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FLORETTA HARRIS, 70, of Kennedy Heights, died Tuesday. Ms. Harris was a homemaker.
Date of announcement: 03-20-1998
Services: noon Saturday at Bethlehem Temple, 4781 Hamilton Ave., Northside. Visitation: 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the church. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 03-20-1998
THERESE M. MURDOCK, 41, of Western Hills, died Tuesday in an auto accident near Piqua. She was a certified public accountant, and the immediate past president of Kiwanis Club of Cheviot-Westwood. Mass: 9:30 a.m. Monday at St. Teresa of Avila Church, Price Hill. Visitation: 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Rebold Funeral Home, Cheviot. Memorials: Iodine Deficiency Disorder, in care of Cheviot-Westwood Kiwanis Club, P. O. Box 58222, Cincinnati, 45258.
Date of announcement: 03-20-1998
SISTER MARY VIGIL SCHNEIDER, 83, of Oldenburg, Ind., died Wednesday. She was a member of the Sisters of St. Francis in Oldenburg, and a former teacher and principal in several local schools. Mass: 3 p.m. Monday at the Sisters of St. Francis Motherhouse in Oldenburg. Visitation: 1 p.m. Monday at the Motherhouse. Weigel Funeral Home, Batesville, Ind., is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 03-20-1998
SHERMAN SHERRER, 67, of Avondale, died Tuesday. He was a boiler fireman for Cincinnati Public Schools. Memorial Services: noon Saturday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills. No visitation.
Date of announcement: 03-20-1998
Richard Krabach, was city manager
Former Cincinnati City Manager Richard L. Krabach was known for having uncommon common sense, said his daughter, Connie Lasorso.
"He said his honorary degrees were harder to earn than his traditional degrees because they required a reputation among his peers," she said.
"He was loved. He was proud of his children and grandchildren. He was real open minded spiritually and politically. He listened and stayed open to new information," Mrs. Lasorso said.
Krabach, 84, died of cancer Friday at the Wellsprings at Evergreen Retirement Community.
His son-in-law, Vincent Lasorso, said, "He was a public servant in the truest sense of the word. That's what he dedicated his life to. When he was a member of the Young Republican Club in Lima he was a major fund raiser for Sen. Robert Taft.
"He was Catholic and he followed the Catholic doctrine. He was socially liberal for a conservative Republican. He really cared about people.
"His strongest opinions were on education. He really believed in education and because of that he did a lot of reading."
At age 54, Krabach took office on June 24, 1968 as Cincinnati city manager after resigning as Ohio Finance Director. He had been the chief aide for Gov. James Rhodes, who appointed Krabach finance director on Jan. 14, 1963.
A former Lima, Ohio, tax lawyer and accountant, Krabach in 1957 was named chairman of the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation, a post he held until appointed state finance director.
He also served as U.S. Comptroller of the Virgin Islands, a position he held for three years under the Eisenhower administrator.
A native of Wapakoneta, Ohio, he earned an undergraduate degree in accounting in 1934 from Xavier University.
He also earned a law degree from Ohio Northern University, a doctorate degree in finance from Youngstown University, and a doctorate in public finance from Ohio University.
As city manager, Krabach worked to streamline city government, and campaigned for an increase in the city earnings tax as a way to stop rising property taxes.
He resigned as city manager effective Jan. 15, 1972, and went back home to Lima before he was named minority counsel of the U.S. Senate Government Operations Budget, Management and Expenditures Subcommittee and, later, director of administrative services for Gov. Rhodes.
In addition to his daughter, Mr. Krabach leaves five grandchildren and his sister, Rita Blanchard.
Services: 3 p.m. Monday at the Gilligan Funeral Home, 8225 Montgomery Road, Kenwood. Visitation: 1 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Memorials to the Richard L. Krabach Memorial Fund at University Hospital. Mail memorials to the Barrett Brain Tumor Fund, Barrett Center, 234 Goodman St., Cincinnati, 45267-0501.
Date of announcement: 03-21-1998
Richard Talaska, philosophy professor
Richard Talaska was able to finish his book before passing on, and colleagues say it will serve as a reminder of his rich contributions to the field of philosophy.
Dr. Talaska, 44, died at his home in Forest Park Thursday.
A member of the Xavier University faculty since 1984, Dr. Talaska was an associate professor of philosophy at the private college in Evanston.
He recently completed a book on the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, which is expected to be released later this year. Dr. Talaska's doctoral thesis was entitled: "Hobbes Philosophy as a System: The Relationship Between his Political and Natural Philosophy" and the book is an extension of his previous work.
