Frank Leininger
Submitted by Carol Sanman 18 January 2020
Kentucky Post, Covington, Ky, Monday, April 8, 1946; page 1
FRANK LEININGER, OLDEST MAN IS COUNTY, IS DEAD
Requiem High Mass for Frank J. Leininger, 95, believed to be the oldest male resident of Campbell county, will be sung at St. Stephen Church, Newport, at 9 a.m. Tuesday, following prayers at the John J. Radel funeral home, Newport, at 8:30 a.m. Burial will be in St. Stephen Cemetery.
Mr. Leininger, a native of Newport, died Saturday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Kathryn Hewling, 11 Sherman avenue, Fort Thomas, with whom he lived. During the Newport-Campbell County Sesquicentennial celebration held last year, Mr. Leininger was given a certificate in recognition of being the county’s oldest man. At the Sesquicentennial he related that he had lived through six wars in which the nation participated.
For many years he operated a tollgate on the Licking pike at Pool’s Creek and later on Alexandria Pike at South Newport, then known as Clifton. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Mary Steffen Leininger, who is 88. The couple celebrated their 68th wedding anniversary last November. Besides his widow, he leaves a son, William Leininger, Cincinnati; four daughters, Mrs. Charles Leistner and Mrs. Stephen Wolfzorn, both of John’s Hill, Campbell County; Mrs. William Berger, Newport; and Mrs. Hewling, 13 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.