Alix Amador French, age 85, of Dayton, died peacefully in her Kettering home on September 20.  Alix Amador was born in New York City to Rosalind H. and Raoul A. Amador. She was a granddaughter of Dr. Raoul Arturo Amador, former Minister of Panama to France and England and former president of the League of Nations Council, and a great-granddaughter of Dr. Manuel Amador, first President of the Republic of Panama. She attended Cooper Union School of Art in New York City in her late teens. In 1939 she married Nathaniel Rockwood French. They moved in 1946 to Dayton where she grew to be an accomplished and well-recognized artist, active at the Dayton Art Institute, the Solway Gallery in Cincinnati represented her work. Her drawings, paintings and constructions are held in numerous business and private collections. She was one of the “3 Ohio Artists” show at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati in 1971. A representative selection of her work hung at he Achetype Gallery in the Firefly Building in Dayton in 2004. Alix and Nathaniel built on Runnymede Rd. in Oakwood and a singular contemporary home, designed in intense collaboration with their dear friend David Niland, ACSA Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Cincinnati. The house was widely published, first in the Cincinnati Enquirer Magazine in May 1971, House Beautiful in August of 1974, the House Beautiful Building Manuel, Global Architecture Houses, 1983 and local publications. Their home was a unique marriage of modern art and architecture, of home and working studio, each mutually enhancing the other. In their many years living there, they welcomed over 2000 students, as well as more than a few skeptics. Alix French was prede
ceased in 1994 by her husband, a nationally prominent patent attorney, and her sisters, Suzanne A. Stephenson of Oakwood and Jane A. Bullock of Connecticut. She is survived by five children, Sharon Amador French Robohm of Bath, Maine; Philip M. French of Stamford, CT; Andrew H. French of Red Bank, NJ; Amy Robohm of Bronxville, NY; Henry Ledoux French of New York, NY; and Tessa Amador French of Red Bank, NJ; four great grandchildren, Emma and Oliver Watkins, Jackson Mitchell-Robohm, and Gus Robohm Kauffman; and survived in Oakwood by her steadfast brother-in-law, Hugh M. Stephenson. There will be a memorial service to celebrate her life and work on Sunday, October 8, at 2 pm at the Dayton Visual Art Center, 118 North Jefferson St., Dayton, 45402. If you plan to attend, and have internet access, please let the family know to expect you by e-mailing mailto:Alix_French-@yahoo.com

Andrew Frederick Tinley, age 46, died at his residence on September 18, 2006. He was born in Dayton, OH on August 17, 1960. He graduated from Oakwood High School in 1978 and served eight years in the U. S. Navy. He is preceded in death by his father, Lawrence E. Tinley.  He is survived by his mother    and stepfather, Charles and Shirley Chase of Oakwood; sister Kim Tinley of Union City, OH; sister Ann Syllaba and her children Grant and Holly of Oakwood; and stepmother Donna Tinley of Beavercreek. Graveside services will be held Friday, October 6, 2006 at 2: 30 PM at Miami-Corwin Cemetery in Waynesville, OH.