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Date of these obituaries: 09-03-97
Williamstown's Rita Daugherty, volunteer, wise mother
Whether it was with her sewing, her music, or her vivid imagination, Rita Orr Daugherty had the ability to make even the simplest thing special.
As a volunteer at a nursing home, Mrs. Daugherty used her sewing talents to make life a bit easier for elderly patients.
"She enjoyed making aprons for people with walkers so that they could have something with pockets for their brushes, combs, and other little trinkets, " Mrs. Daugherty's husband, the Rev. R. T. Daugherty said.
"She would sometimes sneak in and leave them (the aprons) and nobody would know where they came from."
At home, Mrs. Daugherty needed only some time and her imagination to entertain and teach her children.
"She would take me and my brother into the other room in the evenings and she would play word games with us, " said her daughter, Lorretta Hitchcock of Rochester Hills, Mich.
"She tried to teach us the value of inexpensive time spent together."
Mrs. Daugherty died Monday evening at her home in Williamstown. She was 74.
In addition to her volunteer work at the nursing home, she was also a volunteer chaplain at the hospital and spent a great deal of time at the Williamstown Baptist Church, where her husband is the pastor.
Mrs. Daugherty taught Sunday school, sang in the church choir and was a member of the church's Women's Missionary Union.
"She taught me the value of a tender heart, " said her son, Raymond Daugherty of Sadieville.
"I hear my mother's voice so often. It is a guidance that tuned me in to what others were feeling and the impact of my behavior on others."
Mrs. Daugherty also taught others. She was a former substitute teacher for Williamstown independent schools, and was the school system's first secretary.
She wrote "Through the Years, " a history book on the Women's Missionary Union of the Crittenden Association of Baptist Churches in Kentucky.
Mrs. Daugherty's other survivors include sisters, Irma Tosh of Farmington Hills, Mich., Betty Toney of Palm Harbor, Fla. and Corine Toney of Pinkney, Mich.; eight grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the church.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Elliston-Stanley Funeral Home, Williamstown, and from 1 p.m. Thursday until services at the church.
Burial will be in Williamstown Cemetery.
Memorials are suggested to the Williamstown Baptist Church choir, 214 N. Main St., Williamstown, 41097.
Dorothy L. Chalfin, 78, of Covington, died at 8:20 p.m. Monday at St. Elizabeth Medical Center Hospice, Covington.
Survivors include sisters, Nellie Scheid of Bromley and Betty Bailey of Florence; and a brother, Henry Botkin of Walton.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Chambers and Grubbs Funeral Home, Florence.
Visitation will begin there at 10 a.m. Thursday.
Burial will be in Highland Cemetery, Ft. Mitchell.
Russell Harold Farmer, 70, of Williamstown, died Tuesday morning at Mercy Hospital Anderson, Cincinnati.
He was a retired time study engineer with Salbrook Steel Co., Lockland, Ohio.
He was a Navy veteran of World War II.
Survivors include his wife, Shirley Partlon Farmer; a daughter, Sandy Clark-Fidler of Pickerington, Ohio; four grandchildren and two step-grandchildren.
Services will be at the convenience of the family.
Memorials are suggested to the charity of the donor's choice.
Elliston-Stanley Funeral Home, Williamstown, is handling arrangements.
Gladys Jett Hall, 53, of Bourbon County, died Monday at her home. She was a homemaker.
Survivors include her husband, Pleas Hall; sons, Pleas Hall Jr., Thomas Hall and Willard Hall, all of Bourbon County, and Lee Hall of Lee County; a daughter, Tammy Knight of Bourbon County; brothers, Jimmy Jett of Cynthiana and Tex Jett of Mt. Sterling; sisters, Dora Jane Irvin of Bourbon County, and Woody Callahan, Melba Soard and Connie Kelly, all of Cynthiana; and 19 grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Ware Funeral Home, Cynthiana.
Visitation will be there from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. today.
Burial will be in Jacksonville cemetery in Bourbon County.
Alma Grace Eggleston Leek, 80, formerly of Highland Heights, died Tuesday morning at Twin Towers in Cincinnati.
She retired in 1984 from the Hospitality House at Bethesda Hospital in Cincinnati.
Her husband, Wilson Earl Leek, died in 1985.
Survivors include daughters, Wanda Gail Welch of Cincinnati and Lois Jean Wessling of Newport; a brother, C. L. Eggleston of Belleview; a sister, Alberta Bowlin of Milan, Ind.; eight grandchildren and 18 great- grandchildren.
A memorial service will be at 10 a.m. Friday at First Baptist Church of Cold Spring.
The body was donated to the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Memorials are suggested to Community Action Cooperative, Northern Kentucky Municipal Clerks Association, in care of Jody Anderson, City Clerk, City of Ft. Wright, 409 Kyles Lane, Ft. Wright, 41011.
Albert "Ray" Marcum, 47, of Ft. Wright, died Tuesday at his home. He was a machinist. Survivors include his mother, Nora Doyle and stepfather, John Doyle of Covington; sisters, Sandy Dawn of Southgate and Mary Esterer of St. Louis.
Services will be 10 a.m. Friday at Middendorf-Bullock Fu neral Home, Covington.
Visitation will be there from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery, Ft. Mitchell.
Memorials are suggested to Wellness Community, 8044 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45236.
Roy "Ozzie" Osborne, 52, of Williamstown, died at 7:54 p.m. Tuesday at St. Luke Hospital West, Florence.
Arrangements are pending at Elliston-Stanley Funeral Home, Willamstown.
Charlotte Ann Pope, 80, of Falmouth, died Tuesday at St. Elizabeth Medical Center Grant County, Williamstown.
She was a former owner and operator of a Falmouth grocery store.
She was also a member of Turner Ridge Baptist Church and the Butler Homemakers Club.
Survivors include her husband, Floyd Pope; a brother, Elbert Tomlin of Bethel, Ohio; and sisters, Wynona Wasserboehr, Lucille Kaplan and Rita Points, all of Falmouth.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at Woodhead Funeral Home, Falmouth.
Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Falmouth. Memorials are suggested to Pendleton County Homemakers Scholarship Fund, c/o Pendleton Federal Savings Bank, Shelby St., Falmouth 41040.
Bernice Mitchell Walton, 83, of Germantown, died Monday at her home.
She was a former hair stylist and a member of Germantown Christian Church.
Her husband, Elwood "Jack" Hedges Walton, died in 1986.
Survivors include a daughter, Mary Walton Race of Crittenden; a son, Raleigh Mitchell Walton of Germantown; sisters, Aletha Bess of Brooksville and Joyce Reed Stricker of Villa Hills; 11 grandchildren and five great- grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Palmer Funeral Home, Germantown.
Visitation will be there from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. today. Burial will be in Maple Grove Cemetery, Germantown.
Memorials are suggested to Germantown Christian Church.
