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NATASHA MITCHELL HOGAN, 40, of Groesbeck, died Saturday. Services: 10 a.m. Wednesday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills. Visitation: 9 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 09-22-1998
SERAPHINE P. "FRANK" MADAMA, 80, of Mount Washington, died Sunday. He was a retired employee of Remington Rand Corp. and vice president of service for Business Equipment Co. Mass: 10 a.m. Wednesday at Guardian Angels Church, Mount Washington . Visitation: 6 to 9 p.m. today at T. P. White and Sons Funeral Home, Mount Washington . Memorials: McNicholas High School.
Date of announcement: 09-22-1998
PEARL MARY RINEHART, 77, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Sunday. Ms. Rinehart was a homemaker. Services: 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg. Visitation: noon EDT Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorials: American Diabetes. Association.
Date of announcement: 09-22-1998
Bishop Dominic Ferrara, missionary
Bishop Dominic Ferrara, 93, died Monday at the motherhouse of the Comboni Missionaries in Verona, Italy, after a long illness.
Bishop Ferrara had served as pastor of Holy Trinity Church in downtown Cincinnati from 1944-49.
In 1949, he was appointed prefect apostolic of Mupoi, Sudan, and was consecrated bishop in 1966 in the cathedral of the Diocese of Vigevano near his hometown of Zeme Lomellina, Italy.
One year after his ordination as a priest in 1929, Bishop Ferrara was assigned to the missions in Bahr El Ghazal in southwestern Sudan.
In that African nation, Bishop Ferrara worked in various capacities among the Azande people until he was assigned to Holy Trinity in 1940.
Bishop Ferrara was among the first Comboni missionaries to arrive in Cincinnati. They were then known as Verona Fathers.
In 1945, Bishop Ferrara took the oath of citizenship in Cincinnati, a city dear to his heart for many reasons, not least of which was the presentations of Italian opera.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
Date of announcement: 09-23-1998
Aaron Hoffman, 20, "never gave up'
Aaron Hoffman, 20, battled 15 years against a rare disease known as Evans Syndrome in which the body destroys its white blood cells.
"He never complained and he never gave up," said Mr. Hoffman's sister, Kristina Willett. "He fought to the last breath he took."
The young man from Taylor Mill, Ky., died Monday at Children's Hospital of complications from Evans Syndrome.
He was diagnosed with the disease when he was 5 years old, but managed to live somewhat of a normal life until this year.
"His life this year was going back and forth to the hospital," said Ms. Willett. "He had a bone marrow transplant, total body radiation and nine surgeries in the past two months."
"His body just wore out," said Mr. Hoffman's father, Terry Hoffman.
The Scott High School graduate, who attended Northern Kentucky University, also leaves his mother, Linda; brothers Terry and Brian, and sisters Sherri Andes and Jennifer Hoffman.
Visitation: 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church of Cold Spring, Ky., followed by services at 7 p.m. Arrangements: Radel Funeral Home, Highland Heights, Ky.
Date of announcement: 09-23-1998
Adeline Botros, of Mariemont
Adeline Botros was devoted to her faith and her church, St. Anthony of Padua Marionite Catholic Church in East Walnut Hills.
She organized retreats and pilgrimages, and for years belonged to the Marian Guild and the National Apostolate of Marionites.
Ms. Botros, of Mariemont, died Monday at age 83.
A sister, Mary George of Deer Park, said Ms. Botros was born in Cincinnati and graduated from the now-closed Mercy High School in the West End. She worked for many years as a secretary for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Ms. Botros' loves were her church and travel.
"She was very dedicated to St. Anthony," her sister said. Ms. Botros also enjoyed visiting Europe and Lebanon, where her family originated.
She also leaves sisters Marie Carle of Westwood and Martha Wakim of Hyde Park.
Arrangements were through Radel Funeral Home, Price Hill.
Date of announcement: 09-23-1998
H. Charles Jones, finance executive
H. Charles Jones, 87, retired president and chairman of the board of of Hickman, Williams & Co. in Cincinnati, died Monday in Bradenton, Fla., where he made his home.
Mr. Jones, formerly of Kenton Hills, Ky., was a former director of the Covington Trust and Banking Co. and former chairman of William Booth Memorial Hospital, Florence.
