"We were dirt poor," older brother Jack Haller of Southgate said Friday from the
Green Derby restaurant he co-owned with his younger brother. "When we were born
on Elm Street in Newport it was a cold-water flat. We had to boil water and had an
outhouse. No joke. Despite that, each of us was successful in life."  They had a powerful incentive to succeed. "If you didn't work, you didn't eat. We were very poor,"
Jack Haller said. They overcame that poverty by hard work and lots of it.

After graduating from Newport High School, Glen Haller enrolled at the University
of Cincinnati but never earned a degree. Instead, he went to work -- and never stopped.
 "His ambition was to be an architect but he would up being a draftsman at Kroger,"
 Jack Haller said. "In those days, they drew (plans for) the inside of the store by hand.
Now they do it all with computers."

After a stint in the U.S. Marine Corps, Glen Haller and two partners bought a store
 fixtures company. He soon bought out the two partners at American Store Fixtures
in Cleves, Ohio. "It grew into a $7 million business," Jack Haller said. "He was willing
 to take a lot of risks because he started with nothing."

Glen Haller, who lived in West Chester, Ohio, died Thursday of congestive heart
failure at Hospice of Cincinnati, Blue Ash, Ohio. Survivors include his wife, Ruby
Haller; daughters, Sheila Fisher of West Chester, Lori Haller of Fort Thomas and
Lynn Haller of Morehead; a sister, Mollie Daniel of Fort Thomas; a brother,
 Jack Haller of Southgate; and five grandchildren.

Services will be at noon Tuesday at A.C. Dobbling and Son Funeral Home,
Fort Thomas. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the time of services Tuesday
at the funeral home. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery, Southgate. Memorials are suggested to Hospice of Cincinnati, 4310 Cooper Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45242.