Priscilla Stuart Garrison Haffner
CINCINNATI - Loyal Bearcat and lifelong philanthropist, Priscilla Stuart Garrison Haffner built U.C.'s coaches a video production suite to bolster football wins, while endowing visiting pianists to forever accompany Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She passed away peacefully due to melanoma at her Hyde Park, Cincinnati, Ohio home the evening of February 14, 2021, attaining 91+ years of age after decades of hands-on volunteer work. Her motto: "If it's to be, it's up to me."
Born on March 22, 1929 in Cincinnati, "Pris" grew up adjacent to her family's church, Westwood Methodist, and graduated in 1947 from Western Hills High School, where she loved singing in choir and playing field hockey. Early on she worked as a counselor at boarding camps teaching swimming and canoeing and later as Rob Paris's photography assistant posing babies.
A 1951 graduate of University of Cincinnati, she majored in Childhood Development, College of Home Economics, and enjoyed Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. But it was her popular vote election in 1949 to Band Sponsor, after which she led the 1950 Bearcats Homecoming Parade marching down Nippert Stadium's field, that ignited her red and black devotion. Following her father, who endowed the first full tuition football scholarship, awarded 1975-1985 and continued in perpetuity after his 1985 death, and who gifted the field's first astroturf, Pris devoted her next seventy years after graduation to empowering our Bearcats. An early UCATS leader enabling the 2006 building of Varsity Village, Pris and her sisters endowed the coaches suite and television studio on Richard E. Lindner Center's 7th floor, Suite 780, naming it the Stuart R. Garrison Football Suite in honor of their father. This outfitted our Cats with state of the art technology and recruiting necessities. She is honored as a Lifetime Visionary, Tower Society, by U.C. Foundation, at annual George Rieveschl Recognition Dinners. Venue Magazine honored Pris among its Class of 2014 Civic Leadership Award winners.
An avid naturalist, Pris served as Emeritus Board Member, Cincinnati Museum Center, after she volunteered at its predecessor, Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, on Gilbert Ave. for decades starting in 1950s. She worked on projects with Junior League of Cincinnati since 1956 and later remained an active member of JLC Garden Circle. Many remember fondly her festive hosting of greased pig contests (1960s-1970s) and picnics for The Ohio Society at her Arabian horse farm, Hawk Hill Farms, in Mt. Orab, Ohio. Elected Vice-President of The Cincinnati Woman's Club Executive Board and Chairman of Grounds in 1985, she personally dug most of the holes for 15,000 daffodil bulbs, while advancing to a Laureate Leader in CWC's Operating Endowment Fund. A founding member of The Women's Committee of Smale Park, honored both on its lovely low garden wall and on the carousel's acrylic patrons wall, she continued major support for Hats Off luncheons. In 2015, she sponsored a memorial bench and rebuilt engineering supports at Fox Rock Platform, Rowe Woods, Cincinnati Nature Center in Milford.
She cherished serving on the Advisory Committee of The Hillside Trust as well as working on the board of Rookwood Neighborhood Association for decades. Cincinnati Country Club just planted three Cornus Florida Cherokee Brave dogwood trees to honor her 65+ years of membership.
