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B-4MetTO THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Wednesday, September 19, 1990 Death Notice Death Notice Death Notices Obituaries KINGHORN GOODMAN ALLEN Funerals For more complete information and address of the funeral director refer to the individual death notice below. tsebele, survived by son Paul Kinghorn, daughter Gayle Hig- Lizzie beloved mother of Hazel Robinson and Gerakfine Asen, three grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and other relatives and friends. Septem gins, four granocnnoren. Graveside services Thursday Arnold (Jerry), beloved son of Robert and the late Opal Goodman, brother ot Donne Parikh, Larry, John, Terry and Tom Goodman. Sunday, September 15, 1990.

Friends may cal at 1030 A Greendale Cemetery. Donations Greendale Rescue. Fitch-Denney Funeral Robert M. Virgil, entrepreneur ber la. 1990.

Visitation Friday, Tredway-Politt Funeral Home, September 21, 1990, 4-7 PM, funeral service 7 PM. St. Luke Home in charge of arrange sic 2131 Cameron Ave, Nor ments. wood, Wednesday 7-9 P.M Fu FUNERAL HOME Baptist Church, 503 Clark St. NAME TIME DATE neral Thursday 10 A.M.

Rev. Shawn McAAutan officiat MADAFFARI Silverton resident also was active in Democratic politics ing. Interment Saturday 10 ALLEN, iitzieD. Sept McKenzie Sue 7 of Hamilton, passed A.M., Spring Grove Cemetery. HALE away at her residence Satur McKenzie Funeral Home in BIANK, AmyK.

10 30A Sept 19 Weit Nora Lee (nee Land). Married Most of his working years were charge. October 21, 1916 in Est! Coun day, preceded in death by her husband Leo T. Madaftari in 1984, survived by two sons BOttll, Joseph Jr. 1 1:00 A.M.

Sept 20 Schmidt-Dhonou ty, to the late Charles R. BLANK spent as an employee of the state highway department and later the BOWMAN. John of Hamilton and William ot 1 1:00 A.M. Sept 19 Argo-Bolton lunsford Horry Jr. Amy 91, beloved wife of the late Dr.

Sheldon Blank, devoted mother of Miriam Blank Sachs of West Newton, MA and Eliza Fairfield, one daughter Gloria Gray of Okeana, two sisters Cincinnati Water Works. He re 9 00 A Sept. 19 Vorhn Hate and daughter of late John Wesley and Mary Elisa (Farthing) Land of Irvine, KY. Most of her Ite spent in New Richmond and Amelia, OH. Last four years spent with her daughter Anna in Spring Hi, FL.

She Is survived by five torn. Edward of Bethel tired about 15 years ago. beth Blank Levine of Silver EUISTON, Monon T. 3 00P M. Sepi 20 Allison Rose, Inc.

Springs, MD, loving grandmoth FIRESTONE, er ot Deooran Mcns-babor, Aaron Sachs, Daniel Levine, Amondo June For 32 years, Mr. Virgil served as chairman of the board of Greater Liberty Baptist Church in Madisonville. He had been chairman of 2:00 P.M. Sepl22 George H. Rohde ond Son Jeremy Levine, Sasha Jona Rose sowers and jenny uar both of Cincinnati, ten grandchildren, nine great-grandchl-dren.

Prayers at the Brown-Dawson Funeral Home, Hamilton. Friday at 10 A M. fotowed by Mass of Christian Burial in St. Peter's Catholic Church at 10:30 A.M. Burial In St.

Stephen's Cemetery. Visitation at the funeral home Friday from than Cutfler and David Levine, GOODMAN, Arnold M. Sept 20 Tredwoy-Pollilt, Int. GRETHER, also survived by three great-grandchildren. Services Wen Funeral Home, 3901 Reading Rd, Wednesday, September 19 at 10:30 A.M.

Memorial Elmer, Oscar and Jerry of Amelia, OH. and demon of Ni-choisvite, OH, two daughters, Marjorie Walton of Kettering, OH, and Anna M. Jones of Spring HH, FL, also survived by 14 grandchildren, twenty great-grandchildren and five the church's finance and building committees and won the Layman 1 0:00 A.M. Sept.20 Strowser Morgoret E. 9-10 A.M.

