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MYRTLE BROWN LIVINGSTON, 92, of Walnut Hills, died Thursday. Memorial services: 10 a .m. today at Lincoln-Crawford Nursing Home, Walnut Hills. Visitation: 6 to 7 tonight at Renfro Funeral Home, Avondale.
Date of announcement: 01-25-2000
WARREN WESLEY "BUTCH" MCDOWELL, 52, of Lockland, died Saturday. Services: 7 p.m. Wednesday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills. Visitation: 6 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 01-25-2000
MATTIE LOUISE ROZIER, 82, of Evendale, died Friday. She was a seamstress. Services: 7 p.m. Wednesday at Friendship Baptist Church, Lincoln Heights. Visitation: 5 p.m. Wednesday at the church. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Lockland.
Date of announcement: 01-25-2000
NEVELYN BAKER TAYLOR, 78, of Mount Orab, died Friday. She was a homemaker. Services: 10 a.m. Monday at Thompson-Stevens Funeral Home, Mount Orab.
Date of announcement: 01-25-2000
HELEN L. UPTON, 71, of Lockland, died Thursday. She was a retired employee of Intern ational Paper Co. Services: 7 p.m. Thursday at Bethel A.M.E. Church, Lockland. Visitation: 6 p.m. Thursday at the church. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Lockland.
Date of announcement: 01-25-2000
AMOS E. WAITS, 63, of Mount Orab, died Friday. He was a truck driver and a farmer. Services: 11 a.m. today at Thompson-Stevens Funeral Home, Mount Orab. Visitation began at 9 a.m. Memorials: St. Martin Association.
Date of announcement: 01-25-2000
EDWARD W. ZIEVERINK JR., 78, of Price Hill, died Sunday. He was an Army veteran of W orld War II. Mass: 10 a.m. Thursday at Holy Family Church, Price Hill. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Radel Funeral Home, Delhi Township. Memorials: Eldermount Adult Day Program.
Date of announcement: 01-25-2000
Edward Zieverink Jr., city police officer
Edward W. Zieverink Jr., a Cincinnati police officer for 37 years, died Sunday at ag e 78.
Two of his children are police officers, with one son now a member of the Cincinnati Police Division.
Family members say Mr. Zieverink's accomplishments as an officer were many, but his real achievement was his dedication to family.
Mr. Zieverink, of Price Hill, joined the Cincinnati police as a recruit in 1948 and retired as a police specialist in 1985. His assignments included working at the Criminal Investigation Section, Traffic Section and in Districts 1 and 3.
He was a Navy veteran of World War II, serving aboard the USS Shaw. He was awarded 10 battle stars.
Mr. Zieverink was known for his sense of humor, which included playing practical jokes and creating characters with an array of false faces. His grandchildren were among his favorite audiences, family members said.
Four of his children are or were formerly in law enforcement. A son, Jim, is now a Cincinnati police specialist; another son, Ed, is a retired Cincinnati homicide investigator. A daughter, Lorri Ashmore, is a Columbus, Ga., police officer. Another daughter, Mary Hosinski, of South Bend, Ind., once was a Cincinnati police officer.
Mr. Zieverink was a member of the Catholic War Veterans, Disabled American Veterans Chapter 1, Veterans of Foreign Wars Gailey Post and the Veterans Day Committee. He also was a member of the Fraternal Order of Police Queen City Lodge 69.
Mr. Zieverink also leaves his wife, Sarah; three other daughters, Renie Schrauder, Ronnie Houston and Jeanne Zieverink, all of Cincinnati; three other sons, Frank of Clawson, Mich., and Bill and Bob, both of Cincinnati; 27 grandchildren; and six great grandchildren. Mr. Zieverink's first wife, June, died in 1970.
Mass: 10 a.m. Thursday at Holy Family Church in Price Hill. Visitation: 5-7 p.m. today at the Radel Funeral Home, 650 Neeb Road, Delhi Township. Memorials: Eldermount Adult Day Program, 5900 Delhi Road, Cincinnati 45238.
Date of announcement: 01-26-2000
Mine owner Ben Tate, aided kids
Ben E. Tate Jr., a long-time Cincinnati businessman, died Friday at his home in Flor ida after a five-year battle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 89.
A graduate of Cincinnati Country Day School and Princeton University, he served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy aboard the aircraft carrier Yorktown during World War II.
He returned home and entered the coal business with his father, and ultimately owned and operated many coal mines.
He was generous in his support of many local youth charities, including the Beech Acres Foundation, the Children's Home, the Boys & Girls Clubs, Camp Stepping Stones and the Evans Scholarship for golf caddies. A high school athlete, Tate later won numerous local golf tournaments.
He leaves his wife, Marie Mitchell Hopple Tate, of Delray Beach, Fla.; two daughters, Laurie Hedgecock, of Gainesville, Fla., and Mary Tate, of Albuquerque, N.M.; a son, Ben Tate, III, of Sandpoint, Idaho; five grandchildren; and three step-grandchildren.
Services: 11:30 a.m. today at the Indian Hill Church, Drake Road, Indian Hill. Visitation was this morning at Gilligan Funeral Home, Kenwood. Memorials may be made to the Stepping Stones Center, 5650 Given Road, 45243, or the Cincinnati Children's Home Foundation, 505 Madison Road, 45227.