The annual CSO Visiting Pianist Concerts were endowed by Pris and her sisters in honor of their mother. Hymns at Hyde Park Community Methodist Church brought her joy as did choirs in Naples, FL, where this snowbird belonged to Royal Poinciana Country Club and Naples Yacht Club. Summer fun included cheering at Les Cheneaux Yacht Club sailing regattas, Cedarville, Michigan and exercising with dear friends during CCC Swimmercize. Fall dinners with Travel Club of Cincinnati and U.C.'s home football games were her favorites! Society of Mayflower Descendants, GS #80,766 & OH #3,021,
Pris was predeceased by her parents, LaVaughn & Stuart Richey Garrison, brotherin- law, Charles W. Anness, J.D., and both husbands, Oliver Pape Bardes and pediatrician, Frederick D. Haffner, M.D., whom she married in 1974. Survived by her devoted family, she leaves: sisters Martha Ellen G. Anness, Western Hills and Sarah Scholl G. Skidmore (Gerald), Naples, FL; her four children: Oliver P. Bardes, Jr., Madison, WI, Priscilla S. Bardes, Symmes Twp., Dee Ellen G. Bardes, Hyde Park, LaVaughn Cottell, Indian Hill; five grandchildren: Richey & Christian Guidi, Las Vegas, NV; Samuel Pogue Todd IV (Joanna), Houston, TX, Garrison Anderson Todd, J.D. (Holly), Anchorage, AK, Sophia V. Fujimaki; her late husband's children, Katherine A. Haffner, J.D., Newburyport, MA and Paul F. Haffner, J.D. (Karri), Mt. Adams; step-grandchildren, Augustin & Grace Haffner; and her niece & nephews.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, burial at Spring Grove Cemetery is private. Memorials to honor and celebrate her legacy are deeply appreciated, and may be sent to: The Stuart R. Garrison Memorial Endowed Athletic Scholarship Fund, University of Cincinnati Foundation, P.O. Box 19970, Cincinnati, OH 45219-097
CINCINNATI - Loyal Bearcat and lifelong philanthropist, Priscilla Stuart Garrison Haffner built U.C.'s coaches a video production suite to bolster football wins, while endowing visiting pianists to forever accompany Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She passed away peacefully due to melanoma at her Hyde Park, Cincinnati, Ohio home the evening of February 14, 2021, attaining 91+ years of age after decades of hands-on volunteer work. Her motto: "If it's to be, it's up to me."
Born on March 22, 1929 in Cincinnati, "Pris" grew up adjacent to her family's church, Westwood Methodist, and graduated in 1947 from Western Hills High School, where she loved singing in choir and playing field hockey. Early on she worked as a counselor at boarding camps teaching swimming and canoeing and later as Rob Paris's photography assistant posing babies.
A 1951 graduate of University of Cincinnati, she majored in Childhood Development, College of Home Economics, and enjoyed Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. But it was her popular vote election in 1949 to Band Sponsor, after which she led the 1950 Bearcats Homecoming Parade marching down Nippert Stadium's field, that ignited her red and black devotion. Following her father, who endowed the first full tuition football scholarship, awarded 1975-1985 and continued in perpetuity after his 1985 death, and who gifted the field's first astroturf, Pris devoted her next seventy years after graduation to empowering our Bearcats. An early UCATS leader enabling the 2006 building of Varsity Village, Pris and her sisters endowed the coaches suite and television studio on Richard E. Lindner Center's 7th floor, Suite 780, naming it the Stuart R. Garrison Football Suite in honor of their father. This outfitted our Cats with state of the art technology and recruiting necessities. She is honored as a Lifetime Visionary, Tower Society, by U.C. Foundation, at annual George Rieveschl Recognition Dinners. Venue Magazine honored Pris among its Class of 2014 Civic Leadership Award winners.
An avid naturalist, Pris served as Emeritus Board Member, Cincinnati Museum Center, after she volunteered at its predecessor, Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, on Gilbert Ave. for decades starting in 1950s. She worked on projects with Junior League of Cincinnati since 1956 and later remained an active member of JLC Garden Circle. Many remember fondly her festive hosting of greased pig contests (1960s-1970s) and picnics for The Ohio Society at her Arabian horse farm, Hawk Hill Farms, in Mt. Orab, Ohio. Elected Vice-President of The Cincinnati Woman's Club Executive Board and Chairman of Grounds in 1985, she personally dug most of the holes for 15,000 daffodil bulbs, while advancing to a Laureate Leader in CWC's Operating Endowment Fund. A founding member of The Women's Committee of Smale Park, honored both on its lovely low garden wall and on the carousel's acrylic patrons wall, she continued major support for Hats Off luncheons. In 2015, she sponsored a memorial bench and rebuilt engineering supports at Fox Rock Platform, Rowe Woods, Cincinnati Nature Center in Milford.
She cherished serving on the Advisory Committee of The Hillside Trust as well as working on the board of Rookwood Neighborhood Association for decades. Cincinnati Country Club just planted three Cornus Florida Cherokee Brave dogwood trees to honor her 65+ years of membership.
