Herbert Harrison

Herbert D. Harrison was a twenty-year-old member of the Cincinnati community whose life was cut short on May 26, 2007. Available public records identify Herbert by name, age, and the neighborhood he knew — Avondale — where he was associated with the Walker Apartments on Washington Avenue. Though formal tributes published by a funeral home or family obituary have not been found in the public record matching the exact date of his passing, official records confirm his identity and the date of his death.

What the public record preserves is the simple fact of a life lived in ordinary places that matter to families and neighbors: the porch, the apartment building, the streets of a neighborhood. Those small, everyday settings are where people form friendships, plan for the future, and take up the routines that make a life. Herbert was twenty — an age when many are building toward work, relationships, learning, and community ties. While specific details about his school, work, hobbies, or family have not been located in authoritative public sources, the record of his death is a reminder that behind every name in an unsolved file there was a person with a story and people who cared.

For those who knew him — family, friends, classmates, neighbors — Herbert’s memory will live in remembrances and the private moments that public records do not capture. Community efforts to remember and to seek answers for unresolved losses reflect a wish to honor such lives beyond the sparseness of official listings. If you have memories of Herbert you wish to preserve here, or information that might help provide clarity for his loved ones, please consider sharing it with local memorials or the appropriate law-enforcement tip lines.

Herbert’s life mattered. This page seeks to acknowledge him by name and date so that he is not forgotten in public records alone, but remembered as a young person from Cincinnati whose years deserved the care and recognition every life merits.