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ROOSEVELT FLOWERS, 65, of Lake Waynoka, Ohio, died Sunday. He was a former General Motors employee. Visitation: Noon to 2 p.m. Thursday at Beam-Fender Funeral Home, Sardinia. Services: 2 p.m. at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-05-2000
EDWIN J. GAYNOR, 98, of Dover, Ind., died Monday. Mass: 10 a.m. EST Thursday at St. John the Baptist Church, Dover, Ind. Visitation: 4:30 to 8 p.m. EST today at Andres-Wuestefeld Funeral Home, Dover. Memorials: St. John Church Building Fund or charity of the donor's choice.
Date of announcement: 04-05-2000
VIRGINIA "GINNY" KNUE, 85, of Brookville, Ind., died Tuesday. She was a homemaker and a member of St. Lawrence Church, Lawrenceburg, Ind. Mass: 2 p.m. EDT Thursday at St. Lawrence Church. Visitation: Noon to 2 p.m. Thursday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg. Memorials: St. Lawrence Church.
Date of announcement: 04-05-2000
SARAH LOUISE MEANS, 95, of Avondale, died Saturday. She was a homemaker. Services : 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Calvary United Methodist Church, 3215 Woodburn Ave., Avondale. Visitation: 6 p.m. Thursday at the church. Renfro Funeral Services Inc. is in charge of the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-05-2000
ROBERT V. MEYER, 73, of Palestine, Ind., died Monday. A U.S. Army veteran, he was retired from D&M of Connersville. Mass: 10:30 a.m. EST Friday at St. Michael Catholic Church, Brookville. Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. EST Thursday at Cook Funeral Home, 929 Main St., Brookville. Memorials: Heart Fund.
Date of announcement: 04-05-2000
LENA NAPIER, 84, of Cincinnati, died March 31. Services: 11 a.m. today at Holy Name Church, 2448 Auburn Ave., Mount Auburn. Visitation: 10 a.m. today at the church. Renfro Funeral Service Inc. is in charge of the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-05-2000
CHARLIE DENNIS PARKS, 73, of Avondale, died Sunday. He was a custodian for Cincinnati Public Schools. Services: 11 a.m. Friday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, 2625 Gilbert Ave., Silverton. Visitation: 10 a.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-05-2000
Mary Gabriella Zimmerman, UC librarian
Mary Gabriella Zimmerman, a former librarian at the University of Cincinnati, died Tuesday. She was 80.
Ms. Zimmerman, who last lived in Norwood, worked in libraries for more than 40 years, serving most recently as the associate librarian at the University of Cincinnati Central Library.
She also taught high school and grade school briefly and was at one time a sister with the Oblate Sisters in Baltimore.
Never married, she liked to travel and took jobs as far away as Washington and California.
"Every place she went, she went to school," said her sister, Gladys Hambrick, of Golf Manor, noting that she audited classes when she was working toward either of her master's degrees or her bachelor's degree.
"She was very quiet and unassuming," Mrs. Hambrick said. "Just to see her, you wouldn't know she really had this background."
Born in Troy, Ala., Ms. Zimmerman moved to the West End during her childhood and spent many years learning at the former Harriet Beecher Stowe and Old Woodward High schools.
She also loved to go to church services at St. George Catholic Church, where she was a member, her sister said.
Ms. Zimmerman also is survived by sisters Alice Zimmerman and Helen Zimmerman, both of Bond Hill, and Ethel Zimmerman, Evanston; an uncle, Edward Williams, Albuquerque, N.M.; aunts Dorothy Williams, Albuquerque, N.M., and Nell Williams, Atlanta; cousin Maxine Smith, Winton Place; and many nieces and nephews.
Service: 7 p.m. Friday, St. Joseph Catholic Church, 745 Ezzard Charles Drive, West End. Visitation: 6 p.m. until service. Memorials: St. Joseph Catholic Church. Arrangements by Jamison & Jamison Jr. Inc.