The annual CSO Visiting Pianist Concerts were endowed by Pris and her sisters in honor of their mother. Hymns at Hyde Park Community Methodist Church brought her joy as did choirs in Naples, FL, where this snowbird belonged to Royal Poinciana Country Club and Naples Yacht Club. Summer fun included cheering at Les Cheneaux Yacht Club sailing regattas, Cedarville, Michigan and exercising with dear friends during CCC Swimmercize. Fall dinners with Travel Club of Cincinnati and U.C.'s home football games were her favorites! Society of Mayflower Descendants, GS #80,766 & OH #3,021,
Pris was predeceased by her parents, LaVaughn & Stuart Richey Garrison, brotherin- law, Charles W. Anness, J.D., and both husbands, Oliver Pape Bardes and pediatrician, Frederick D. Haffner, M.D., whom she married in 1974. Survived by her devoted family, she leaves: sisters Martha Ellen G. Anness, Western Hills and Sarah Scholl G. Skidmore (Gerald), Naples, FL; her four children: Oliver P. Bardes, Jr., Madison, WI, Priscilla S. Bardes, Symmes Twp., Dee Ellen G. Bardes, Hyde Park, LaVaughn Cottell, Indian Hill; five grandchildren: Richey & Christian Guidi, Las Vegas, NV; Samuel Pogue Todd IV (Joanna), Houston, TX, Garrison Anderson Todd, J.D. (Holly), Anchorage, AK, Sophia V. Fujimaki; her late husband's children, Katherine A. Haffner, J.D., Newburyport, MA and Paul F. Haffner, J.D. (Karri), Mt. Adams; step-grandchildren, Augustin & Grace Haffner; and her niece & nephews.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, burial at Spring Grove Cemetery is private. Memorials to honor and celebrate her legacy are deeply appreciated, and may be sent to: The Stuart R. Garrison Memorial Endowed Athletic Scholarship Fund, University of Cincinnati Foundation, P.O. Box 19970, Cincinnati, OH 45219-097
Priscilla Stuart Garrison Haffner
CINCINNATI - Loyal Bearcat and lifelong philanthropist, Priscilla Stuart Garrison Haffner built U.C.'s coaches a video production suite to bolster football wins, while endowing visiting pianists to forever accompany Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She passed away peacefully due to melanoma at her Hyde Park, Cincinnati, Ohio home the evening of February 14, 2021, attaining 91+ years of age after decades of hands-on volunteer work. Her motto: "If it's to be, it's up to me."
Born on March 22, 1929 in Cincinnati, "Pris" grew up adjacent to her family's church, Westwood Methodist, and graduated in 1947 from Western Hills High School, where she loved singing in choir and playing field hockey. Early on she worked as a counselor at boarding camps teaching swimming and canoeing and later as Rob Paris's photography assistant posing babies.
A 1951 graduate of University of Cincinnati, she majored in Childhood Development, College of Home Economics, and enjoyed Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. But it was her popular vote election in 1949 to Band Sponsor, after which she led the 1950 Bearcats Homecoming Parade marching down Nippert Stadium's field, that ignited her red and black devotion. Following her father, who endowed the first full tuition football scholarship, awarded 1975-1985 and continued in perpetuity after his 1985 death, and who gifted the field's first astroturf, Pris devoted her next seventy years after graduation to empowering our Bearcats. An early UCATS leader enabling the 2006 building of Varsity Village, Pris and her sisters endowed the coaches suite and television studio on Richard E. Lindner Center's 7th floor, Suite 780, naming it the Stuart R. Garrison Football Suite in honor of their father. This outfitted our Cats with state of the art technology and recruiting necessities. She is honored as a Lifetime Visionary, Tower Society, by U.C. Foundation, at annual George Rieveschl Recognition Dinners. Venue Magazine honored Pris among its Class of 2014 Civic Leadership Award winners.
