Frederick W Winkler
From the family files at the Campbell County Historical
Society
Frederick W Winkler was a native of Newport born in 28 Mar 1891 George and Katharine to Winkler. He was a chair of the Northern Kentucky Historical Society, former president of the men's brotherhood at First Baptist Church of Ft. Thomas, an organizer of the Ft. Thomas Community Chest and president of the Campbell County Airport Board.
He was a member of the Newport Masons, Ft. Thomas Men's Club, chairman of the Newport Corps of the Salvation Army, a Booth Hospital board member and a member of the Ft. Thomas teen-age canteen and city park and recreation boards.
He was the first chairman of the board of directors of the Baptist Home of Northern Kentucky.
He died March 22, 1965 of an apparent heart attack while attending a board meeting of the Lakeside Place Nursing Home, which Winkler helped found. He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
He is the namesake of two ball fields at U.S. 27 and Woodfill Avenue in Ft. Thomas, across from Woodfill Elementary School. A plaque noting the "Frederick W Winkler playfields is on the base of a water fountain at one end of the fields.