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Sister Michael Grimes, manager
Sister M. Michael Grimes, OSU, who managed many important operations of the St. Ursula Academy school, died Thursday at St. Ursula Convent. She was 91.
Sister Michael devoted her life to Catholic education and was instrumental in caring for and feeding the school's boarders, overseeing the laundry and running the cafeteria.
She worked with the Mothers' Club and developed an expertise in building operations, specifically electrical and plumbing systems.
Sister Michael was the youngest of three Grimes sisters who emigrated from County Monaghan, Ireland, to join the Ursulines of Cincinnati. She arrived in 1923 to join her sisters, Sister Gabriel Grimes and Sister Raphael, and the three became known as the community's "archangels."
"Even though she was quiet, she was interested in everything - world affairs as well as the schools," said Sister Gabriel, who still lives at the convent. "She knew all the students here."
"She gave a lifetime of devoted service to the sisters at St. Ursula Convent and to St. Ursula Academy," said Sister Elizabeth Lang, superior of the Ursulines.
She is survived by two sisters, Sister Gabriel, and Mary Connally, of Staten Island, N.Y.; a brother Henry Andrew Grimes of Bronx, N.Y.; nieces and nephews; and the Ursulines of Cincinnati.
Mass of Christian Burial is at 7 p.m. Monday in the convent chapel. Visitation will be held from 5 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. Monday at the convent. Gilligan Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 08-22-1998
ROBERT ROSE BANKS, 83, of Brookville, Ind., formerly of Blooming Grove, died Thursday. He was a retired farmer. Services: 10:30 a.m. EST Monday at Cook Funeral Home, Brookville. Visitation: 4 to 7 p.m. EST Sunday at the funeral home. Memorials: Franklin County E.M.S. or Brookville Methodist Church.
Date of announcement: 08-22-1998
JOHN A. BUDKE, 46, of Manchester, Ind., died Thursday. Mr. Budke was a minister. Services: 1 p.m. EDT Monday at Zion Lutheran Church, Manchester. Visitation: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. EDT and 4 to 8 p.m. EDT Sunday at Rullman Funeral Home, Aurora. Memorials: Zion Lutheran Church, Manchester Life Squad and Fire Department, Mission 2000 or charity of choice.
Date of announcement: 08-22-1998
GEORGE BAILEY CURRY, 50, of Avondale, died Wednesday. He was a truck driver. Services: 11 a.m. Tuesday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, 2625 Gilbert Ave., Walnut Hills. Visitation: 10 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 08-22-1998
KAZELL M. GALLAHER, 73, of Mt. Healthy, died Wednesday. He was a welder for Diebold Co., Hamilton. Services: noon Monday at Pilgrim Baptist Church, 711 S. 4th St., Hamilton. Visitation: 11 a.m. Monday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 08-22-1998
WILLIAM GRAY, 75, of Cincinnati, died Tuesday. Services: noon Monday at Bethel Baptist Church, 2712 Alms Place, Cincinnati. Visitation: 11 a.m. Monday at the church. Johnson Brown Funeral Service, Cincinnati, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 08-22-1998
JANIS MARIE STEELE, 46, of College Hill, died Thursday. Services: 11 a.m. Monday at Christ Emmanuel Christian Fellowship Church, 2324 May St., Walnut Hills. Visitation: 10 a.m. Monday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 08-22-1998
JACK M. WOOD, 78, of Brownstown, Ind., died Thursday. Mr. Wood was a retired machinist for Panasote Co., Seymour, Ind., and also worked for American Can Co., Cincinnati. Services: 10:30 a.m. EST Monday at Myers Funeral Service, Burkholder Chapel, Seymour, Ind. Visitation: 1 to 7 p.m. EST Sunday and 9:30 a.m. EST until time of services Monday at the funeral home. Memorials: donor's choice.
Date of announcement: 08-22-1998
James W. Joseph, sports writer, editor and journalism professor
Former Kentucky Post city editor James W. Joseph filed his column Friday morning, about legendary sports writer Jim Murray, who had died last week of a heart attack.
A few hours later, Mr. Joseph also was dead, from a heart attack.
Mr. Joseph, 67, of Wheelersburg, Ohio, near Portsmouth, formerly lived in Edgewood, Ky., during the 16 years he worked for The Kentucky Post and The Cincinnati Post, and the Kentucky and Cincinnati Enquirer.
He earned an undergraduate degree in communications from Northern Kentucky University, and in 1996 was named the university's Alumni of the Year. He later earned a master's degree from Xavier University.
"He was very proud of that," his daughter, Joan Joseph, said of her father.
A native of the Portsmouth area, Mr. Joseph began his newspaper career as a 15-year-old sports writer for the Portsmouth Times. Family and job responsibilities deterred him from earning a college degree until later in life.
"He was 47 when he decided to go back to college. His goal was to earn a bachelor's degree and a master's degree before he was 50, and he did it," said Joan Joseph.
The degrees were completed while Mr. Joseph worked full-time in the news business, and the load may have taken its toll physically, his daughter said. Not long after his last graduation, he underwent heart bypass surgery, she noted.
Mr. Joseph spent the greater part of 35 years in newsrooms. He was with the Portsmouth Times for 15 years, in several capacities including news editor. He also worked for the Fort Wayne, Ind., Journal-Gazette and the Lancaster, Ohio, Eagle-Gazette, before moving to The Kentucky Post in 1967.
"He was a very savvy newsman. He knew news. He was a dedicated, loyal man, a perfectionist," said former Kentucky Post Editor Vance Trimble.
"His contributions to The Kentucky Post helped make it a great newspaper," Trimble added.
Mr. Joseph later had stints with both The Post and Enquirer in Cincinnati, and was briefly the Kentucky editor of the Enquirer.