Date of announcement: 04-06-2000
FREDERICK J. BERGER, 81, of Hyde Park, died Sunday. He was a World War II veteran. Graveside service will be at noon Thursday at Gate of Heaven Cemetery Chapel, Montgomery Road. There is no visitation. Vielhauer-Clepper Funeral Home is handling the arrangements. Memorials: Hospice of Cincinnati, 4310 Cooper Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45242.
Date of announcement: 04-06-2000
EARTHEL GRAY, 93, of Lincoln Heights, died Monday. She was a retired cook's assistant for Cincinnati Public Schools. Services: 11 a.m. Friday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 10080 Woodlawn Blvd. Visitation: 10 a.m. Friday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-06-2000
KAREN J. KIST, 52, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Wednesday. She was a secretary-bookkeeper for B.K. Construction Services. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Lawrence Catholic Church, Lawrenceburg. Visitation: 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday at the Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, 455 Ridge Ave., Lawrenceburg. Memorials: Catholic Relief Society or Food for the Poor.
Date of announcement: 04-06-2000
JOSEPH LANE MILLER SR., 78, of Evanston, died Monday. He was a truck driver for the U.S. Postal Service. Services: 10 a.m. Saturday at Bethlehem Temple Church, 4781 Hamilton Ave., Northside. Visitation: 9 a.m. Saturday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-06-2000
HORTENSE R. MOORE, 71, of Bethel, died Tuesday. She was a school library aide. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at Bethel Church of Christ. Visitation: 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel. Memorials: William Bick Elementary School Library.
Date of announcement: 04-06-2000
MARGARET W. TRAUTH, 84, of Finneytown, died Tuesday. She was a homemaker. Mass of Christian Burial: 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Vivian Church, 7600 Winton Road, Finneytown. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at Hodapp Funeral Home, 6041 Hamilton Ave., College Hill. Memorials: "The Trauth Family Scholarship Fund," c/o Mother of Mercy High School, 3036 Werk Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45211.
Date of announcement: 04-06-2000
HAROLD L. WILLIAMS SR., 57, of Madisonville, died Tuesday. He was a truck driver. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at New Mission Baptist Church, 4809 Ravenna, Madisonville. Visitation: 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-06-2000
Dixie Harmon, a long-time advocate for the disabled
Dixie Harmon, an outspoken advocate for the rights of those with disabilities, died Wednesday.
Ms. Harmon, made a quadriplegic by a swimming accident when she was 12, fought vehemently for housing and transportation opportunities for Greater Cincinnatians with disabilities.
"She was instrumental in making life better," said Debbie Dase, a close friend from Sycamor e Township. "She was one of our biggest advocates here in Cincinnati."
Ms. Harmon fought to get wheelchair lifts on Metro buses and curb cuts, the diagonal slopes which allow wheelchairs access to sidewalks from the street, in city and suburban neighborhoods.
She even protested lack of disability access by chaining herself to buses in Cincinnati and once in San Francisco and by blocking the entrance to Northgate Mall.
"For being so little, she was dynamite," Ms. Dase said.
"Dixie was my friend for 17 years. She taught me how to be an advocate," said Ms. Dase, who rides in a scooter. "When I first became disabled I didn't know anything."
Ms. Harmon, 63, most recently of Blue Ash, was a case manager at United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Cincinnati for the past two years, helping those with disabilities find housing and wheelchairs. For 17 years previously, she did similar work as director of advocacy for Independe nt Living Options.
In 1998, Ms. Harmon was named to the Kentucky Developmental Disabilities Council. She was nam ed a "Hometown Hero" in 1995 as a member of the Cincinnati Human Relations Commission.
She was past president of the Greater Cincinnati Coalition of People with Disabilities and helped the Archdiocese of Cincinnati adapt churches for handicap access.
Her struggles will benefit the lives of future generations, Ms. Dase said.
"She's touching their lives every time they go up a sidewalk or get on a lift," she said.
Survivors include a sister, Francelyn Sieverman, of Bellevue, Ky., two nieces and a nephew.
