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James B. Wilson, ad executive, devoted to family
James B. Wilson, a prominent Midwestern advertising executive and father of former California Gov. Pete Wilson, died of kidney failure Wednesday at Seasons Retirement Community in Kenwood. He was 97.
Mr. Wilson had been living in Cincinnati for about the last five years, his son James B. Wilson Jr. said from his home in Boynton Beach, Fla.
The elder Wilson's second wife, Reba Morton Burns, is from Cincinnati and persuaded him to move here from Delray Beach, Fla., Wilson said.
Mr. Wilson worked in management positions with Scripps-Howard newspapers in Chicago and Philadelphia, at the St. Louis Star-Times, the Washington Times-Herald and the Dallas Journal. He joined D'Arcy Advertising in St. Louis in 1940 and later rose to head D'Arcy Advertising? ??s Chicago office.
He designed outdoor advertising for U.S. Sen. Robert Taft, R- Ohio. "He helped Bo b Taft get elected," James Wilson said. "He handled a major part of his campaign."
After retiring to Florida in 1960, Mr. Wilson became president of the Delray Beac h Chamber of Commerce and served on the town's City Council.
"I learned far more of real importance and value at my father's dinner table than at Yale or law school," said Pete Wilson, who is in town handling funeral arrangements.
"Both by precept and more importantly by example, he taught my brother and me that we were blessed to be born Americans (and) that we were obliged to give something back to our community, our state and our country," he said.
In addition to his wife and sons, Mr. Wilson is survived by one grandson. His first wife, Margaret Callaghan, died in 1970. Memorial services are next week in Delray Beach, Fla.
Date of announcement: 01-01-2000
Ind.'s Frank Hall, teacher, principal
Frank G. Hall, of Aurora, Ind., dedicated 39 years of his life to public education . He died Friday at 92.
Mr. Hall was a science teacher at Bright, Aurora and Milan high schools. He also was a principal at Guilford High School.
"He had a love of science," said daughter Patricia Hartwell of Moores Hill, Ind. "He had a special way of presenting it to the students to make them also love it."
Mr. Hall was chief lifeguard at Coney Island in Cincinnati during the 1932 Olympic swimming trials, she said, and wrote a swimming column for The Post.
Other survivors include sons, Frank Hall of Manchester, Ind., and Steve Hall of Aurora, Ind.; daughters, Janice Watson of Moores Hill, and Sue Roehner and Nancy Zaharako, both of Aurora; 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Services: 11 a.m. Monday at Rullman Funeral Home, Aurora. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. there Sunday. Memorials: Aurora Emergency Unit, the Humane Society or donor's choice.
Date of announcement: 01-01-2000
CHARLES COLEMAN, 65, of Cincinnati, died Dec. 28. Services: Noon Monday at Jamison & Jamison Funeral Home, West End. Visitation: 11 a.m. Monday until services at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 01-01-2000
SELMA GAMBLE, 50, of Cincinnati, died Dec. 28. Services: 7 p.m. Sunday at Willing Sp irit Baptist Church, 2012 Westwood Northern Blvd., Westwood. Visitation: 6 p.m. Sunday until services at the church. Arrangements: Jamison & Jamison Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 01-01-2000
VICTORIA KNIGHT, 76, of Cincinnati, died Dec. 28. Services: 1:30 p.m. Monday at Pe ace Baptist Church, 652 Rockdale, Avondale. Visitation: 12:30 p.m. Monday until services at the church. Jamison & Jamison Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 01-01-2000
SANDRA FAYE CLARK LOVE, 60, of Madisonville, died Dec. 25. She was retired from the city of Cincinnati, where she worked in the recreation department, accounting and as head of the RSVP program. Services: 11 a.m. Monday at Gaines United Methodist Church, 5707 Madison Road, Madisonville. Visitation: 10 a.m. Monday until services at the church. Renfro Funeral Services Inc., is handling the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 01-01-2000
TRESSIE LYKINS, 92, of Bethel, died Friday. Services: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Kennedy -Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel. Visitation: 6-8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 01-01-2000
MARIE THERESA RANDLE, 56, of Evanston, died Dec. 29. Services: 1 p.m. Monday at Kenn edy Heights Church of Christ, 5930 Red Bank Road. Visitation: noon Monday until services at the church. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 01-01-2000
RONAL SPEIGHT, 56, of Cincinnati, died Dec. 28. Mass: 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Agnes Church, 1619 California Ave., Bond Hill. Visitation: 6 to 7 p.m. Monday at Jamison & Jamison Funeral Home, 437 Hopkins St., West End.
Date of announcement: 01-01-2000
GEORGE WILLIAMS, 76, of Cincinnati, died Dec. 28. Memorial service: 1 p.m. Wednesday at Morning Star Baptist Church, 722 Oak St., Walnut Hills. Visitation: Noon Wednesday until services at the church. Arrangements: Jamison & Jamison Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 01-01-2000
Betty Dietz Krebs, classical music critic
Betty Dietz Krebs, former arts editor for the Dayton ( Ohio) Daily News and freel ance classical music writer for The Cincinnati Post, has died. She was 78.
