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MICHAEL P. SMITH, 29, died at his Aurora, Ind., home on Monday. He had Down syndrome. Visitation will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. EDT Thursday at Ulrich-Filter Funeral Home in Dillsboro, Ind. Services follow at 2 p.m. at St. John's Luthern Church, Farmers Retreat, Ind. Memorials may be made to St. John's Luthern Church.
Date of application: 07-05-2000
William Binder, attorney
William Jerome Binder, a Cincinnati tax attorney and talented bridge player, died of a heart attack Monday. He was 73.
Mr. Binder, of Price Hill, recently retired and sold his business, W.J. Binder CPA, to an associate. He had graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Business Administration in 1951 and later Chase College of Law.
Mr. Binder was an accomplished bridge player, achieving life master status, and had competed in a tournament just two weeks before his death.
In the 1970s, he was instrumental in forming the Hope Cincinnati Charter, an organization that fixed up old houses for poor people.
Mr. Binder also assisted poor people on River Road and worked with the St. Vincent DePaul Center.
"Bill Binder was very respectful and helpful to the poor people," said his friend, Jack Gunderman of Clifton.
Before studying at UC, he served in World War II in Germany.
Mr. Binder attended annual reunions of his college fraternity, Pi Kappa Alpha, and kept in touch with classmates.
He is survived by his son William J. Binder Jr. of Price Hill, and daughters, Susan Babey of Price Hill, and Mary Beth Binder of Livermore, Calif.
Mass: 9:30 a.m. Saturday, St. William Church, 4108 W. Eighth St., Price Hill. Visitation: 6-9 p.m., Friday, Fares J. Radel Funeral Home, 5650 Kellogg Ave., California.
Memorials: Salvation Army, 114 E. Central Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45210, and the Drop-Inn Center, 217 W. 12th St., Cincinnati, Ohio, 45210.
Date of application: 07-06-2000
JOSEPH OMER BOSTON, 67, of Newport, Ky., formerly of Cincinnati, died Tuesday. Services: 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Zion Lutheran Church, Manchester, Ind. Visitation: 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the church. Arrangements: Jackman Kercheval Meyers Funeral Home, Harrison. Memorials: To the family.
Date of application: 07-06-2000
CAROL PUCKETT, 45, of Mount Orab, died Saturday. She was a self-employed child care provider. Services: 2 p.m. Friday at Thompson-Stevens Funeral Home, Mount Orab. Visitation: 5-8 p.m. tonight at the funeral home.
Date of application: 07-06-2000
JAMES A. PUCKETT, 45, of Mount Orab, died Saturday. He was a machinist. Services: 2 p.m. Friday at Thompson-Stevens Funeral Home, Mount Orab. Visitation: 5-8 p.m. tonight at the funeral home.
Date of application: 07-06-2000
JAMES ROCKMORE, 76, of Roselawn, died Monday. He was a bartender for the Liberty and Dudley Cafe. Services: 7 p.m. Friday at El-Bethel Baptist Church, 3869 Vine St. Visitation: 6 p.m. Friday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Date of application: 07-06-2000
BENNIE H. SHUMAKE, 78, of Locust Ridge in Brown County. He was a retired machinist. Services: 10:30 a.m. Friday at Maham Funeral Home, 187 N. Second St., Williamsburg. Visitation: 6-8 p.m. tonight at the funeral home.
Date of application: 07-06-2000
Dana Maher Strauss, activist
Dana Maher Strauss, Democratic political activist and a pioneer in women's 
military service, died on the Fourth of July. She was 83.
Mrs. Strauss read history at Oxford, worked at Tammany Hall in the 1940s and was one of the few women who served with the Army overseas in Europe.
She attended Hillsdale School in Cincinnati, Dana Hall, Smith College, the University of Cincinnati and Oxford University.
A veteran of World War II, she spent 3 1/2 years in the Women's Army Corps, attaining the rank of corporal. She was one of fewer than 100,000 women who served in Europe. She drove trucks, typed coded messages for D-Day and served as an English-French translator. She later organized USO shows.
Mrs. Strauss continued to be active in Women in military Service to America throughout her life.
A Democratic Party activist for most of her life, Mrs. Strauss worked for Tammany Hall Council in New York City in 1940.
She worked in the early 1970s as an assistant to Cincinnati Council Member James Luken and was one of the founders of the Cincinnati Chapter of the National Women's Political Caucus in 1972. She was also a director of the League of Women Voters.
