Journey's End
Janice Sue Martin Flege
Stanley Funeral Home – Williamstown website 6/29/21. Janice Sue Martin Flege of Williamstown, KY was born January 19, 1941 in the Dark Region Road Community of Grant County, KY and died Saturday, May 1, 2021 at her residence at the age of 80.
She was the daughter of the late Orlie and Nina Mae Dance Martin. She was a retired receptionist/clerk for the St. Elizabeth Hospital in Williamstown and a member of the Williamstown Baptist Church. She was one of the founding members of the Eagle Creek Country Club, the 1958 Miss Grant County, and a member of the Grant County Historical Society. In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by 1 son, David Wayne Flege, 2 grandsons, Christopher Orlie Flege and Robert Dameon Flege, and 1 great grandson, Joseph Brian Iles.
Surviving is 1 son, Bobby Flege of Williamstown, 3 daughters, Kathy Sue Flege and Missy Flege Barker both of Williamstown and Katie Sue Flege-Dugan, 7 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, and 1 great great-grandchild.
Graveside services will be at 1:00 pm Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at the Williamstown Cemetery, Williamstown, Kentucky.
Dr. Joseph Franklin Daugherty, II
Stith Funeral Home website 12/26/20 (edited). February 29, 1928 - December 23, 2020, Joseph Franklin Daugherty, II, MD, 92 years of age, passed away peacefully at his residence, on Wednesday, December 23, 2020.
Dr. Daugherty practiced obstetrics and gynecology in Florence over a fifty-year career, delivering thousands of babies. He served his country in the United States Army Reserves for forty years and was last deployed during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. He retired with the rank of Colonel. Dr. Daugherty also loved flying and held a commercial pilot’s license with instrument rating.
He is preceded in death by his wife, Marie C. Bishop Daugherty, his brother, Dr. Harry K. Daugherty and his daughter in law, Denise I. Daugherty. His memory will be forever cherished by his children, Joseph F. Daugherty, III (Carol Bethel), Mary K. Daugherty (Dave Obradovich), James M. Daugherty, Sara D. Ferguson (Stuart), Susan P. Daugherty, and John R. Daugherty (Sara), his step-son, James A. Wolfe (Jane) as well as eleven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. A private family service and burial will take place at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions are suggested to Planned Parenthood. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.stithfuneralhomes.com.
Eleanor Mitts Behrmann
legacy.com 7/26/20. Cincinnati - Eleanor Mitts Behrmann beloved wife of the late Robert A. Behrmann for 68 years passed away July 16 at the age of 103. Born in Stuartsville, KY, she was the daughter of Ott (O.L.) and Mary Flege Mitts. Loving mother of Michael (June) Behrmann and Ann (Lewis) Behrmann. Mom to Jorge Caparros Valderama and Ina Moers, American Field Students. Devoted grandmother of Jonathan (Rebecca), Zachary and Lars.
Cherished great-grandmother of Gabriel, Kassia and Lillian. Cherished sister of the late Donald (Jessie) Mitts and Mary Louis (John) Evans. She and Bob were avid travelers, having visited all 50 states and 80 countries. She was witty and funny, with a great memory for family stories and politics. Mittsy was the Matriarch of a large extended family. Adored aunt of Janice (Cecil) Thomas, Donald (Donnie) Mitts, Rosemary (Fred) Culbertson, Robert (Kathy) Mitts, Ellen (Tom) Seibert, John (Diane) Evans, Danna (Troy) Hinkle, Stacy (Mike) Hinchey and numerous children of her nieces and nephews.
Mittsy earned her PhD in Chemistry at Iowa State in 1943, as one of very few women with a PhD in Chemistry at that time. After working at Harvard, Mittsy built an excellent career as a chemistry professor at the University of Cincinnati. There will be no services at the time. Memorial contributions may be given to the Peaslee Center, 215 E. 14th St, Cincinnati, OH 45202. Sympathy may be expressed at www.springgrove.org. Arrangements entrusted to the Spring Grove Funeral Homes Elden Good.
Joseph Moreland Blaine
Cincinnati.com 6/15/20. West Bend, WI - Joseph Moreland Blaine, born on April 11, 1940 in Pikeville, Kentucky, died on June 5, 2020 in West Bend, Wisconsin.
Joe grew up in Georgetown, Ohio, where fishing, singing at the Methodist church, playing the trumpet, collecting and selling antiques, and driving and rebuilding hot rods were among his passions. He was a zany lover of life, a risk taker, rule breaker, activist, business owner and eventually caregiver. He made friends wherever he went and had the gift of gab. His father once said Joe never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
He attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and served in the Air Force Reserves. Once out of the reserves, he worked as a fireman and earned his private pilot's license. He and his family moved to Northern Kentucky in the 1970s, living in Florence and Fort Mitchell before moving to Cincinnati. During this time, he owned several businesses, including an antique store called The General Store in Mount Adams and a medical clinic called Women's Center in Cincinnati.
