Obituary of Carl Lindner

Carl Lindner's life will be celebrated Friday with a parade stretching from Great American Ball Park downtown to a finale near one his favorite restaurants, Trio in Kenwood. The parade carrying Lindner's body will start at 9 a.m. and be completed about 10:30 a.m. A restored United Dairy Farmers milk truck will accompany the procession through Cincinnati. Lindner, chairman of American Financial, former principal owner of the Cincinnati Reds and Cincinnati's most successful entrepreneur, died Monday at age 92. Lindner's funeral will be private. His family has requested memorial gifts be given to Kenwood Baptist Church, 8341 Kenwood Road, 45236. The route of the parade "encompasses many, but certainly not all, of the people, churches, homes, buidlings, organizations and programs that were close to Mr. Lindner's heart." The Lindner family has planned the parade as a public goodbye to Lindner, the former Cincinnati Reds principal owner who is the region's most successful entrepreneur. He died late Monday night at age 92. The parade will leave Great American Ball Park, travel past the Dixie Terminal and go north on Vine Street and east on Fifth Street past Fountain Square. It will wind through downtown streets, passing the AFG-owned Cincinnatian Hotel, the Lindner-funded Otto Armleder School and then Music Hall. The West End location of the Carl Lindner YMCA is another destination, along with Christ Hospital in Mount Auburn, where Lindner died. The parade will travel past the Carl H. Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati, and later will travel up Montgomery Road in Norwood, past the site of the first Lindner Ice Cream Shop and the offices of United Dairy Farmers. It also will pass several houses in Norwood where Lindner lived as a child. No streets will be closed. Parade route: Start Time: 9:00 am Friday, October 21, Great American Ball Park (2nd and Pete Rose Way) Drop down ramp to Pete Rose Way to Broadway Left on Broadway 9:02 am Left on 4th Street - passing Great American Tower 9:04 am Continue on 4th Street - passing the Dixie Terminal and 1 E. 4th Street Right on Vine Street 9:06 am Right on 5th Street - passing Fountain Square 9:07am Continue on 5th Street - passing the Taft Theater Left on Broadway Left on 6th Street 9:10 am Continue on 6th Street - passing the Cincinnatian Hotel Right on Elm Street Right on 7th Street Left on Vine Street 9:15 am Left on 9th Street - passing Otto Armleder School 9:16 am Right on Elm Street - passing Music Hall Left on 14th Street Left on Central Parkway 9:20 am Right on Ezzard Charles Drive - passing Cincinnati Police Memorial Right on Linn Street 9:22 am Left into Carl H. Lindner YMCA Left on Linn 9:24 am Right on Liberty - passing Lord's Gym 9:25 am Continue on Liberty - passing St. Francis Seraph School Left on Sycamore Street 9:30 am Left on Auburn Avenue - thru Christ Hospital Left on Taft / Calhoun Street Right on Clifton Avenue 9:45 am Right on Martin Luther King Drive - looping onto campus passing UC's Carl H. Lindner College of Business Right on Martin Luther King Drive 9:50 am Left on Reading Road - Passing Temple Bible College Left on Hickman Left on Harvey Right on Martin Luther King 9:55 am Right on Burnett Avenue - passing Shriners Hospital and Cincinnati Children's Medical Center Turn right on Forrest Avenue Left on Reading Road 10:02 am Turn right on Dana Avenue - passing Xavier University 10:08 am Turn left on Montgomery Road - passing 1st Lindner Ice Cream Shop, UDF Main office 10:10 am Left on Hopkins - passing Carl and Edyth Lindner Children's Learning Center Right on Allison Right on Wanda 10:13 am Left on Montgomery Road - passing Norwood Administrative Buildings and 10:20am Olivet Baptist Church Left on Plainfield Road 10:21 am Right on South Avenue - passing 1st house growing up 10:21 am Right on Silverton Avenue - passing 2nd house growing up 10:24 am Left on Montgomery Road - passing Old Kenwood Mall 10:27 am Left on Kenwood Road - passing Trio Restaurant 10:30 Parade Concludes