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JENNIE MAE BROWN, 74, of Forest Park, died Saturday. Services: 11 a.m. Wednesday at Zion Baptist Church, Avondale. Visitation: 10 a.m. Wednesday at the church. Memorials: Greater Cincinnati Chapter Hampton Alumni Association. Renfro & Piper Funeral Services is in charge of the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 11-05-2002
RUTH DENSFORD, 91, of Newburgh, Ind., died Sunday. She was a homemaker. Services: 10 a.m. Wednesday at Alexander Newburgh Funeral Home Chapel, Newburgh. No visitation. Memorials: Clifton Springs Church of the Nazarene, 2139 Route 96, Clifton Springs, N.Y. 14432.
Date of announcement: 11-05-2002
SHIRLEY DICKS, 67, of Bond Hill, died Thursday. She was the founder of Madisonville Daycare. Services: 7 p.m. Thursday at Greater Liberty Baptist Church, Madisonville. Visitation: 6 p.m. Thursday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Silverton, is in charge of the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 11-05-2002
OSCAR R. FINLEY JR., 68, of Kennedy Heights, died Sunday. He was a driver for Pepsi Cola. Service: 11 a.m. Friday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Silverton. Vistation: 10 a.m. Friday at the funeral home. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Silverton, is in charge of arrangements.
Date of announcement: 11-05-2002
JANE M. KIBLER, 76, of Silverton, died Thursday. She was a purchaser. Services: 11 a.m. Thursday at St. John the Evangelist Church, Deer Park. Visitation: 10 a.m. Thursday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Silverton, is in charge of arrangements.
Date of announcement: 11-05-2002
MILDRED PANUSKA, 86, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., formerly of Cincinnati, died Oct. 27. Memorial services will be at the convenience of the family. Fred Hunters Funeral Home & Cremation, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is in charge of arrangements.
Date of announcement: 11-05-2002
Helen Melter, 86, spent life helping others
Helen Melter lived her life looking for ways to help others.
"With my mom, whatever needed to be done, she was there to say, `Let me help," said her daughter, Diana K. Bragg of Indianapolis.
Mrs. Melter, of Pleasant Ridge, who died Monday at 86, found many of her opportunities at Valley Interfaith Food and Clothing Center. She began volunteering there after the death of her husband, Robert H. Melter, in 1981 and continued until last year, when health problems forced her to quit.
When she started, the organization was housed at Friendship United Methodist Church in Wyoming; it has since moved into its own quarters in Lockland
"She brought mending home, she sorted clothes and food. She would go over there on Sunday afternoon to make up food orders so they would be ready for the clients when they came on Monday," Bragg said. "She was a giver and a helper, someone who others knew they could depend on."
Mrs. Melter got involved with Valley Interfaith through her church, St. John Church of Christ in Reading. At the church she was also a constant volunteer, most recently helping in the office with communications.
"She could work rings around you and me," Bragg said. "She was a typical German, she put her head down and did what needed to be done."
Survivors include a son, Rev. James Melter, of Kettlersville, Ohio; six grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m.Thursday at Memorial Mausoleum Chapel of Spring Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Charles A. Miller Funeral Home, Northside.
Memorials are suggested to St. John's United Church of Christ, Reading.
Date of announcement: 11-06-2002
GLADYS M. DURHAM, 75, of Norwood, died Saturday. She was a housekeeper. Services: 1 p.m. Thursday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Silverton. Visitation: noon Thursday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 11-06-2002
LUCAS J. NICHOLAS SR., 85, of Delhi Township, died Tuesday. He was the owner of Nicholas Music and Vending Co. Maronite services: 10 a.m. Friday at St. Anthony of Padua Maronite Church, E. Walnut Hills. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Radel Funeral Home, Delhi Township. Memorials: St. Anthony of Padua Scholarship Fund, 2530 Victory Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio 45206.
Date of announcement: 11-06-2002
MAE POWERS, 102, of Cincinnati, formerly of Aurora, Ind., died Tuesday. She retired from Economy Drugs where she was a secretary. Mass: 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Aurora, Ind. Visitation: 10 a.m. Saturday at the church. Rullman Hunger Denney Funeral Home, Aurora, is handling the arrangements. Memorials: St. Mary's Catholic Church, Aurora, Ind.
Date of announcement: 11-06-2002
MARY EDYTHE WEDDLE, 93, of Greendale, Ind., died Monday. She was a retired teacher. Services: 10 a.m. Thursday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg, Ind. Visitation: 5 to 8 tonight at the funeral home. Memorials: Hamline Chapel Scholarship Fund and Friends of the Library.
Date of announcement: 11-06-2002
CORINE WILLIAMS, 82, of West End, died Sunday. She was a homemaker. Services: 10 a.m. Thursday at New St. Paul Baptist Church, Over-the-Rhine. Visitation: 9 a.m. Thursday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills, is handling the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 11-06-2002
MARTHA ELIZABETH MOORE COURSEY, of West Palm Beach, Fla., formerly of Cincinnati, died Saturday. Services: 11 a.m. Friday at St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Evanston. Visitation: 10 a.m. Friday at the church. Renfro & Piper Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
Date of announcement: 11-07-2002
ELLIOTT D. BAKER, 93, of Covington, Ky., died Sunday. He was a retired assembler for G.E. Services were this morning at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Forest Park.
