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James Edwin Reuter
1951 – 2025
James (Jim) Edwin Reuter died at
home at the age of 73 after a two-year
battle with cancer. He was a proud 1969
graduate of LaSalle High School, and
1973 graduate of Xavier University. Jim
had wanted to be a physician, but was not
admitted to medical school at the height of the baby boom. After a
short detour, during which he was certified as a physician’s assis-
tant, he attended the University of Toledo College of Law where
he earned his J.D. in 1978. It was there that he met his wife, Tobie
Braverman.
Jim began his career in Toledo, practicing primarily in insur-
ance defense at Ritter, Boesel, Robinson & Marsh. Jim and Tobie
were married on March 31, 1984, and when their first child was
on the way, they decided to return to Cincinnati, where both
had been born and raised. Jim’s father was the president of the
Mayflower Savings & Loan, and offered him the opportunity to
undertake the real estate work for the bank. Thus began Jim’s long
career as a real estate attorney. Jim also served as law director for
Colerain Township for more than 20 years.
Jim was a devout Catholic and volunteered many hours for St.
Ann Church running festival booths, serving on many commit-
tees, and as president of Parish Council. He was also involved in
community theatre. His countless volunteer hours were instru-
mental in putting together a complicated real estate acquisition
for The Drama Workshop when it purchased the old Glenmore
Bowl for its permanent home.
Those who knew Jim remember him for his unwavering and
seemingly boundless kindness and generosity. He was a gentle-
man’s gentleman. He is survived by his wife, Tobie Braveman; his
children, Miriam Reuter (Lindsay Brown), Jeffrey Reuter (Megan
Reuter) and Rachael Reuter (Casey Smith); his mother, Pauline
Reuter; his sister, Jennifer Reuter; his brother, Don Reuter; and
his grandchildren, Audrey Reuter, Emmett Smith and a grand-
daughter due in June 2026.
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Donald McGregor
Rose
1933 – 2025
Donald McGregor Rose, long-time
partner at Frost Brown Todd, died on
June 10, 2025. He was a Cincinnati native,
graduating from Walnut Hills High
School (1951) and University of Cincin-
nati (1955) before graduating from Harvard Law School (1958).
While at Harvard, he met and married Connie, and together they
lived on the Naval Base in Subic Bay in the Philippines, where
Don served as a JAG officer. Upon returning to Cincinnati, Don
joined Frost and Jacobs, predecessor to Frost Brown Todd, on July
1, 1960. His brother, Jack, was also a partner in the firm. Don was
a litigator of the old school, always a gentleman, always well-or-
ganized, painstakingly prepared, and forceful.
Joe Dehner recalls that Don had a habit of thinking first then
talking, as though he had formulated what he had to say but was
speaking in a way that meant he had listened to, and understood,
what you said. He also talked in chuckles, as though formulating
an idea or approach to an issue that was never mean-spirited or
driven by his own opinions about the topic. He seemed ever open
to different ways of looking at things. A life-long sailor in Ohio
and at his summer home in Bayville, Maine, Don sometimes
drove with his partners to Lake Erie, where he captained the boat
while his partners crewed.
Don and Connie were members of Hyde Park Community
Methodist Church, and Don was trustee of Methodist Theological
School in Ohio and served as vice-chairman of its Development
Committee. He also served on the all-important Bayville sewer
committee at his summer home in Maine.
Don and Connie moved to Maine to be near their daughter
Barbara Burgess her husband, Bill, and their five children and one
great-grandchild, and daughter Ann Weston and her husband,
Bob, and their two children. Connie survived him.
For a man who sailed the coast of Maine and backpacked in
the mountains of Kentucky, enjoyed a wonderful marriage and
raised two loving daughters, and practiced law as it should be, he
packed a lot into his 92 years.
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