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Richard Marzheuser, teacher of Roman Catholic theology
The Rev. Richard A. Marzheuser was a teacher of Roman Catholic theology with a deep interest in other religious traditions, especially Judaism and Lutheranism.
Rev. Marzheuser, academic dean at the Athenaeum of Ohio/Mount St. Mary's Seminary, died Thursday during his early morning jogging routine. He was 50.
"His sudden, untimely death has stunned us," said Barbara Glueck, Cincinnati area director of the American Jewish Committee. "We have lost a dear friend."
Rev. Marzheuser was actively involved in Jewish-Catholic dialogue, serving on the Archdiocese of Cincinnati's Ecumenical Commission. He spearheaded a program of exchange between seminarians at the Athenaeum and rabbinical students at Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College.
"It seemed like there was potential for building understanding among future clergy," Ms. Glueck said. "He was truly the guiding spirit behind that program."
As academic dean at the seminary, Rev. Marzheuser was responsible for the overall academic program for seminarians. He also taught theology.
"He was preeminently a teacher," said Louise Vera, ecumenical officer for the archdiocese. "He knew the major Vatican II documents by heart. He taught them so often (that) he had the talent of making Catholic theology very clear and simple."
Rev. Marzheuser grew up in Price Hill as the oldest of seven children and entered St. Gregory's Seminary in 1966 as a high school junior, the earliest age allowed at that time.
He earned bachelor and master's degrees in philosophy from the seminary. He studied at the North American College in Rome from 1973 to 1977, receiving his bachelor's degree in Sacred Theology.
He was ordained to the priesthood July 15, 1977, by then-Cincinnati Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, who sent him back to Rome in 1980 to continue graduate studies and obtain his licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University.
Rev. Marzheuser joined the Athenaeum faculty as a theology instructor in 1981. In 1988, he received his doctoral degree in Sacred Theology from Catholic University in Washington, D.C.
He returned to teach at Mount St. Mary's in 1987 and became academic dean.
For the last three years, he was a consultant on doctrine to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Since 1996, he helped with weekend Masses at St. Veronica Church in Mount Carmel.
"Our local church will be poorer without him," said Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk. "Father Marzheuser was everybody's idea of a good priest: kind, well-educated, pastorally sensitive, articulate. I knew him from his undergraduate days at St. Gregory's Seminary."
Reception of the body will take place at 4 p.m. Monday at the Mount St. Mary's Seminary Chapel, 6616 Beechmont Ave., Mount Washington . The Rev. Gerald R. Haemmerle, seminary rector, will preside. Visitation will last until 9 p.m. Vigil will last from 9 p.m. Monday to 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Mass of Christian Burial will begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains, Eighth and Plum streets, downtown, with Archbishop Pilarczyk presiding. Burial will immediately follow at St. Joseph Cemetery, West Eighth Street.
Date of announcement: 04-01-2000
Joseph Kowalewski, assisted pharmacy college
Joseph Kowalewski, credited with saving the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, died Thursday, three months after celebrating his 100th birthday.
Mr. Kowalewski lived 75 years in Cincinnati, where he moved from Chicago with his late wife, Emma, to teach at St. Xavier High School. During his career, he was a teacher, a researcher - helping develop Preparation H - and a university dean.
Mayor Charlie Luken declared last Dec. 31 "Joseph Kowalewski Day" in honor of his birthday and contributions to the city.
Mr. Kowalewski taught at St. X until 1929, then moved to Xavier University. After he earned his doctorate degree in physical chemistry in 1938, he joined the faculty of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy.
He left the academic world for a time, to become director of research at Sperti Inc., which developed such commercial products as cosmetics, detergents and milk concentrates. His group formulated the ointment that became Preparation H.
In 1949, Mr. Kowalewski returned to Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, as dean of the struggling, then-independent school that was faced with loss of accreditation. He raised more than $750,000 in endowment funds, a requirement for the college to become an academic department of the University of Cincinnati.
When the college joined the university in 1954, Dr. Kowalewski stayed as dean until he retired in 1970.
His wife, Emma, died in 1995. Their only son, Joseph William, died in 1961.
Visitation will be from 8:30-10 a.m. Monday at T.P. White & Sons Funeral Home, 2050 Beechmont Ave., followed by Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m. at Guardian Angels Church, 6531 Beechmont Ave. Burial will be in Guardian Angels Cemetery.