HAIE, Nora lee Aug. 27 I. C. Nurre of the Year award in 1984. contributions to the charity of one's choice would be appreci MCNAMARA Mr.

Virgil also is survived by six ated. great-great-granocniioren. a sister. None Tervin of Fresno, HENNESSY, Michael James (Mickey), age S3, beloved father of Michael, Sept 21 linnemonn lErlonger, KYI BOEI1L Jerry and Christopher McNa- daughters, Janet Anderson of Pleasant Ridge, Shirley Colemon of Hill, Horry Sepl20 Thomos mara. dear grandfather ot Ashley.

Christopher, Justeen and Kelsha. dear brother of Ed CA, four children preceded her In death, James Alfred, Roy Lee, Virginia Lee and Paul Franklin, also one grandson, Kenneth. Wednesday, August 22, 1990, tn Spring HM, FL Age Joseph fattier of Mrs. John E. (Lisa) Kappter and Mrs.

Richard L. (Michelle) Owens, son of Helen L. Boer, (nee Turner), grandfather of Aman Kenwood, Jean Williams and Jack- BY KELLY LEWIS The Cincinnati Enquirer Robert M. Virgil civic leader and entrepreneur, died of cancer Thursday at Jewish Hospital. Mr.

Virgil, 77, lived in Silverton. "He was very active in the trade-union movement and politics," said former Cincinnati Mayor Theodore M. Berry. "He had a high sense of civic responsibility. He never sought publicity.

He was a very productive soldier in the ranks." He was active in the Hamilton County Democratic Party as a precinct and ward leader. He served in 1954 on the auditing committee of the Duckworth Democratic Club. From 1941-1945, Mr. Virgil was a foreman at the Wright Aeronautics plant in Evendale and was a member of Local 676, United Auto Workers. According to his family, Mr.

Virgil believed in hard work, determination and perseverance. His business ventures demonstrated his philosophy. Mr. Virgil opened the Madison-ville Cab Co. in 1946.

It was one of the first licensed black-owned taxi KINGHORN, Isobelle 10 30 A.M. Sep) 20 ritch-Denney ward, Thomas, Timothy, Patrick, Dennis and Darteen Mc Namara, Pat Donohue KNEPPER, HomerC. Sept 20 Thomos Memorial 19. Services were held August 27, 1990, at the E. Nurre da, Timothy, Ricnard and Kyle.

Monday, September 17, 1990. IAY, Jomes Anthony 2 00P.M. Sepr.2l Brown-Dowsort Kathleen Patton and Maureen Funeral Home, Amelia, OH, Age 50. Resident of Reading, Leppert, also leaves numerous LIMING, with interment In Tate Town Funeral services at Schmidt- nieces and nephews. Monday, ship Cemetery, Bethel, OH.

Joseph longworth 10:00 A.M. ChorlesH. Mclntyre September 17, 1990. Mass ot great and gracious lady, al Christian Burial from the Dhonau Funeral Home, 1633 Reading Road, Reading, Thursday at 11 A M. Visitation at the funeral home, Thursday, from MADAf PARI, Sue M.

Sept 21 Brown-Dowson ways hetoina others and shar Church of the Assumption, Mt. MCNAMARA. ing her love and faith of the Lord to family and friends. Famty who cased her Grand 9:30 to 11 A Michael James Sept20 Schaefer Busby Healthy, Thursday, September 20 at I P.M. Friends may cal at the Schaefer Busby Funeral Home, 24 W.

9th St, Wednes BOWMAN ma and Mother. POWELl, Mildred Irene 9:30 A.M. Sept 19 St. Petersburg, Ft lyn Virgil of Kennedy Heights, Barbara Tipper of Tacoma, and Dolores Norman of Mount Orab; a brother, Carving 'Virgil of Madisonville; two sisters, Edessa Norman of Madeira and Gussie Reed of Hyde Park; 18 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild. Visitation will begin at 6 p.m.

Thursday at Greater Liberty Baptist Church, 6209 Desmond Madisonville. Funeral will follow there at 7 p.m. Burial will be in Rest Haven Memorial Park in Evendale. day from 4-9 P.M. Harry Jr.

Funeral service Wednesday at II A.M. at the Argo-Boiton and Lunsford Fu ROBERTS, Elbert W. M. Sept 20 H.G. Shorten HENNESSY POWELL Charles devoted hus Robert M.

