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Thelma Womack, downtown restaurateur
Retired restaurateur Thelma Womack, 94, who operated three popular Cincinnati restaurants, died Dec. 9 in Tennessee.
Mrs. Womack began in her teens as a clerk in an East End grocery store.
Her first restaurant, B&C at Eighth and Vine streets near the old Capitol and Schubert theaters, was popular with show business people in the 1930s and 1940s. It later was named Bauer's.
When she and her late husband, Owen, opened Womack's on Eighth Street in 1948, it became a favorite place for newspaper and broadcast journal ists. A decade later, the couple relocated the restaurant on Main Street near the Hamilton County Courthouse. It drew judges, attorneys and office workers.
After her husband's death in 1963, Ms. Womack and her son, Steve, continued the business but closed it in 1965.
Other survivors are two grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held 11 a.m. Saturday at Mt. Washington Baptist Church, 2021 Sutton Ave., with the family receiving visitors afterwards in the church fellowship hall.
Sister Mary Ellen Smith, 57-year educator
Sister Mary Ellen Smith, a teacher and principal whose career spanned 57 years, died Monday at the Mother Margaret Hall nursing home in Delhi Township. She was 85.
"Sister Mary Ellen was a marvelous teacher and was very well-liked," said Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Katherine Hoelscher, a former student. "Thanks to Sister Mary Ellen, we were very well prepared for high school. She gave us a firm foundation in math and language."
Sister Mary Ellen, who was a member of the order 69 years, began her career in 1931 at St. Rose School and also taught at Resurrection, St. Elizabeth, Holy Cross, Annunciation and St. William schools; and in Sidney, Middletown, and Chillicothe, Ohio. She served as principal of St. Martin de Porres and St. Patrick schools in Cincinnati.
Mass: 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the motherhouse chapel, Delhi Township. Visitation: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the chapel.
Date of announcement: 12-16-1997
IMOGENE MAE CARTER, 82, of Bethel, Ohio, died Saturday. She was an operator for Cincinnati Bell. Services: 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 12-16-1997
ALICE INEZ COX, 82, of New Richmond, Ohio, died Sunday. She was a homemaker. Services: 2 p.m. Wednesday at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel. Visitation: 1 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 12-16-1997
LOTTIE EDDINS, 86, of Walnut Hills, died Friday. Ms. Eddins was a homemaker. Services: 11 a.m. Wednesday at Thompson, Hall-Jordan Funeral Home in Walnut Hills. Visitation: 10 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 12-16-1997
GLADYS FRAZEE, 96, of Bethel, Ohio, died Saturday. Ms. Frazee was a cook for Bethel-Tate Schools. Services: noon Wednesday at Bethel Baptist Church, Bethel. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. today at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel.
Date of announcement: 12-16-1997
MARGARET C. GRUBBS, 84, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., formerly of Harrison, died Sunday. Ms. Grubbs was a retired school library custodian. Services: 2 p.m. Wednesday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 12-16-1997
HELEN HARRIS, 68, of Mt. Orab, Ohio, died Monday. She was a homemaker. Services: 1 p.m. Thursday at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 12-16-1997
HELEN SCARFF HENSON, 79, of Madison, Ind., died Saturday. Ms. Henson worked at Boggess Grocery Store. Mass: 11 a.m. Wednesday at Prince of Peace Church, Madison. Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. today at Morgan-Webster-Nay Funeral Home, Madison.
Date of announcement: 12-16-1997
PERCY GRANVILLE PRYOR, 91, of Avondale, died Sunday. Services: 7:30 p.m. today at Allen Temple AME Church, Roselawn. Visitation: 6 p.m. today at the church. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall Jordan is in charge of arrangements.
Date of announcement: 12-16-1997
HENRY TEEPEN SCHLACHTER, 86, of Birmingham, Mich., formerly of Cincinnati, died Friday. He was an auto manufacturer's representative. Services: 9:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Regis Church, Clawson, Mich. Arrangements: Lynch and Sons Funeral Home, Clawson.
Date of announcement: 12-16-1997
Betty J. Canter, home economics teacher
Betty J. Canter, 55, a home economics teacher at Western-Brown High School, died Monday.
Mrs. Canter, of Bethel, Ohio, leaves her husband, Russel Canter; daughter, Tammy Holbrook of Michigan; son, Thomas Ellis of Cincinnati; stepsons, Rick Canter of Bethel and Russell Canter of Cincinnati; brothers, William, Jesse and Jim Rowe; sisters, Ruth Ann Blanton, Barbara Gafford and Marci Clifford; and three grandchildren.
Services: 10:30 a.m. Friday at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel. Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorials: Children's Hospital Medical Center, in memory of Hannah Ellis.