An avid naturalist, Pris served as Emeritus Board Member, Cincinnati Museum Center, after she volunteered at its predecessor, Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, on Gilbert Ave. for decades starting in 1950s. She worked on projects with Junior League of Cincinnati since 1956 and later remained an active member of JLC Garden Circle. Many remember fondly her festive hosting of greased pig contests (1960s-1970s) and picnics for The Ohio Society at her Arabian horse farm, Hawk Hill Farms, in Mt. Orab, Ohio. Elected Vice-President of The Cincinnati Woman's Club Executive Board and Chairman of Grounds in 1985, she personally dug most of the holes for 15,000 daffodil bulbs, while advancing to a Laureate Leader in CWC's Operating Endowment Fund. A founding member of The Women's Committee of Smale Park, honored both on its lovely low garden wall and on the carousel's acrylic patrons wall, she continued major support for Hats Off luncheons. In 2015, she sponsored a memorial bench and rebuilt engineering supports at Fox Rock Platform, Rowe Woods, Cincinnati Nature Center in Milford.
She cherished serving on the Advisory Committee of The Hillside Trust as well as working on the board of Rookwood Neighborhood Association for decades. Cincinnati Country Club just planted three Cornus Florida Cherokee Brave dogwood trees to honor her 65+ years of membership.
The annual CSO Visiting Pianist Concerts were endowed by Pris and her sisters in honor of their mother. Hymns at Hyde Park Community Methodist Church brought her joy as did choirs in Naples, FL, where this snowbird belonged to Royal Poinciana Country Club and Naples Yacht Club. Summer fun included cheering at Les Cheneaux Yacht Club sailing regattas, Cedarville, Michigan and exercising with dear friends during CCC Swimmercize. Fall dinners with Travel Club of Cincinnati and U.C.'s home football games were her favorites! Society of Mayflower Descendants, GS #80,766 & OH #3,021,
Pris was predeceased by her parents, LaVaughn & Stuart Richey Garrison, brotherin- law, Charles W. Anness, J.D., and both husbands, Oliver Pape Bardes and pediatrician, Frederick D. Haffner, M.D., whom she married in 1974. Survived by her devoted family, she leaves: sisters Martha Ellen G. Anness, Western Hills and Sarah Scholl G. Skidmore (Gerald), Naples, FL; her four children: Oliver P. Bardes, Jr., Madison, WI, Priscilla S. Bardes, Symmes Twp., Dee Ellen G. Bardes, Hyde Park, LaVaughn Cottell, Indian Hill; five grandchildren: Richey & Christian Guidi, Las Vegas, NV; Samuel Pogue Todd IV (Joanna), Houston, TX, Garrison Anderson Todd, J.D. (Holly), Anchorage, AK, Sophia V. Fujimaki; her late husband's children, Katherine A. Haffner, J.D., Newburyport, MA and Paul F. Haffner, J.D. (Karri), Mt. Adams; step-grandchildren, Augustin & Grace Haffner; and her niece & nephews.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, burial at Spring Grove Cemetery is private. Memorials to honor and celebrate her legacy are deeply appreciated, and may be sent to: The Stuart R. Garrison Memorial Endowed Athletic Scholarship Fund, University of Cincinnati Foundation, P.O. Box 19970, Cincinnati, OH 45219-097
CINCINNATI - Loyal Bearcat and lifelong philanthropist, Priscilla Stuart Garrison Haffner built U.C.'s coaches a video production suite to bolster football wins, while endowing visiting pianists to forever accompany Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She passed away peacefully due to melanoma at her Hyde Park, Cincinnati, Ohio home the evening of February 14, 2021, attaining 91+ years of age after decades of hands-on volunteer work. Her motto: "If it's to be, it's up to me."
Born on March 22, 1929 in Cincinnati, "Pris" grew up adjacent to her family's church, Westwood Methodist, and graduated in 1947 from Western Hills High School, where she loved singing in choir and playing field hockey. Early on she worked as a counselor at boarding camps teaching swimming and canoeing and later as Rob Paris's photography assistant posing babies.
