JAMES MANNING SR., 65, of Amelia, Ohio, died Monday. He was a machinist with LeBlond-Makino. Services: noon Wednesday at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel, Ohio. Visitation: 10 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorials: Hospice of Cincinnati.
Date of announcement: 08-19-1997
A. RALPH MILLER, 83, of Kingsport, Tenn., formerly of Georgetown, Ohio, died Sunday. He was a builder in Brown County. Services: 2 p.m. Thursday at Cahall Funeral Home, Georgetown. Visitation: 1 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 08-19-1997
Lloyd and Burnetta Harris
Services are today and Thursday for a Madison, Ind., couple who died in an auto accident Monday in Vevay, Ind.
Dead are Lloyd Sheldon Harris, 81, and his wife, Burnetta, 80. Mr. Harris was a retired senior vice president for the Madison Bank and Trust Co. Mrs. Harris was a teacher.
Services: 11 a.m. EST Thursday at Haskell and Morrison Funeral Home, Vevay. Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. EST today and 8 a.m. EST Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials: Guy S. Harris Memorial Scholarship Fund or the charity of the donor's choice.
Date of announcement: 08-20-1997
Esther Strunk, English teacher
Former teacher Esther Scheuerman Strunk, 98, of College Hill, died Saturday.
The University of Cincinnati graduate taught English at Taylor High School in North Bend and at Hughes High School. She also worked as a receptionist at Cincinnati Milling Machine Co. until 1952.
Mrs. Strunk was a 60-year member of Knox Presbyterian Church in Hyde Park, where she was active in the Tuesday Club. She was a member of the Cincinnati Woman's Club, the American Association of University Women and was a past president of the PEO Sisterhood.
She leaves daughters Marilyn Hill of Auburn, N.Y., and Sylvia Beach of Middletown, Ohio; three grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Services: 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Knox Presbyterian Church, Hyde Park. Arrangements: Elden A. Good Funeral Home, Hyde Park. Memorials: charity of donor's choice.
Date of announcement: 08-20-1997
William Pugh, longtime Kroger executive
William R. Pugh, 67, who worked 32 years for the Kroger Co., died Monday.
Mr. Pugh, of Plainville, was vice president of the Baked Goods Division at Kroger and was a member of the Kenwood Country Club. The Pittsburgh, Pa., native was a jazz lover who held a BA from the Ohio State University and a master's degree in business from Michigan State University.
He leaves his wife, JoAnn P. Pugh; son, William P. Pugh; and daughters Sarah Martin and Susan Reyes.
Services: 6 p.m. Thursday at Kelsch & Rhode Funeral Home, Anderson Township. Visitation: 4 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials: William R. Pugh Memorial, in care of Athletes in Action, P.O. Box 588, Lebanon, Ohio, 45036.
Date of announcement: 08-20-1997
ANGELA DAWN LADY BANTA, 22, of Madison, Ind., died Monday. She worked for Hanover Nursing Center. Services: 10 a.m. EST Saturday at Greene and Harrell of Deremiah-Frye Funeral Home, Bloomington, Ind. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. EST Thursday at Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home, Vevay, Ind., and 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. EST Friday in Bloomington. Memorials: Ashley and Austin Banta Trust Fund.
Date of announcement: 08-20-1997
ELLEN FOSTER, 84, of Avondale, died Saturday. She was a homemaker. Services: noon Friday at St. Paul AME Zion Church, Covington. Visitation: 11 a.m. Friday at the church. Arrangements: Hall-Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills.
Date of announcement: 08-20-1997
RYAN V. GRAY, 23, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Monday. He was a former employee of Sugar Ridge Golf Course. Services: 2 p.m. EDT Thursday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg. Visitation: noon EDT Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials: First Baptist Church, Manchester Rescue Unit and Community Mental Health Recovery Services.
Date of announcement: 08-20-1997
SHEPPARD ROSS SR., 82, of Madisonville, died Sunday. He worked for Cincinnati Milacron. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at Greater New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, Avondale. Visitation: 10 a.m. Saturday at the church. Arrangements: Hall-Jordan Funeral Home, Lockland.
Date of announcement: 08-20-1997
LESTER VALE SEELEY, 92, of Madisonville, died Monday. Mr. Seeley was a retired printer. Services: 10a.m. Thursday at Madisonville Church of God. Visitation: 9 a.m. Thursday at the church. Arrangements: Moore Funeral Home. Memorials: Mercy Hospice.
Date of announcement: 08-20-1997
JOHN P. SCHOFIELD, 65, of Middletown, Ohio, died Tuesday. He was a transportation worker and an Air Force veteran. Services: 10 a.m. Friday at Joseph Baker-Stevens Funeral Home, Middletown. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials: Hospice of Middletown.
Date of announcement: 08-20-1997
LAWRENCE VINCENT VALITUTTO, 78, of Westwood, died Tuesday. He worked for National Distillers and was a Navy veteran of World War II. Mass: 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Resurrection Church, Price Hill. Visitation: 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Rebold Funeral Home, Cheviot.
Date of announcement: 08-20-1997
Priscilla Connell, nature photographer
As a girl growing up on a Clermont County farm, Priscilla Harrison Connell liked to take nature hikes.
In her late 30s, after her children were in high school, she got a camera and began taking photographs.
Mrs. Connell proceeded to forge her love of nature and cameras into a career as an award-winning nature photographer whose pictures were included in Sierra Club and Audubon Society calendars and books.
"She blossomed with her photography," said Mrs. Connell's friend, Jan Watkins. "She had tremendous artistic talent."
Mrs. Connell, 70, of Terrace Park, died Wednesday after a seven-year battle against multiple myeloma cancer.
"Her doctor told her the average survival rate with that type of cancer was two years," said Ms. Watkins. "She went seven years. It had a lot to do with her will to live.
"Despite the pain, she continued to pursue her passion as a nature photographer. She told me, "I really don't want to die. I still have so much I want to do.' "
Mrs. Connell once recalled that her mother, a watercolor artist, taught her that "seeing" things was quite different that just "looking" at things.
"I suppose I like nature photography best, primarily from growing up on a farm," she had said. "I especially remember walking the creeks, turning over rocks for crawfish and wondering how water striders stay on top of the water."
Mrs. Connell studied music at Northwestern University and later taught violin and played violin with the Terrace Park Pops Orchestra.
She was married 50 years to Paul Connell, a retired physics teacher at Indian Hill and Anderson high schools, and the couple had five children.
Besides having her photographs published in nature publications, Mrs. Connell's work also was exhibited at places like the Cincinnati Nature Center, which she avidly supported.
Mrs. Connell also leaves sons Philip and Peter and daughters Phoebe Walters and Pamela Grafe. Her remains were donated to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center for research on multiple myeloma cancer but memorials may be made to the Cincinnati Nature Center.
Date of announcement: 08-21-1997
