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PAUL S. GRISHAM, 73, of Sardinia, Ohio, died Tuesday. He was a machine operator for Keebler. Mass: 10 a.m. Friday at St. Patrick Church, Fayetteville. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Thompson-Stevens Funeral Home, Mt. Orab. Memorials: American Cancer Society.
Date of announcement: 09-01-1999
NANNIE HAMILTON, 67, of Kennedy Heights, died Friday. Ms. Hamilton was a homemaker. Services: 7 p.m. Wednesday at 1st Baptist Church, 6201 Red Bank Road, Kennedy Heights. Visitation: 6 p.m. Wednesday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 09-01-1999
ROBERT BRUCE LIGHTNER SR., 50, of Hollydale, died Saturday. He was a laborer. Services: 7 p.m. Friday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, 400 North Wayne Ave., Lockland. Visitation: 5 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 09-01-1999
TRAVIS LEE RAMSEY, 2, of Ripley, died Monday. He was the son of Christopher Lee and Maria Shannett Ramsey. Services: 2 p.m. Friday at Cahall Funeral Home, Ripley. Visitation: 1 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 09-01-1999
ELIZABETH P. RINFROW, 92, of Lincoln Heights, died Aug. 26. Ms. Rinfrow was a retired department store clerk. Services: 7 p.m. Thursday at Lincoln Heights Missionary Baptist Church, 9991 N. Wayne Ave., Lincoln Heights. Visitation: 6 p.m. Thursday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 09-01-1999
GAYLE M. SMITH, 84, of Columbus, Ind., formerly of Batesville, died Tuesday. Mr. Smith was a retired insurance salesman for Bankers Life and a World War II Army veteran. Mass: 10:30 a.m. EST Friday at St. Louis Catholic Church, Batesville. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. EST Thursday at Weigel Funeral Home, Batesville. Memorials: Hospice of Bartholomew County or to the St. Louis Church Building Fund.
Date of announcement: 09-01-1999
HATTIE WALKER, 101, of College Hill, died Sunday. Ms. Walker was a homemaker. Services: 7 p.m. Friday at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, 3101 Eastern Ave., East End. Visitation: 5 p.m. Friday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 09-01-1999
Rev. Jerome Lewis, 'kindest teacher'
Long before civil rights and integration swept across the United States, the Rev. Jerome M. Lewis Sr. believed strongly that if black and white people would just sit down and talk to one another all their problems would be solved.
The minister felt so strongly that the races could love one another that he insisted, in the 1940s and 1950s, that his children attend St. Simon's Episcopal School so they could be with white children.
Rev. Lewis and his wife also adopted three bi-racial children from an orphanage "at a time when no one else, white or black, wanted them," said his son, Jerome M. Lewis Jr.
Although he never marched in a civil rights demonstration, he lived integration everyday, his family said.
Rev. Lewis, 83, the pastor of Greater Liberty Baptist Church in Madisonville for 38 years, died Tuesday in Virginia Beach, Va., where he lived with Jerome Jr.
"He was probably the kindest teacher in Cincinnati. He was a praying man. If Daddy were here, he would say, 'Don't forget to pray,' " his son said. "He was a heck of a role model. I loved this man."
Born in Eastman, Ga., Rev. Lewis was born to a brick mason's helper and a cleaning woman. When he was still an infant, his family moved to Hamilton, Ohio, where he graduated from the integrated Hamilton High School. In 1939, he and his new wife moved to Cincinnati.
He served as a U.S. Army cook in Japan in World War II and in 1951, he graduated summa cum laude from God's Bible School. He worked as a railroad postal clerk for the U.S. Post Office in the West End for 22 years. He then worked as an orderly at Jewish Hospital.
He also served as a minister at Baptist churches in Lincoln Heights and Falmouth, Ky. He retired in 1995.
When he was diagnosed with cancer, he and his wife moved in with his son, first in Louisville and then in Virginia Beach.
In addition to his son, Rev. Lewis leaves his wife of 60 years, Edna McGinnis Lewis; two daughters, Sandra Sparrow of Rouwue Bluffs, Maine, and Monica L. Sanders of Cincinnati; two other sons, Peter Kevin Lewis of Columbus, Ohio, and Rob Lewis of Las Vegas; four sisters, Jean Kimmons of Connecticut, Helen Thelma Sykes Smith, Molly Patricia Smith and Lucille Worthy, all of Illinois; three brothers, Albert Lewis and Windsor Lewis of Ohio, and Wilbur Sykes of Illinois; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Graveside services are at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Spring Grove Cemetery. Visitation is 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday at Renfro Funeral Service, 647 Forest Ave.
