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ELIZABETH MARIE OWENS COLEMAN, 74, of Roselawn, died March 2. Ms. Coleman was a homemaker. Services: noon Monday at Greater New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, 3655 Harvey Ave., Avondale. Visitation: 11 a.m. Monday at the church. Renfro Funeral Service Inc. is in charge of the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 03-06-1999
ELBERT LEE FLOYD, 67, of Cincinnati, died Thursday. Mr. Floyd was retired from the Cincinnati Fruit and Extract Co. Services: noon Monday at First Baptist Church of Walnut Hills. Visitation: 11 a.m. Monday at the church. Jamison and Jamison Funeral Home, Cincinnati, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 03-06-1999
CHARLES W. 'BILL' GRANNER, 78, of Simpsonville, S.C., formerly of Cincinnati, died Monday. Mr. Granner was retired from Delta Foremost Chemicals. Memorial services: 3 p.m. March 13 at Forest Chapel United Methodist Church, Cincinnati. Bridges Funeral Home, Athens, Ga., is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 03-06-1999
SHIRLEY E. HAUSER SHEBESTA, 72, of Bethel, died Thursday. Mrs. Shebesta was a homemaker. Memorial services: 5 p.m. Sunday at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel. Visitation: 3 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Memorials: Solid Rock Youth Group at Bethel Church of Christ; or Bethel Tate Life Squad.
Date of announcement: 03-06-1999
JAMES THOMAS STEVENS, 14, of Sardinia, died Thursday at Children's Hospital Medical Center. Services: 2 p.m. today at Beam-Fender Funeral Home, Sardinia. Memorials to donor's choice.
Date of announcement: 03-06-1999
Sister Mary Raymond Schrimi, school teacher in Ohio, Indiana
Sister Mary Raymond Schriml taught at dozens of schools in Ohio and Indiana, including schools in Delhi Township and St. Bernard.
Sister Mary Raymond, 85, died Saturday at Margaret Mary Hospital in Batesville, Ind.
She had been living in Oldenburg, Ind.
She worked as a teacher during her lifetime and worked at the following schools: St. Bonaventure Elementary in Fairmount; St. James Elementary in White Oak; St. Aloysius Elementary of Bridgetown; Our lady of Victory in Delhi Township; St. Clement Elementary of St. Bernard; and St. John Elementary in Middletown. She also taught at six schools in Indiana. A sister, Margaret Wabler of Dayton, Ohio, survives Sister Mary Raymond. Her parents and five brothers are deceased.
Mass will be at 3 p.m. today at St. Francis Convent Motherhouse Chapel, Oldenburg. Visitation: 1 p.m. today at the Motherhouse Chapel. Memorials: Sisters of St. Francis Convent.
Date of announcement: 03-08-1999
BARBARA ANN GARDNER, 59, of Ripley, died Saturday. She was an employee of U.S. Shoe Corp. and a member of Ripley Church of Christ. Services: 1 p.m. Tuesday at the church. Visitation: 6 to 9 tonight at Cahall Funeral Home, Ripley. Memorials: Hospice of Hope, Maysville, Ky., or Ripley Church of Christ.
Date of announcement: 03-08-1999
TONI R. CARRICO HILL, 46, of Madison, Ind., died Friday. She was a customer service representative with Frontiervision Cable Co. in Madison. Services: 1 p.m. today at Morgan-Webster-Nay Funeral Home, Madison. Visitation: 9 a.m. at the funeral home. Memorials: American Cancer Society, Jefferson County Chapter.
Date of announcement: 03-08-1999
LEWIS 'JOE' MOBLEY, 79, of Laurel, Ind., died Saturday. He was a retired Baptist minister and a representative with Kirby, Amway and Olin Mills Studios. He was an Army veteran. Graveside services: 2:30 p.m. today at Church of Christ Cemetery, Metamora, Ind. Visitation: 1 to 2 p.m. today at Cook Funeral Home, Brookville, Ind. Memorials go to American Cancer Society.
Date of announcement: 03-08-1999
STELLA D. RICE, 84, of Georgetown, Ohio, died Saturday. She was a homemaker. Services: 11 a.m. Wednesday at Cahall Funeral Home, Georgetown. Visitation: 10 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 03-08-1999
THEOLA WEARY, 64, of Cumminsville, died Friday. She was a cook manager. Services: 7 p.m. today at First Baptist Church in Cumminsville. Visitation: 6 p.m. at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Forest Park, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 03-08-1999
JOSEPH J. WENSTRUP, 87, of Land O' Lakes, Fla., formerly of Cincinnati, died Saturday. He was an accountant with Provident Bank and Freyburg Lumber Co. Memorial Mass: 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Timothy Church, Tampa, Fla. Trinity Memorial Gardens Funeral Home, New Port Richey, Fla., is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 03-08-1999
Joseph Benzinger, boxing champ
Joseph A. Benzinger Sr., 92, of Cincinnati, formerly of Northern Kentucky, died Monday at Veterans Hospital in Cincinnati. He was the professional featherweight boxing champion of Greater Cincinnati in 1932, played semi-professional baseball and was a Navy veteran of World War II. His wife, Hazel Gulley Benzinger; and a son, Joseph A. Benzinger Jr.; and a daughter, Patricia Koshin, all preceded him in death.