Mass: 7 p.m. Monday at St. Xavier Church, downtown. Memorial reception following. Memorials: United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Cincinnati, 3601 Victory Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45229-9960. Arrangements by Schaefer & Busby Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 04-07-2000
JESSIE MAE HAWKINS, 70, of Avondale, died Wednesday. She was a hospital worker. Services: 11 a.m. Tuesday at El Bethel Baptist Church, Avondale. Visitation: 10 a.m. Tuesday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Lockland, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-07-2000
CAROLYN LIMING, 60, of Sardinia, Ohio, died Tuesday. She was a manager at Sam's Cl ub in Eastgate. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at Sardinia United Methodist Church. No visitation. Memorials: Hospic e of Hope or Sardinia United Methodist Church. Arrangements by Beam- Fender Funeral Home, Sardinia.
Date of announcement: 04-07-2000
ROBERT PETERSON, 63, of Cincinnati, died Tuesday. He was a retired nursing assistant. Services: 10 a.m. Saturday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Fu neral Home, 2625 Gilbert Ave., Walnut Hills. Visitation: 9 a.m. Saturday.
Date of announcement: 04-07-2000
ALLAN PLYMAN, 53, of Auro ra, Ind., died Wednesday. He worked in shipping for Sea gram's Distillery. Services: 1 p.m. EDT Saturday at Fitch-Den ney Funeral Home, Lawrence burg, Ind. Visitation: 6 to 9 p.m. EDT today. Memorials: Ameri can Heart Association (Dearborn County Chapter).
Date of announcement: 04-07-2000
CLAIRE B. TURNER, 80, of Madisonville, died Tuesday. Ms. Turner was a retired licensed practical nurse. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, 6943 Montgomery Road, Silverton. Visitation: 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
Date of announcement: 04-07-2000
Edith C. Lydon was family nurturer
Edith C. Lydon's life spanned the century, and she spent it nurturing family wit h a strength that overcame obstacles.
During the Great Depression, her husband, Joseph Lydon Sr., went to California hunting for work and died there in 1933, leaving her a young widow.
She went to work at Crown Overalls to support their young son, Joseph. Within months, Mrs. Lydon's older sister died, leaving three young children.
"My mother moved in with my uncle and raised her nieces and nephews and me," said Joseph Lydon, of Alexandria.
When her brother-in-law fell ill to tuberculosis, she nursed him and eventually became the breadwinner for the blended family, going to work as a clerk-typist at Procter & Gamble Co. in the 1940s.
"My mother was quite a gal," Lydon said. "She was always ready to help anybody she could help."
As a boy, he remembers his mother fixing plates of food for out-of-work men who would knock on the kitchen door.
She was active in Sacred Heart Church in Bellevue, where she led the Ladies Sodality. She went to Mass daily. She also enjoyed playing cards.
Mrs. Lydon retired from P&G around 1963. Through the 1960s and 1970s she cared for her grandson, who is retarded, while her daughter-in-law went to work.
Mrs. Lydon had a quiet competence and a generous spirit, her son said. She never sought recognition, but she was loved by everyone, he said.
In recent years, her health failed, and she moved to Carmel Manor Nursing Home in Fort Thomas, where she died at 3:45 p.m. Thursday at age 101.
Other survivors include two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Mass of Christian burial will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Carmel Manor Chapel, Fort Thomas. Burial will be in Alexandria Cemetery.
Memorials are suggested to The Point, 104 Pike St., Covington, Ky. 41011.
Alexandria Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-08-2000
EDWARD L. "RUGGED" MCCARTY, 86, of Aurora, Ind., died Thursday. He was a retired janitor with the Aurora post office, and a veteran of World War II and the 
Korean War. Services: 10:30 a.m. EDT Monday at Rullman Funeral Home, Aurora. Memorials: Aurora Life Squad.
Date of announcement: 04-08-2000
ROY MONROE, 62, of Sunman, Ind., died Friday. He was a retired custodial worker with Sunman-Dearborn School Corp. Mass: 10 a.m. EST Monday at Cook Funeral Home, Brookville, Ind. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Memorials: Hospice of Margaret Mary Community Hospital, Batesville, Ind.
Date of announcement: 04-08-2000