Virgil companies in Cincinnati. In the 1960s, he owned and operated an ice cream parlor and restaurant in Madisonville. His wife, Edna Virgil, said. "He was self-made, self-educated. He was very knowledgeable in so many fields you would have thought he had many graduate SANTEL, Bernard H.

1 0:00 A.M. Sept 2 1 Schmidt-Dhonop neral Home, loo s. Miami Ave. Mildred Irene, II of St. Peters band of Gertrude Hennessy Cleves.

burg, FL, died Saturday, Sep (nee Ossege), beloved father SCHROEDER, Allen C. 10:00 A.M. Sept 21 T. P. White 4 Sons tember 15, 1990.

Born in Miami- CARROLL SHARPE, Anno I. Sepl2l Pool R.Young Ruth (nee Fleck wife of the ville, OH and moved In 1972 to St. Petersburg. Bookkeeper for of Karen A. Huddle, Peggy Margaret, Charles Marc John, Kevin Lawrence and Sean Patrick Hennessy, loving late Lawrence J.

Carrol, devot SMITH.Opoll. M. Sept 20 Seifert, Hordig Broter ed mother of Richard L. Car Baldwin Piano Co. So, vlvors Include two brothers John Ketch of Covington, KY and Kenneth grandfather ot eight grandchil WEGMAN, Donald Pool rol, sister of Norma Cobb, grandmother of Linda Bal and dren, dear brother of William 11:30 A M.

Sept 20 Dotbert I WoodroH Keicn ot Batavia, oh and one sister Hazel Mae Hoffman of Dayton, OH. Memorial service Hennessy, also survived by his devoted friend Nancy Weiss. Monday, September 17, 1990. Diane Carrol, also survived by two great-grandchildren, aunt of Jeanne Rectenwaid. Mon 20 9 A.M.

Today at Anderson- Death Notice Announcement Age 69 years. Residence Flor day, September 17, 1990. For McQueen Funeral Home, Bob ence, KY. Family and friends SMITH are Invited to attend Mass of bin Chapel, SI. Petersburg, FL.

Christian Burial, Friday, Sep Opal L. (nee Park), beloved Amy K. Blank J.J. GILLIGAN SON 2926 Woodburn 281-1311 ROBERTS tember 21, 1990, at 11 A.M., St. wile of the late Alvln L.

Smith merly of Pittsburgh. Resident of Maple Knot Vilage. Mass of Christian Burial at St. Gabriel Church, Giendaie, Wednesday, September 19 at 9 A.M. Memorial services win be held following the Mass at Maple Knot Elbert beloved husband of Henry Church, Elsmere.

Inter Al Smith Plumbing Heating), BY MIKE TURMELL nati. In London, she had been involved in social work Rosalie (nee Whalen) Roberts, ment Forest Lawn Memorial ELDEN A. GOOD devoted father of Renee Sny der and Mike Roberts, dear son Park, Erlanger. Friends may cal Thursday, 4 to 9 P.M. Lin-nemann Funeral Home, Erlang 2620 ERIE AVE.

171-3433 mother of the late Delores Jean Smith, dear mother of Warren L. Smith of Rockwood, TN and Dale L. Smith of Cincinnati, OH, survived by a brother Owen W. vmaoe Chapel at 10 30 A.M. It and the liberal Jewish movement.

In Cincinnati, Mrs. Blank worked in religious education, serving as director of the Rockdale Temple The Cincinnati Enquirer Amy K. Blank was probably would be pleased to know one of her favorite poems will be read at her desired, sympathy may be ex of Mary and iff us Roberts, dear brother of Zora Whitis, Etta Marie Bennett, Gale Zoe er. pressed by a memorial contri Hodapp Funeral Homes Hamiloi al Efclon 7401 Vint St. 541-1040 m-oaos bution to Maple Knot VKage.

Robertsand James Roberts. HILL vornis Funeral Home serving the tamity. Harry beloved husband of Margaret Hi, dear father of September II, 1990. Residence Morrow, OH. Friends may cal Wednesday from 6-9 P.M.

at the H.G. Shorten Funeral ELLISTON David, Juanita, Cathy and Shar Jamison I Jamison Inc. West End Eveiiston 721-1616 961-7544 Hughes of Newark, NY, preceded in death by three brothers Wilson, Lyman and Metvin Park and one sister Verna Mae Peden, survived by four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. September la, 1990. Age 14 years.

