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Jos. Holthaus, WWII veteran
Joseph Holthaus, who was awarded a Bronze Star for his part in the Fourth Armored's dash across Europe in World War II, died Sunday at the age of 81.
Mr. Holthaus was a lifelong resident of White Oak and was retired from the Bennett Ford dealership (now Bob Townsend Ford) in Groesbeck, where he was manager of the parts department.
In 1944, he was a staff sergeant with the 66th Field Artillery Battalion of the Fourth Armored Division, which was part of Gen. George Patton's famed Third Army.
The division landed at Utah Beach in Normandy, France, in July 1944, and rapidly advanced through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Czechoslovakia and Germany. It gained prominence for relieving the surrounded 101st Airborne at Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.
Survivors include brothers Bernard and Louis Holthaus, and sisters Catherine Holthaus, Elizabeth Helms and Mildred Robinson. His wife, Dorothy, died in 1997.
Services are 10 a.m. Friday at St. James Church, White Oak. Visitation will be 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Friday at Frederick Funeral Home, 2553 Banning Road, Groesbeck.
Memorials may be made to the Leukemia Society.
Date of announcement: 06-01-2000
SANDRA ONEDIA EDWARDS, 49, of Forest Park, died Tuesday. She was an administrative assistant with Proctor & Gamble. Services: 10 a.m. Saturday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, 11400 Winton Road, Forest Park. Visitation: 9 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 06-01-2000
RUBY EUBANK, 90, of Orlando, Fla., formerly of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Tuesday. She was a retired line worker with Seagrams Distillery. Services: Noon EDT Friday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg. Visitation: 10 a.m. Friday at the funeral home. Memorials: Greendale Rescue Unit.
Date of announcement: 06-01-2000
SANDRA DENISE LUCAS, 42, of Roselawn, died Monday. She was a homemaker. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, 6943 Montgomery Road, Silverton. Visitation: 10 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 06-01-2000
GARRY E. MILLER, 44, of Buford, Ohio, died Tuesday. He was a farm machinery sales representative. Visitation: 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Sardinia Church of the Nazarene. Services: 11 a.m. Friday at the church. Arrangements by Beam-Fender Funeral Home. Memorials: Hospice of Hope, Brown County.
Date of announcement: 06-01-2000
ANIEL HENRY PATENAUDE, 55, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Sunday. He was a mechanic. No services are planned. Memorials: To the family. Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg, handled arrangements.
Date of announcement: 06-01-2000
JOSEPH V. STEGEMILLER, 75, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Tuesday. He was a truck driver with Hillenbrand Industries. Services: 10:30 a.m. EDT Friday at Rullman Funeral Home, Aurora, Ind. Visitation: 5 to 8 tonight at the funeral home. Memorials: Hospice of Cincinnati or to the family.
Date of announcement: 06-01-2000
HAROLD TAYLOR, 76, of Falconer, New York, formerly of Brown County, died Sunday. He was a retired mechanic for Goodyear. Services will be held today in New York. Arrangements: Thompson-Stevens Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 06-01-2000
Dr. Robert Slemmer, neurosurgeon
Dr. Robert E. Slemmer had a lifelong fascination with technology and learning that carried over into a career in neurosurgery, neurology and teaching.
He worked during a time of great advances in the study of the brain and nervous system and was author of 16 medical journal articles and a 1983 monograph entitled "An Atlas of Neuropathology."
Dr. Slemmer died Saturday at his home in Mount Washington . He was 90.
He began his medical career in Cincinnati, where he was on the staff of St. Mary's, St. Francis, Good Samaritan, Deaconess, Bethesda and Christ hospitals. He retired in 1995.
He was eager to pass on his enthusiasm for medicine and sometimes took his children on his rounds.
A son, Tom, and first grandchild, Dr. Jennifer (Larsen) Bruno, also earned their medical degrees from the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, where he was an emeritus adjunct professor of anatomy.
Dr. Slemmer traveled widely. He lectured in Rome and Hong Kong, was an instructor in surgical anatomy and pathology at the University of Virginia and an instructor in neurosurgery at Ohio State University.
He was active until his final days, making a fishing trip to Indiana where he caught a largemouth bass in the week before his death.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 44 years, Margaret Eleanor (Weston) Slemmer, and is survived by his wife of 15 years, Eva Rebecca (Hiatt) Gusweiler Slemmer.
Also surviving are his four children, Jane Ann Larsen of Brookline, Mass.; Robert, of Cincinnati; Dr. Thomas M. Slemmer of Redlands, Calif.; and Margaret Abigail Beke of Franklin, Mich.; 12 grandchildren; and three great grandchildren.
A private memorial service is planned. Memorials: Stanbery Park, Cincinnati Parks Foundation, 950 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, 45202.
Date of announcement: 06-02-2000
Daniel Witten, founded exec search firm
Daniel M. Witten, 77, of Hyde Park, who founded Cincinnati's first executive search firm, died Wednesday.
Mr. Witten formed Witten & Associates in 1968 to help corporations find executives. The firm served numerous local companies and also had clients in eight other states.
Mr. Witten closed the business in 1990, but continued to provide free services for charitable organizations.
