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Date of these obituaries: 08-19-2003
M. Moloney, businesswoman
Mabel Imogene Colvin Moloney was a modern-day renaissance woman.
An English teacher in Germantown and Augusta schools for 15 years and a Sunday school teacher at Augusta Christian Church for 24.
An adept horsewoman who showed and drove fine harness horses for a quarter of a century for Meandering Meadow Farm in Augusta.
A skilled businesswoman who helped her husband amass 13 farms in Bracken and Mason counties, then ran them 11 years after his death.
A grandmother who lavished such attention on her grandchildren that she could make them feel like only children.
"A real lady, a great mother and the greatest-there-ever-was grandmother, " said a daughter, Ann Heath Moloney Thomas of Lexington.
Mrs. Moloney, formerly of Fantasia Farms, Augusta, died Aug. 13 at Lexington Country Place, Lexington. She was 90.
Progeny of one of the area's oldest pioneer families -- her ancestors came down river to the Augusta area on flatboats 180 years ago -- Mrs. Moloney was a pioneer of sorts herself. She earned a degree from Centre College in 1934, then did work on a master's at the University of Michigan at a time when few women went to college, much less graduate school.
She taught high school English as she was raising her two daughters and worked with her husband, banker J. Lytle Moloney, in accumulating the farms that at her death would make her the largest private landowner in Bracken County. After he died in 1987, she continued to run the farms until about five years before her death, when her health began to deteriorate.
"She ran the farms as a CEO. She was very fair and talented at it, " said Thomas.
The farms were also a retreat for her family, especially her six grandchildren.
"She would let each grandchild come every summer, and she would do things with them and cook for them. She let each one of them be an only child for a couple of weeks, " Thomas said.
Mrs. Moloney was a longtime member of the Daphne Club, a social club in Augusta, and a former member of the Maysville and Cynthiana country clubs.
Other survivors include a daughter, Donna Moloney McCoy of Chatham, N.J.; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services were Monday at Augusta Christian Church. Memorials are suggested to Augusta Christian Church, 110 E. Fourth St., Augusta, Ky. 41002. Moore and Parker Funeral Home, Augusta, handled arrangements.
Dicie Riley Turner Combs, 54, of Grants Lick, died Sunday at St. Luke Hospital East, Fort Thomas. She was an employee of Meijer.
Survivors include her mother, Betty Riley of Butler; sisters, Ruth Teegarden, Pearl Gordon and Judy Riley, all of Butler; brothers, Bradley Riley Jr. of Cold Spring, Kenneth Riley of Foster, Andy Riley of New Richmond, Ronnie Riley of Falmouth; and Roger Riley and Randy Riley, both of Butler.
Services will be at 6:30 p.m. today at Peoples Funeral Home, Grants Lick. Visitation will begin there at 4 p.m. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery, Grants Lick.
Lucille Tremaine Requardt Hostetter, 97, of Fort Mitchell, died at 7:45 a.m. Wednesday at The Inn at Sarasota Bay Club, Sarasota, Fla. She was a retired secretary with the trust department of Central Trust Bank and a member of Lakeside Presbyterian Church, Lakeside Park. Her husbands, Orville Requardt and Dwight Hostetter, both preceded her in death.
Survivors include a son, Roger Requardt of Pembroke Pines, Fla.; a sister, Betty Jane Bodkin of Latonia; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Middendorf-Bullock Funeral Home, Erlanger. Visitation will begin there at 10 a.m. Thursday. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery, Fort Mitchell. Memorials are suggested to Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital Foundation, 3435 Johnson St., Hollywood, Fla. 33021; or Hospice of Southwest Florida, 5955 Rand Blvd., Sarasota, Fla. 34231.
Charles R. Johnson, 88, of Covington, died Friday at St. Elizabeth Medical Center North, Covington. He was a bricklayer. His wife, Laura Powell Johnson, preceded him in death.
Survivors include sons, Alonzo Powell, Eddie Powell and Benjamin Calloway, all of Cincinnati, and James M. Johnson of Covington; daughters, Betty Johnson, Gayle Johnson and Diane Simpson, all of Covington, and Brenda Gray of Columbus, Ohio; a sister, Nellie Johnson; 26 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church, 120 E. Ninth St., Covington. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the church. Burial will be in Mary E. Smith Memorial Cemetery, Elsmere. Jones, Simpson and Gee Funeral Home, Covington, is handling arrangements.
Selvey Clayton Mullikin, 85, of Florence, died Sunday at St. Luke Hospital West, Florence. He was a salesman with Mickleberry Foods in Cincinnati, a former employee of Sears and Singer sewing machine companies, and a member of First Church of Christ, Burlington. He was a member of Montgomery Masonic Lodge No. 94 F&AM in Cincinnati and York Rite, and an Army veteran of World War II.
Survivors include his wife, Pauline Mullikin; a daughters, Paula Benton of Walton; a son, Gary Mullikin of Walton; six grandchildren, two step-grandchildren and a step-great-grandchild.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Stith Funeral Home, Florence. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Maple Grove Cemetery, Germantown. Memorials are suggested to the charity of the donor's choice.
Ethan Michael Rust, son of Christopher and Vivian Rust of Moores Hill, Ind., was stillborn Saturday at Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati.
Other survivors include a sister, Britney Rust of Moores Hill; and grandmother, Helen Singleton of Versailles, Ind.
Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Evergreen Cemetery, Southgate. Memorials are suggested to Ethan Michael Rust Memorial Fund, in care of A.C. Dobbling and Son Funeral Home, 241 Fairfield Ave., Bellevue, Ky. 41073.
Francis Stambaugh Jr., 88, of Marietta, Ga., formerly of Lakeside Park, died Sunday at his home.
Arrangements are pending at Allison and Rose Funeral Home, Covington.
Nora E. Bryant Stapleton, 76, of Covington, died at 5:15 p.m. Sunday at Northern Kentucky Care and Rehabilitation Center, Highland Heights. She was a retired seamstress with Hyde Park Clothes. Her husband, Wayne M. Stapleton, died in 1967.
Survivors include a daughter, Mary C. Stapleton of Covington; sons, Otto M. Stapleton Sr. of Butler, Wayne Stapleton Jr. of Southgate and Woodrow Stapleton of Fort Thomas; eight grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Don Catchen and Son Funeral Home, Elsmere. Visitation will begin there at 11 a.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Auburn Cemetery, Pendleton County.
Margie Dean Thompson, 68, of Bellevue, died at 10:37 a.m. Sunday at Christ Hospital, Cincinnati. She was a retired gift shop manager with Yellowstone National Park Service.
Survivors include daughters, P. Elaine Myers of Brush Prairie, Wash., Debra Annebelle Beemon of Cincinnati, Julie Mueller of Alexandria and Rita Thompson of Independence; sons, Ron Thompson of Pendleton County and Rob Thompson of Newport; a sister, Mary Ann Thompson of Fancy Farm; and a brother, Frank Thomas of Santa Barbara, Calif.
Memorial Mass of Christian burial will be at 5 p.m. Thursday at St. Mary Church, Alexandria. A reception will follow in the church hall. Cremation will be at Southwest Ohio Cremation Co., Milford, Ohio. Memorials are suggested to Yellowstone Park Foundation, 222 E. Main St., Bozeman, Mont. 59715.
