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MERITA NEGANGARD, 85, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Friday. She was a member of Hamline Chapel United Methodist Church, Lawrenceburg. Memorial service: 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday at the church. Visitation: 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the church. Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg, is handling arrangements. Memorials: American Cancer Society.
Date of announcement: 04-08-2000
CHARLES THOMAS, 56, of Lincoln Heights, died Wednesday. He was an assemblyman for Ford Motor Co. Services: 11 a.m. Monday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, 11400 Winton Road, Forest Park, Ohio. Visitation: 10 a.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-08-2000
Denver 'Dib' Rayls, water company operator
Denver "Dib" Rayls, the head operator for the Vevay, Ind., water company, died Sunday in Louisville. He was 82.
Mr. Rayls was a former Vevay police officer and a farmer. He was a lifelong resident of Switzerland County and a World War II Navy veteran.
He is survived by a stepdaughter, two stepsons, two brothers, three sisters and nine step-grandchildren and several step-grandchildren. Services: 11 a.m. Wednesday EDT at Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home, 208 Ferry St., Vevay.
Visitation: 5-8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Burial: Vevay Cemetery. Memorials: Switzerland County Emergency Unit.
Date of announcement: 04-10-2000
HERMAN BAILEY, 83, of Evanston, died Friday. He was a retired maintenance worker with Drake Hospital and an Army veteran of World War II. Services: 7 p.m. Tuesday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills. Visitation: 6 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-10-2000
RICHARD E. BOHRER, of Williamsburg, died Friday. Services: 11 a.m. today at Charles H. McIntyre Funeral Home, Felicity. Memorials: Abbie Bohrer Scholarship Fund, at any National Bank and Trust.
Date of announcement: 04-10-2000
MARION G. GREGORY, 76, of North Fort Myers, Fla., died Saturday. He was a World War II veteran. Services: 2 p.m. Friday at Charles H. McIntyre Funeral Home, Felicity. Visitation: Noon Friday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-10-2000
ERNEST D. "CHUCK" HIGHFIELD, 48, of Ripley, died Friday. He was a laborer, and a member of Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Outhouse Control C.B. Club. Services: 2 p.m. Tuesday at Cahall Funeral Home, Ripley. Visitation: Noon Tuesday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-10-2000
EILEEN MARY ADKINS NUNLIST, of Cincinnati, died Saturday. Mass 6 p.m. Tuesday at Bellermine Chapel, Xavier University. Friends received at home of Paula Grulee, 1254 Morten St., afterward. Memorials: Guild of Mercy Hospital Anderson, 7500 State Road, Cincinnati 45255.
Date of announcement: 04-10-2000
Bill Leonard, ex-Contemporary Arts Center chief
Bill Leonard, director of the Contemporary Arts Center from 1964-71, was one of the most discerning of Cincinnati art leaders. In his quiet, unassuming way, he was always three giant steps ahead in recognizing talent.
Mr. Leonard, who died Saturday, gave Andy Warhol a show featuring the Pop Artist's aluminum pillows that floated in front wallpaper with the cow pattern done in red and yellow in 1966 at a rt museum.
His taste in masterpieces was not tied to one period but reflected the aesthetics of art universalist connoisseur. He lauded the Cincinnati Art Museum's Mark di Suvero's 1985 sculpt ure "Atman" composed of iron t-beams and a swing hanging at its center when others were laughing a nd deriding it as looking like an A-frame for a teepee.
Mr. Leonard also showed diversity in appreciating Joan Miro's great mural and William Merri tt Chase's "Turkish Page" painting, both at the Cincinnati Art Museum, and Joaquin Sorolla's portrait of William Howard Taft at the Taft Museum of Art.
Mr. Leonard, a Yale graduate, could be as fervent in his opinions at perceived injustices in the art. He criticized the Cincinnati Art Museum for removing the swing from the Di Suvero's sculp ture in Eden Park for safety reasons and fears of a lawsuit. The swing has since been restored.
He also criticized his own institution, the CAC, for selling a treasured Alexander Calder mobile in 1992 for $600,000. "Six hundred thousand for a Calder?" Mr. Leonard asked dryly. "It was one of his best pieces without question."
Mr. Leonard also was fiercely loyal to local artists, telling "Town & Country" magazine that "artists working in Cincinnati differ from New York artists in that they're very serious.
But, he said, it is almost impossible for an artist to get recognition in Cincinnati.
"There are several major collectors but they do most of their buying in New York or Europe."
Fortunately, some collectors took heart to Leonard's scolding and local artists today experience greater sales support here.
Survivors: sons, William A. Leonard Jr., Timothy Leonard and Daniel J. Leonard; brothers, Luke J . Leonard, Timothy Leonard, Joseph A. Leonard, J. Harry Dornheggen and David Dornheggen; and sisters, Renie Louis and Annie Kallaher.
