Robert F. Lucero

LUCERO, Robert F.OFM. For more than 40 years the two great loves of Br. Robert Lucero's life were ministry and music. Br. Bob, a Franciscan Friar of St. John the Baptist Province in Cincinnati, died Dec. 20 at the age of 64. A native of Santa Fe, N.M., he professed solemn vows as a Friar in 1973 and spent 39 years as an assistant editor and production manager at St. Anthony Messenger Press (now Franciscan Media) in Over-the-Rhine. A 43-year veteran of Cincinnati's May Festival Chorus, he was one of its longest-serving and most devoted members. Br. Bob was preceded in death by his parents, Eloy and Louise (Griego) Lucero, and his sister, Mary Louise Rivera, and is survived by four brothers: Eloy (Martha Jean); Henry (Theresa); and Ralph, all of Santa Fe, N.M.; and Eugene, of Albuquerque, N.M. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 31, at St. Clement Church in St. Bernard, Ohio. Friars, friends and family will gather in remembrance at the church at 9:30 a.m., preceding the funeral. Interment will follow at St. Mary Cemetery in St. Bernard.