Search Archived Marriage Records
CLARENCE CAIN, 78, of Brookville, Ind., died Saturday. He was a retired employee of the Butler County Highway Department. Services: 11 a.m. Wednesday at Cook Funeral Home, 929 Main St., Brookville. Visitation: 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorials: to the family.
Date of announcement: 01-04-2000
SISTER SYLVIA MARIE DAVIS, 96, of Delhi Township, a Sister of Charity for 76 year s, died Thursday. Originally from Albuquerque, N.M., she taught home economics and Spanish for 46 years in Middletown, Springfield and Cincinnati and in Colorado, Michigan and Illinois. In 1970, Sister Davis changed her ministry to parish work. She retired in 1985 and moved to the Mother Margaret Hall nursing home in Delhi in 1995. Mass: 10 a.m. Wednesday in the chapel, Sisters of Charity Motherhouse, Delhi Township. Visitation: 3 to 5 p.m. today and 9 to 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Heritage Room. Memorials: Sister of Charity Retirement Fund, 5900 Delhi Road, Mount St. Joseph, Ohio 45051.
Date of announcement: 01-04-2000
TERESA (VISCARA) HUNTLEY, 73, of Bethel, Ohio, died Saturday. She was a homemaker. There are no services or visitation. Burial will be in Hillside Chapel. Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 01-04-2000
DOROTHY (MATTOX) MCADAMS, 87, of Aurora, Ind., died Sunday. She owned Markies Restau rant. Memorial service will be held at the convenience of the family. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Rullman Funeral Home, Aurora.
Date of announcement: 01-04-2000
CHARLES C. MELTON, 71, of Peebles, died Sunday. He was a retired truck driver wit h American Freight Lines. Services: 10 a.m. Thursday at Thompson-Stevens Funeral Home, Mount Orab. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorials: Peebles Life Squad.
Date of announcement: 01-04-2000
BESSIE METCALF, 83, of West Harrison, died Sunday. She was retired from Mack Shirt C o. in Cincinnati. Services: 10 a.m. Thursday at Cook Funeral Home, Brookville, Ind. Visitation: 4-8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorials: Smyrna Baptist Church Building Fund.
Date of announcement: 01-04-2000
CATHERINE HAITZ NEU, 79, of Dayton, died Monday. She was a homemaker. Services: 1 p. m. Wednesday at Cahall Funeral Home, Ripley. KATHERINE RICHARDSON, 79, Avondale, died Dec. 30. She was a child-care worker. Servi ces: 11 a.m. Thursday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills. Visitation: 10 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 01-04-2000
MURIEL G. (ROMANS) TUCKER, 92, of Vevay, Ind., died Friday. She was a former employe e of Shindley Distillery and Burnett's Restaurant. She also was a private housekeeper. Services: 2 p.m. today at Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home, Vevay. Visitation was Monday. Memorials: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Date of announcement: 01-04-2000
JAMES L. WHITE, 73, of Racine, Wis., formerly of Vevay, Ind., died Saturday. He was a retired truck driver for the Ohio County Highway Department. Services: 10 a.m. Wednesday at Markland Funeral Home, Rising Sun,. Ind. Visitation: 5-8 tonight at the funeral home. Memorials: American Cancer Society or Dearborn County Hospital Home Health and Hospice.
Date of announcement: 01-04-2000
Larry Ashcraft, WVXU pioneer, produced 'Riders'
Larry Ashcraft, a radio visionary who developed Cincinnati's first modern daily radio talk program as well as the innovative "Riders in the Sky" at WVXU-FM, died Saturday at his home in Mt. Washington . He was 57.
Ashcraft, WVXU's special projects director from 1986 through 1997, had been with the Xavier University public radio station for more than 20 years, starting as a volunteer during his student days in the 1970s.
He was involved in nearly every aspect of WVXU's evolution. He produced and hosted "Daybreak," a daily two-hour news magazine in the 1970s, and produced "Liveline," a daily radio talk program in 1980. Under his guidance WVXU began its aggressive outreach program to develop "repeater stations" in Chillicothe, West Union and Mt. Gilead, Ohio. He worked to bring WVXU's signal to Richmond, Ind., and to Manistee, Mich., in the late 1980s.
Ashcraft brought Riders in the Sky to Cincinnati in 1990 and, since then, produced and hosted "Riders Radio Theater." That program still is carried in syndication by 80 public radio stations across the United States and Canada.
While at WVXU, Ashcraft also organized production of the station's first compact disc featuring local jazz artists, and during his tenure served as news director, director of development, program host, community relations director and special projects director. He retired in 1997.
"Larry's lifelong passion was WVXU, its listeners and its staff," said Jim King, XU director of broadcasting. "His reputation as an innovator in public radio is legendary. His genius will be sorely missed."
Ashcraft was a graduate in communication arts from Xavier and an Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War. He leaves a brother, Arnold Clifton Ashcraft, of New Jersey, and two stepdaughters, Kristin Ferguson and Trisha Kelly.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the T.P. White & Sons Funeral Home, 2050 Beechmont Ave., Mt. Washington . Visitation is 6-9 tonight at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 01-05-2000
Rev. Merrill R. Vaughn, served Over-the-Rhine
Rev. Merrill R. Vaughn, 87, of Delhi Township, who was pastor of Asbury Tabernac le in Over-the-Rhine for 52 years, died Monday.