Date of announcement: 12-18-1997
EDNA E. ANDREWS, 77, of Mt. Pleasant Ridge, Ind., died Wednesday. She was a homemaker. Services: 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Andres-Wuestefeld Funeral Home, Dover, Ind. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Memorials: Bright Lions Club, Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Association, or charity of donor's choice.
Date of announcement: 12-18-1997
KIMBERLY M. BARTON, 32, of Cincinnati, died Dec 8. Services: 10 a.m. Saturday at New Prospect Baptist Church, Over-the-Rhine. Visitation: 9 a.m. Saturday at the church. Arrangements: Jamison & Jamison Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 12-18-1997
JACQUELINE BOSTIC, 47, of Clifton, died Monday. Ms. Bostic was employed at Star Bank. Services: noon Saturday at Thompson, Hall-Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills. Visitation: 10 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 12-18-1997
MARY JUANITA ELLIS, of Cincinnati, died Dec. 12. Services: 7 p.m. Friday at Church of the Living God, Avondale. Visitation: 6 p.m. Friday at the church. Arrangements: Jamison and Jamison Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 12-18-1997
DWIGHT M. JOHNSON, 45, of Kennedy Heights, died Friday. He was a printer. Services: 1 p.m. Saturday at Cedars of Lebanon-Spring Grove Cemetery, Winton Place. Visitation: 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the cemetery. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall-Jordan Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 12-18-1997
ROBERT L. KINNETT, 67, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Sunday. He was retired from Schenley Distillery and was an Air Force veteran. Services: 2 p.m. Saturday at Rullman Funeral Home, Aurora, Ind. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Memorials: Shriners Crippled Children's Hospital, Lexington, Ky.
Date of announcement: 12-18-1997
JOHN NORMAN SR., 61, of Sardinia, Ohio, died Dec. 14. He worked for Sears. Services: 12:45 p.m. Saturday at Greater Liberty Baptist Church, Madisonville. Visitation: 11 a.m. Saturday at the church. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall-Jordan is in charge of arrangements.
Date of announcement: 12-18-1997
PAULINE C. BERKEMEYER SMITH, 67, of Cross Plains, Ind., died Wednesday. She was a homemaker and farmer. Services: 2 p.m. Friday at Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home, Vevay, Ind. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. today and 8 a.m. Friday at the funeral home. Memorials: American Cancer Society.
Date of announcement: 12-18-1997
Struggle for rights, peace filled Ernest Bromley's life
The Rev. Ernest Bromley, peacemaker, war resister and one of the original Freedom Riders, died Wednesday in a Boston hospital after a long battle with cancer. He was 85.
His longtime friend and colleague, Gordon Maham, of Cincinnati, was with him at his death.
He had spent the last two months in hospitals, fighting cancer, Mahan said. He lived a good life.
Rev. Bromley protested against wars and taxes and for civil and human rights all his life.
In April, 1947, Rev. Bromley, then a North Carolina Methodist minister, was one of 16 original Freedom Riders who traveled on Greyhound and Trailways buses through the South protesting against segregation and testing new integration laws.
In 1948, Rev. Bromley and his wife, Marion, moved to the Cincinnati area and began working with anti-war activist Rev. Maurice McCrackin, whom Rev. Bromley admired. The couple ultimately moved to a farm in Gano, Ohio, where they established Gano Peacemakers, Inc.
The farm became the focus of a major protest when the Internal Revenue Service seized it after Rev. Bromley refused to pay taxes. Rev. Bromley was jailed but charges were later dismissed.
Rev. Bromley was with Rev. McCrackin when both went to jail in 1963 for picketing in front of the home of the mayor of Selma, Ala. Charges were later dismissed. Rev. Bromley also organized rallies in Cincinnati protesting segregation and objecting to Vietnam War.
I met him in 1970 when I got out of the 
military, at Washington Park at an anti-war rally, and he became an inspiration to me, said longtime friend Sonny Williams, a volunteer with the Cincinnati Welfare Rights Coalition.
My first arrest came from an invitation from Ernest Bromley. He invited me to go to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base around 1972 to protest the dedication of a building to (former President Richard) Nixon . . .
He was just my inspiration.
Maham also remembers joining Rev. Bromley in anti-nuclear protests - and joining him in being arrested.
I was with him when he was arrested at Fernald; I planted a flower, and got arrested myself, Maham said. George Bush had just said we want a kinder and gentler nation.
Newspaper files show Rev. Bromley at any number of peace rallies, sometimes being carried to police cars for transportation to jail, or waving from a cell.
Rev. Bromley was born in Maine and met his wife during World War II in New York, where she was secretary of the pacifist Fellowship of the Reconciliation.
Mrs. Bromley, who died in 1994, was also active in civil rights demonstrations and was arrested for participating in the integration of old Coney Island in the 1950s.
Rev. Bromley leaves a son, Daniel Bromley, and two sisters, of Boston. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Date of announcement: 12-19-1997
