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ALVA BERYL HODGSON, 83, of Mt. Orab, Ohio., died Tuesday. She was a domestic worker. Services: 11 a.m. Friday at Thompson-Stevens Funeral Home, Mt. Orab. Visitation: 10 a.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 11-26-1997
ALMA LUELLA HOOK, 86, of Sheboygan, Wis., and formerly of Georgetown, Ohio, died Tuesday. She was a former teacher. Services: 1 p.m. Monday at Georgetown Presbyterian Church, 401 S. Main St., Georgetown. Visitation: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday at the church. Arrangements are being handled by the Cahall Funeral Home, Georgetown.
Date of announcement: 11-26-1997
ROBERT LEE KAUTZ, 79, of Georgetown, Ohio, died Nov. 25. He was a former owner of the Georgetown Nursing Home and a World War II veteran. Services: 11 a.m. Monday at Cahall Funeral Home, Georgetown. Visitation: 6-8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Memorials: Carey Bavis American Legion Post #180, S. Main Street, Georgetown.
Date of announcement: 11-26-1997
LEONARD LICHLYTER, 69, of Hanover, Ind., died Tuesday. He was the retired owner of Lichlyter Building Supply in Madison, Ind. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at Hanover United Methodist Church. Visitation: 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at Morgan-Webster-Nay Funeral Home, Madison, and 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday at the church.
Date of announcement: 11-26-1997
DR. GEORGE E. MCCARLEY, 70, of Georgetown, Ohio, died Tuesday. He was an optometrist. Services: 2 p.m. Sunday at the church. Visitation: 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Cahall Funeral Home, Georgetown. Memorials: To the church, or Hamersville Life Squad.
Date of announcement: 11-26-1997
MARY LOU SPARKS, 76, of Young Harris, Ga., formerly of Fayetteville, Ohio, died Monday. Services: 10 a.m. Saturday at Susan B. Harris Chapel at Young Harris College, College Street.
Date of announcement: 11-26-1997
Martin Essex, former state superintendent
Martin W. Essex, former state superintendent of public instruction, died in Columbus Thursday. He was 89.
Mr. Essex held the state post for 10 years before retiring in 1977. He also was president of both the American Association of School Administrators and the Council of State Superintendents.
"He bridged the gap between local and state schools at a very high level," said William Bainbridge, who served as administrative assistant to Mr. Essex from 1969 to 1974. "I believe that Martin Essex was 20 to 30 years ahead of his time in his understanding of the problems of American schools and his understanding of some policy type solutions."
Mr. Essex helped bring about changes in occupational education, education for the disabled, career counseling and teacher education.
He also was a driving force in establishing vocational education in Ohio and campaigning
for an elected state board of education, said Robert Bowers, assistant superintendent of public instruction from 1970-76.
He leaves his wife, Blanche. Funeral arrangements are pending.
Date of announcement: 11-28-1997
GERALD LANDON CURRY, 69, of Dillsboro, Ind., died Thursday. He was a World War II Army veteran who worked 44 years for Seagram's. Services: 11 a.m. Monday at Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home, Vevay, Ind. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday and 8 a.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 11-28-1997
Ruth Harrison Sullivan, poet, teacher
Ruth Harrison Sullivan, a poet and descendant of former U.S. President William Henry Harrison, died Sunday at age 85.
Christmas poems were regular gifts from Mrs. Sullivan, also a retired elementary school teacher who lived in Williamstown, Ky.
"She wrote us a Christmas poem every year. She was a special person," said Mrs. Sullivan's nephew, Terry Gillespie of Dry Ridge.
Mrs. Sullivan graduated from high school at age 16, and was also a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University, her nephew said. She taught in one-room schools at Jonesville and Stewardsville in Grant County. She also taught at the Heekin School, which was on her own great-grandfather's farm in Grant County.
Mrs. Sullivan also was a descendant of Grant County pioneers, said Gillespie. She was born in a house that dated to an ancestor's 1840 land grant.
Other survivors are two nieces.
Services: 2 p.m. Tuesday at Elliston-Stanley Funeral Home, Williamstown. Visitation: 11 a.m. Tuesday. Memorials: to the American Diabetes. Association, the church, or charity of choice.
