Alice Hochhausler

Alice Hochhausler lived in Cincinnati and raised a large family; public accounts identify her as a mother of nine and the wife of a surgeon who worked at Good Samaritan Hospital. She lived at 3480 Cornell Place in the Clifton area of Cincinnati, a home that figures in contemporary reports about her life. Contemporary news coverage and later historical summaries record that Alice was about fifty years old when she died in October 1966.

Though surviving public records and news stories emphasize the shock her death caused in the community at the time, the basic facts that can be respectfully verified show a woman whose central role was family. Being a parent to nine children would have shaped the daily rhythms of her life — managing a household, caring for children across different ages, and participating in neighborhood and school life. Her husband’s medical work at Good Samaritan Hospital places the family in the circle of Cincinnati’s medical and civic life in the 1960s.

Public memory of Alice is often tied to the wider string of killings in Cincinnati in 1965–66; however, for a memorial it is important to focus on the person she was. Records and reputable historical reporting confirm her name, residence, age at death, and that her loss was felt across the community. Much of the public documentation concentrates on the event of her death and the police investigation that followed; those reports leave limited personal detail about Alice’s daily interests, friendships, or other private qualities in the public record.

Wherever family and friends remember her today, they remember a mother whose life centered on family and home. This brief remembrance honors Alice Hochhausler as a real person whose life mattered to many, and it acknowledges the limits of the historical record while preserving dignity: she was more than the headlines — she was a mother and a member of her Cincinnati neighborhood whose absence left a lasting mark on those who knew her.