Date of announcement: 09-02-1999
Harry Warford, church organist, minister
Harry Quentin Warford, 60, of Southgate, Ky., a clerk at the University of Cincinnati Bookstore and a church organist, died Aug. 26.
An organist for Washington United Church of Christ in Cincinnati, he also was an ordained minister.
His survivors include his mother, Marie Warford of Cincinnati; sisters Katherine Grudzin of Michigan, Jane Wear of North Carolina and Mary Okragly of Dayton, Ohio; and brothers, Dale Warford of Georgia and Hubert Warford of Michigan.
Memorial services will be 10 a.m. Saturday at Washington United Church of Christ. Baker-Hazel Funeral Home of Dayton, Ohio, was in charge. Memorials: to the Camp Washington Free Store, c/o the church, 2950 Sidney Ave., Cincinnati 45225.
Date of announcement: 09-02-1999
DANIEL T. COLSTON, 66, of Neville, Ohio, died Tuesday. Services: 1 p.m. Friday at Charles H. McIntyre Funeral Home, 323 North Union St., Felicity, Ohio. Visitation: 11 a.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 09-02-1999
OCTAVIA BUCHANNON, 100, of Avondale, died Sunday. She was a homemaker. Services: noon today at New Jerusalem Baptist Church, 26 West North Bend Road, Elmwood Place. Visitation: 11 a.m. today at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 09-02-1999
VAL ROSS HOPKINS, 71, of Evanston, died Sunday. He was a retired cabinet maker and an Army veteran of World War II. Services: 1 p.m. Friday at Renfro Funeral Home, Avondale. Visitation: Noon Friday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 09-02-1999
JEANETTE AILEEN LEAVELL, 84, of Lockland, died Monday. She was a homemaker. Services: 7 p.m. today at Burress Temple Church of God in Christ, Lockland. Visitation: 6 p.m. today at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Lockland, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 09-02-1999
NANCY ROBERSON, 94, of Avondale, died Friday. She was a homemaker. Services: 1 p.m. today at Zion Baptist Church, Avondale. Visitation: noon today until time of service at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 09-02-1999
ELOISE BACKMAN ST. JOHN, 90, of Cincinnati, formerly of Aurora, Ind., died Tuesday. Services: 11 a.m. EDT Friday at the First Presbyterian Church, Aurora. Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. EDT today at Rullman Funeral Home, Aurora. Memorials: First Presbyterian Church or to Hillforest.
Date of announcement: 09-02-1999
William Messner, author
William Curtis Messner Jr., co-founder and former president of the Cincinnati Council on World Affairs, now the National Council of World Affairs Organizations, was an expert on foreign policy education.
During his 34 years with the Cincinnati operation, it received commendations from seven presidents on 19 occasions, said his wife, Anne Adams Messner, from the couple's Washington D.C. home.
The 73-year-old Mr. Messner died Aug. 10 in Washington after a short illness.
Mr. Messner was a lecturer and author who appeared on more than 1,000 television and radio shows and wrote many foreign policy studies. He also traveled to virtually every part of the globe.
"He received an award from NATO on their 25th anniversary," Mrs. Messner said. "That meant so much for him."
He spent two years as a visiting scholar at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University; was an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; and a participant in the Council of Foreign Relations, Atlantic Council of the United States, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Brookings Institute, American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation.
"He should have been 10 people," Mrs. Messner said. "He was always on the telephone. One was ringing while (he was) on another."
The couple have lived in Washington D.C. for the past nine years, where he was the director of International Affairs Education Services.
His wife is his only survivor. Services were held in Washington .
Date of announcement: 09-03-1999
Naomi Spicer lived Golden Rule
Naomi Spicer, 75, of Roselawn, was a strong Christian who "lived the Golden Rule," said her daughter, Carolyn Moore of Hagerstown, Md.
"She was very kind, very nice," Ms. Moore said. "I don't know if other people knew, but she also sang all the time when she was at home."
A mother of four, Mrs. Spicer worked for the Internal Revenue Service for 30 years in addition to being an excellent family cook who made especially good rolls. "She started out, I believe, in the mailroom, and she ended up a supervisor," Ms. Moore said.
Mrs. Spicer was a dedicated member of St. Simon of Cyrene Episcopal Church in Lincoln Heights, where she was a former treasurer at the church and often helped cook for the after-service dinner on Sundays. "If someone needed a ride to church, she took them," Ms. Moore said.
