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GRAHAM R. "BOBBY" LITTLE, 53, of Madison, Ind., died Monday. He worked for Reliance Electric Co. Services: 11 a.m. EDT Friday at Morgan-Webster-Nay Funeral Home, Madison. Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. EST today and 9 to 11 a.m. EST Friday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 05-13-1999
SISTER MARY PATRICK O'CONNELL, O.S.F., 77, of Oldenburg, Ind., died Tuesday. She was a retired teacher and principal. Mass: 6:30 p.m. EST Friday at the Sisters of St. Francis Motherhouse Chapel, Oldenburg. Visitation: 3:30 p.m. EST Friday at the motherhouse.
Date of announcement: 05-13-1999
Rev. Francis Hoffer, pastor
Father Francis Hoffer, O.F.M., the former pastor of St. Clement Church in St. Bernard and St. Stephen Church in Hamilton, died Tuesday of complications from Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Father Hoffer, 81, who was born in Latonia, Ky., served most of his 55 years as a priest in Kansas, Michigan, Illinois, Louisiana and Ohio. He was founding pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Centerville, Ohio, and served there from 1969 to 1978.
A Franciscan friar with St. John the Baptist Province, Father Hoffer was ordained a priest in 1944. He served as director of the St. Francis Center for Peace and Renewal in Mount Healthy in 1987-88. He retired in 1992.
He leaves a sister, Frances Hoffer of Lakeside Park, Ky., and two brothers, Ralph Hoffer of Fort Mitchell, Ky., and Father Charles Hoffer, a priest in the diocese of Covington.
Mass: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at St. Clement Church. Visitation: 6 p.m. Tuesday at the church. Arrangements: Boehmer Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 05-14-1999
Leora Nelson Campbell, teacher
Leora Nelson Campbell, a great-granddaughter of Ohio's first abolitionist, Sen. Alexander Campbell, and a longtime teacher, died Wednesday. She was 96.
Miss Campbell's teaching career spanned 47 years, beginning in one-room schoolhouses in Brown County, Buckeye and Stephenson school.
The bulk of her tenure was spent teaching science and journalism at Ripley High School.
Her family was known as the "teaching Campbells" in area education circles.
She was a founder of Ripley's 55-acre historic district, and was named the city's Citizen of the Year in 1990.
Miss Campbell had a special affinity for the Ripley-Union-Lewis-Huntington High School Alumni Association - serving as one of its trustees for 45 years - and was one of the oldest living graduates of the school.
She leaves a niece and two nephews.
Services: 10:30 a.m. Monday at Ripley Centenary United Methodist Church. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Cahall Funeral Home, Ripley. Memorials: Ripley-Union-Lewis-Huntington High School Alumni Scholarship Fund.
Date of announcement: 05-14-1999
Robert McMaster, professor of medicine
Dr. Robert H. McMaster, professor emeritus at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, died Monday. He was 83.
The Indian Hill physician performed medical research for more than 40 years at the former Merrell-National Laboratories, where he served as director of health services.
In 1972, he was chosen chairman of the steering committee on Mobile Emergency Medical Services. The committee planned a system of mobile units that rushed life-saving help to heart attack victims.
The World War II Navy veteran graduated from UC's medical school in 1950. He lived in Indian Hill for 40 years and was a member of Masonic Rose Commandery, Knight Templer.
He leaves his wife, Katherine McMaster, a son, Robert H. McMaster Jr.; a daughter, Susan Doucleff; and two grandchildren.
Services: 1:30 p.m. today at the Cedars of Lebanon Chapel, Memorial Mausoleum at Spring Grove Chapel. Arrangements: Gilligan Funeral Home.
Memorials: American Heart Association or charity of choice.
Date of announcement: 05-14-1999
ERNESTINE BARE, 78, of Aberdeen, Ohio, died Wednesday. She was a homemaker. Services: 1 p.m. Saturday at the Centenary United Methodist Church, Ripley. Visitation: 11 a.m. Saturday at the church. Arrangements: Cahall Funeral Home. Memorials: the church building fund.
Date of announcement: 05-14-1999
BREAILE ALEXIS COTTON, 13 months, of Mount Healthy, died Tuesday. She was the daughter of Luther and Cornelia Cotton. Services: noon Saturday at Greater Liberty Baptist Church, Madisonville. Visitation: 11 a.m. to noon Saturday at the church. Arrangements: House of Glover Funeral Services. Memorials: to the church.
Date of announcement: 05-14-1999
PAUL APPLEGATE, 84, of Brookville, Ind., died Thursday. He was a farmer. Services: 2 p.m. EST Monday at Cook Funeral Home, Brookville. Visitation: 10 a.m. EST Monday until time of service at the funeral home. Memorials: Cancer Society.
Date of announcement: 05-15-1999
INEZ M. (RUGGLES) JONES, 76, of Bethel, Ohio, died Thursday. Ms. Jones was an office worker for Jergens Company, Cincinnati. Services: 1 p.m. Tuesday at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel. Visitation: 11 a.m. Tuesday until time of service at the funeral home. Memorials: Hospice of Hope.
