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; ceremiony by Rev. William H. Hudnut, Jr. Reported in the 31 JUL 1945 issue of The Cincinnati Enquirer, page 9 (Newspapers.com).

Obituary -- (Findagrave.com):

Rodgers, Paul C., PhD

Jun 20, 1920 - Jul 11, 2010

Preceded in death by first wife, Marjorie Stone Welter (Rodgers). Survived by wife, Mary Lee Moldenhauer; children: Merry Wood, Wendy Clark, Tim Rodgers, Becky Aldinger and Ted Rodgers; 12 grandchildren; 7 great-grandchildren; stepchildren: Kathy (Moldenhauer) Roselius, Elizabeth Moldenhauer and Jim Moldenhauer; 2 step-grandchildren.

The family will receive friends Friday, 2pm-3pm, followed by SERVICES at 3pm at the West Center Chapel. Memorials to American Cancer Society or American Heart Association.

Published by Omaha World-Herald from Jul. 12 to Jul. 16, 2010.

My grandmother, Olive K. (Rodgers) Wendell, was aware that a distant cousin was a professor at Wittenberg College in Springfield, and at some point while she lived at New Carlisle and was still driving, in the 1970s, arranged to meet Paul Rodgers. She reported to the family that he was a very nice and highly educated man with a number of adult children.

In the early 2000s, when I had begun researching family history and was posting on rootsweb.com mailing lists and other emerging Internet genealogy fora, Paul Rodgers made contact with me. We had a pleasant telephone conversation and he invited me to his home in Springfield for a visit.

I found Paul an excellent conversationalist and interesting personality. He had lost his wife to cancer a couple years previously, and had himself been diagnosed with a throat cancer and was recovering from surgical removal of some salivary glands. He found himself at a point where he needed to shut down his house and get into a downsized living arrangement. After getting to know each other a bit, he showed me his great-grandfather, Rev. James Rodgers', office chair from the Springfield Presbyterian Female Seminary, which Paul had inherited from his father. He asked me if I would like to have it and care for it. I was slightly shocked, and asked if any of his children wouldn't be a better recipient. He told me they were widely dispersed geographically, except for a son there in Springfield, and none of them showed any interest in the family history or heirlooms. So I did accept the offer and took that chair home where I lived in Fairborn.

The chair was in very worn condition, although its original Victorian design and qualities were visible. I kept it safely stored for a couple of years until after we relocated to Centerville, Ohio. Then I took it to the same furniture refinisher who had refurbished the antique Victorian loveseat from my great-grandparents Rodgers, and also the antique chair from the Rodgers home in Valleyview, Ohio, which my mother remembered from her girlhood. He had enough of the fabric from the loveseat project left over that he was able to use it to refurbish the office chair. He did a beautiful job on that chair and it is a cherished piece of our living room furniture today. DLB 2023.

Obituary:

RICHARD BAHMAN, STEPFATHER OF COMEDIAN, DIES

Richard W. Bahman, 67, of 2324 St. Paris Pike, died in Mercy Medical Center at 6 p.m. Sunday. He was the stepfather of comedian Jonathan Winters.

Mr. Bahman retired in 1967 as a salesman for the Bauer Brothers Co. For 25 years before his employment there, he worked at Buckeye Incubator Co., where he became a sales engineer and then a department manager.

Mr. Bahman was born in Cincinnati April 9, 1904. His wife, Alice Rodgers Bahman, died June 16, 1970.

Survivors include Mr. Winters, who now lives in North Hollywood, Calif.; two grandchildren, and three sisters, Marguerite, Emma Leah and Laura Belle Bahman of Cincinnati.

Private graveside services will be conducted Thursday in Ferncliff Cemetery by the Rev. George A. Marshall, rector of Christ Episcopal Church.

Jackson, Lytle and Coffman Funeral Home is handling the arrangements. There will be no calling hours.

Springfield Daily News, Monday, March 20, 1972.

Obituary (Findagrave.com):

Eileen Winters, 84, comedian Jonathan Winters' wife of 60 years, died after a long battle with breast cancer Sunday evening at home in Montecito, said their son, Jay.

The couple met at the Dayton Art Institue after World War II. In 1949, the year after they were married, Eileen encouraged her funny husband to enter an amateau talent show.

"The first time I heard him talk," she later recalled, "my jaw began hanging open. Did he make up all those things by himself?"