Memorials are suggested to St. Joseph Home, 10722 Wyscarver Road, Cincinnati 45241, or the Joseph F. Kowalewski Pharmacy Practice Fund, University of Cincinnati Foundation, P.O. Box 670064, Cincinnati 45267-200064.
Date of announcement: 04-01-2000
CHARLETTA Washington, 31, of Cincinnati, died Tuesday. Services: 7 p.m. Monday at Johnson Brown Funeral Service, Cincinnati. Visitation: 6 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-01-2000
ORIE W. YANCE, 71, of Hamilton, Ohio, died Thursday. Services: 1 p.m. Monday at Fitch- Denney Funeral Home, 455 Ridge Ave., Lawrenceburg, Ind. Visitation: 5 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Memorials: New Miami Life Squad.
Date of announcement: 04-01-2000
Phyllis Marmer, 70, loved to travel
Phyllis Marmer, a homemaker and world traveler, died Sunday morning after a long illness. She was 70.
Mrs. Marmer and her husband of 51 years, Saul, gave their children a unique insight on the world through extensive travel, said her daughter, Lynn Marmer, a Cincinnati School Board member.
"What she leaves as a legacy for us ... through all of her travels with my dad (is) a great view of the world as a very small place where all people are the same," her daughter said. "She devoted her life to her husband and her children."
Ms. Marmer said her parents traveled all of their married life - from sleeping in tents in the Amazon jungle to visiting Cambodia in the 1960s.
"When she came back, she would always bring more pictures of people than of places," she said. "You really learned more about customs and cultures than you did about castles."
Mrs. Marmer, of Amberley Village, was a Cincinnati native and 1946 graduate of Walnut Hills High School. She later attended University of Cincinnati's Raymond Walters School of Nursing.< p> She was a volunteer for the Baby's Milk Fund and a member of the Rockdale Temple Sisterhood. Mrs. Marmer also enjoyed painting and was an accomplished equestrian.
Mrs. Marmer is also survived by sons Michael, of Morrow; John, of Spencer, Ind.; brother, Leonard Heilbrun, of Kenwood; and four grandchildren. Services: Weil Funeral Home, 3901 Reading Road, North Avondale, Tuesday 2 p.m. Visitation: 1 p.m. Memorials: Charity of one's choice.
Date of announcement: 04-03-2000
CHARLES "BUDDY" GREGORY, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Saturday. Services: 10 a.m. EDT Tuesday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. EDT today. Memorials: Hospice of Southeast Indiana.
Date of announcement: 04-03-2000
ARLENE KING, 81, of Cincinnati, died Thursday. She was a retired health care provider. Services: 7 p.m. Wednesday at Zion Temple First Pentecostal Church, 3771 Reading Road. Visitation: 6 p.m. until time of services Wednesday at the church. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, 2625 Gilbert Ave.
Date of announcement: 04-03-2000
FRANK A. LEFTWICH, 78, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Friday at University Hospital in Cincinnati. Services: 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg. Visitation: noon EDT until time of services Tuesday. Memorials: Lawrenceburg Rescue Unit.
Date of announcement: 04-03-2000
JOYCE GRIMSLEY RAWLINS, 96, of Cincinnati, died Friday. She was a retired school teacher. Services: 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday at Moores Hill United Methodist Church, Moores Hill, Ind. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. EDT Tuesday at Sibbett-Moore Funeral Home, Moores Hill. Memorials: Moores Hill United Methodist Church or Carnegie Historical Foundation.
Date of announcement: 04-03-2000
CHARLETTA Washington, 31, of West End, died Tuesday. Services: 7 p.m. tonight at Johnson Brown Funeral Home, 1309 California Ave., Bond Hill. Visitation: 6 p.m. tonight.
Date of announcement: 04-03-2000
Father Hellmann, 79, chaplain
Father George Hellmann was known among his fellow friars for his encyclopedic knowledge of scriptures and history, his sharp wit and his tell-it-like-it-is style.
Father Hellman, former chaplain at Mercy Hospital/Fairfield, died Sunday of heart failure at St. John the Baptist Friary in Sharonville. He was 79.
Born Francis Hellmann in Cincinnati, he began studying for the priesthood at St. Francis Seminary in Mount Healthy. He completed college at Duns Scotus in Southfield, Mich., and his theological studies at Holy Family Theologate in Oldenburg, Ind., before he was ordained in 1948.