A 1951 graduate of University of Cincinnati, she majored in Childhood Development, College of Home Economics, and enjoyed Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. But it was her popular vote election in 1949 to Band Sponsor, after which she led the 1950 Bearcats Homecoming Parade marching down Nippert Stadium's field, that ignited her red and black devotion. Following her father, who endowed the first full tuition football scholarship, awarded 1975-1985 and continued in perpetuity after his 1985 death, and who gifted the field's first astroturf, Pris devoted her next seventy years after graduation to empowering our Bearcats. An early UCATS leader enabling the 2006 building of Varsity Village, Pris and her sisters endowed the coaches suite and television studio on Richard E. Lindner Center's 7th floor, Suite 780, naming it the Stuart R. Garrison Football Suite in honor of their father. This outfitted our Cats with state of the art technology and recruiting necessities. She is honored as a Lifetime Visionary, Tower Society, by U.C. Foundation, at annual George Rieveschl Recognition Dinners. Venue Magazine honored Pris among its Class of 2014 Civic Leadership Award winners.
An avid naturalist, Pris served as Emeritus Board Member, Cincinnati Museum Center, after she volunteered at its predecessor, Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, on Gilbert Ave. for decades starting in 1950s. She worked on projects with Junior League of Cincinnati since 1956 and later remained an active member of JLC Garden Circle. Many remember fondly her festive hosting of greased pig contests (1960s-1970s) and picnics for The Ohio Society at her Arabian horse farm, Hawk Hill Farms, in Mt. Orab, Ohio. Elected Vice-President of The Cincinnati Woman's Club Executive Board and Chairman of Grounds in 1985, she personally dug most of the holes for 15,000 daffodil bulbs, while advancing to a Laureate Leader in CWC's Operating Endowment Fund. A founding member of The Women's Committee of Smale Park, honored both on its lovely low garden wall and on the carousel's acrylic patrons wall, she continued major support for Hats Off luncheons. In 2015, she sponsored a memorial bench and rebuilt engineering supports at Fox Rock Platform, Rowe Woods, Cincinnati Nature Center in Milford.
She cherished serving on the Advisory Committee of The Hillside Trust as well as working on the board of Rookwood Neighborhood Association for decades. Cincinnati Country Club just planted three Cornus Florida Cherokee Brave dogwood trees to honor her 65+ years of membership.
The annual CSO Visiting Pianist Concerts were endowed by Pris and her sisters in honor of their mother. Hymns at Hyde Park Community Methodist Church brought her joy as did choirs in Naples, FL, where this snowbird belonged to Royal Poinciana Country Club and Naples Yacht Club. Summer fun included cheering at Les Cheneaux Yacht Club sailing regattas, Cedarville, Michigan and exercising with dear friends during CCC Swimmercize. Fall dinners with Travel Club of Cincinnati and U.C.'s home football games were her favorites! Society of Mayflower Descendants, GS #80,766 & OH #3,021,
Pris was predeceased by her parents, LaVaughn & Stuart Richey Garrison, brotherin- law, Charles W. Anness, J.D., and both husbands, Oliver Pape Bardes and pediatrician, Frederick D. Haffner, M.D., whom she married in 1974. Survived by her devoted family, she leaves: sisters Martha Ellen G. Anness, Western Hills and Sarah Scholl G. Skidmore (Gerald), Naples, FL; her four children: Oliver P. Bardes, Jr., Madison, WI, Priscilla S. Bardes, Symmes Twp., Dee Ellen G. Bardes, Hyde Park, LaVaughn Cottell, Indian Hill; five grandchildren: Richey & Christian Guidi, Las Vegas, NV; Samuel Pogue Todd IV (Joanna), Houston, TX, Garrison Anderson Todd, J.D. (Holly), Anchorage, AK, Sophia V. Fujimaki; her late husband's children, Katherine A. Haffner, J.D., Newburyport, MA and Paul F. Haffner, J.D. (Karri), Mt. Adams; step-grandchildren, Augustin & Grace Haffner; and her niece & nephews.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, burial at Spring Grove Cemetery is private. Memorials to honor and celebrate her legacy are deeply appreciated, and may be sent to: The Stuart R. Garrison Memorial Endowed Athletic Scholarship Fund, University of Cincinnati Foundation, P.O. Box 19970, Cincinnati, OH 45219-097