Date of announcement: 11-07-2002
ARTHUR L. BOULDIN JR., 53, of Columbus, Ohio, formerly of Cincinnati, died Nov. 5. Services: Noon Monday at Love Zion Baptist Church, Columbus. Visitation: 11 a.m. Monday at the church. Dishl Whitaker Funeral Service, Columbus, is in charge of the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 11-08-2002
ROBERTA L. HAHN, 77, of Anderson Township, died Tuesday. She was a registered nurse for the Beechwood Home for the Incurables, Cincinnati. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at Cherry Grove United Methodist Church. Visitation: 9 a.m. Saturday at the church. Memorials: American Lung Association.
Date of announcement: 11-08-2002
NAOMI W. LANDIS, 78, of Winona Lake, Ind., formerly of Darke County, Ohio, died Wednesday. She was a former teacher in Wilmington, Ohio. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at Pleasant View Bible Church, Warsaw, Ind. Visitation: 9-11 a.m. Saturday at the church. Titus Funeral Home, Warsaw, Ind., is handling the arrangements. Memorials: Pleasant View Bible Church, 2782 West 200 N, Warsaw, Ind., 46580.
Date of announcement: 11-08-2002
DEVOTA MILLER, 78, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Tuesday. She was a secretary for Seagram's Distillery. Services: 10 a.m. today at Rullman Hunger Denney Funeral Home, Aurora, Ind. Visitation was held on Thursday. Memorials: Mt. Tabor United Methodist Church.
Date of announcement: 11-08-2002
BERNICE JOHNSON-PATTON, 75, of Glendale, died Wednesday. She was a nurse's aide. Services: 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Martin DePorres Catholic Church, Lockland. Visitation: 10 a.m. Tuesday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Forest Park, is in charge of the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 11-08-2002
GLENN E. PIERCE 77, of Lancaster, Ohio, formerly of Cincinnati, died Wednesday. He was employed at Beulah Park race track, and he was a World War II Army Air Force veteran. Services: 7 p.m. today at Halteman-Fett & Dyer Funeral Home, Lancaster. Visitation: 2-4 p.m. Friday and 6 p.m. Friday until service at the funeral home. Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Sacred Heart Church, Camp Washington . Visitation: 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the church.
Date of announcement: 11-08-2002
ALENA M. SEALE, 82, of Brookville, Ind., died Thursday. She was a homemaker. Services: 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Cook Funeral Home, Brookville. Visitation: 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Memorials: Masonic Home in Louisville, Ky, or Charities of the Scottish Rite.
Date of announcement: 11-08-2002
Chief Stanley Schrotel, 88, served city
Stanley R. Schrotel, a former Cincinnati police chief, died Tuesday at the Hospice of Cincinnati in Blue Ash. Formerly of Mount Lookout, he was 88.
After retiring as police chief, Chief Schrotel served as national director of security for Kroger and then was administrator of the Hamilton County Domestic Relations Court.
A graduate of Withrow High School, he worked as a police officer while attending the University of Cincinnati and, later, the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University. There he won a law degree and found his wife.
Betty Schrotel met her eventual husband while she was working in the city prosecutor's office. A future magistrate, she, too, was taking night courses at Chase.
Chief Schrotel joined the force in 1934. He was a Sedamsville patrolman during the 1937 flood, working 12-hour shifts to rescue trapped families by boat and move them to dry land. After a power outage made it impossible to pump and purify water, the young patrolman tapped a natural spring on Delhi Avenue, filling milk cans with fresh water. It was the only supply of drinking water for many Price Hill families until more could be trucked in.
He was named police chief in 1951 at age 37, the youngest in the city's history.
Chief Schrotel was frequently called on to review other police departments' operations, and he was a candidate to lead the Chicago, Denver and Baltimore police departments, and even the FBI.
"He also was interviewed to be the police chief of the U.S. Virgin Islands. But he turned that one down, too," Mrs. Schrotel said. "He really wanted to stay in Cincinnati. He loved this city."
Chief Schrotel was a member of the Rotary Club, Scottish Rite, the Shrine, the Order of Curia, the Ohio and Cincinnati Bar associations, the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police, the National Academy Association, Knox Presbyterian Church in Hyde Park and Santa Rosa Community Church in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Kim Schrotel of Milford; two sons, John "Bucky" Schrotel of Tampa, Fla., and James Schrotel of Santa Maria, Calif.; and seven grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at noon Monday at the Jon Deitloff Funeral Centre, 4389 Spring Grove Ave., Winton Place. Memorials: Hospice of Cincinnati, 4310 Cooper Road, Cincinnati 45242 or Shriners Hospitals-Cincinnati, 3229 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati 45229.
Date of announcement: 11-09-2002
