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BERNARD A. REER, 90, of Morris, Ind., died Monday. He was a farmer and a member of St. Anthony Church, Morris. Mass: 10 a.m. EST Friday at St. Anthony Church. Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. EST Thursday at Weigel Funeral Ho me, Batesville, Ind. Memorials: St. Anthony Church Heating and Cooling Fund, Morris Fire Department or Batesville Res cue 10.
Date of announcement: 08-15-2001
Augustine Duncan Miller, made wedding gowns
Augustine Duncan Miller was a gifted seamstress who made wedding gowns for more than 1,000 brides.
"She loved people, and she loved making people happy and having a part in their special day," said a daughter, Cheri Davis of Taylor Mill, Ky.
Mrs. Miller died Wednesday. She was 71.
Mrs. Miller began sewing clothes for her children as a means to save money, but she developed a real passion for outfitting brides, bridesmaids and flower girls.
"Girls from all over the Tri-State would come to mom to make their dresses," her daughter said.
Mrs. Miller would shop for fabric with the brides-to-be, customize the dresses without the help of patterns and rush to church to fix any last-minute, wedding-gown calamity.
Just hours before her death, Mrs. Miller asked her daughter to contact the brides-to-be whose gowns she would be unable to finish.
"I called these girls (Wednesday) morning, and it was the most amazing thing," Ms. Davis said. "No one was concerned about their dress. They didn't care about the dress. They all started crying about my mom."
Other survivors include her husband of 52 years, Beckham Miller; a son, Monte Miller of Taylor Mill; daughters, Becky Goodman of Williamstown, and Danae Bryant of Independence; brothers, Tommy Duncan of Warsaw and Dan Duncan of Grapevine, Texas ; a half-brother, Donald O'Connor of Warsaw; and seven grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Allison and Rose Funeral Home in Taylor Mill.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Memorials are suggested to Sunny Acres United Methodist Church, 5160 Taylor Mill Road, Taylor Mill, Ky. 41015; or St. Elizabeth Medical Center Cardiac Unit, 1 Medical Village Drive, Edgewood, Ky. 41017.
Date of announcement: 08-16-2001
ANDRE ANDERSON, 39, of Westwood, died Aug. 8. He was a laborer. Services: 10 a .m. today at Morning Star Baptist Church, Walnut Hills. Visitation: 9 a.m. at the church. Renfro & Piper Funeral Home, Avondale, i s handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 08-16-2001
JOHN C. 'JACK' BAUER, 83, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Tuesday. He was a meter reader with Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co. and an ordained minister. Services: 1 p.m. EDT Saturday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrencebu rg. Visitation: 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Memorials: Ludlow Hill Nazarene Church.
Date of announcement: 08-16-2001
ROBERT DONALD DAVIS, 68, of Springfield Township, died Sunday. He was a property manager. Services: Noon Monday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Forest Park. Visitation: 11 a.m. Monday at the funeral h ome.
Date of announcement: 08-16-2001
STEVEN J. McBEATH, 40, of Batesville, Ind., formerly of Yorkville, Ind., died Tuesday. Services: 10 a.m. EDT Saturday at Andres-Wuestefeld Funeral Home, Highway 1, Dover, Ind. Visitation: 6-9 p.m. EDT Friday at the funeral home. Memorials: Ronald McDonald House.
Date of announcement: 08-16-2001
BOBBY R. MORRIS, 61, of Canaan, Ind., died Tuesday. He was a retired mill operator for Holm Industries, Inc., Scottsburg, Ind. Services: 11 a.m. EST Friday at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Canaan. Visitati on: 5 to 8 p.m. EST today at Morgan-Nay Funeral Home, Madison, Ind., and 10 a.m. Friday at the church. Memorials: Mount Pl easant Cemetery Association.
Date of announcement: 08-16-2001
JOSEPH MARK 'JOE' PARHAM, 50, of Florence, Ind., died Tuesday. He owned and operated Midwest Boering Inc. since 1981 and served as its president. He was a former lineman for the Norfolk-Western Rail System and was for 15 years a journeyman, milplwright, welder and pipe fitter for the Great Lakes Steel Co. Services: 11 a.m. EST Friday at Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home, 208 Ferry St., Vevay, Ind. Visitation: 5-8 p.m. EST today at the funeral home. Memorials: American Cancer Society.
Date of announcement: 08-16-2001
James Wheeler, ex-Norwood recreation chief
James C. Wheeler, a former president of the Norwood Recreation Commission and the first civilian head of the Norwood Auxiliary Police Force, died Tuesday at Hospice of Cincinnati after an extended illness.
Mr. Wheeler, 79, was a Norwood resident for more than 50 years. During World War II, he piloted a B-17 bomber and flew 22 missions, was shot down twice and eventually held as a prisoner of war. He earned the Disting uished Flying Cross, Distinguished Service Medal and the Purple Heart.
After the war, he owned his own custom jewelry manufacturing firm.
Mr. Wheeler was a past master of Henry Barnes Lodge No. 607 F&AM in Dayton, Ky., and a past grand commander of Newport, Ky., No. 13 Knights Templar. He was a past master of the York Rite Bodies, a member of the Scott ish Rite, Valley of Covington and was a holder of the York Grand Cross of Honor.
Survivors include his wife, Dolores Krumpelman Wheeler; sons, Norwood Police Capt. Michael F . Wheeler and Sgt. Gregory B. Wheeler, both of Norwood; a daughter, Paula Ann Gardner; a brother, John T. Wheeler; and six grandchildren.
Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary Cemetery Chapel, St. Bernard. Visitation: 6 to 9 tonight at Naegele Kleb & Ihlendorf Funeral Home, Norwood. Memorials: Shriners Hospitals for Children or Knights Templar E ye Foundation, in care of Jim Atwood, 105 Lynn Ave., Munfordsville, Ky. 42765.
Date of announcement: 08-17-2001
CLARA MILLER, 89, of Norwood, died Monday. She was a homemaker. Services: 11 a .m. Monday at First Baptist Church, Walnut Hills. Visitation: 10 a.m. Monday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home i s handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 08-17-2001
BETTY TABOR, 77, of Deer Park, died Tuesday. She was a nurse's aide. Mass: 9 a. m. Saturday at St. Aloysius Catholic Church, Columbus, Ohio. Visitation: 7 to 9 tonight at Spears Funeral Home, 2693 W. Broad St., Co lumbus.
Date of announcement: 08-17-2001
MARGARET MARY WAGNER, 79, of Bethel, died Wednesday. She was a retired social worker with the Clermont County Health Department, a member of St. Mary Church in Bethel and a former member of the Williamsburg Life S quad. Mass: 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Mary Church, Bethel. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Hom e, Bethel. Memorials: Ohio Parkinson's Disease Foundation, 325 North St., Fairborn, Ohio 45324, or St. Mary Church.
Date of announcement: 08-17-2001
ELIZABETH LEE ZANDERS, 77, of Mount Healthy, died Tuesday. She was a licensed practical nurse with Christ Hospital. Services: 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Renfro & Piper Funeral Home, Avondale. Visitation: 11:30 a.m. S aturday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 08-17-2001
Margaret H. Morris, North Bend
Margaret Horton Morris of North Bend co-founded the first Girl Scout troop in the area in the early 1940s.
Mrs. Morris died Friday at Mercy Franciscan Hospital-Western Hills. She was 93.
Mrs. Morris, a longtime resident of North Bend, was born in 1907 on the John Aston Warder estate overlooking the Ohio River.
She was one of 13 students, all girls, who made up the Miami Township Union High School's class of 1925, its last graduating class before being replaced by Taylor High School in North Bend.
In 1929, she married Howard Morris, and in 1930, they bought the house on Taylor Avenue that would be her home for the next 71 years.
With her husband's brother Charles and his wife, Rella, they ran Morris Brothers Market from 1957 to 1972.
"They made deliveries and extended credit," said her daughter, Esther Montague of North Bend. "As recently as a few months ago, she was receiving an occasional $5 bill in the mail from a grateful customer."
When she was in her 70s, she was a part-time custodian for her church, North Bend United Methodist Church, and delivered Meals on Wheels.
She pursued her hobbies - baking, sewing, fishing and gardening - well into her 80s.
Other survivors include her son, Richard Morris of Harrison; five grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
Private burial will be followed by a memorial service at 10:30 a.m. Monday at North Bend United Methodist Church, 123 Symmes Ave.
Date of announcement: 08-18-2001
ELLA VIRGINIA ALLEN, 82, of Walnut Hills, died Friday. Ms. Allen was a homemaker. Services: 7 p.m. Tuesday at Bethel AME Church, 700 Mulberry, Lockland, Ohio. Visitation: 6 p.m. Tuesday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 08-18-2001
MARY O. WEBB, 67, of Rising Sun, Ind., died Thursday. Ms. Webb was a retired bookkeeper for Aylor & Meyer Inc., Aurora. Services: 10 a.m. EDT Monday at Markland Funeral Home, Rising Sun. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. EDT Sunday at the funeral home. Memorials: Dearborn County Home Health & Hospice, Rising Sun First Baptist Church, or donor's choice.
Date of announcement: 08-18-2001
AILEEN O. WHITING, 91, of McKinleyville, Calif., formerly of Hyde Park, died Thursday. She was the daughter of Cincinnati industrialist Harry L. Olden, founder of many of the city's original youth oriented organizations and the Cincinnati Eye Bank. She and her late husband, Bill Whiting, continued in her father's philanthropic footsteps and developed new charitable directions of their own. The Cincinnati Zoo, CREW (Center for Reproduction of Endangered Wildlife) and ACRES (Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species) were among their favored causes. Private graveside services: 1 p.m. Monday at Vine Street Cemetery for the immediate family. There is no visitation. Arrangements: Elden A. Good Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 08-18-2001
Stephen Schneider, Franciscan friar for 70 years
Father Stephen Schneider, 89, a Franciscan friar for 70 years who continued to serve as a spiritual adviser and part-time chaplain even after retiring at age 86 to St. Anthony Friary in Mount Airy, died Sunda y.
"He was a legend among us," said Father Valens Waldschmidt of St. Clement Friary. "He spent his whole priestly life as a very caring pastor.
"He helped many people by his counseling and spiritual care of them. He was a man who met people easily and made many friends.
"Although he was retired, he just kept on working. He really never gave up. He said he was ordained to serve."
A native of Hamilton, Ohio, Father Stephen, as he was known, entered the Order of Friars in 1931 and was ordained in 1939. He served as pastor or assistant pastor in six states.
Locally, he was pastor of St. George Parish in Corryville, Corpus Christi in New Burlington, St. Stephen's in Hamilton and St. Louis Parish in Batesville, Ind.
While he ostensibly retired three years ago, he continued to serve as spiritual adviser to various secular Franciscan groups and was part-time chaplain to the Sisters of Charity at Mount St. Joseph.
Two days before his death, he declined an invitation to a golf outing, saying he was too busy working on a homily. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Saturday and died Sunday.
Survivors include several nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at St. Anthony Shrine in Mount Airy, followed by funeral services at 7:30 p.m.
Boehmer & Sons Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 08-20-2001