She was an avid bridge player and traveled with friends to tournaments across the United States. She also was a seamstress and avid reader.
"She used to make all of our dresses. She made coats," her daughter said. "She could make anything she wanted to."
Mrs. Spicer also is survived by daughters Sandra Dent of Houston, Texas, and Yvonne Spicer of Roselawn; her sons-in-law, Edward Dent Jr. and Richard Hutchins, of Roselawn; six grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.
Services: noon Saturday at St. Simon of Syrene Episcopal Church, 810 Matthews Drive, Lincoln Heights. Burial: Spring Grove Cemetery, 4521 Spring Grove Ave., Winton Place. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. today and 10:30 a.m. to noon Saturday at the church. Renfro Funeral Services is in charge.
Memorials to St. Simon of Syrene Episcopal Church or the National Cancer Foundation.
Date of announcement: 09-03-1999
ROSE KATE CONOVER, 100, of Ripley, Ohio, died Wednesday. Ms. Conover was a former factory worker and operated a boarding house. Graveside service: 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Pisgah Ridge Cemetery, near Ripley. No visitation. Cahall Funeral Home, Ripley, is handling arrangements. Memorials: Pisgah Ridge Cemetery perpetual care fund.
Date of announcement: 09-03-1999
Joseph S. Ruggie Jr., labor attorney
Joseph S. Ruggie Jr. was a nationally recognized labor lawyer who represented management but also was respected by labor leaders, fellow lawyers say.
Attorney Dan Ward said Ruggie "loved the law and he had absolute loyalty to his clients. What was most important, he wanted to share his knowledge.
"He did a significant amount of pro bono (free) work but at the same time he did not publicize that to anyone. He gave legal advice to non-profit organizations without charge," Ward said.
Ruggie, 62, died Thursday less than a week after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was one of the top partners in Ohio's largest law firm, Thompson Hine & Flory, which is based in Cleveland but also has a large office in Cincinnati. He lived in Aurora, near Cleveland.
Mr. Ruggie was listed in "The Best Lawyers in America" and was a member of his firm's management committee.
The Cleveland native was a graduate of Cornell University and the Cornell Law School.
Mr. Ruggie leaves his wife, Carol Ann, of Aurora; two sons, Michael Ruggie of Vail, Colo., and Peter Ruggie of Washington, D.C.; two daughters, Patricia Conley of Cincinnati and Susan Thomas of Missoula, Mont.; a stepdaughter, Jennifer Morrison of Silver Lake, Ohio, and Brian Conley of Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
A memorial service will be at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Dominic Roman Catholic Church in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Memorials may be made to the Joseph S. Ruggie Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund, Cornell Law School, attention of Tammy Babcock, 260 Myron Taylor Hall, Ithaca, N.Y., 14853-4901.
Date of announcement: 09-04-1999
Dr. Herman Headlam, led emergency care
Dr. Herman Kingsley Headlam, 58, of Amberley Village, a senior emergency room physician at Franciscan Hospital in Cincinnati for more than 20 years, died Wednesday.
He will be remembered for being an educator, a gentleman, a leader, and always willing to give a helping hand, said Dr. Dan Franklin, a longtime friend and colleague.
"He touched our lives and made us better," Dr. Franklin said.
A native of Kingston, Jamaica, Dr. Headlam received his medical degree at the University of West Indies, Jamaica, in 1969. He did his internship in Barbados, West Indies, and started practicing medicine at the Bustamante Children's Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica, where he met his wife, Chrystal, a registered nurse.
In the early 1970s, they came to the United States and he completed his pediatric residency at Columbia University and Harlem Hospital in 1973. Two years later, Dr. Headlam graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a master's degree in public health.
He also served as a consultant physician in adolescent medicine for the Cincinnati Health Department and as medical director of Lincoln Heights Health Center.
He was a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and was a consultant for the Bureau of Worker's Compensation for the state of Ohio.
In addition to his wife, Dr. Headlam leaves two daughters, Marlo Headlam Melucci and Sonya Headlam, both of Amberley Village; a son, Marcus Headlam of Amberley Village; two sisters, Elin of Florida and Dorrel of Jamaica; and a brother, Lloyd Headlam of Florida.
Services: 4 p.m. today on the second floor in conference rooms A, B, C, and D at Mercy Franciscan Hospital in Mount Airy. There is no visitation.
Memorials: to the American Cancer Society, 11117 Kenwood Road, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45242, and the Hospice of Cincinnati, 4310 Cooper Road, Cincinnati, 45242. Arrangements: Gilligan Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 09-04-1999