"She was a wonderful woman and had a wonderful life," said a son, Nicholas Maher Strauss, who recalled that his mother, a neighbor of the Kennedys in Hyannisport and Palm Beach, once dated the late president, John F. Kennedy.
While in Europe, she attended the wedding of Kennedy's sister, Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, and once danced with Prince Philip, Strauss said.
In addition to her son, Nicholas, Mrs. Strauss leaves three other sons, Gordon MacGregor Strauss and Geoffrey Flynn Straus, of Cincinnati, and Victor Bradford Strauss Jr., of Clearwater, Fla.; a daughter, Alice Cita Purdy, of Athens, and three grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Indian Hill Church. Memorials may be made to the Women in military Service to America, Dept. 560, Washington, D.C., 20042.
Date of application: 07-07-2000
Walter R. Mason, philanthropist
An inventor who revolutionized the plaster molds and ceramics industry, Walter R. Mason used his royalty monies to help disadvantaged children get basic needs such as braces or a college education.
He died on the Fourth of July at age 80.
"He was always for the underdog," said John L. Mason, his brother. "He was a quintessential Democrat and he put his money where his mouth was."
While working for Hoge Warren & Zimmerman, a Cincinnati roofing company, Mr. Mason developed and patented a unique machine that produced a continuous flow of water and plaster. It produced plaster molds and ceramic products of a higher quality than other methods.
The machine, named Mason Flo, was sold the world over and used for making ceramic bathroom fixtures in China and ornamental plaster houses at an British factory. Mr. Mason displayed one of the miniature houses, dubbed Mason Manor, in his own home.
The Cincinnati native graduated from Walnut Hills High School and the University of Cincinnati, with a degree in mechanical engineering. During World War II, he worked as an engineer at the Chrysler Aeronautical Plant in Chicago, helping design engines for the B17 Bomber.
But it was Mr. Mason's philanthropy that leaves a living legacy. Mr. Mason helped kids make ends meet and provided college tuition for one youngster who now teaches at a Virginia high school.
Mr. Mason also leaves his wife, Joyce Mason, and a sister, Peggy Sanders.
Services are private, and they are being arranged by Elden A. Good Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the Stroke Association of America.
Date of application: 07-07-2000
CARROLL E. BRAUER, 78, of Bradenton, Fla., formerly of Cincinnati, died June 28. He was a retired quality control manager for Goodyear Tire and Rubber and a retired Quartermaster Corp of the U.S. Navy. He served in the Pacific and European campaigns and taught navigation at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Great Lakes Naval Base, Ill. Memorial services were July 3 in Carmel, Ind. A military honors ceremony will be Aug. 12 in Chadwick, Ill. Arrangements: Leppert & Hensley Funeral Home. Memorials: Pulmonary Fibrosis Research/American Lung Association, 11113 Kenwood Road, Cincinnati, 45242; or the Pulmonary Fibrosis Association, P.O. Box 75004, Seattle, Wash., 98125-20004.
Date of application: 07-07-2000
DEBRA G. BURNS, 47, of Golf Manor, died Sunday. Ms. Burns was a lab technician. Services: 7:30 tonight at Tryed Stone Baptist Church, 5550 Reading Road. Visitation: 6:30 tonight at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Date of application: 07-07-2000
MABEL ALICE GRAY COX, 99, of Springdale, died Wednesday. She was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Dayton. Services: 11 a.m. Monday at the church. Visitation: 10 a.m. Monday at the church. Burcham Funeral Home, Fairborn, Ohio, is in charge. Memorials: Hospice of Cincinnati.
Date of application: 07-07-2000
JENIEVE HAYWOOD, 61, of Avondale, died July 1. Ms. Haywood was a janitorial supervisor. There are no services. Visitation: 6:30 tonight at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, 2625 Gilbert Ave., Walnut Hills.
Date of application: 07-07-2000
GUS HUFFMAN, 87, of Norwood, died June 30. He was a meat packer with Kahn's Meats. Services: 10 a.m. Saturday at Southern Baptist Church, Avondale. Visitation: 9 a.m. Saturday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Lockland, is handling arrangements.
Date of application: 07-07-2000
MARILYN KENDRICKS, 45, of Evanston, died Sunday. She was a clerk. Services: 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Silverton, with visitation at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
Date of application: 07-07-2000
IRA LAWSON, 88, of Cincinnati, died Monday. He was a maintenance worker for the City of Cincinnati, and a World War II veteran. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at Greater Mount Roe Baptist Church, 1811 Powell. Visitation: 10 a.m. Saturday at the church. Renfro & Piper Funeral Home is in charge.