Mr. Joseph began teaching journalism as a part-time instructor in the Communications Department at NKU. He moved on to become an assistant professor of journalism at Troy State University in Alabama. Health problems continued, and he retired there in 1988.
Moving back to his home area, Mr. Joseph began writing a weekly column, "Heroes and Other Folks" for the Portsmouth Times. It also appeared in the Ironton, Ohio, Tribune, and the iwhns issued the directive "The friars, we went right ahead. We said, "Well, if they're open, we're going to take them.' Fabian, he really was the leader in New Orleans. He really deserves a lot of credit."
He began his ministry in 1948 as assistant pastor in New Orleans and returned there in the 1960s as pastor, leading integration. He was assistant pastor at St. George Church (now St. Monica-St. George) in Corryville from 1956-60, and also served in other churches in Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, Illinois and Kentucky.
Another defining moment of his ministry came July 17, 1981, when he rushed to the scene of the collapsed skywalk at the Hyatt Regency Hotel there, where many were killed.
Father Gerstle leaves brothers, Louis, Norbert, Alvin, Kenneth and Joseph; and sisters, Mary Zinner and Rita Ellison.
Visitation: 6 p.m. today at St. Clement Church, St. Bernard. Mass: 7:30 p.m. today at the church.
Date of announcement: 08-24-1998
EDWIN W. BENTLE, 95, of Aurora, Ind., died Sunday. He was a construction worker. Services: 10 a.m. EDT Wednesday at Rullman Funeral Home, Aurora. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. EDT Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorials: charity of donor's choice.
Date of announcement: 08-24-1998
JOHN B. CARTER, 69, of Bond Hill, died Friday. Mass: noon Wednesday at St. Agnes Church, Bond Hill. Visitation: 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church. Arrangements: Jamison and Jamison Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 08-24-1998
KATHRYN P. COCHRANE, 89, of Bethel, Ohio, died Saturday. Ms. Cochrane She was a retired cook. Mass: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Mary Church, Bethel. Visitation: 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel. Memorials: St. Mary Church.
Date of announcement: 08-24-1998
MELVIN ECKEL, of Hillsboro, died Sunday. Services: 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday at Greendale Cemetery, Greendale, Ind. Arrangements: Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg, Ind. Memorials: Charity of the donor's choice.
Date of announcement: 08-24-1998
KAY HAAS, 53, of Georgetown, Ohio, died Saturday. She was a retired social services worker. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. today at Cahall Funeral Home, Georgetown. Memorials: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, Tenn., 38105.
Date of announcement: 08-24-1998
HARRY E. MACRANDER, 60, of Vevay, Ind., died Wednesday. The Army veteran was a carpenter. Services: 11 a.m. EST Tuesday at Concord Cemetery, Patriot, Ind. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. EST today and 8 to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Haskell and Morrison Funeral Home, Vevay. Memorials: Vevay VFW Relief Fund.
Date of announcement: 08-24-1998
JUANITA OLIVER, 68, of Mount Healthy, died Friday. She was a cook. Services: noon Wednesday at Memorial Baptist Church, West End. Visitation: 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 08-24-1998
WILLIAM L. PATRICK, 68, of Bethel, Ohio, died Sunday. He was a
Korean War veteran. Services: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Bethel Church of Christ. Visitation: 6 to 9 p.m. today at Charles H. McIntyre Funeral Home, Felicity, Ohio. Memorials: Bethel Church of Christ Building Fund.
Date of announcement: 08-24-1998
LILLY J. SOUDER, 78, of Felicity, Ohio, died Saturday. She was a homemaker. Services: 11 a.m. Wednesday at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel, Ohio. Visitation: 9 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorials: Hospice of Hope.
Date of announcement: 08-24-1998
RUBY M. WYLIE, 85, of Ripley, Ohio, died Friday. She was a legal secretary who managed the Brown County Law Library. Services: 11 a.m. today at Mount Orab Cemetery. Arrangements: Cahall Funeral Home, Ripley. Memorials: Hospice of Hope, 1 West McDonald Parkway, Maysville, Ky., 41056.
Date of announcement: 08-24-1998
Sister Mary Dorothy Schmidt, taught 62 years
Sister Mary Dorothy Schmidt, who spent most of her 76 years in the Sisters of Charity as a teacher, died Friday. She was 93.
Sister Mary Dorothy began her classroom career in Cleveland in 1923, then taught for the next 60 years in grade and high schools in her native New Mexico and in Colorado.
The College of Mount St. Joseph graduate retired in 1985 and became a hospital and library volunteer before moving to Mother Margaret Hall in Delhi Township in 1991. She leaves a sister, Caroline Schmidt, of Albuquerque.
Mass was today at the order's motherhouse chapel, Delhi Township.
Date of announcement: 08-25-1998
EMMA T. FRALEY, 75, of Bond Hill, died Saturday. Ms. Fraley was retired from the city of Cincinnati. Services: noon Thursday at Metropolitan CME Church, Avondale. Visitation: 11 a.m. Thursday at the church. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 08-25-1998
GLEN L. GREIVE, 72, of Belleville, Ill., formerly of Dillsboro, Ind., died Aug. 19. He was retired from the U.S. Air Force. Arrangements were through George Renner & Sons Funeral Home, Belleville.
Date of announcement: 08-25-1998
MARGARET JENNINGS, 61, of Walnut Hills, died Tuesday. Ms. Jennings was a housekeeper for the Anna Louise Inn, a home for battered women. Arrangements were through Renfro Funeral Service, Avondale.
Date of announcement: 08-25-1998
LEROY PEEKS, 81, of Silverton, died Sunday. He was retired from BASF Industries. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Simon of Cyrene Episcopal Church, Lincoln Heights. Visitation: 10 a.m. Saturday at the church. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 08-25-1998