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Paul Broerman, started 'cancer carnivals' to help fund research
From backyard fund-raising carnivals to countless nights baby-sitting grandchildren, Paul B. Broerman lovingly served family and friends throughout his life.
Mr. Broerman, 85, of Cheviot, died Saturday.
While the Cincinnati native visited neighbors daily and, for years, went to the Hamilton County courthouse to follow courtroom hearings, he enjoyed time with family most of all.
"He was devoted to my mom and his family. That's what he lived for," said his son, Ray, of Western Hills. "He enjoyed his walks. He fed the birds and the squirrels and his dog. People will remember him just walking through the neighborhoods in Cheviot. He was that kind of guy."
Raised on a farm in Bond Hill, he married Anna Mae Metz there 63 years ago at St. Agnes Church.
The Broermans moved to Western Hills in the 1960s, where they began "cancer carnivals" in their backyard. The family canvassed the neighborhood for canned goods to be used in ring-toss games. Grand prizes like bicycles would be raffled off, and all the proceeds would be donated to cancer research.
The carnivals continued when they moved to Cheviot.
Mr. Broerman was a faithful follower of his children's, grandchildren's and great-grandchildren's sports games and other activities. "He wound up as our baby-sitter for all the kids," Ray Broerman said.
Besides his wife and son, other survivors include sons Paul W., Harold R. and Matthew; daughters Norma Peebles, Ann Mercurio, Mary Denier and Cathy Rothan; a sister, Pauline Convey; 20 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Mass will be at 11 a.m. Friday at St. Martin Church, Cheviot. Visitation is from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Friday at Rebold, Rosenacker & Sexton Funeral Home, 3700 Glenmore Ave., Cheviot. Burial will be at St. Mary Cemetery, St. Bernard.
Memorials are suggested to the St. Martin Church Building Fund, 3720 St. Martin Place, Cincinnati, 45211, or the Autism Society of Cincinnati, 333 Burnet Ave., #E4, Cincinnati, 45229.
Date of announcement: 04-03-2002
Ann Louis Niermann, teacher, principal
Sister Ann Louis Niermann OSU taught at various schools in Cincinnati and Dayton. She also was principal at several.
Sister Niermann, of Walnut Hills, died Sunday. She was 99.
An Ursuline sister for 77 years, she had taught at St. Ursula Academy, St. Francis de Sales, Holy Name, St. Monica, All Saints, St. Stephen, Resurrection ele mentary schools in Cincinnati and St. Henry in Dayton.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at St. Ursula Academy, 1339 E. McMillan St., Walnut Hills. Memorials may be given to: Ursulines of Cincinnati, 1339 E. McMillan St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45206-2164. Gilligan Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-03-2002
JOHANNIE BRADY, 92, of Lincoln Heights, died Monday. Services: 7 p.m. Friday, Zion Temple First Pentecostal, North Avondale. Visitation: 6 p.m. Friday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Lockland, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-03-2002
LENA B. KIRKPATRICK, 99, of Hamersville, died Saturday. Services will be at the convenience of the family. Visitation: 5 p.m. today at Bethel Church of Christ, Bethel. Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel, is handling arrangements. Memorials: Hamersville Church of Christ or Bethel Life Squad.
Date of announcement: 04-03-2002
ROBERT MONTGOMERY SR., 61, of Madisonville, died Monday. He was a painter. Services: 11 a.m. Friday at New Mission Baptist Church, Madisonville. Visitation: 10 a.m. Friday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Silverton, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-03-2002
IDA MARGARET RILEY PETERS, 87, of Vevay, Ind., died Tuesday. She was a homemaker. Services: 11 a.m. Thursday at Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home, Vevay. Visitation: 5 to 8 tonight at the funeral home. Memorials: American Heart Association.
Date of announcement: 04-03-2002
BERNARD R. 'BERNIE' SCHEVE, 81, of Price Hill, died Monday. He was a musician in the Cincinnati area for over 50 years. He played with the following bands: Pete Wagner, Chas Wahle, Clyde Trask, Smitty's Band, Jimmy James, Cliff Lash and most recently with The New Sutton Swingers. Mass: 10 a.m. Friday at St. Aloysius Gonzaga, 4395 Bridgetown Road, Bridgetown. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Neidhard-Minges Funeral Home, 3155 Harrison Ave., Westwood. Memorials: St. Aloysius Memorial Fund or the Tuition Aid Fund, 4366 Bridgetown Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45211.
Date of announcement: 04-03-2002
MARY B. SCOTT, 75, of Silverton, died Sunday. She was a cosmetologist. Services: 11 a.m. Friday at Greater New Hope Baptist Church, Avondale. Visitation: 10 a.m. Friday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Silverton, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-03-2002
KATIE MAE WEST, 92, of Walnut Hills, died March 27. She was a homemaker. Services: 1 p.m. today at Metropolitan C.M.E. Church, Walnut Hills. Visitation: noon today at the church. Renfro & Piper Funeral Home, Avondale, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-03-2002
WANDA FAY WOSTER, 81, of Mount Washington, died Monday. She was a retired press operator for Nielson Printing and an employee of Union Terminal during World War II. Services: 10 a.m. today at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel. Memorials: MapleKnoll Retirement Center, in care of the development office.