Date of application: 07-07-2000
DR. KARL F. SITTERLE JR., 80, of Colerain Township, died Tuesday. Sitterle was a dentist in Groesbeck for over 50 years. He also served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was a captain in the Air Force in the
Korean War. Services: 10 a.m. Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Church, 1553 Kinney Ave. Visitation: 5-8 tonight at the Paul R. Young Funeral Home, 7345 Hamilton Ave., Mount Healthy, and 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the church. Memorials: Acoustic-Neuroma Association, P.O. Box 12402, Atlanta, Ga. 30355 or charity.
Date of application: 07-07-2000
JENNIFER MARIE WALKER, 18, daughter of Brenda and Ricardo Walker, of Lockland, died Saturday. Services: Noon Saturday at Buress Temple, 208 Locust St., Lockland. Visitation: 11 a.m. Saturday at the church. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall & Jordan Funeral Home.
Date of application: 07-07-2000
Margaret Minster, gourmet cook and author
Margaret Mau Minster, a gourmet cook, author and devoted cat lover, died Monday at her home in Wyoming. She was 85.
Mrs. Minster had a wide range of interests and capitalized on them to the benefit of a variety of causes, said her longtime friend, Karen Rafuse of Covington.
Among them: the Cincinnati Herb Society, for which she wrote a cookbook, and the Cincinnati Art Museum, for which she and Ms. Rafuse collaborated on a cookbook. The two also produced another book, "Let Them Eat Ice Cream."
"She was interested in all kinds of things, a very well-read woman," Ms. Rafuse said. "She kept a young mind for a long time."
Mrs. Minster was born in Norwood, graduated from Norwood High School and the University of Cincinnati. She was later the book buyer and sales promotion manager at Shillito's department store, where she met and married Leonard Minster, a vice president of that company.
The couple were avid art collectors and donated several paintings to the Cincinnati Art Museum.
In the 1950s, Mrs. Minster helped to produce a children's radio program, "Big John and Sparky," that aired across the Midwest, said Ms. Rafuse.
Mrs. Minster's other passion was cats, said her son, Joe. She kept them as pets throughout her life and wrote a book about one of them.
Mrs. Minster is survived by four grandchildren. A celebration of her life will be held today at the China Gourmet restaurant, 3340 Erie Ave., Hyde Park, from 1-4 p.m. Memorials: Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens, 3400 Vine St., Cincinnati, 45220.
Date of application: 07-08-2000
MARY LOUISE HONEYCUTT, 65, of Dillsboro, Ind., died Thursday. She was an employee of the Dreyerhaus in Batesville, Ind., and a member of the First Southern Baptist Church, Sunman, Ind. Services: 10:30 a.m. EST Monday at the First Southern Baptist Church, Sunman, Ind. Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. EST Sunday at Cook Funeral Home, Sunman. Memorials: First Southern Baptist Church, 403 South Meridian St., Sunman.
Date of application: 07-08-2000
KENNETH D. JOHNSON, 47, of Cincinnati, died July 5. Services: 7 p.m. Bibleway Church of God in Christ, Woodburn Avenue, Evanston. Visitation: 5 p.m. Wednesday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Date of application: 07-08-2000
THOMAS W. KUHL, 81, of Sarasota, Fla., formerly of Cincinnati, died July 2. He was a retired U.S. Post Office inspector. The Good Earth Crematory is in charge of arrangements. Memorials: Meals on Wheels of Sarasota, 412 Line Ave., N. Sarasota, Fla. 34237, or Hospice of Southwest Florida, 5955 Rand Blvd., Sarasota, Fla. 34238.
Date of application: 07-08-2000
MICHAEL S. NOONAN, 19, of Guilford, Ind., died Friday. Services: 1 p.m. EDT Sunday at Andres-Wuestefeld Funeral Home, Yorkville, Ind. Visitation: 11 a.m. EDT Sunday at the funeral home.
Date of application: 07-08-2000
MARY J. CUSTER PUGH, 77, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., formerly of Bethel, Ohio, died Thursday. Ms. Pugh was a retired office manager for a doctor's office. Services: 10:30 a.m. Monday at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel, Ohio. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
Date of application: 07-08-2000