Date of announcement: 12-01-1997
BARBARA BREITENBACH, 50, Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Friday. Ms. Breitenbach was a homemaker. Services: 10 a.m. Tuesday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home in Lawrenceburg. Visitation: 5 to 8 tonight at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 12-01-1997
DAVID RICHARD BROWN, 91, Bethel, Ohio, died Friday. Mr. Brown was a farmer. Mass: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. George Church, Georgetown. Visitation: 6 to 8 tonight at Cahall Funeral Home, Georgetown.
Date of announcement: 12-01-1997
FRANK NARED SR., 80, Xenia, Ohio, died Thursday. An Army veteran of World War II, Mr. Nared was retired from the Department of Defense Supply Agency. Services: 11 a.m. Tuesday at Middlerun Baptist Church, Xenia. Visitation: 9 a.m. Tuesday at the church. Arrangements: McLin Funeral Home, Dayton, Ohio.
Date of announcement: 12-01-1997
CARLTON SIZEMORE, 72, Fayetteville, died Saturday. Mr. Sizemore was retired from' Wilmington Forest Products. Services: Noon Tuesday at Thompson-Stevens Funeral Home, Mt. Orab. Visitation: 10 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorials: Fayetteville Fires Department or Life Squad.
Date of announcement: 12-01-1997
VIVIAN L. TRACY WRIGHT, 63, Hanover, Ind., died Friday. A homemaker, Ms. Wright was a former lab technician with Kings Daughters Hospital and Madison Clinic, both in Madison, Ind. Services: 11 a.m. Tuesday at Morgan-Webster-Nay Funeral Home in Madison. Visitation: 5 to 8 tonight, and 9 a.m. Tuesday until time of services at the funeral home. Memorials: American Heart Association.
Date of announcement: 12-01-1997
Sister Miriam Regina, taught home economics
Sister Miriam Regina Powell, a Sister of Charity who taught home economics for 40 years, died Friday at Mother Margaret Hall nursing home in Delhi Township. She was 92.
Sister Miriam Regina received a bachelor's degree in home economics from the College of Mount St. Joseph in 1925 and held the distinction of being the oldest living graduate of the college.
She and her sister, Sister Miriam Teresa Powell, who died in 1990, were the first twins to become Sisters of Charity. They entered the order in 1929.
Sister Miriam Regina be gan teaching at Mount St. Joseph Academy, Cincinnati, from 1929 to 1938, and was director of home economics at the College of Mount St. Joseph from 1938 to 1956. She also earned a master's degree in nutrition from Columbia University.
After teaching in Denver, Cleveland and South Holland, Ill., she returned to Cincinnati in 1975 to work as an information clerk at Good Samaritan Hospital. She retired in 1980.
Mass: 2 p.m. Wednesday at Sisters of Charity motherhouse chapel, Delhi Township. Visitation: noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Sisters of Charity Heritage Room.
Date of announcement: 12-02-1997
Robert Robinson, former detective
Robert Earl Robinson, 72, who had been a detective sergeant with the Springdale Police Department, died Saturday.
Mr. Robinson, of Dry Ridge, Ky., was a member of Eastern Hamilton County Fraternal Order of Police No. 74. He also was a member of the Lockland Church of the Nazarene.
Services will be at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Elliston-Stanley Funeral Home, Williamstown, Ky., and 11 a.m. Saturday at Lockland Church of the Nazarene.
Date of announcement: 12-02-1997
ELLA DIBBLE, 89, Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Sunday. Arrangements: Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg.
Date of announcement: 12-02-1997
KENDALL K. FROHRIEP, 34, Guilford, Ind., died Wednesday. Mrs. Frohriep was a homemaker. Arrangements: Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg, Ind.
Date of announcement: 12-02-1997
CALVIN Johnson SR., 61, Bond Hill, died Thursday. Services: 1 p.m. Thursday at Hall-Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills. Visitation: noon Thursday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 12-02-1997
GENE T. RAY, 64, Madison, Ind., died Friday. Mr. Ray was retired from the Indiana-Kentucky Electric Corp. Services: 11 a.m. Wednesday at Calvary Baptist Church, Madison. Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. today at Morgan-Webster-Nay Funeral Home, Madison, and 9 a.m. Wednesday at the church.
Date of announcement: 12-02-1997
LEROY SHERRILL, 78, Amberley Village, died Friday. A Ko rean War veteran, Mr. Sherrill was a construction worker. Services: 11 a.m. Friday at Hall-Jordan Funeral Home, Silverton. Visitation: 10 a.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 12-02-1997
