Overview
- Former Hamilton County official Simon Leis, who died last month at age 92 after a battle with cancer, is being remembered with public memorial events on Friday.
- Governor Mike DeWine ordered U.S. and Ohio flags lowered at public buildings in Hamilton County and at specified state sites for the day to honor Leis.
- A roughly 11.5‑mile procession left B.J. Meyer Sons Funeral Home in Bridgetown and traced routes past places important to Leis before arriving at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Chains for visitation and a funeral mass.
- The service included family eulogies, a Mass led by Father Barry Windholtz, and post‑service military honors from Marines with a 21‑gun salute and Taps.
- Leis served more than five decades in county government—as prosecutor, common pleas judge and sheriff, winning election ten times—and the family has asked mourners to make donations to Madi's House in his memory.