Father Hellmann was librarian at Roger Bacon High School, Holy Family Theologate, Duns Scotus College and St. Leonard College in Centerville, Ohio, before turning to chaplain duties. He served in that capacity at Our Lady of Angels High School in Cincinnati, St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lafayette, Ind., and Mercy Hospital. He retired in 1998.
Survivors include two sisters, Mary Gerstle of Louisville and Rose Littner of Cincinnati, and brothers Paul and Leonard Hellmann, both of Cincinnati.
Visitation is at 6 p.m. today at St. Clement Church in St. Bernard, with Mass at 7:30 p.m. Burial will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary Cemetery in St. Bernard.
Date of announcement: 04-04-2000
LaVerne Rose Noeth, mother of Reds star
LaVerne Rose Noeth, mother of baseball's all-time hits king Pete Rose, died Sunday.
Mrs. Noeth, 84, moved to Florida after the death of Pete's father but visited relatives in Cincinnati often during Pete's record-breaking years.
Earlier in his career, she cheered him on from the living room of the house on Anderson Ferry Road where she and husband Harry Rose raised their children.
In a 1978 interview, she told The Post about how she used to reward Pete with quarters when he was young for doing well in sports.
"When he played football, I'd give him 50 cents for every touchdown, you know, so that he'd try a little harder," she said. "Well, one time, when he was about 12, he said, 'How about a dollar a touchdown, because we're playing an especially hard team.' That little dickens made five touchdowns. He hooked me for $5 that day!"
She died in the Cincinnati area after a period of ill health, friends of the family said.
Her husband, Harry Rose, died in 1970, and she left Cincinnati in 1973 for Thonotosassa, Fla.
In Florida, she later married childhood friend Bob Noeth. He died in 1984.
Mrs. Noeth, who didn't see or talk to Pete often once the baseball season began, once told The Post she was a sentimental mom who loved watching her son on TV.
"I'll be watching sometime, and I'll sit here and the tears just roll down my cheeks, I'm so proud and so glad to see him," she said in 1985.
Other survivors include a son, David Rose; and daughters, Jackie Schwier and Caryl Schnebelt, 18 grandchildren, 21 great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.
Service: 10 a.m. Friday at Vitt Stermer & Anderson Funeral Home, 4619 Delhi Road, Delhi Township. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday.
Date of announcement: 04-04-2000
EDWIN EARL ALFORD JR., 80, of Aurora, Ind, died Saturday. He was a re tired machinist and a World War II Army veteran. Services: 1 p.m. Thursday at Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home, Vevay. Visitation: noon Thursday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-04-2000
HAZEL D. "SHORTY" ARMSTRONG, 73, of Aurora, Ind., died Sunday. Mrs. Armstrong was a homemaker. Services: 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg. Visitation: 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorials: St. Rita's School for the Deaf or Dearborn County Hospice.
Date of announcement: 04-04-2000
ANTHONY DWIGHT ELLIOTT JR., 19, of Westwood, died March 29. He was an inspector for the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. Services: noon Tuesday at Mount Moriah Baptist Church, 1169 Simmons, Lincoln Heights. Visitation: 10 a.m. today at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-04-2000
EUGENE IVERY JR., 46, of Fairmount, died Saturday. He was an employee of Cincinnati Bell. Services: 11 a.m. Wednesday at Potter Temple Church, 47 Mulberry, downtown. Visitation: 10 a.m. Wednesday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-04-2000
JOHN REED, 69, of Bethel, Ohio, died Saturday. He was a retired machinist for Lunkenheimer Valve Co. Services: 1 p.m. Wednesday at Kennedy-Stevens Funeral Home, Bethel. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-04-2000
Norbert C. Brinkman, pastor, teacher
The Rev. Norbert C. Brinkman, who pastored three churches in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, died Monday after a long illness. He was 79.
Rev. Brinkman studied at St. Gregory and St. Mary seminaries and earned a graduate degree from the Athenaeum of Ohio. He was ordained in 1945.
He was pastor at Holy Name in Blanchester from 1966 to 1968, St. Bernadette in Amelia from 1968 to 1977 and St. John Vianney in Cincinnati from 1977 to 1985. Rev. Brinkman retired in 1985 for health reasons.
He also served as an associate pastor at seven Cincinnati churches and taught at Purcell and the old De Porres high schools.
The body will be taken to St. James of the Valley Church in Wyoming at 9 a.m. Friday, and a mass will be said there at 10:30 a.m. Burial will follow in St. Joseph Cemetery on West Eighth Street.
Date of announcement: 04-05-2000