Date of announcement: 05-15-1999
BEATRICE (PORTIS) KENNEDY, 80, of Cincinnati, died Friday. Ms. Kennedy was a homemaker. Services: 7 p.m. Sunday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, 11400 Winton Road, Forest Park. Visitation: 6 p.m. Sunday until time of service at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 05-15-1999
ELIZABETH A. (MCNAIR) PERKINS, 89, of Wilmington, Ohio, formerly of Nicholsville area of Clermont County, died Thursday. Ms. Perkins was a homemaker. Services: 11 a.m. Monday at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel. Visitation: 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Memorials: Bethel United Methodist Church, Bethel and Wilmington United Methodist Church or the Clinton County Historical Society, Wilmington, Ohio.
Date of announcement: 05-15-1999
Harry R. Roberts, loved baseball
Veteran youth baseball umpire Harry R. Roberts once got his shot at the big leagues. When major league umpires went on strike in 1973, he was recruited to umpire a Cincinnati Reds game.
Mr. Roberts, 70, died Sunday at his home in Falmouth, Ky.
A former Falmouth City Council member and retired manager of Southern States Pendleton Co-op, Mr. Roberts ran the Falmouth Little League for years.
Survivors include his wife, Roberta, five sons, three daughters, four stepsons, five brothers, two sisters, 25 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
Services: 2 p.m. Wednesday, Falmouth Methodist Church. Visitation: 3-8 p.m. Tuesday, Peoples Funeral Home, Falmouth. Memorials: Change of Heart Transplant Group, 6399 Transplant Lakota Meadows Drive, Middletown, Ohio 45044.
Date of announcement: 05-17-1999
PAUL "JACK" APPLEGATE, 84, of Brookville, Ind., died Thursday. Services: 2 p.m. EST today, Cook Funeral Home, Brookville. Memorials: American Cancer Society.
Date of announcement: 05-17-1999
JAMES F. ECKERLE, 74, of Brookville, Ind., died Friday. Mass: 10:30 a.m. EST Wednesday, St. Michael Church, Brookville. Visitation: 4-8 p.m. Tuesday, Cook Funeral Home, Brookville. Memorials: American Cancer Society.
Date of announcement: 05-17-1999
WILLIAM T. FAULKNER SR., 68, of Hyde Park, died Wednesday. Services: 8 tonight, Lee Chapel A.M.E. Church, Walnut Hills. Visitation: 6 p.m. at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 05-17-1999
SYLVIA JOAN GOSSARD, 73, of Seven Lakes, N.C., formerly of Cincinnati, died Saturday. Services: 4 p.m. Tuesday, West End (N.C.) Presbyterian Church. Memorials: to the church, P.O. Box 13, West End, N.C., 27376; or American Diabetes. Association. Boles Funeral Home, Seven Lakes, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 05-17-1999
DANIEL R. HERRICK, 39, of Hanover, Ind., died Saturday. Services: 11 a.m. Wednesday, Morgan-Webster-Nay Funeral Home, Madison. Visitation: 4-8 p.m. Tuesday. Memorials: Jefferson County Chapter, American Cancer Society.
Date of announcement: 05-17-1999
BONNIE KAY RININGER, 55, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Friday. Services: 2 p.m. EDT today, Rullman Funeral Home, Aurora, Ind. Visitation: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. today. Memorials: American Cancer Society.
Date of announcement: 05-17-1999
CHARLES D . STIVERS, 59, of Hanover, Ind., died Sunday. Services: 7 p.m. Wednesday, Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home, Vevay, Ind. Visitation: 4 p.m. Wednesday until services. Memorials: American Legion Relief Fund or Switzerland Baptist Church.
Date of announcement: 05-17-1999
Joseph Magro, master cobbler
Joseph Magro believed that "a gentleman is a man who is clean inside and out."
To the motto, Mr. Magro could have easily added that gentleman also were clean from the ground up - starting with their shoes.
Mr. Magro, who died Saturday at 88, was a master cobbler from Palermo, Italy, who for a half century worked at and later owned one of downtown Cincinnati's best-known shoe stores.
After moving here from Italy in 1931, Mr. Magro worked in a Covington shop where he cleaned hats and made shoes for about a dollar a day during the Depression. Five years later, he began working at Brem's Shoe Co., a repair and custom shoe store located first at Post Square, then Plum Street and finally on Vine Street.
Mr. Magro bought the business in 1964 and worked there until he retired at 76, earning a reputation for quality workmanship that drew customers from around the country.
"The store was his life," said his wife of 58 years, Mary, with whom he lived in Price Hill.
Mr. Magro, who was an active member of Contadini, Order Sons of Italy, and the United Italian Society, also leaves daughters, Ginny Troyan, Phyllis Meiners and Mary Anna Magro Vale, all of Cincinnati; a son, Salvatore of Cincinnati; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were through Harry Meyer & Geiser Funeral Home, Price Hill.
Date of announcement: 05-18-1999
