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JAY W. JOHNSON, 49, of Finneytown, died Monday. He was an electronics engineer for Aventis Pharmaceuticals. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at Corinithian Baptist Church, Avondale. Visitation: 10 a.m. Saturday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Forest Park, is in charge of the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 12-19-2002
SHIELA LEWIS, 34, of Lincoln Heights, died Saturday. She was an administrative assistant for Avon Products, Inc. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Forest Park. Visitation: 10 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 12-19-2002
HILDRETH M. SHELTON, 100, of Dillsboro, Ind., died Wednesday. She was a retired seamstress at Aurora Casket Company. Services: 2 p.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church Aurora, Aurora, Ind. Visitation: 5-8 p.m. Friday at the Rullman Hunger Denney Funeral Home, Aurora, Ind. Memorials: First Baptist Church Aurora.
Date of announcement: 12-19-2002
Jack Fightmaster, WWII veteran, retired chemist
Jack D. Fightmaster, retired chief chemist for the Gulf Oil Corp. in Hooven, Ohio, died Wednesday at his home in Dry Ridge, Ky.
He was 77.
Mr. Fightmaster had a quiet, reassuring manner that others liked to be around, said his son, Michael Fightmaster of Cincinnati. "He was so humble, and yet so strong. To me, he was best when somebody needed something."
Mr. Fightmaster received the Distinguished Flying Cross for action he took in a bomber high above the Pacific during World War II. A bomb, set to explode on a time delay, became stuck in the bomb bay, and he climbed into the bay and dislodged it, said his wife, Helen.
After the war, Mr. Fightmaster studied at the University of Kentucky. After graduating, he worked as a chemist, retiring in 1981.
He and his wife lived on a farm in Dry Ridge in recent years, where he raised horses and cattle.
Other survivors include a son, John E. Fightmaster of Dry Ridge; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Two sons, Steven Barry Fightmaster and Jamie Donaldson Fightmaster, preceded him in death.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Allison and Rose Funeral Home, Covington. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 tonight at the funeral home.
Memorials are suggested to St. Elizabeth Home-Health Hospice, 401 E. 20th St., Covington, Ky. 41014.
Date of announcement: 12-20-2002
Robert Temple Keeler, prominent attorney
Former Cincinnati resident Robert Temple Keeler, an attorney who once served on the board of directors of Time Inc., died at 12:10 p.m. Thursday at his country home in Dorset, Vt.
Mr. Keeler was born in Cleveland 88 years ago, on the first day of World War I. With his typical wry wit, he sometimes described his birth as "the second calamity of the day."
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1936 and earned a law degree from Yale University in 1939.
While at Dartmouth, he earned a six-month internship with the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, which he later said turned him off politics and made him a Republican, said his nephew, Jim Brodhead.
After graduating from Yale, Mr. Keeler joined the firm of Taft, Stettinius and Hollister, founded by former U.S. Sen. Robert Alphonso Taft, R- Ohio, and moved to Cincinnati.
In 1942, he temporarily left the firm to enlist as an ensign in the Navy, where his first big assignment was defending an enlisted man accused of insulting an officer. He left the Navy in 1946, with the rank of lieutenant junior grade, and returned to the firm.
Mr. Keeler also worked with his first cousin, Arthur Temple Jr., to build the timber business their grandfather founded into the half-million-acre East Texas Pulp & Paper Co., a principal supplier of Time Inc.
When the media conglomerate merged with the paper company in 1973, Keeler and his cousin joined the Time Inc. board of directors. They resigned 10 years later to protest Time's merger with Warner Brothers.
Mr. Keeler had married Florence Field "Fifi" Mithoefer of Cincinnati in 1940. After their divorce in 1975, he married Margaret "Peggy" Palmer Mithoefer, the widow of his first wife's elder brother.
Mr. Keeler retired from the Taft firm in 1982, after 43 years with the firm, 32 of them as a partner. He then concentrated on his interest in the arts. He was elected to the board of directors of the Cincinnati Art Museum in 1993.
With his second wife, he endowed a riverside park as part of the renovation of the city waterfront. They also endowed the Mary Drury history chair at the Seven Hills School, and the school's John Whitman Keeler Memorial Theatre in honor of Mr. Keeler's younger son, who died in 1993.
He is survived by his wife; his cousin Arthur; four children, all in California, David Keeler of Santa Ynez, Tanny Keeler-Hodgetts of Santa Barbara, Alison Keeler Carrillo of Santa Cruz and Melissa Keeler Burns Morris of Santa Barbara; four stepchildren, James Mithoefer of Ludlow, Vt., Peter Mithoefer of Chappaqua, N.Y., Margaret Mithoefer Seeley of Dorset, Vt., and Martha "Molly" Mithoefer of Lubec, Maine; a sister, Virginia Keeler Townley of Green Lake, Wis.; and seven grandchildren.
Memorial gifts may be made to the Seven Hills School or the Cincinnati Art Museum.Funeral arrangements are pending.
Date of announcement: 12-20-2002
TERESA ERNST, 86, of Blue Ash, died Wednesday. Mass: 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Church, Arnheim, Ohio. Visitation: 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the church. Beam-Fender Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 12-20-2002
LUCILLE HASKELL LAMSON, 96, of Vevay, Ind., died Wednesday. She was a seamstress and clerk for Lamson Clothing Store, Vevay. Services: Services: 2 p.m. Sunday at Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home, Vevay. Visitation: 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Memorials: Newell Fox-Mickey Lamson Scholarship Fund, Community Foundation of Switzerland County.