Mrs. Krebs, who died Friday at the Bethany Lutheran Nursing Home in Dayton, retired in 1993 after 53 years with the Daily News.
She served as freelance classical music writer for The Cincinnati Post in 1993 and 1994.
She began writing freelance music reviews for the former Dayton Journal when she was 15, and later was the newspaper's women's editor before joining the Dayton Daily News in 1941 as woman's page editor and art critic.
"She influenced just about every part of the newspaper over her career," Dayton Daily News publisher J. Bradford Tillson said. "Probably her larger impact, though, was on the state of the fine arts in the community."
Mrs. Krebs served brief stints in nearly every editorial post during World War II. Her career expanded to television in the 1950s when she hosted her own show on WHIO-TV.
A nationally recognized writer on music, Mrs. Krebs was the only newspaper journalist to travel to the Soviet Union with the New York Philharmonic in 1988 and the only newspaper critic to accompany the National Symphony of Washington and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich to the Orient in 1983.
She married William J. Krebs, a nationally known choral conductor and founder of the Dayton Philharmonic Chorus, in 1966. He died in 1976.
She is survived by her brother, Charles H. Dietz, of San Diego, Calif., and by several nieces and nephews.
Services are 10 a.m. Wednesday, Woodland Cemetery's Mausoleum Chapel, Dayton. Arrangements: Schlientz & Moore Funeral Directors, Dayton.
Date of announcement: 01-03-2000
J. ROBERT BENNER, 56, of Sunman, Ind., died Friday. He was a math teacher at East Central High School, where he was also head baseball coach and an assistant football coach. Services: 11 a.m. Tuesday at Sunman Bible Church. Visitation: 4 to 9 tonight at Cook Funeral Home, Sunman, and after 10 a.m. Tuesday at the church. Memorials: American Cancer Society, Dearborn County Hospital Hospice Unit or East Central High School Scholarship Fund.
Date of announcement: 01-03-2000
FRANK C. CONRAD, 92, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Friday. Memorial services: 7 p.m. Thursday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg. Visitation: 6 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials: Zion Church.
Date of announcement: 01-03-2000
OPAL G. LINDSEY, 77, of Cherry Grove, Ohio, died Sunday. Services: 1 p.m. Wednesd ay at Charles H. McIntyre Funeral Home, Felicity, Ohio. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 01-03-2000
VIRGINIA C. MILLER, 76, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Wednesday. Services: 3 p.m. Thursday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg. Visitation: 1 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials: Beecher Presbyterian Church or Lawrenceburg Rescue Unit.
Date of announcement: 01-03-2000
RANDALL KLEIN NEAL, 48, of Mount Orab, Ohio, died Friday. He was a farmer. Service s: 11 a.m. Wednesday at Thompson-Stevens Funeral Home, Mount Orab. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorials: American Cancer Society.
Date of announcement: 01-03-2000
JESSIE J. OBERTING, 89, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Saturday. Mass: Noon Tuesday a t St. Lawrence Church, Lawrenceburg. Visitation: 10 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg. Memorials: Greendale or Lawrenceburg rescue units.
Date of announcement: 01-03-2000
DAVID D. SIMPSON, 57, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Saturday. He was an employee of Delta Air Lines. Memorial services: 11 a.m. Wednesday in Shakopne, Minn. Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 01-03-2000
MURIEL G. ROMANS TUCKER, 92, of Vevay, Ind., died Friday. She was a housekeeper an d a former employee of Schenley Distillery and Burnett's Restaurant in Vevay. Services: 2 p.m. Tuesday at Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home, Vevay. Visitation: 5 to 8 tonight at the funeral home. Memorials: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Date of announcement: 01-03-2000
Ed Doherty, coached XU football
Ed Doherty, a former football coach for Xavier University, died Sunday in Arizona at age 81. Mr. Doherty had suffered from a number of illness in recent months and also had Alzheimer's disease.
Mr. Doherty served as the head football coach at Xavier from 1959 to 1961, posting a record of 15-15. Xavier discontinued football as an intercollegiate sport after the 1973 season.
Before joining Xavier, Mr. Doherty served as head football coach at Arizona State University and University of Arizona.
As ASU's head coach from 1947-50, Mr. Doherty led the Sun Devils to a 25-17 record. He had a two-year stint at Arizona from 1957-58.
Mr. Doherty left Xavier and moved to San Diego, Calif. for a job outside football. He later returned to football as coach of Phoenix St. Mary's High in Arizona and won state titles in 1967 and 1968.
He often said he preferred coaching in high school to college. "That's what college football is - recruiting," he told the Tucson Citizen in 1991. "In high school, you get what shows up. I like that."
Mr. Doherty is survived by his wife of 56 years and nine children. Funeral service will be private.
Date of announcement: 01-04-2000
