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Mildred T. Smith, headed Mitchell Centre
Mildred Taylor Smith, executive director of the William A. Mitchell Centre, and Outstanding Woman in Cincinnati for the International Women's Year in 1975, died Thursday. She was 85.
Mrs. Smith taught for years in Kansas before coming to the Cincinnati area in 1952. From 1958-61, she was an educational associate with the Social Hygiene Society in Cincinnat. She began work at the Mitchell Centre in 1965.
Mrs. Smith, a licensed psychologist, had her biography printed in Community Leaders and Noteworthy Americans, the World's Who's Who of Women, Dictionary of International Biography, Who's Who in the Midwest and Who's Who in Health Care.
She was a member of the National Federation of Music Clubs and the Cincinnati YWCA and had served on the management board and advisory board of the former Edgecliff College.
Mrs. Smith was a member of the Indian Hill chapter of Daughters of American Revo lution and the Women's City Club of Cincinnati.
She also was president of the Ohio division of American Association of University Women. Other memberships included: Ohio Roster of Women, Ohioana Library Association, Women's State Committee of Ohio and the Jewish Community Center Forum.
Services: 10 a.m. Thursday at Church of the Advent. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Elden A. Good Funeral Home, Hyde Park.
Date of announcement: 05-24-1997
Reverend Wayland E. Melton
The Rev. Wayland Edward Melton, 48, a former Cincinnati Episcopal priest and chaplain at Children's Hospital, died Monday after a brief hospitalization in Philadelphia.
He left Cincinnati last year to become dean of the Cathedral of the Diocese of Philadelphia.
Between 1976 and 1982, he was assistant and then rector at the Church of Our Saviour. Before becoming rector of Grace Church in 1990, he was associate director of clinical pastoral care and counseling at Children's Hospital.
Active in the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio, he chaired the Liturgical Commission
Over the years, Rev. Melton also served a congregation in Knoxville, Tenn. and worked in campus ministry.
A 1976 graduate of the General Theological Seminary in New York, Rev. Melton was ordained deacon in the Diocese of Philadelphia and late ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio.
Working at an agency for homeless black children in Cincinnati, he began urging his Mt. Auburn congregation to adopt children.
"I couldn't preach what I didn't practice, so I looked into single-parent adoption," he once told The Cincinnati Post.
He adopted two brothers, then later adopted the boys' two sisters. He also adopted a fifth child, a boy.
He is survived by the five, and his mother, Marian.
A date for a memorial service has not been set.
Date of announcement: 05-24-1997
Joseph Fussner, 101, carpenter
Joseph Adam Fussner, 101, was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1918 and served in France during World War I as a supply sergeant.
He died at his Mt. Washington home Thursday.
"He was popular at the senior center because he loved to tell jokes," said his son, Richard Fussner, of Anderson Township.
"He carried 3x5 index cards in his pocket and he'd pull them out and tell the jokes on them. He just liked to have a good time, singing and joking."
Born in Cincinnati's West End, Fussner married the girl almost-next door.
"Mom lived two doors down from him," Richard Fussner said of his mother, Marie. "She was 18, he was 22. They married in 1922 and she died in '79. They were married for 57 years."
A carpenter by trade, Fussner was forced to give up his livelihood - and ability to drive - because of an injury.
"He worked up until he was 90. The only reason he stopped was because he fell and broke his hip," Richard Fussner said.
Fussner also was part of a 1993 ceremony when Ohio Gov. George Voinovich awarded each World War I veteran a certificate recognizing their service during the war at the Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame ceremony in Cincinnati.
Fussner was a member of Guardian Angels Catholic Church and American Legion Post 318 in Anderson Township and the Mt. Washington VFW Post 3627.
He also is survived by son Tom of Moscow, Ohio, and daughters Mary Louise of Withamsville and Mary Joan of Lawrenceburg, Ind.
Mass of Christian Burial is 10 a.m. Tuesday at Guardian Angels Catholic Church. No visitation.
T.P. White & Sons Funeral Home, Mt. Washington, is in charge of arrangements.
Date of announcement: 05-24-1997
Paul N. Buchman, insurance man
Paul N. Buchman, 86, of Mt. Washington, died Thursday.
He was an insurance agent with New York Life insurance company for more than 45 years, and was associated with the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles for 10 years.
He and his wife Lucille were active in the Mt. Washington Presbyterian Church. He also was a member of the Mt. Washington Republican Club; Hoffner Lodge 253 Free and Accepted Masons and Syrian Shrine Temple.
He was elected Potentate of Syrian Temple in 1974 and later served at President of the Ohio Shrine Association.
He also was a drummer with Chick Cain's Orchestra.
Services: 10 a.m. Wednesday at Elden A. Good Funeral Home, 2620 Erie Ave. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorials: Shriners Burns Institute.
Date of announcement: 05-24-1997
SISTER DOROTHY MARIE BOCKHORST, 96, of Sister of St. Francis, Oldenburg, Ind., died Thursday. She was a teacher. Mass: 3 p.m. EST Tuesday at Sisters of St. Francis Motherhouse Chapel, Oldenburg. Visitation: 1 p.m. EST Tuesday at the chapel. Arrangements: Weigel Funeral Home, Batesville, Ind.
Date of announcement: 05-24-1997
MARY EVELYN COPPLE, of Higginsport, Ohio, died Thursday. Ms. Copple was a homemaker. Services: 2 p.m. today at Cahall Funeral Home, Ripley, Ohio. Visitation: 1 to 2 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 05-24-1997
PAUL BARNETT HODGES, 79, of Wyoming, died Wednes day. Services: 11 a.m. Tuesday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Woodlawn. Visitation: 10 a.m. Tuesday at the church. Arrangements: Hall-Jordan Funeral Home, Lockland.
Date of announcement: 05-24-1997
IDA MAE MULLER, 83, of New Richmond, Ohio, died Thursday. Services: 1 p.m. Tuesday at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel, Ohio. Visitation: 11 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorials: Laurel United Methodist Church.
Date of announcement: 05-24-1997
VIRGINIA A. REDWINE, 83, of Birmingham, Mich., formerly of Norwood, died Thursday. She was a member of Grace United Methodist Church in Cincinnati. Services: 11 a.m. Tuesday at Walnut Hills Cemetery. Memorials: American Cancer Society. Arrangements: William R. Hamilton Co. Funeral Directors, Birmingham.
Date of announcement: 05-24-1997
Charles Wildman, loved teaching
When Thomas More College assistant professor Charles L. Wildman learned he was dying of cancer he continued to do what he always loved - teach.
"He told everyone to take care of their health and to listen to their bodies," said Mr. Wildman's brother, Brian.
The 35-year-old educator died of adrenal cancer Friday at his parents' home in Oxford, Ohio.
Even facing death Mr. Wildman steadfastly held to his teaching role, one that had won him numerous awards and praise wherever he worked.
"Students were probably the most important thing to him in his life," Brian Wildman said of his brother.
Mr. Wildman, of Covington, earned a master's degree in business administration from Miami University and Ph.D in finance from Penn State University.
Mr. Wildman had been honored with the Fred Brand Jr. Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Beta Gamma Sigma National Business Honorary Award for Excellence in Teaching. He twice received the Bob Johnson Award for Outstanding Alumni Service to the fraternity.
He also leaves his wife, Jennifer; parents, Charles and Nancy; and another brother, T. Greg.
Services: 4 p.m. Wednesday at Miami University Sesquicentennial Chapel, Oxford. Memorials: Christ Hospital Cancer Center or Thomas More College, c/o Wildman Scholarship Fund.
Date of announcement: 05-27-1997