Date of announcement: 01-26-2000
Rita Hackett Cassidy, Post writer
Rita Hackett Cassidy, a Cincinnati Post columnist in the 1940s and 1950s, died Jan. 5 i n Bridgeport, Conn. Her death at age 82 resulted from complications after an accident.
A native of the Queen City, she graduated with honors from the College of Mount St. Joseph. She was a broadcaster on WSAI and WLW radio stations. On WLW, she hosted "Crossroads Cafe" and "Club 49" in the 1940s.
She wrote and hosted "Melody Showcase," a prime-time Sunday musical variety program, on the Crosley television station, WLWT. She also appeared on the daytime fashion program, "Now for the Modern Woman."
At The Post, she wrote a twice-week ly column called "'Round Town With Rita."
In 1950 she and her husband, a pub lic relations executive, moved to New York City where she continued to write a column for The Post, "Rita In The Big Town." She later became a fashion coordinator for United Press.
In 1957, she became vice president of Tom Rametta Inc., a New York fash ion photography studio. She moved to Washington, D.C., in the 1970s, and she and her husband retired to Southbury, Conn.
She leaves her husband of 58 years, James J. Cassidy; a daughter, Claudia Lorber of Tucson, Ariz.; a son, James Cassidy Jr. of New York, and two grandchildren. Memorial services will be announced. Memorials may be made to the High Watch Farm, Kent, Conn., 06757, or the Thomas P. Hack ett Memorial Fund, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. 02114. The Munson-Lovetere Funeral Home of Southbury, Conn., handled arrange ments.
Date of announcement: 01-26-2000
CLARENCE ROBERT ESTEP, 87, of Bethel, died Monday. He worked for Fox Paper Co. Services: 11 a.m. Friday at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 01-26-2000
MARY H. KOERNER, 67, of Venice, Fla., formerly of Cincinnati, died Sun day. She was a homemaker. Mass: 10 a.m. Friday at St. Michael Church, Rip ley. Visitation: 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Cahall Funeral Home, Ripley.
Date of announcement: 01-26-2000
ERIC LUNDSTEDT, 73, of Law renceburg, Ind., died Tuesday. He was a mechanical designer with Campbell- Hausfeld Inc. Services will be at the convenience of the family. Fitch-Den ney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg, handling arrangements. Memorials: Charity of the donor's choice or Law renceburg Rescue Unit.
Date of announcement: 01-26-2000
ROBERT L. MOEHRING, 61, of Pompano Beach, Fla., formerly of Cin cinnati, died Jan. 21. Mr. Moehring was a former employee of the Sisters of Charity. Mass: 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Holy Family Church, Price Hill. Visita tion: 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday at Harry Meyer and Geiser Funeral Home, Western Hills.
Date of announcement: 01-26-2000
H. Greg Thiel, massage therapist,
distance runner, despite blindness
Howard Greg Thiel, 48, a massage therapist and widely known distance runner, di ed Tuesday at his home in Erlanger, Ky.
Mr. Thiel, who remained an active runner until several months ago when he developed liver cancer, was an accomplished swimmer and high school athlete when an industrial accident robbed him of his sight in 1970.
He underwent 35 operations to repair the damage from acid that splashed into his eyes, but the resulting scar tissue ultimately rejected one transplant after another. He regained his sight for three years, earned a college degree from the University of Florida, and married. Then his blindness returned. He admitted later that he briefly slipped into depression but that passed.
"He never gave up, and he never wanted any sympathy," said a life-long friend, Realtor Jim Huff. "If you were around him he always had something light to say, something to cheer you up, something to say to make you feel at ease."
Friends encouraged Mr. Thiel to get his license as a massage therapist. He began as a massage therapist at the former Covington YMCA and when that was torn down, he moved to the Central YMCA in downtown Cincinnati.
He worked up until a few months ago, and provided massage services from a studio in his home for those who couldn't get to the Y during its hours.
Co-workers at the Covington Y first raised the possibility of running to Mr. Thiel, and it turned out to be a long-time avocation.
"I've run with Greg for over 20 years," Huff said. "He would just hang onto my elbow while we ran. He was in a lot better shape than I was. He could run a marathon. But with me along we'd run only about two or three miles."
Mr. Thiel ran right up until a few months ago.
"I was at his house (Tuesday), and he taught me something about life, and about death," Huff said. "He was the same cheerful person down to the end. He was the most remarkable person I've ever known."
Mr. Thiel leaves his wife, Joyce Crouch; a daughter, Laura, and a son, Drew, both at home; his mother, Evelyn Barrett Thiel of Erlanger, Ky.; and a half-sister, Sherry Dillon of Boston. His father, John Russell Thiel, died in 1998.
Services will be at 7:30 tonight at Erlanger Baptist Church. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. today at the church. A reception will follow the service in the church fellowship hall.
Memorials are suggested to Erlanger Baptist Church, 116 Commonwealth Ave., Erlanger, Ky. 41018. Linnemann Funeral Home, Erlanger, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 01-27-2000