"The book will be a memorial to him," said Robert Rethy, chairman and professor of Xavier's department of philosophy.
"Richard was very important to us and will be much missed by his colleagues and his students. His death is a terrible shock to us all," said Rethy.
Dr. Talaska was single and a native of Elgin, Ill. He received his graduate and undergraduate degrees from the Catholic University of America.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
Date of announcement: 03-21-1998
DOUGLAS H. BECKLEY, 72, of Dillsboro, Ind., died Friday. He was a retired district manager for IBM in Cincinnati. Services: Private on Monday at the convenience of the family. Filter Funeral Home, Dillsboro, Ind., is handling arrangements.
Date of announcement: 03-21-1998
MAMIE ALLEN PAUL, 98, of Blue Ash, died Wednesday. Services will be at the convenience of the family in the Rest Haven Memorial Park. There will be no visitation. Memorials: The American Cancer Society. Gilligan Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 03-21-1998
MABEL CLARA CRAWFORD SCHATZMAN, 91, of Felicity, Ohio, died Friday. Services begin at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Arlington Memorial Gardens Chapel, 2145 Compton Road, Mt. Healthy.
Date of announcement: 03-21-1998
NAOMI ELIZABETH SHEPPARD, 55, of Cincinnati, died Tuesday. Services: 1 p.m. Monday at Renfro Funeral Service Inc., Cincinnati. Visitation: Noon to 1 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 03-21-1998
Broadcast pioneer Jack Howard dead
Scripps Howard News Service
Jack R. Howard, a pioneer in the broadcast industry and heir to one of the great names in American newspapering, died Sunday at his home in New York City. He was 87.
His journalism career spanned 48 years. He began as a summer copy aide in 1928 and retired in 1976 as president and general editorial manager of The E.W. Scripps Co.
Mr. Howard was the son of the legendary Roy W. Howard, who built United Press into a worldwide wire service and through his association with E.W. Scripps became the "Howard" in the Scripps Howard concern.
The elder Howard was uninterested, even hostile to, the burgeoning new field of radio. Jack Howard was fascinated by it and that is where he made his mark.
"What we see today in our broadcasting division is the Jack Howard legacy to Scripps Howard," said William R. Burleigh, president and CEO of The E.W. Scripps Co. "Jack obviously had vision and saw what the future would bring in raising this baby called broadcasting."
In 1936, a year after Scripps Howard bought its first radio station, WCPO in Cincinnati, Howard left a mid-level newspaper job in Washington, D.C., to go to work for the company's second radio station, KNOX in Knoxville, Tenn. There, four years after graduating from Yale University, Mr. Howard set out to learn the radio business from the ground up.
In 1937, he moved to New York to become president of the two-station operation that, under his aegis, would eventually grow into a division that now includes nine television stations.
Mr. Howard served in the Navy during World War II, seeing action in the Pacific. When he returned from the war in 1946, he was elected executive vice president of The E.W. Scripps Co., the holding company for the newspaper, broadcast and syndication subsidiaries and UP.
In 1953, he succeeded his father as president, a position he held until his retirement in 1976.
He helped to found - and later served as president of - The Scripps Howard Foundation, which fosters excellence in journalism through scholarships and a nationally acclaimed journalism award program. For a time he also served as a successor to The E.W. Scripps Trust.
"The Howard family, and Jack in particular, has been very generous with the foundation," said foundation president and CEO, Judith Clabes. "He's a big contributor to the foundation."
His daughter, Pamela Howard, is one of its trustees.
Even after his retirement, Mr. Howard remained a director and chairman of the executive committee of The E.W. Scripps Co. and continued as president and later chairman of the board of Scripps Howard Broadcasting Co., which he had served as president since 1937 in its earliest days as Continental Broadcasting Co.
Mr. Howard had a lively interest in people and events and prided himself on knowing his company intimately.
"He was very much highly regarded by the people who worked for him. I could almost say loved by the people who worked for him," said Charles E. Scripps, chairman of The E.W. Scripps Co. executive committee. "He would be strong, but he was on a good even level with everyone I ever saw who worked for him."
Mr. Howard was an ardent fly fisherman. His other great interest was the Bohemian Club of San Francisco, attending its Cave Man Camp summer outings with his father, Lowell Thomas, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker and Richard M. Nixon.
In addition to his daughter, also of New York, he leaves a son, Michael Balfe Howard of Denver; and seven grandchildren. The family asks that memorials be directed to The Scripps Howard Foundation and Phillips Exeter Academy.
Date of announcement: 03-23-1998