Visitation: 5 to 8 tonight at Gilligan Funeral Home. Mass 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Francis DeSales Church in Evanston.
Date of announcement: 04-11-2000
RUTH M. CLARK, 81, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Monday. She was a homemaker. Graveside services: 12:15 p.m. EDT Wednesday at Greendale Cemetery. Visitation: 10 a.m. to noon EDT Wednesday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg. Memorials: Greendale Rescue Unit.
Date of announcement: 04-11-2000
LENA ELIZABETH CUTTER, 89, of Aurora, Ind., died Monday. Services: 11 a.m. EDT Thursday at Ulrich Filter Funeral Home, Dillsboro. Visitation: 5-8 p.m. EDT Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorials: Dillsboro Emergency Unit or to charity.
Date of announcement: 04-11-2000
OLA MAE (WALKER) FOSTER, 92, of West End, died April 6. She was a homemaker. Services: 1 p.m. Wednesday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, 2625 Gilbert Ave., Walnut Hills. Visitation : Noon Wednesday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-11-2000
CLINT LEE WALSTON, 29, of Aurora, Ind., died Sunday. He was a student at Antonelli College. Services: 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg, Ind. Visitation: 4 to 9 tonight at the funeral home. Memorials: Clint Walston Memorial Music Scholarship Fund.
Date of announcement: 04-11-2000
MILDRED G. WESLEY, 80, of Cincinnati, died Friday. She was a retired baker. Mass: Noon Wednesday at St. Anthony Roman Catholic Church, 6104 Desmond, Madisonville. Visitation: 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-11-2000
Sister Mary Omer, led congregation
Sister Mary Omer Downing, former mother general of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, died Monday. She was 94.
Sister Mary Omer headed the congregation from 1959 to 1971. Her tenure was marked by unprecedented growth - membership peaked at 1,659 in 1965 - and changes precipitated by Vatican Council II.
She held a bachelor's in English from the College of the Sacred Heart and a master's in sociology from the Catholic University of America. She taught at schools in Delhi and Cleveland, headed an orphanage in Cumminsville and was superior of nuns at Villa Nazareth, a school for exceptional boys in Rome, where she had frequent audiences with Popes Pius XII and John XXIII. During her stint as mother general, she served as national chair of the Conference of Major Superiors of Women. Her latter years were spent as a sister visitor at Good Samaritan Hospital.
Surviving are a sister-in-law and several nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be Friday from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Heritage Room at the Sisters of Charity Motherhouse in Delhi Township. Mass will follow at 3 p.m. Burial will be in the motherhouse cemetery. Memorials may be made in Sister Mary Omer's name to the Sisters of Charity Retirement Fund, 5900 Delhi Road, Mount St. Joseph, 45051. T. J. Collum, helped POWs
Date of announcement: 04-12-2000
Lt. Col. (Ret.) T. J. Collum served his country in many ways - as a teacher, an administrator and by making sure prisoners of war returned home safely.
Lt. Col. Collum, 87, of Blue Ash, died Monday. He taught in the Reserve Officers Training Corps before being chosen for a key position on the Pentagon staff of the Army Specialized Training Program in 1943. While on the staff, he helped oversee the training of more than 150,000 men in professional studies, eventually becoming assistant to the director of the program.
He was on the general staff of the U.S. Army Forces in the Western Pacific and later was in the occupation of Europe in the Office of the Adjutant General of the Army.
After service in the headquarters of the Eighth Army in Korea, Lt. Col. Collum headed a task force that analyzed information from returning prisoners of war and compiled lists of missing servicemen. His work to make sure all POW's were returned earned him decoration with the Legion of Merit.
After he retired from the Army, he joined the corporate staff of Nationwide Insurance Companies. He was an industry counselor to two U.S. Cabinet secretaries and again retired in 1977, moving to Blue Ash. He wrote many articles on the insurance industry and was a past president of the Greater Cincinnati Chapter of the Retired Officers Association.
Survivors include his wife, Naomi Collum; and a son, Jerry Collum.
Services: 1 p.m. Thursday at St. Paul United Methodist Church, Madeira. Visitation: 5 to 8 tonight at Gilligan Funeral Home, Kenwood, and noon to 1 p.m. Thursday at the church. Memorials: charity of choice.
Date of announcement: 04-12-2000
HOMER MOSLEY, 84, of Aurora, Ind., died Tuesday. He formerly worked for the state of Florida and was an Army veteran of World War II. Services: 2 p.m. EDT Thursday at Sibbett-Moore Funeral Home, Moores Hill, Ind. Visitation: Noon EDT Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials: to the family.