Visitation at the St. John's Church, 627 Pike St, Covington, KY, 7 P.M. untH time of Funeral Mass at 7:30 Marian Terwilllger Elliston, Home, 400 Reading Rd, Mason, mother ot Robert R. EWstoa OH, where services wll be nek) D. and Sarah EHiston Weiner, Thursday at 10 A.M.

funeral today. Mrs. Blank died Monday of heart problems at her home in Clifton. She was 91. The London native wrote poetry since she was a teen-ager, and had a number of works published.

Her best-known work was The Spoken Choice, Poems 1960 to 1970. The poem chosen to be read today is Eisegesis, the 23rd Psalm retold. "It's been used by lots of rabbis," said her daughter, on, also survived by 19 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. September 17, 1990. Friends may can at the Thomas Funeral Home, 4411 Whetsel Ave, Madisonville, Thursday, September 20 from 9 A.M.

until W. Mack Johnson Anderson Funeral Home Ph sister of Madge TerwIIN-ger, grandmother of Michael Howard and Elizabeth Ann El SANTEL Religious School in the 1940s. However, she favored poetry. "She wrote poetry into her late 80s," Levine said. "It wasn't too many years ago she wrote one and said it was her last one.

Then she wrote another." In the late 1930s and 1940s, she and her husband sponsored about 10 German refugee families in their Clifton home. "At that time, in order to get out of (Germany), you had to have someone here," Levine said. "They had a very open home." Blank's husband, Dr. Sheldon Blank, died in Bernard son of the late Har ision, and Jeremiah DeWitt P.M. on Thursday, September Weiner.

Of Covington, Sun 1309 E. McMillan St. Cincinnati, OH 45206 time of service at 10 A.M. 20. Burial In Oak wood Cemetery, Fremont, OH.

Arrange ry and Stela Santel, brother of Mary Speed, Eleanor Eilers and Alvm (Skip) Santel, dear day, September 16, 1990. Age I years. Memorial services KNEPPER friend of Peggy Bora, also sur 2 Hamer beloved husband of vived by 11 nieces and neph ments for the family are being handled by the Seitert-Hardig and Brater Funeral Home of Sayler Park, OH. Expressions of sympathy may be made to St. John's Restoration Fund Virginia Knepper (nee Calin), ews and 11 great-nieces and Elizabeth Levine of Silver Spring, Md.

wa be 3 p.m., Thursday at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 326 Madison Ave, Covington, KV where the family wil receive friends tolowing services at the church. Memorials suggest Ckat. A. Miller Som Bum Borgmaol Co. Miller-Simmioger Faneril Service 541-0040 nephews.

Thursday, September II, 1990. Age 69. Resident Mrs. Blank conducted poetry readings for Amy K. Blank devoted father of Sabre Lee Donnel and Scott Knepper, grandfather of Sabrina and Jed Donnel, Terrl Matt and Bi of Finneytown.

Mass ot Chris Mrs WEGMAN ed to the Trinity Episcopal 1989. tian Burial at St. Vivian Church, Friday at 10 A.M. Visitation at Schmidt-Dhonau Funeral Knepper. Monday, September Church Needlepoint Guild or the 17, 1990.

Residence Kenwood. Organ Fund. A Hi son A. Rose Fu Home, 8633 Reading Road, Donald Paul, beloved father of Karen A. Nickel, Steven Michael P.

and Michelle A. Weg-man, loving son of Clarence Wegman Sr. and the late Netie neral Home, RoMns St. I Madison Covington, KV Muehlenkamp-Erschell 261-8093 Newport, Ft. Thomas, Dayton Reading, Thursday, from 5 to I Friend may cal at the Thomas Memorial, 7500 Montgomery Rd, Kenwood, Wednesday from S-l P.M.

where funeral P.M. Memorials may be made serving the family. wegmen, dear brother ot to the St. Rita School tor the Deaf or the Arthritis Founda churches and synagogues. Most of her work was inspired by biblical stories, but she also was inspired by social issues, such as the Vietnam War and the environment.

She wrote a slim volume of haiku, a Japanese lyric form, and children's Haggadah, used widely by Reform Jewish congregations. Mrs. Blank came to Cincinnati in 1926 after meeting her husband-to-be in London. He was a biblical professor at Hebrew Union College in Cincin Marilyn L. Mod, Clarence Weg services wi be Thursday at FIRESTONE Amanda Jane (nee Bel), be tion.