Date of announcement: 04-03-2002
Janet Rosen, known for Shillito's parties
Janet Block Rosen, one of Cincinnati's first women to shatter the glass ceiling and enter corporate management as a vice president of Shillito's (now Lazarus) in 1974, died Tuesday.
She was 80.
Born in Chicago and schooled in journalism at Brenau College for Women in Gainesville, Ga., and Northwestern University, she had done newswriting, fashion advertising and merchandising before coming to Cincinnati and infusing new meaning to the phrase "public relations."
Back when downtown was the hub of social life, she imported celebrity designers, cosmetic manufacturers, name hairdressers, "hot" authors and merchandisers to star at lavish parties in the store - a radical idea at the time.
One early bash, to benefit of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, was in the furniture department - cleared for dining and dancing to music by Burt Farber, whose other job was for Arthur Godfrey in New York City.
For another bash, a gondola was shipped in from Venice as part of an elaborate decor for a storewide party honoring the Italian consul.
Many of the city's cultural groups benefited from galas that Ms. Rosen arranged.
A fixture in "Who's Who in American Women," "Who's Who in America" and "Who's Who in Finance and Industry," she became the first woman president of the Ad Club of Cincinnati and later its Woman of the Year.
Ms. Rosen also was a driving force in the founding of the Fashion Group of Cincinnati; an officer of the Public Relations Society of America, Cincinnati Chapter; and a member of Women in Communications and the Television Society of America.
Other awards included: Post-Corbett Award, YWCA Woman of Achievement and Enquirer Woman of the Year.
Survivors include her husband, Joseph Rosen; a son, Mitchell Block, of Santa Monica, Calif.; a daughter, Dr. Stephanie Block, of Charlotte, N.C.; sisters Lucille Weinress, of Highland Park, Ill. and Sue Sager, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; and four grandchildren.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at Rockdale Temple, 8501 Ridge Road, Amberley Village. Visitation will begin there at 12:30 p.m. Sunday. Weil Funeral Home, Avondale, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-04-2002
LOREN C. GILMORE, 84, of Okeechobee, Fla., died Monday. Graveside services: 1 p.m. Friday at Riverview Cemetery, Aurora, Ind. Rullman Hunger Denney Funeral Home, Aurora, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-04-2002
RUTH E. HAESSIG, 83, of Forest Park, formerly of Sunman, Ind., died Wednesday. She was a homemaker. Services: noon Saturday at Cook Funeral Home, Sunman. Visitation: 10 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Memorials: charity of donor's choice.
Date of announcement: 04-04-2002
DONALD G. HANNAN, 72, of Burlington, Ky., formerly of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Tuesday. He was a retired manufacturer representative. Services: 10:30 a.m. Friday at the First Church of Christ Greendale, Lawrenceburg, Ind. Visitation: 5 to 8 tonight at the Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg. Memorials: First Church of Christ of Burlington or Greendale.
Date of announcement: 04-04-2002
BILLY C. RHODES, 61, of Lincoln Heights, died Tuesday. He was a crane operator for Hanson Pipe and Products, Inc. Services: 1 p.m. Monday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, 11400 Winton Road, Forest Park. Visitation: noon Monday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-04-2002
LIONAL LAMONT STEELE, 52, of College Hill, died Tuesday. He was a production mechanic at G.E. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, 3655 Harvey Ave., Avondale. Visitation: 10 a.m. Saturday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-04-2002
RUBY WILLIAMS, 83, of Bond Hill, died Monday. She was a homemaker. Services: noon Saturday at Mount Olivet Baptist Church. Visitation: 11 a.m. Saturday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Forest Park, is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-04-2002
Lloyd Lanier, businessman
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at Christ Church Cathedral, do wntown, for businessman and civic leader Lloyd Addison Lanier.
Mr. Lanier, 78, died of heart failure March 26 in Charlotte, N.C.
He was a "silent humanitarian with a surprisingly wry sense of humor," said close friend Dr. Milton Hinton. "His genuineness of friendship and his lack of affectation evidenced themselves effortlessly."
Mr. Lanier was a director or trustee of the Cincinnati Better Housing League, Cincinnati Ballet, Cincinnati Council on World Affairs, Cincinnati Country Day School, The Contemporary Arts Center, WGUC-FM, the May Festival, Cincinnati Union Bethel, and Centre College in his hometown of Danville, Ky.
He was also a long-time board member of the Cincinnati Automobile Club and the T. Rowe Price Funds in Baltimore, Md.
He had moved to Cincinnati in 1951 as a partner in his uncle's law firm, Murphy Lanier and Quinn. He later served as a director and president of two real estate and investment firms, Thomas Emery Sons and Scinet Development & Holdings Inc.
During the Eisenhower administration, Mr. Lanier served four years in the Office of Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy, former Procter & Gamble CEO, as special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense.
His wife, Melissa Emery Lanier, died in 1999. Survivors include a daughter, Melissa Murphy of Hyde Park; sons, Addison Lanier of Hyde Park; John Lanier of Indian Hill; and Mark Lanier of Weston, Conn.; a brother, Philip of Louisville, Ky.; and 11 grandchildren.
Memorials may be sent to Hebrew Union College Jacob Marcus Library, 3101 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati 45220 or the Cincinnati NAACP Youth Council, Dr. Milton Hinton Future Leaders Scholarship Fund, c/o The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, 200 West Fourth St., Cincinnati 45202.
Date of announcement: 04-05-2002
