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GERTRUDE B. BOHACHE BIHLERT, 102, of Hyde Park, died Wednesday. She was an active volunteer with the Hyde Park Center for Older Adults and was a member of Knox Presbyterian Church, Hyde Park. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at Knox Presbyterian Church. Visitation: 9 to 10 a.m. Saturday at Elden A. Good Funeral Home, Hyde Park. Memorials: Knox Presbyterian Church or Hyde Park Center for Older Adults.
Date of announcement: 08-24-2001
MABLE BLACK, 96, of Avondale, died Wednesday. She was a homemaker. Services: 10 a.m. Monday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills. Visitation: 9 a.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 08-24-2001
STACEY RENEE and TRACEY KAY LANE, stillborn twins, of Ruth Ann Vest and Michael G. Lane Jr., of Aurora, Ind., died Wednesday. Services: 11 a.m. EST Monday at New Life Southern Baptist Church, 19936 Schafer Road, Manchester, Ind. Visitation: 10 a.m. EST Monday at the Church. Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Memorials: Dearborn County Hospital - Birthing Center, cards will be available at the church and funeral home.
Date of announcement: 08-24-2001
Adriana Pastoor, resisted Nazis
Leading a life that sounds as if it came from a best-seller probably wasn't what Adriana Pastoor had in mind growing up in The Netherlands.
Ms. Pastoor, who lived in Cincinnati for 35 years, died Aug. 17 in Wildomar, Calif. She was 89.
A native of Utrecht in Holland, she graduated from college and planned a life as a home economics teacher and wife.
But when the Nazis occupied her homeland, she and husband Pieter Pastoor risked their lives by harboring two Jewish teens.
Following World War II, with the Cold War looming, she and her family immigrated to Toronto and then to Cincinnati. Her husband died just months after arriving in the Queen City and Ms. Pastoor relied on her faith to raise her four sons alone.
She jumped into community life, taking part in the Madeira Gardening Club, going to Parkview Heights Christian Reformed Church and its successor, Crosspoint Community Church, and volunteering with the Cincinnati Institute for the Blind.
At age 85 and almost totally blind, Ms. Pastoor became a citizen of the United States.
She is survived by sons Dirk of Cincinnati, Pieter II of Davis, Calif., George of Silver Spring, Md., and Arthur of Murrieta, Calif.
Visitation is 9 a.m. Monday at Elden A. Good Funeral Home, 2620 Erie Ave., Hyde Park, followed by a 10 a.m. memorial service.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Crosspoint Community Church, 945 Congress Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio 45246; the United Church of the Valley, 37224 Huckaby Lane, Murrieta, Calif. 92562 or Hospice of the Valleys, P.O. Box 686, Sun City, Calif. 92586.
Date of announcement: 08-25-2001
Jewel Patterson Andriacco, waitress
Jewel Patterson Andriacco's kind heart carried her far in life.
The longtime, popular waitress at several West Side restaurants in the 1960s and 1970s served as much compassion to her customers as hot coffee.
The Green Township resident died Thursday at Mercy Franciscan Western Hills. She was 70.
"Mom was a passionate and compassionate person," said her son, Dan Andriacco, a former Post business editor who now is the spokesman for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. "She always spoke her mind, and always acted out of a generous heart. Her strong will and sense of humor carried her through many difficult illnesses over several years."
She was born in Summerset, Ky., and was raised in South Fairmount. She married her childhood sweetheart, also named Dan, at age 18 and the couple celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in March.
She worked as a waitress at West Side restaurants such as the former Rusty Canon and the former Gay 90s, where she waited on Pete Rose and Johnny Bench.
Survivors, in addition to husband, Dan, include one other son, Tony; brother, Calvin Peterson of Shelbyville, Ind., and sister Mabel Patterson of Cincinnati.
She also leaves behind several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Visitation: 9:30 a.m. Monday at Ralph Meyer & Deters Funeral Home, 4164 W. Eighth St., Price Hill.
Services: 11 a.m. Monday at San Antonio Church, Queen City Avenue and White Streets, South Fairmount. Interment at New St. Joseph Cemetery.
Memorials: Vitas Hospice, 1132 W. Kemper Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45240.
Date of announcement: 08-25-2001
James May, lawyer and reporter
A memorial service is 3 p.m. Sunday at the Vernon Manor Hotel, Clifton, for former Cincinnati Times-Star reporter James Robinson May, who died July 31 at Cape Coral, Fla., Hospital.
His life included time spent as a print and broadcast journalist, a dalliance with politics and a 30-year law career.
A native of Norwood, Mr. May worked in the General Motors factory to earn college money. After graduating from Ohio State, he was a reporter with The Times-Star from 1955-56, covering the murder of socialite Audrey Evers Pugh. Soon after, he left the paper to work for WCPO-TV, where he was sports editor and a newscaster. While at the station, he began attending the Salmon P. Chase College of Law, then located in Cincinnati. He graduated from law school, then ran for Cincinnati City Council in 1959, but lost. He practiced law for more than 30 years afterwards, retiring from his private practice in 1992.
"He was one of the most personable people I've ever known," said his son, Douglas James May, also a lawyer in Cincinnati. "He thought about people. He always tried to help people."