IO30 A.M. Survivors include another daughter, Miriam Blank Sachs of West Newton, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Service will be 10:30 a.m. today at Weil Funeral Home, 3901 Reading Road. Burial will be in United Jewish Cemetery, Clifton.

Memorials may be made to an environmental organization or charity of choice. NURRE BROS. FUNERAL DIRECTORS 241-6929 man Janice A. Katenkamp and the late Dorothy M. Wegman, also survived by two grandchildren.

Monday, Sep- loved wife of Mark E. Firestone, ot Portland, OR, beloved SCHROEDER LAY daughter of Jim Bel, of Cincin A Hen beloved husband of Mary Schroeder (nee Her nati and Marion Robinson, of iz, lyyg. Age M) years. James Anthony beloved son of Glenn A. Lay and Nanny Maria Lay Coins, dear bert), devoted father of Jo Wilmington, OH, step-daughter seph, Amy, Gretchen and Da Mass of Christian Burial, Thursday, 11:30 A.M.

at St. Jude Church. Visitation Wednesday, 7-9 P.M. at the Dalbert Woodruff Funeral vid Schroeder, dear son of Geraldine and the late Edwin of Elen Bel and William Robinson, granddaughter of Helen Bell, of Toronto, daughter-in-law of Richard F. and Ot-wen M.

Firestone and grand- Home, 2880 Boudinot Ave, at Queen City. If so desired, me brother of Vanessa Lay and step-brother of April, Glenda, Glenn Jr. and Amanda Lay, step-son of Roy Bruce Collins. Monday, September 10, 1990. Age 13.

Funeral services 2 P.M. Friday, September 21, 1990 at Brown-Dawson Funeral Home, 330 Pershing, Hamilton. Visitation from 12 Noon to I P.M. daughter-in-law of Elizabeth morials may be made In the Jack L. Anson Schroeder, brother of Mark E.

Schroeder. September 16, 1990, in Boston, MA. Age 41 years. Residence Bar Harbor, ME, Formerly of Gettysburg, PA. Mass of Christian Burial, St.

Jerome Church Friday, September 21, at 10 A.M. Friends form of Masses or to the chart- Firestone, en ot Columbus, oh, dear sister of Saundra Bel and step-sister of Kathy Schoonov- ty of your choice. TUFTS SCHILDMEVER Loveland 683-2430 Blanchester 783-2458 er dark, Douglas Schoonover, World War I Vet Work) War Vet 'Korean Veteran Dense, Linda and Greg Robins. Friday, September 14, 1990, may cal T. P.

White Sons Funeral Home, 2050 Beechmont Vietnam Veteran Portland, OR. Memorial serv Armed Forces Ave, Mt. Washington, Thurs amity requests memorial contributions be made to Tony Lay Funeral Fund, co First National Bank Southwestern Ohio, 2344 S. Erie Hwy, Hamilton, OH 45015. ices be held at Mt.

Washington Church of Christ, 6986 STERMER FUNERAL HOMES 4M9 (Whi ff CHKmnai Ohm It 10 Salem Road, Saturday, Sep Monument day, e-f P.M. Memorials may be sent to A Hen C. Schroeder Memorial Scholarship Fund, do Jackson Laboratory, Otter Cliff Bar Harbor, ME. 04609. LIMING Joseph Longworth.

41 of Fetid- tember 22, at I P.M. If desired, memorials may be made to the Mt. Washington Church of Christ, Forward in Faith Bunding Fund, e9M Salem Road, 45230. or the charity of your choice. Win, GOOD KELSCH OAKLEY SQ.

531-0105 ty, OH, died Monday, September 17 In a car accident near Batavia, OH. He leaves his SHARPE Anna L. (nee achat), beloved of the late William K. 35 Florist mother and father Mary Kate Longworth and Lor en Liming, one brother James Liming, one Sharpe, devoted mother of John Sharpe, WHKam, Harold GRETIIER Margaret E. (nee Murphy), beloved wife of Fred (Bud) sister Margaret Laubach, one BY FAITH PENNICK The Cincinnati Enquirer Jack L.