He had been on the board of directors of the Fort Mitchell Country Club, where he was a club champion. He was a former member of the board of directors of the YMCA of Northern Kentucky, and a past president of the Downtown Cincinnati Kiwanis Club.
Mr. Jones was also a former member of the CPA of Ohio, an investment analyst with City National Bank and Trust Co. and treasurer of the Federal Home Loan Bank, both of Chicago.
He served in the Navy during World War II.
He leaves his wife, Norma J. Ward Jones, of Bradenton; son, Charles D. Jones of Birmingham, Ala.; stepson, Roger L. McClintock of Bradenton; daughter, Margaret L. Jones of Deland, Fla.; stepdaughters, Gloria Newman of Knoxville, Tenn., and Susan Lockwood of Bradenton; sister, Frances J. Court of Bradenton; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. His first wife, Loretta S. Jones, died in 1979.
Services: 11 a.m. Friday at Middendorf-Bullock Funeral Home, Ludlow, Ky. Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 09-23-1998
IRENE ALLISON, 68, of Hyde Park, died Sept. 18. Ms. Allison was a nurse's aide at Bethesda Oak and Good Samaritan hospitals. Services: 1 p.m. Thursday at Renfro Funeral Service, Avondale. Visitation: noon Thursday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 09-23-1998
JOHN E. HEWETT, 81, of Bethel, Ohio, died Tuesday. Services: 10:30 a.m. Friday at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 09-23-1998
BRANDON SCOTT GOODWIN KITCHEN, 12, of Somerset, N.J., died Sept. 18. He was a stu dent. Services: 11 a.m. Friday at First Church of God, Corryville. Visitation: 10:30 a.m. Friday at the church. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 09-23-1998
MELISSA OLIVER, 68, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Tuesday. Services: 11 a.m. EST Saturday at New Life Southern Baptist Church, Manchester, Ind. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. EST Friday at Haskell and Morrison Funeral Home, Vevay, Ind., and 10 a.m. EST Saturday at the church.
Date of announcement: 09-23-1998
ROBERT L. WALSTON, 67, of North Bend, died Tuesday. Services: 10:30 a.m. EDT Friday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg, Ind. Visitation: 6 to 9 p.m. EDT Thursday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 09-23-1998
Popular pianist Michael Rura
In April, pianist and philosopher Michael Rura estimated it would take a year of a healthy person's work to finish his dream - an original suite he was composing and recording, bit by bit.
But Mr. Rura also knew he wasn't a healthy person. Five years earlier he learned he had advanced bone marrow cancer.
He died Wednesday morning at age 51, with his composition unfinished.
"Michael was so disappointed he didn't do it," his wife, Svetlana Rura, said Wednesday evening.
Mr. Rura, a native of St. Petersburg, Russia, emmigrated to the United States in 1974. Trained in classical music at the Leningrad Conservatory, he was a gifted pianist with a unique vision that incorporated popular, classic, jazz, blues and Russian music, friends said. "I think he was an extremely talented piano player with his own vision of everything," said friend and fellow pianist Marina Dolgin.
Mr. Rura worked in New York, playing piano with a lounge act before a friend from school lured him to Cincinnati. He studied two years at the University of Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music and began playing solo at hotels downtown, primarily at the Omni Netherland, in the Palm Court.
Through the 1980s and into the '90s, Mr. Rura was a fixture there, playing Gershwin, Cole Porter and increasingly blending in his own musical sketches. His bones, however, became so brittle that a cough would break ribs. Two vertebrae in his neck collapsed.
Yet he survived four times longer than would be expected, hoping to finish his masterwork, said his friend, Yuli Kitaevich.
In his last months - when he was confined to bed and could no longer play the ebony Artist's Edition Grand piano the Baldwin Piano Co. loaned him so he could finish his work - friends visited and told him how important he had been to their lives.
He asked questions people ordinarily would not ask, said his wife.
"He might ask them, "Do you think the thing you're doing is really the reason you're on earth?' "
And that would get people to thinking, she said.
Mr. Rura told The Post, for an article published in 1996: "In this country people are starved for deep, emotional connections, be it with their siblings, lovers, mates or children.
"Music evokes those connections. It's what can inspire intimacy."
Also surviving is his son, Shimon, of Roselawn.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Weil Funeral Home, North Avondale.
Date of announcement: 09-24-1998