"The city has lost a man who prayed daily and cared deeply for his city," said Rev. Vaughn's son, Rev. David M. Vaughn of Lawrenceville, Ga. "He was a man who stood tall above the city on his knees.
"Cincinnati has not only been his home, but also his life. He felt the city was people and it was his life task to do all in his power to help everyone he could in the city."
Over the past five decades, Rev. Vaughn visited thousands of people in hospitals and helped hundreds of homeless people.
As the founding pastor of Asbury Tabernacle, he missed only two New Year's Eve "Watch Night" services, both times because he was hospitalized.
He went 22 years without missing a Sunday service and never took a vacation that kept him over a Sunday. He baptized people in the Ohio River and in creeks.
Rev. Vaughn's radio show, Asbury Hour, was on WNOP and WAKW for more than 30 years. For four years in the 1960s, he had a Saturday morning television show on WKRC-TV.
He also ministered to prison inmates for 12 years at LaGrange and Pee Wee Valley penitentiaries in Kentucky.
Other survivors include his son, Rev. Richard M. Vaughn of Cincinnati, and brothers Rev. Lawrence Vaughn and Rev. Vola Vaughn, both of Florida.
Visitation will be from noon to 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday at Asbury Tabernacle, 11. E. McMillan Ave. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the tabernacle.
Arrangements are being handled by Vitt, Stermer & Anderson Funeral Home in Delhi.
Date of announcement: 01-05-2000
Anthony Davis, was victim of homicide
Services for Anthony Davis, 28, of Over-the-Rhine, the first homicide victim of the year in Cincinnati, will be at 1 p.m. Friday at St. Luke Baptist Church, Clark and John streets, West End.
Mr. Davis was found shot to death in the early Saturday outside an apartment building in the 1900 block of Vine Street. No arrests have been made.
Visitation: 10 a.m. Friday until time of service at the church. Arrangements: Jamison & Jamison Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 01-05-2000
DELPHINE NAOMI COFIELD, 80, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Monday. She was a self-employed caterer. Services: 11 a.m. Thursday at Emanuel Lutheran Church, Greendale, Ind. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. today at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg. Memorials: Emanuel Lutheran Church or Lawrenceburg Rescue Unit.
Date of announcement: 01-05-2000
BERNARD RAY FOGLE, 80, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Tuesday. Mr. Fogle was a custodia n at Lawrenceburg Post Office. Services: 1 p.m. Friday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg. There is no visitation. Memorials: donations to the family.
Date of announcement: 01-05-2000
ALICE LUCILLE NEWELL, 79, of Avondale, died Dec. 27. Services: 10 a.m. Saturday a t Zion Temple First Pentecostal Church, 3771 Reading Road, Avondale. Visitation: 9 a.m. Saturday until time of service at the church. Arrangements: Jamison & Jamison Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 01-05-2000
SUSIE NIXON, 97, of Over-the-Rhine, died Saturday. Services: 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Jamison & Jamison Funeral Home, 437 Hopkins Ave., West End. Visitation: 6 p.m. Thursday until time of service at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 01-05-2000
Benefactor Nutter dies
Businessman-philanthropist Ervin J. Nutter, for whom buildings at Wright State University and the University of Kentucky are named, died at his home in Xenia, Ohio, Wednesday after a long illness. He was 85.
Mr. Nutter had suffered heart problems that led to a series of strokes, his son, Bob, said.
"He'd had good recovery from the last stroke," his son said. "He'd been home since ear ly December and was up and talking, so this was rather sudden."
Mr. Nutter was appointed by former Gov. James Rhodes to serve on Wright State's board of trustees, and he donated more than $1.5 million to build the $34.5 million sports and entertainment hall at Wright State that opened in 1990 and is named for him.
"The value of education at Wright State has been raised by Ervin Nutter's contributions," said Wright State President Kim Goldenberg.
Nutter, a University of Kentucky alumnus, is a member of that university's Hall of Distinguished Alumni. He and his wife, Zoe, donated $1 million to establish professorships in mechanical engineering, $1 million to help build the E.J. Nutter Football Training Facility and $1.5 million for the Nutter Field House.
"It's fair to say that the University of Kentucky just lost one of the best friends we ever had," associate athletics director Kathy DeBoer said.
"Erv loved us, supported us and gave to us generously, yet he was always challenging us to be better," she said. "He believed in education and felt a strong athletics program was a good recruiting tool for a university."
Mr. Nutter, a mechanical engineer, founded Elano Corp. in Xenia.
In 1985, he sold his interest in the company, which fabricates metal parts for jet airplanes.
In July, the Nutters donated $1 million to help build a learning and research center at the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton.
They also had donated $1.3 million for the Miami Valley Prep School Science Center.
Mr. Nutter is survived by his wife and three sons - Robert, Joe and Ken - and two grandchildren.
Family members plan a private funeral and later a public memorial service to be held at Wright State University.
Date of announcement: 01-06-2000