Anson, 66, former executive director of the National Interfraternity Conference and Phi Kappa Tau national fraternity, died Saturday at his farm in Bright, of an apparent heart attack. "He influenced the lives of thousands of young men," said John Green, current executive director of Phi Kappa Tau. "He had an amazing capacity to remember names and faces," Green said. "Jack was very congenial, personable, yet still a private person." Mr. Anson, who raised pedigree dogs, was president of the Cincinnati Kennel Club.

After military service during World War II, Mr. Anson, earned a bachelor's degree from Colgate University. He then did graduate work at Miami University, Oxford. While at Miami, Mr. Anson began a 20-year professional association with Phi Kappa Tau, which included the position of national secretary-treasurer.

He had joined the fraternity while at Colgate. Mr. Anson moved to Indianapolis in 1971 and became executive director and chief executive officer of the National Interfraternity Conference. He held the post until he retired in 1982. At the time of his death, Mr.

Anson was director of the National Interfraternity Conference and trustee of the Phi Kappa Tau Foundation Inc. He was awarded the key to the city of Indianapolis and the state of Indiana's Sagamore of the Wabash award, both in 1982. In his honor, the National Interfraternity Council established a Jack Anson graduate-study fellowship and the Phi Kappa Tau Foundation established the Jack L. Anson Scholarship. He is survived by a brother, Robert Tillman of Andrews, and three sisters, Mabel Hemphil of Wolcottville, Nellie Elward of Livermore, and Thelma Thale of Vallejo, Calif.

Memorial service will be 2 p.m. Friday at Kumler Chapel at Miami University. Memorials may be made to Phi Kappa Tau Foundation, 14 N. Campus Oxford, Ohio, 45056. 20 Announcement ART 6V SUE BAKER FLORISTS crrv wioe day delivery 24 HOUR PHONE SEVICE 871-8884 and Robert Hyne, dear grandmother of nine grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren, sister of John and George Rachel Monday, September Gr ether, loving mother of Gloria Reinert, Margaret Rice.

Linda Gose, John W. and Fred W. Grether, devoted grandmother of 10 grandchildren, and sin great-grandchildren. Monday, niece and four nephews who he loved very much. Member of Felicity United Methodist Church Funeral services by Charles H.

Mclntyre Funeral Home, Felicity, OH, Friday, September 21, 10 A.M. Visitation Thursday, September 20, 17, 1990. Residence Coteram ANDERSON BAITER SAHND FUNERAL HOMES INC 3412 Clifton Avenue 811 wmton Road 211-0421 Township. Funeral service Paul September 17, 1990. Age 72.

1 1 0" Funeral Flowers Young Funeral Home. 7345 4-9 M. Burial Felicity Ceme Hamilton Ave, Mt. Healthy, Friday at 1030 A.M. desired, remembrances may be sent to the Alzheimer's Disease Asso Residence Blue Ash, OH.

Friends may cat 30 PM. Wednesday, at the Strewser Funeral Home, 9503 Kenwood Blue Ash. Services at A M. Thursday. tery.

Memorials may be made to Felicity Life Squad or Feid-ty -Frank an Fire Department, A C. GOBBLING SON 961-6622 CKf Wide. Day Drifter FT. THOMAS BELLE VUG ciation. FeUdty, OH 45120.

4MI-IJU 4JV I-4XJU Brown aide calls pledge to Taft payoff; Republican leader calls it a phony issue Hamer C. Knepper BY SCOTT BURGINS where he was branch manager for Owens-Illi nois a glass manufacturer. He was a member of the Scottish Rite, and Kenwood Country Club. Other survivors include a daughter, Sabra Lee Donnell of Atlanta; a son, Perry Scott Knepper of Cincinnati; and five grandchildren. Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m.

today at Thomas Funeral Home. Funeral will be there 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Burial will be in Spring Grove. The Cincinnati Enquirer Hamer Clay Knepper, a 42-year employee of the local Owens-Illinois Inc.

plant, died Monday at a retirement center. The Kenwood resident was 80. "He had an IQ of 157," said his wife, Virginia. "He was a genius." Mr. Knepper resembled a former prime minister of England: "He looked just like Sir Anthony Eden," his wife said.