Date of announcement: 12-20-2002
CAROLYN L. MOURE, 60, of Panama City, Fla., formerly of Cincinnati, died Monday. She was a claims representative for the federal government. Services: 11 a.m. Monday at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, North Avondale. Visitation: 9:30 a.m. Monday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Forest Park, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 12-20-2002
CHAE OSBORNE, 53, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Thursday. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg. Visitation: 9 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Memorials: Cancer Society.
Date of announcement: 12-20-2002
OPALINE GARMON, 58, of Evanston, died Tuesday. Services: 7 p.m. Monday at the Bibleway Church of Christ, Evanston. Visitation: 4-7 p.m. Monday at the church. Renfro and Piper Funeral Home, Avondale, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 12-21-2002
GENEVA R. JONES, 66, of Downtown, died Wednesday. She was a housekeeper. Services: noon Friday Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Forest Park. Visitation: 11 a.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 12-21-2002
WILLIAM J. THACKER, JR., 71, Brookville, Ind., died Thursday. He was an accountant and the retired owner of the E.K. Williams Co., Cincinnati. Services: 8 p.m. Monday at Cook Funeral Home, Brookville. Visitation: 6 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Memorials: Hospice of MMCH, Batesville.
Date of announcement: 12-21-2002
WILLIAM F. VAN DYNE, 69, of San Antonio, Texas, died Thursday. He was a former linguist for the U.S. Army. Graveside services: 11 a.m. Monday at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio.
Date of announcement: 12-21-2002
MARTHA "MARYBELLE" EPEARDS WADSWORTH, 78, of Goshen, died Wednesday. She was a former horticulturalist for Grants Farm, Goshen. Graveside services: 12:30 p.m. Monday in Memorial Park Cemetery, Indianapolis. Visitation: 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Tufts-Schilmeyer Funeral Home, Goshen, and from noon until the time of services Monday at the cemetery. Moore and Parker Funeral Home, Brooksville, Ky., is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 12-21-2002
Benjamin Price Jr., former teacher at Seton High
Benjamin F. Price Jr., who taught art and photography at Seton High School for 30 years, died early Saturday at Hospice of Cincinnati in Mercy Franciscan Hospital Western Hills.
He was 54.
"He was so far beyond what most of us can be as a teacher," said Seton Principal Susan Gibbons. "He was a master.
"He knew each of his students so well that he could bring their art out of them. He brought out the best in his students and in all of us."
Cancer forced Mr. Price to leave Seton at the start of the 2001 school year.
After his resignation, he started an art scholarship and continued producing artwork that funded the scholarship and generated revenue for Seton.
"He told me his cancer was a miracle in his life," said Elaine Price, his wife of 32 years. "It brought him closer to God and, through God, brought him closer to other people."
He is survived by his wife and a daughter, Amy, as well as sisters Annette Stafford and Debby Lauck.
Visitation is 4 to 9 p.m. today at Rebold Rosenacker& Sexton Funeral Home, 3700 Glenmore Ave., Cheviot. Mass of Christian Burial is 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Ignatius-Loyola Church, Monfort Heights.
Memorials can be made to the Seton High School Art Scholarship Fund, Seton High School, 3901 Glenway Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45205.
Date of announcement: 12-23-2002
GRACE EVELYN HAMILTON HENNON, 94, of Vevay, Ind., died Friday. She was a stenographer with Radiator Manufacturing Co., Zanesville. Services will be private. Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home, Vevay, is handling arrangements. Memorials: North United Methodist Church, Vevay.
Date of announcement: 12-23-2002
CLARA M. LANFERMAN, 84, of Batesville, Ind., died Saturday. She was a homemaker. Mass: 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Louis Church, Batesville. Visitation: 4 to 7 tonight at Weigel Funeral Home, Batesville. Memorials: St. Nicholas School, Batesville.
Date of announcement: 12-23-2002
MARY ALICE (MARTIN) OAKLEY, 83, of Vevay, Ind., died Sunday. She was a former manager of Rucker's General Store in East Enterprise. Services: 2 p.m. Friday at Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home, Vevay, Ind. Visitation: noon Friday at the funeral home. Memorials: Switzerland County Emergency Unit.
Date of announcement: 12-23-2002
RUTH WEBER SHAFFER, 92, of Westwood, died Saturday. She was a member and organist of Westwood United Methodist Church and accompanist of Metropolitan Opera soloist Clifford Harvott. Services: 11 a.m. Tuesday at Westwood United Methodist Church. Visitation: 10 a.m. Tuesday at the church. Bolton & Lunsford Funeral Home, Westwood, is handling arrangements. Memorials: Westwood United Methodist Church Organ Fund.
Date of announcement: 12-23-2002
ROSE MARIE SHAW SIGMON, 61, of Vevay, died Saturday. She was owner of Lake Geneva Pay Lake in Vevay and a former employee of U.S. Shoe Corp. and Ogle Haus Inn, Vevay. Services: 11 a.m. today at Truth Apostolic Church, Vevay. Visitation: 9 a.m. at the church. Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home, Vevay, is handling arrangements. Memorials: Truth Apostolic Church or Dearborn County Hospice.
Date of announcement: 12-23-2002