Other survivors include his wife, Winifred May of North Fort Meyers, Fla.; and daughters, Ellen May Apke of Cincinnati and Susan May Levy of Deerfield, Ill.
Date of announcement: 08-25-2001
RUTH ANN FLODDER, 81, of Batesville, Ind., died Thursday. Ms. Flooder was a homemaker. Services: 11 a.m. EST Monday at St. John United Church of Christ.
Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. EST Sunday at Meyers Funeral Home, Batesville. Memorials: St. John Church, Batesville Ministerial Association.
Date of announcement: 08-25-2001
WILLIAM NELSON, 76, of Silverton, died Friday. He was a laborer. Services: 7 p.m. Tuesday at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, 6850 Plainfield Road. Visitation: 6 p.m. Tuesday at the church.
Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 08-25-2001
Cal Collins, 68, a jazz guitar virtuoso
Someone once said Cal Collins could play anything with a wire on it.
Friends, musicians and fans today are remembering Mr. Collins as not only Cincinnati's greatest jazz player, but one of the great guitarists of the jazz world.
Mr. Collins died at his home Sunday in Dillsboro, Ind., at the age of 68 of liver failure.
"He was one of the world's great jazz guitar players. ... He could take you to the top of the mountain with his talent," said vocalist Mary Ellen Tanner, who first met Mr. Collins in 1970 when he was part of Jerry Conrad's band on the Nick Clooney TV variety show.
Mr. Collins' brilliant career took him from playing Western swing in Indiana roadhouses to being a featured guitarist with Benny Goodman's band in the late '70s. He released internationally acclaimed records on the Concord label in the '80s and recorded with many of the label's stars, including Rosemary Clooney. Mr. Collins was a fixture and true treasure on the Cincinnati-area scene; his breezy, innovative style was almost taken for granted locally.
He played everywhere around town, from the Playboy Club in the '60s to years in drummer Dee Felice's band to steady gigging at shows at the Blue Wisp jazz club.
"He was the most natural musician I ever played with. Just the most natural swing player ever," said bassist Ron McCurdy, who worked with Mr. Collins in the mid-'60s at the Playboy Club. "That was the best band I ever played in. It was a memorable time."
"He was just born to play that ax, man," said drummer John Von Ohlen, leader of the Blue Wisp Big Band, who played with Mr. Collins for more than 30 years. "With Cal it was natural. He'd come up with something he'd never done in his life right on the spot and do it better than it's ever been done and never do it again."
Mr. Collins first picked up the guitar playing country and Western swing music, but soon gravitated toward jazz guitar. His national break came when Goodman took him under his wing.
"Goodman heard him once and took in Cal, just like he took in Lionel Hampton. He said, 'This is my man,' " Von Ohlen remembered.
Mr. Collins would use the Goodman exposure to land a Concord Record deal that drew international praise for his playing. Jazz guitar publications now rank Mr. Collins among the all-time greats. with such guitarists as Carl Kress and George Van Eps.
Mr. Collins was honored locally in 1979 with a Post-Corbett Award.
A memorial service will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Ullrich-Filter Funeral Home in Dillsboro. Surviving in addition to his wife are seven children, 18 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Collins is survived by his wife Susie, and seven children, Debbie Ford, Carl Bruce Collins, Steve Collins, Marshawn McClain, Christine Kramer, Laura Ferguson, Scott Schwan, and 18 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Date of announcement: 08-27-2001
MARGARET E. GRAUSE, 86, of Bethel, died Saturday. She was a homemaker. Services: 11 a.m. Wednesday at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel. Visitation: 10 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 08-27-2001
CARL STANFORTH, 69, of Bethel, died Saturday. He was a pressman with Metro Containers, Norwood. Services: 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Bethel Church of the Nazarene. Visitation: 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at the church. Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 08-27-2001
Mary Newton, waitress, saved many in fire
Mary Newton, a Beverly Hills Supper Club waitress - who, in 1977, braved the smoke, fire and confusion to lead many people out of the Southgate nightclub to safety - died Sunday.
Ms. Newton, of Fort Wright, Ky., was 77.
"Something happened to her that night that she could never explain," said her son, Darrell Newton, of Florence. "She stayed calm while everyone else was panicking. It's something that no one can explain."
The fire claimed 165 lives.
It changed his mother's life, Newton said: "She said she realized how so many things just aren't all that important. Her family, especially children, became her focus."
After the fire, she became a waitress at the Town and Country Restaurant in Park Hills. In retirement, she led efforts to make more dialysis machines available to Northern Kentucky residents, her son said.
She also was an avid bird watcher and nature lover, he said.
He said his mother was "quite a character. ... Her last words were, 'Well, this is my last hurrah. I've had a good ride, and I'm out of here.' "
Mrs. Newton was preceded in death by her husband, Herbert. In addition to her son, she is survived by her daughter, Donna Tucker of Jacksonville, Fla.; sisters, Florence Thornhill of New Port Richey, Fla., and Nellie McQuery of Bethel; four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Ronald B. Jones Funeral Home, Ludlow. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Memorials are suggested to Arthritis Foundation, 7811 Laurel Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio 45243.
Date of announcement: 08-28-2001
ROBERT SAMUEL ALLIE, 62, of Roselawn, died Thursday. He was a laborer. Services: noon Wednesday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills. Visitation: 11 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 08-28-2001