The couple moved to Cincinnati in 1953, party's commitment of money helped persuade him to leave the governor's race. Meanwhile, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Anthony Celebrezze revised his newest television ad assailing Republican opponent George Voinovich, but the GOP said the spot still was objectionable. At issue is a commercial which alleges that Browning-Ferris Industries in 1988 was host to a $24,000 fund-raiser for Voinovich on a riverboat. Celebrezze, in his capacity as attorney general, is said in the spot to have won $4 million in judgments against the Houston-based waste disposal company and its subsidiaries. Republicans complained that the cruise was not a fund-raiser.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An aide to Secretary of State Sherrod Brown called a pledge of $300,000 to his opponent a crass political payoff Tuesday. Brown's campaign moved quickly to capitalize on a report in the Dayton Daily News that Robert A. Taft II dropped out of the governor's race 12 days after being offered $300,000 in campaign support by the state GOP chairman, Robert Bennett, if he would run for secretary of state. "For seven months Bob Taft has denied that he prostituted himself when he got into the secretary of state's race. Now it turns out that he was just haggling about the price," Dale Butland, spokesman for the Brown campaign, said in a news release.

"Bob Taft became a candidate for secretary of state not because he thought the job was right, but because the price was right," Butland said. He said the Daily News story about the Feb. 2 offer of $300,000 to Taft, and subsequent campaign contributions in that amount from the GOP, proved Brown's charges that Taft was pressured out of the governor's race by promises of campaign money. Brian Berry, executive director of the state party, acknowledged that Bennett made the offer. "It's no big surprise to anybody that the state party was ready to commit dollars.

No big surprise. This is a phony issue," Berry said in an interview. Taft told the newspaper the Hamer Knepper State news Son convicted in Ohio cult murders 2 men wounded in standoff with police tencing hearing on his conviction last month on five counts each of aggravated murder and kidnapping. Damon Lundgren's mother, Alice, was given five consecutive life sentences last month on her conviction of conspiracy, complicity and kidnapping in the killings. The three were among 13 cult members arrested in January in the April 17, 1989, shooting deaths of the Averys, who were bound and gagged with duct tape one by one, then shot to death dumped into a comma grave under a barn at the Kirtland farm, 30 miles east of Cleveland.

Prosecutors said the Avery slay-ings may have been considered a ritual necessary for cult members' search for God. Like father, could get death penalty THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PAINESVILLE, Ohio A jury Tuesday convicted a religious cult leader's son on charges that he helped his father kill four members of a family but acquitted him in the death of a fifth victim. A Lake County common pleas jury deliberated about 11 hours over two days before convicting Damon Lundgren, 19, of four counts of aggravated murder and four counts of aggravated kidnapping in the deaths of Dennis Avery and his three children. He was acquitted of a single count each of aggravated murder and aggravated kidnapping in the death of Avery's wife, Cheryl. Lundgren calmly held his hands on his lap with his head down as the verdict was read.

He could be sentenced to death. The defendant didn't answer when reporters asked him to comment on the verdict as he was led from the courtroom. Joseph Gurley, a special prosecutor, said he was satisfied with the verdict but declined to comment further because of the pending penalty phase of the trial, scheduled to begin Monday. Lundgren's attorney, Albert Purola, declined comment on the verdict. The verdict came on the same day Lundgren's father, Jeffrey Lundgren, 40, appeared at a sen- 'i THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PAINESVILLE.

Ohio Two men were wounded Tuesday during a standoff that prompted police to rope off a downtown block and surround an apartment buildyig for more than two hours. Theodore Harvey, 60, was reported in critical condition at Lake Hospital Systems-East in Paines-ville. Oliver P. Weaver, 73, who rented part of Harvey's apartment, was flown to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. He had a ment, 'and police cordoned off the area for more than two hours before firing tear gas into the apartment Police found Weaver in the apartment with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot'wound to the chest, Howard said.

"When we were trying to get a response from him, there was no response. I think he was in there wounded all that time." "Right now we don't know what touched off the problem," Howard said. Police found a loaded pistol inside the apartment gunshot wound to the chest, according to a nursing supervisor, but his condition wasn't specified. Painesville police Lt. Charles Howard said police were alerted at 3:08 p.m.

When they arrived at the apartment building, they found a man, later identified as Harvey, wounded on the back steps. Police emptied the building of other residents and a Lake County Sheriffs Department SWAT team arrived. Police then heard a shot inside the building. One man, later identified as Weaver, remained in the apart.