Survivors include nine grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
Graveside services will be private. Witt, Good and Kelsch Funeral Home, Oakley, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 03-09-1999
MILDRED HILES FANCHER, 87, of Felicity, Ohio, died Monday. Services: 1 p.m. Thursday at Charles H. McIntyre Funeral Home, 323 North Union St., Felicity. Visitation: 11 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials: Saltaire Church of Christ, 2124 State Rt. 222, Bethel, Ohio 45106.
Date of announcement: 03-09-1999
ESTHER MONROE LEFKEN, 73, of Dayton, Ohio, died Saturday. She was a graduate of Spears Nursing School in Dayton, Ky. Services: 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Emmanuel Catholic Church, 149 Franklin St., Dayton, Ohio. Visitation: 9 a.m. Thursday at the church. Memorials: Emmanuel Pro-Life or the Christ Child Society of Dayton. Tobias Funeral Home, Dayton, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 03-09-1999
HAROLD E. MASSIE SR., 58, of Madisonville, died March 1. He was a machinist with Cincinnati Milacron. Services: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Jerriel Baptist Church, Madisonville. Visitation: 6 p.m. Wednesday at the church, with Masonic services at 7 p.m. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Silverton, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 03-09-1999
GOLDIE MAY (CRUM) PANNELL, 93, of Hamilton, Ohio, died Sunday. She was a homemaker. Services: noon Thursday at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel. Visitation: 11 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials: American Heart Association.
Date of announcement: 03-09-1999
CURTIS NATHANIEL SMITH, 86, of Walnut Hills, died Saturday. Services: 7 p.m. Wednesday at Jamison and Jamison Funeral Home, Evanston. Visitation: 6 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 03-09-1999
Robert Conley, of Union Institute
Dr. Robert T. Conley, president of the Union Institute and credited with its financial rescue, died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack at his home in Blue Ash. He was 67.
Mr. Conley took on the presidency of the Union Institute in 1982 at a time when the private university faced financial and enrollment problems. Within the year, he had reorganized the Institute and got it back on its feet.
During his tenure, Mr. Conley also expanded the university's academic learning centers in Miami, Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego and oversaw the development of the pioneering Center for Distance Learning.
The Union Institute, founded in 1964, is a private university offering bachelors and doctoral degrees through its Cincinnati and other centers. The university's permanent home, which was also established by Mr. Conley, is in the former Beau Brummel and Gruen Watch buildings on McMillan Avenue.
Prior to joining the Union Institute, Mr. Conley served as president of Seton Hall University, and also was a vice president and director of planning for health affairs at Wright State University.
The graduate of Seton Hall and Princeton Universities leaves his wife, Doris; daughters, Debra Henderson Wand and Robin Barbiea; son Bryan; and five grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Date of announcement: 03-10-1999
Roman Chaike, auto racing buff
Roman Chaike, an auto-racing buff and an early financial backer of the sport, died at his home in Spring Hill, Fla., Saturday. He was 87.
Once the oldest working mechanic at the Indianapolis 500, Mr. Chaike participated in NASCAR events in the early 1950s, was a part-owner of the Lawrenceburg Speedway and enjoyed restoring antique automobiles.
The native Cincinnatian was best known among Midwestern racing fans for his activity at venues such as the old Cincinnati Race Bowl and the Dayton Speedway.
'When he was very young he had to support his mother and sister, and his one passion was owning a nice automobile,' said daughter JoAnne Hamilton. 'It didn't have to be an expensive automobile, but it had to be a nice one.'
Mr. Chaike helped his son, Roman 'Ray' Chaike, start a three-year NASCAR racing career from 1953 to 1956. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Mr. Chaike owned the Lawrenceburg Speedway with his daughter and son-in-law.
He also restored Model A Fords. He owned a rebuilt 1931 Roadster and had been working on a 1931 Model A Ford pickup truck just before his death.
Perhaps the crowning moment to Mr. Chaike's racing career came in the late 1980s, when he worked as a mechanic with the Hoffman Auto Racing team in the Indianapolis 500.
'Here's all these young individuals on race day at the Indianapolis 500, and there's my father in his 70s, wearing his uniform and going over the wall,' Ms. Hamilton said.
Mr. Chaike also leaves his wife of 66 years, Virginia Shane Chaike.
Visitation: 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday at Chas. A. Miller Sons Funeral Service, Northside. Services: 1 p.m. Friday at St. Bernard Church of Taylors Creek.
Date of announcement: 03-10-1999
