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Norman Tribble, civil rights leader
Norman Chenault Tribble, 76, of the West End, died Wednesday at Jewish Hospital.
Known as "Cadillac Trib" to his friends, he was an administrator on the Hamilton County Board of Elections for 32 years, and was the first African-American to be administrator and an employee in the board's office.
Mr. Tribble also was a former president of the St. Vincent DePaul Society, a civil rights activist who helped integrate many Cincinnati institutions, a Democratic Party worker and for many years a volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America.
Survivors include nine children, 26 grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren.
Mass: 1 p.m. Monday at St. Joseph Church, West End. Visitation: noon to 1 p.m. Monday at the church. Memorials: to the church. Arrangements: Jamison & Jamison Jr. Funeral Home. Memorials: St. Joseph Church.
Date of announcement: 04-26-1997
HARRIET M. MOORE COOKE, 96, of Indianapolis and formerly of Cincinnati, died Thursday. Mrs. Cooke was a retired organ player and former Sunday school teacher. Services: 2 p.m. Tuesday at Forest Chapel United Methodist Church, Cincinnati. Arrangements: Cremation Society of Indiana, Indianapolis.
Date of announcement: 04-26-1997
PAULINE GRAY, 75, of Northside, died Wednesday. Ms. Gray was a volunteer at Senior Companion of Cincinnati and a retired housekeeper at the Cincinnatian Hotel. Mass: 7 p.m. Monday at St. Joseph Church, West End. Visitation: 5 p.m. Monday at the church. Arrangements: Hall-Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills.
Date of announcement: 04-26-1997
JOHN R. KIRKPATRICK, 56, of Waldron, Ind., died Friday. Services: 11 a.m. EDT Monday at Rullman Funeral Home, Aurora. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. EDT Sunday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-26-1997
Rose L. Greene followed in her mother's footsteps and launched her nursing career in Cincinnati by working at Children's Hospital Medical Center. They both loved babies and small children, and made care of children their specialties.
Mrs. Greene, 86, a retired nurse from Florence, Ky., died Friday.
She and her husband, Gilby Greene, were married for 58 years. He served for many years on Florence City Council.
Mrs. Greene also worked at St. Elizabeth Medical Center North.
"Children and babies were a specialty. It's what she loved. She worked with newborns and with premature babies," said her daughter, Jane Piercefield.
Mrs. Greene leaves another daughter, JaNelle Lopresti; son, Gary Greene; sister, Louise Rose; 11 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Services: 10 a.m. Tuesday at Florence Baptist Church. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. today at Stith Funeral Home, Florence. Memorials: Florence Baptist Church or Alzheimer's Disease Association.
Date of announcement: 04-28-1997
LILLIAN KRAUS, 82, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., formerly of Dover, Ind., died Saturday. She was a member of Dearborn Adult Center. Mass: 12:15 p.m. EDT Tuesday at St. John Church, Dover. Visitation: 10 a.m. to noon EST Tuesday at Andres-Wuestefeld Funeral Home, Dover. Memorials: charity of donor's choice.
Date of announcement: 04-28-1997
CLIFFORD A. NORRIS, 91, of Williamsburg, Ohio, died Friday. He was retired from General Motors. Services: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Thompson-Stevens Funeral Home, Mt. Orab, Ohio. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorials: Alzheimer's Disease Association or Clermont County Senior Services.
Date of announcement: 04-28-1997
Ethel Edwards, 80, gave lifelong voice to activism
Ethel Edwards, writer, activist, champion of women's rights, nuclear protester, defender of the homeless and the underdog, and longtime writer of letters to the editor of The Cincinnati Post, died Friday at the Clifton Villa Nursing Home, Clifton.
She was 80, and until the last few months, engaged in vigorous public debate with no-nonsense positions on everything from City Council's campaign expenditures (which she considered outrageous) to tax levies, to the abortion question.
Ms. Edwards was born in a log cabin in Arkansas' Ozark Mountains.
"I got more education than most hillbilly girls," she told Post reporter Camilla Warrick in 1993. "But there weren't many choices. You could be a nurse, teacher or prostitute. None appealed to me."
Instead, after just two years of formal schooling, Ms. Edwards went on to the University of Arkansas at the age of 14 and graduated at 17, according to friend and former daughter-in-law, Mary Ann Curtis.
"She worked her way through college by plucking chickens and doing term papers for other students," Ms. Curtis said.