Date of announcement: 04-12-2000
BETTY M. ROSENBERGER, 66, of Brookville, Ind., died Tuesday. She was an owner of Pioneer Restaurant and Lounge, Brookville. Services: 1:30 p.m. EST Friday at Cook Funeral Home, Brookville. Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials: American Cancer Society.
Date of announcement: 04-12-2000
Joseph Lamson, ran Ind. feed store
Joseph G. Lamson Sr., who owned and operated the Lamson Feed Store in Madison, Ind., from 1979 to 1999, died Wednesday. Mr. Lamson, of Vevay, Ind., was 65.
Lamson, a farmer since 1974, also was former vice president of the former Payless Oil Company (now Thornton Oil Company), in New Albany. He was a deacon and a charter member of the River View Southern Baptist Church and was a Southern Baptist lay speaker for many years.
Services: 2 p.m. EST Saturday at River View Southern Baptist Church, Vevay. Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, and noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at the church. Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home, Vevay, is handling arrangements. Memorials: River View Southern Baptist Church.
Date of announcement: 04-13-2000
ROBERT BAILEY SR., 84, of Lincoln Heights, died Tuesday. He was a railroad worker. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Lockland. Visitation: 10 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-13-2000
RUTH CORNIST, 64, of Bond Hill, died April 7. She was a factory worker for Kenner Toys. Services: 10 a.m. Saturday at Progressive Baptist Church, 613 Prospect Place, Avondale.Visitation: 9 a.m. Saturday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-13-2000
ODELIA C. LOHMAN, 95, of Batesville, Ind., died Wednesday. She was a homemaker. Mass: 11 a.m. EST Friday at St. Louis Church, Batesville. Visitation: 9 to 10:30 a.m. Friday at Weigel Funeral Home, Batesville. Memorials: Hospice of Decatur County.
Date of announcement: 04-13-2000
ETHEL MAUPIN, 95, of Crestview, Fla., formerly of Georgetown, Ohio, died April 8. She was a homemaker. Services: 2 p.m. Friday at Cahall Funeral Home, Georgetown. Visitation: 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-13-2000
JOHN "JACK" FRANCIS SHUNK, 50, of Avondale, died April 7. Services: 7 to 8 p.m. today at Renfro Funeral Service Inc., 647 Forest Ave., Avondale. Visitation: 6 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-13-2000
Belle C. Cox, legal secretary, hobbyist
Belle C. Cox, a former legal secretary with the Cincinnati law office of Robert-Houston-French, died Thursday at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati. She was 83.
Her family recalled her as a loving person who doted on them and had a multitude of hobbies and interests.
"She was always full of life. She was a very strong-willed, determined person, but yet she had a compassionate side to her also," said her daughter, Bonnie Cox Hosea of Edgewood. "She was a very busy individual."
Mrs. Cox, of Erlanger, Ky., liked to travel, quilt, sew, read, garden,and work jigsaw and crossword puzzles.
Services: 3 p.m. Saturday at Linnemann Funeral Home, Erlanger. Visitation will begin there at 1 p.m. Saturday. Memorials: Alzheimer's Disease Association, 644
Linn St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45203; or Vista Care Foundation, 8135 Beechmont Ave., Cincinnati 45255.
Date of announcement: 04-14-2000
CLEVE JAMES ANDERSON, 50, of Cincinnati, died Tuesday. He was a cook. Services: 7 p.m. today at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, 2625 Gilbert Ave., Walnut Hills. Visitation: 6 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-14-2000
RONALD J. KOCH, 52, of Oldenburg, Ind., died Wednesday. He owned and operated Koch's Brau Haus in Oldenburg and Koch's Karry Out and Kattering in Greensburg, Ind. Mass: 10 a.m. EST Monday at Holy Family Catholic Church, Oldenburg. Visitation: 1 to 5 p.m. EST Sunday at Weigel Funeral Home, Batesville. Memorials: Phi Beta Psi Sorority Cancer Research Project or Hospice of Margaret Mary Community Hospital.
Date of announcement: 04-14-2000
EDITH D. LOUKS, 86, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Thursday. She was a retired lineworker, Seagram's Distillery. Services: 2 p.m. EDT Monday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg. Visitation: noon Monday at the funeral home. Memorials: Hospice of the donor's choice.
Date of announcement: 04-14-2000
LETTIE IRENE (ROBINSON) SMALLEY, 86, of Madison, Ind., died Wednesday. Ms. Smalley was a homemaker. Services: 2 p.m. EST Saturday at Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home, Vevay, Ind. Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. EST today and 8 a.m. EST Saturday at the funeral home. Memorials: Florence Church of Christ or Faith Alliance Church.
Date of announcement: 04-14-2000