A native of Cincinnati, Mr. Witten attended Williams College and served in the U.S. Maritime Service during World War II. Mr. Witten joined Union Central Life as a sales agent in 1946 and remained with the insurance company until 1965.
Over the years, Mr. Witten served as a board member and a fund raiser for the Red Cross, Planned Parenthood, Charter Committee, Fund of Independent Schools, United Home Care and Summerbridge Cincinnati.
He was also involved with the Unit ed Way, Episcopal Retirement Homes and Christ Church Cathedral. For the past four years he was a volunteer at the Marjorie P. Lee Retirement Community, where his late wife of 52 years, Joan Witten, was a resident.
Survivors include a daughter, Carol Brennan of Madison, Conn., and a son, Daniel M. Witten II of Cincinnati, and four grandchildren.
Services: 10:30 a.m. Monday, Christ Church Cathedral, downtown. Elden A. Good Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Memorials: Visiting Nurses, 2400 Reading Rd., Cincinnati, 45202 or Summerbridge Cincinnati, c/o W. H. Hopple Jr., 3939 Erie Ave., Cincinnati, 45208.
Date of announcement: 06-02-2000
HENRY U. BONDS, 84, of Woodlawn, died Tuesday. He was a retired maintenance worker with William Powell Valve Co. Services: 10 a.m. Saturday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Lockland. Visitation: 9 a.m. Saturday.
Date of announcement: 06-02-2000
JAMES E. DAVIS JR., 48, of Madisonville, died Monday. He was a mail clerk for Fidelity Investments. Services: 11 a.m. Monday at St. James AME Zion Church, 3485 Wilson, Walnut Hills. Visitation: 10 a.m. Monday at the church. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 06-02-2000
OSSIE WILLIAMS RICE, 73, of Hamersville, died Wednesday. Services: 1 p.m. Saturday at Bethel Pentecostal Church of God, 2738 Ohio Pike, Bethel. Visitation: 11 a.m. Saturday at the church. Arrangements: Charles H. McIntyre Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 06-02-2000
CATHY LYNN TUBBS, 44, of Cincinnati, died Monday. She was a care provider. Services: 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Zion Baptist Church, 630 Glenwood Ave. Visitation: 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the church. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 06-02-2000
William Ellis, engineer
William Russell Ellis, 86, of Georgetown, former Brown County engineer, died Friday.
During Mr. Ellis' nearly 30 years as county engineer, he worked to preserve covered bridges throughout Brown County.
Mr. Ellis was a 1932 graduate of Georgetown High School and a 1936 graduate of Ohio State University with a degree in civil engineering.
Besides serving as Brown County engineer, he also worked for the American Bridge Co. of Ambridge, Pa., and the Tennessee Valley Authority in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Mr. Ellis was a member of the Professional Engineer and Surveyors Association and was an honorary Kentucky Colonel.
He was a member of the Georgetown United Methodist Church.
Survivors include Mr. Ellis' wife of 62 years, Mary; two sons, Bill, of Georgetown, and Dennis, of Mount Orab; a daughter, Bonnie Paine, of Georgetown; a sister, Helen Fley, of Amelia, three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday at the Cahall Funeral Home in Georgetown.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association, American Diabetes. Association or the American Cancer Society.
Date of announcement: 06-03-2000
WILLIAM CAMPBELL JR., 68, of Cincinnati, died May 26. He was an auto mechanic. Services: 4 p.m. Sunday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, 2625 Gilbert Ave., Walnut Hills. Visitation: 3 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 06-03-2000
EARL RICHARD MCQUITTY, 65, of Sardinia, died Friday. Mr. McQuitty was a self-employed machinist. Visitation will be from noon to 2 p.m. Monday at the Beam-Fender Funeral Home in Sardinia. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 06-03-2000
LAWRENCE JAMES NAEGELE, 93, of Dillsboro, Ind., died Friday. He was a railroad employee. Services: 10:30 a.m. EDT Monday at Ulrich Filter Funeral Home, Dillsboro. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m . EDT Sunday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 06-03-2000
LURA M. YOUNG, 76, of Rising Sun, Ind., died May 31. Ms. Young was a homemaker and a former bookkeeper for Donald E. Young and Sons Trucking, Rising Sun. Services: 11 a.m. EDT Monday at Markland Funeral Home, 327 N. High Street, Rising Sun, Ind. Visitation: 6 to 9 p.m. EDT Sunday at the funeral home. Memorials: Rising Sun Life Squad, or Rising Sun Fire Department.
Date of announcement: 06-03-2000
Emma Whaley, ex-office chief
Emma Irene Thompson Whaley, a retired office manager with E. K. Williams Co. of Cincinnati, died Saturday at Maple Knoll Village in Cincinnati. She was 94.
Ms. Whaley, who lived in Cincinnati, was formerly of Covington. She also was a member of Morgan Christian Church in Pendleton County, Ky.
Survivors include a sister, Anna Mary Snodgrass of Highland Heights, Ky.; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 6 p.m. Sunday at Woodhead Funeral Home, Falmouth, Ky.
Visitation will begin there at 5 p.m. Sunday.
Burial will be in Morgan Cemetery, Pendleton County.
Date of announcement: 06-05-2000