After college, Ms. Edwards sold everything from books to linens. She arrived in Cincinnati in 1938, where her championing of workers led her to work as a union negotiator. When she met her husband, Douglas Morriss, then with the Kroger Co., they were on opposite sides of labor negotiations.
They married in the early 1940s but later divorced.
In the meantime, Ms. Edwards also pursued a writing career and began her visible civic activism. She worked here to integrate Coney Island and protested nuclear weapons. She was outraged when a judge in Oklahoma would not jail her for trespassing at a nuclear plant in 1978, citing her age and health.
"Made me mad as hell," she said.
Ms. Edwards wrote the autobiographical books, "Bare Mountain," about her mountain childhood, and "Ringside Seat on Revolution."
Long a resident of Duluth Street in North Avondale, Mrs. Edwards later lived at the downtown YWCA. She was honored by the Cincinnati Chapter of the Older Women's League and was awarded the Maurice McCrackin Peace and Justice Award.
Ms. Edwards said she demonstrated because "I must. Silence gives consent. If you think something is wrong, you have an obligation to speak out."
Besides, she said, "I'd just as soon have a lively little fight as not."
Ms. Edwards leaves a daughter, Diana Strosnine of Richfield, Wisc.; son, Douglas Morriss of Cincinnati; a sister, Louise Smith of Oklahoma; brothers, Harold and Bill Edwards, of California; and six grandchildren.
Services: 3 p.m. May 10 at the Quaker Friends Meeting, 3960 Winding Way, North Avondale.
Date of announcement: 04-29-1997
Monsignor James Krusling, pastor
Rev. Monsignor James L. Krusling, former teacher at Elder High School and pastor emeritus of St. Helen Parish in Dayton, Ohio, died Sunday. He was 91.
He taught at Elder for 10 years before serving as an Army chaplain during World War II.
He was a former pastor of St. Francis de Sales Church in Lebanon, Ohio, and associate pastor of St. Andrew Parish, Milford. In 1953, Monsignor Krusling was responsible for the formation of St. Helen Parish, serving as its administrator until 1976. After his retirement in 1986, he became chaplain of the SEM Villa community in Milford.
He leaves a niece, Libby Meiners, of Green Township.
Mass: 2 p.m. Wednesday at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral, downtown. Visitation: 12:30 p.m. at the cathedral. Arrangements: Tufts Schildmeyer Funeral Home, Loveland.
Date of announcement: 04-29-1997
Roberta Benz, led Batesville
Roberta J. "Bobbie Jean" Benz, the first female mayor of Batesville, Ind., died April 12. She was 54.
"She was just a class act all the way," said Batesville's current mayor, Bill Abplanalp, a Republican who recalls the Democrat fondly.
She served as mayor from 1980 to 1984, and led at a time the town was undergoing a growth explosion that required new streets and a wastewater treatment plant. Her grandfather, Andrew Benz, also had been mayor.
She leaves brothers, Andrew Benz of Connersville, Ind., and William Benz of Batesville; sisters Peggy Benz of Coconut Creek, Fla., and Mikiel Hull of Greensburg, Ind.
Services: 10:30 a.m. EST Saturday at Weigel Funeral Home, Batesville. Visitation: 9 to 10:30 a.m. EST Saturday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-29-1997
GAIL L. BLOCK, 68, of Dillsboro, Ind., died Sunday. She was retired from Dillsboro Manor. Services: 2 p.m. EDT Thursday at Ulrich-Filter Funeral Home, Dillsboro. Visitation: 6 to 9 p.m. EDT Wednesday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-29-1997
TREVAUGHN MARVAN ANTWAN ESSEX, 4, of Forest Park, died Monday. Services: noon Wednesday at Quinn Chapel AME, Forest Park. Visitation: 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church. Arrangements: Hall-Jordan Funeral Home, Lockland.
Date of announcement: 04-29-1997
NORMA G. HARLOW, 95, of Bethel, Ohio, died Tuesday. Ms. Harlow was a teacher at Perintown School. Services: 3 p.m. Wednesday at Bethel United Methodist Church. Visitation: 2 p.m. Wednesday at the church. Arrangements: Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel.
Date of announcement: 04-29-1997
CLAUDE "BUCKY" NEAL, 87, of Georgetown, Ohio, died Tuesday. Mr. Neal was a farmer. Services: 1 p.m. Wednesday at Cahall Funeral Home, Georgetown. Visitation: 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-29-1997