Never one to shy away from attention, Joe was known by many as Monkey Joe, as he owned two chimpanzees which he took to family reunions, rented out for parties, drove around in elaborate vehicles and attracted lots of media attention.
In the early 1990s, he retired and moved to Malibu, California, where he spent his later years working as a caregiver. He moved to Grafton, Wisconsin in 2017 to be close to his daughter and her family. He passed away in 2020 with complications related to COVID-19.
He leaves behind his son Dr. Charles (Kay) Blaine of La Cañada, California; daughter Cecile (Seth) Duhnke of Grafton, Wisconsin; grandson Alexander Blaine; granddaughter Grace Duhnke; and ex-wife Phyllis Armstrong. He also leaves his brother David (Susan) Blaine of Middletown, Ohio; Chuck (Tember) Blaine of Fort Thomas, Kentucky; Rebekah Dew of Mayfield, Kentucky; nephews Luke (Sophie) Blaine of London, England; James (Monique) Blaine of Louisville, Kentucky; Steven "Blaine" Warner of Louisville, Kentucky; nieces Julie (Mike) England of Dayton, Ohio; and Janey (Darren) Goude of Lexington, South Carolina; Steve Devary of Benton, Kentucky; Marshall (Becky) Devary of Winchester, Kentucky; Robyn Berryman of San Diego, California; and Matthew Berryman of Chicago.
Memorial services will be held later this year in the Cincinnati area. In lieu of flowers, donations in his name can be made to: NAMI, 4301 Wilson Blvd., Suite 300, Arlington, VA 22203; Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., P.O. Box 97166, Washington, DC 20090-7166; or the charity of your choice.
Charles Edward Martin
Demaine Funeral Home website 3/31/20. Charles Edward Martin was born on May 4, 1953 and passed away on March 19, 2020. No services are planned at this time. (Note: this is during the CoronaVirus travel restrictions.)
Mary Louis Mitts Evans
Hinton-Turner Funeral Home website 3/25/20. Mary Louis Mitts Evans, 95, of Winchester, widow of John Thomas Evans, Jr., departed this life on Thursday, March 19, 2020. She was born in Williamstown, KY on August 25, 1924, the daughter of the late Ott Louis and Mary Flege Mitts, received her Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Kentucky and Master of Science Degree from the University of Wisconsin. She was very active in the community having been a member of the Paris Bourbon County Historical Society, former member of North Middletown Cemetery Board, the North Middletown Community Club, Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority, Phi Epsilon Omicron Honorary Society, Girl Scout leader for many years, a 4-H leader, and had been a member of the North Middletown Christian Church for over seventy years.
Surviving is a son, John Thomas Evans, III (Dianne); three daughters, Ellen Seibert (Tom), Danna Hinkle (Troy), and Stacy Hinchey (Michael). Also surviving are seven grandchildren, Sara Todd Evans, John Thomas Evans IV (Rachel), Mary Elizabeth Brown (Sean), Michelle Hinchey, Meredith Hinkle, Linden Hinkle, Gwendolyn Hinkle; a great granddaughter, Stella Todd Brown; and a sister Eleanor Behrmann.
There will be a memorial service at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family suggest donations to the North Middletown Christian Church, P.O. Box 43, North Middletown, KY 40357, or the charity of your choice. www.hintonturner.com
Jennie Cathryne Norbert
Delaware Valley Cremation Center website 8/3/20. Jennie Cathryne Blaine Hardin Norbert —Jen, Jennie, Aunt Jen, Jen-ma— died Saturday, November 30, 2019, three months and a day past her 100th birthday celebration at Dresher Hill Health and Rehabilitation Center, Ft. Washington, PA.
She was born in Wheatcroft, Webster County, Kentucky on August 29, 1919, the daughter of Dr. Ernest Charles Hardin and Jennie Cathryne Blaine Hardin. When she was 8 months old the family moved to Louisville, Kentucky and it was there and in Lexington, Kentucky, where Dr. Hardin served two terms as Superintendent of the Greendale Reformatory, that she was raised and schooled, including two years at the University of Louisville. On her birthday in 1943, she married Chester Paul Norbert of Kingston, Pennsylvania, a DuPont engineer. He was assigned to a secret war project, the Manhattan Project, and was sent to the University of Chicago, where the couple had their first home in an apartment near the campus. They were later transferred to Hanford, Washington, where they continued to work on the project until the end of the war. When DuPont was released from the project, the couple was transferred to Maryland, built a home in Linstead-on-the-Severn, near Annapolis, and raised their three children. In the late 1950’s they moved to Rocky River, Ohio, for 2 years before settling in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1960. They built a home in the North Hills, Shaler Township, and became active members in that community.
Jen served as a Deacon, Elder, and Trustee of the Glenshaw Presbyterian Church, was active in Shaler parent organizations, and was a member of the Glenshaw Century Club and Wildwood Golf Club. When the children were grown, she became a member of the Pennsylvania Board of Realtors and worked as an active realtor for 30 years, retiring from Prudential Realty at the age of 80.
