Carl Lindner

Carl Lindner's life will be celebrated Friday with a parade stretching from Great American Ball Park downtown to a finale near one his favorite restaurants, Trio in Kenwood. The parade carrying Lindner's body will start at 9 a.m. and be completed about 10:30 a.m. A restored United Dairy Farmers milk truck will accompany the procession through Cincinnati. Lindner, chairman of American Financial, former principal owner of the Cincinnati Reds and Cincinnati's most successful entrepreneur, died Monday at age 92.

Lindner's funeral will be private. His family has requested memorial gifts be given to Kenwood Baptist Church, 8341 Kenwood Road, 45236. The route of the parade "encompasses many, but certainly not all, of the people, churches, homes, buidlings, organizations and programs that were close to Mr. Lindner's heart." The Lindner family has planned the parade as a public goodbye to Lindner, the former Cincinnati Reds principal owner who is the region's most successful entrepreneur. He died late Monday night at age 92.

The parade will leave Great American Ball Park, travel past the Dixie Terminal and go north on Vine Street and east on Fifth Street past Fountain Square. It will wind through downtown streets, passing the AFG-owned Cincinnatian Hotel, the Lindner-funded Otto Armleder School and then Music Hall. The West End location of the Carl Lindner YMCA is another destination, along with Christ Hospital in Mount Auburn, where Lindner died. The parade will travel past the Carl H. Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati, and later will travel up Montgomery Road in Norwood, past the site of the first Lindner Ice Cream Shop and the offices of United Dairy Farmers. It also will pass several houses in Norwood where Lindner lived as a child.

No streets will be closed.

Parade route:

Start Time: 9:00 am Friday, October 21, Great American Ball Park (2nd and Pete Rose Way)

Drop down ramp to Pete Rose Way to Broadway

Left on Broadway

9:02 am Left on 4th Street - passing Great American Tower

9:04 am Continue on 4th Street - passing the Dixie Terminal and 1 E. 4th Street

Right on Vine Street

9:06 am Right on 5th Street - passing Fountain Square

9:07am Continue on 5th Street - passing the Taft Theater

Left on Broadway

Left on 6th Street

9:10 am Continue on 6th Street - passing the Cincinnatian Hotel

Right on Elm Street

Right on 7th Street

Left on Vine Street

9:15 am Left on 9th Street - passing Otto Armleder School

9:16 am Right on Elm Street - passing Music Hall

Left on 14th Street

Left on Central Parkway

9:20 am Right on Ezzard Charles Drive - passing Cincinnati Police Memorial

Right on Linn Street

9:22 am Left into Carl H. Lindner YMCA

Left on Linn

9:24 am Right on Liberty - passing Lord's Gym

9:25 am Continue on Liberty - passing St. Francis Seraph School

Left on Sycamore Street

9:30 am Left on Auburn Avenue - thru Christ Hospital

Left on Taft / Calhoun Street

Right on Clifton Avenue

9:45 am Right on Martin Luther King Drive - looping onto campus passing UC's

Carl H. Lindner College of Business

Right on Martin Luther King Drive

9:50 am Left on Reading Road - Passing Temple Bible College

Left on Hickman

Left on Harvey

Right on Martin Luther King

9:55 am Right on Burnett Avenue - passing Shriners Hospital and Cincinnati Children's Medical Center

Turn right on Forrest Avenue

Left on Reading Road

10:02 am Turn right on Dana Avenue - passing Xavier University

10:08 am Turn left on Montgomery Road - passing 1st Lindner Ice Cream Shop, UDF Main office

10:10 am Left on Hopkins - passing Carl and Edyth Lindner Children's Learning Center

Right on Allison

Right on Wanda

10:13 am Left on Montgomery Road - passing Norwood Administrative Buildings

and 10:20am Olivet Baptist Church

Left on Plainfield Road

10:21 am Right on South Avenue - passing 1st house growing up

10:21 am Right on Silverton Avenue - passing 2nd house growing up

10:24 am Left on Montgomery Road - passing Old Kenwood Mall

10:27 am Left on Kenwood Road - passing Trio Restaurant

10:30 Parade Concludes