She is preceded in death by her parents and 3 older siblings, Ann Akers (John), Mary Logan Brawner (Bob), and Lt Gen E.C. Hardin, Jr. USAF (Ethel). She is survived by her three children, Dr. Nan Cervantes PhD, of Burbank, California, C. Greg Norbert, (Jessica) of Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, and Dr. Jennie Watson PhD, (Mac) of Berea, Ohio, 8 grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren and 10 dearly loved nieces and nephews. Her husband, Chet, died in 1995 from strokes following by-pass surgery.
Information about her memorial service will be announced by the family. In lieu of flowers, she has asked that donations be made to the Glenshaw Presbyterian Church, in Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, and the Grace Presbyterian Church in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.
Burial will be in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky, next to her husband of 52 years.
Werner Buchholz
Poughkeepsie Journal, 7/17/19. Poughkeepsie - On Thursday July 11, 2019, Werner Buchholz, a computer science pioneer, passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of 96.
Werner was born on October 24, 1922, in Detmold, Germany. The son of a Jewish leather merchant, Werner just after turning 16 was sent by his parents to the safety of England before the onset of World War II. Like with Japanese Americans, England rounded up these Jewish teenagers and put them in detention camps. His parents, Julius and Elsa, were killed in concentration camps. Werner was transferred to another detention camp in Canada where, after some time, members of the Toronto Jewish community sponsored him to attend the University of Toronto. After receiving his bachelor's and master's degrees there, he earned his PhD in electrical engineering at Caltech.
IBM hired him in 1949 to work in Poughkeepsie, NY, at the very beginning of their commercial computer development. There they replaced punched card electronic computing with the much faster magnetic tape process for storing large files. Werner participated in a new government project for the Korean War that led to the IBM 701 and 702 computers. They next developed the "supercomputer" called Stretch, taking advantage of the change from vacuum tubes to transistor technology. This is when these computer designers began being known as system architects. In 1956, Werner coined the term "byte" to denote a small group of bits, but he never thought this much of an accomplishment. He continued to work at IBM until retiring in 1990.
Werner married Anna Frances Odor, a Kentucky-born, Methodist-turned-Quaker, professor of German at Vassar College, in 1952. With Werner's highly-engaged support, Ann Buchholz went on to become a local community leader, one of the first Democratic women elected to high office in this relatively conservative area of New York. They had two sons together, John who died in a car crash in 1975, and Sham Rang Singh Khalsa who is an emergency physician in Massachusetts. Werner was preceded in death by Ann in 2007. He is also survived by two grandchildren, Gurushabd Khalsa and Sarang Khalsa, who reside in the Seattle area.
Werner asked that there be no funeral services. He asked that, instead of flowers, for those who wish to honor him in death, that gifts can be sent to Poughkeepsie Monthly Meeting of Friends, 249 Hooker Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY, 12603.
Mary Jordan Odor Morris
The Messenger Newspaper, Madisonville, Kentucky website 2/5/19. Mary Jordan Odor Morris, 100, widow of James C. Morris, died on Friday, Feb. 1, 2019, in Lexington. She was born in Williamstown, to the late Charles and Sarah Odor. She was a graduate of the University of Kentucky with a bachelor's degree in home economics in 1938. Mary Jordan worked as the home demonstration agent in Webster County (for the UK Agriculture Expansion Station) from 1940-58. She was a charter member of the Pakendall Club, member of the First Baptist Church, member of the Providence Garden Club and member and former president of the Webster County Public Library.
She resided at The Lafayette, Lexington, for the last 17 years, where she celebrated her 100th birthday on Dec. 25, 2018. She is survived by her loving family and many friends. Graveside services will be held at a later date in Providence.
Joseph Brian Iles
Floral Hills Memorial Gardens website 7/13/18. Joseph Brian Iles, 19 of Edgewood, KY passed away surrounded by his family at UC Medical Center on July 10, 2018 due to injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. He was a graduate of Dixie Heights High School, he loved listening to music, riding BMX bikes, motorcycles and was a member of the Bikelyfe Motorcycle Club.
He was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents, Joseph Iles, Jr. and Marian Kathryn Iles. Joe is survived by his parents, Brian Keith Iles and Mary Jo Iles; sisters, Madelyn Kate Iles & Megan Joanne Iles; brothers, Erick Dakota Willett & Samuel Webber Iles; maternal grandmother, Mary Catherine Gillespie; maternal grandfather, Robert Blain Flege; maternal great grandparents, John Webber Gillespie and Jo Anne Gillespie; maternal great grandparents, Robert David & Beverly Flege and Sue Martin Flege; invaluable loving aunts, uncles, cousins and many friends.
The Celebration of Life visitation will be held on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at Floral Hills Funeral Home from 2 pm until the service at 4 pm. After the service at Floral Hills, the Celebration of Life Service will continue at Pride Park in Taylor Mill from 5 pm until 9 pm. In lieu of flowers we request Memorials to: Ollie’s Skate Park in Florence, KY, in Joe’s honor for under privileged riders. Online condolences may be expressed at www.floralhillsmemorialgardens.com.