1983 Harvard Graduate Found Dead in Ohio

G. Robert Strauss, Jr. '83 was found dead last Monday in his home in Cincinnati, Ohio after the former Winthrop House resident and Business Executive of The Crimson was fatally beaten in a confrontation with a burglar, Cincinnati police said.

Strauss, who was an executive with Proctor and Gamble Company in Cincinnati, apparently heard a burglar enter his apartment at 144 E. Corey St., in the Mt. Auburn suburb of the city, police said. When he woke up to confront the intruder sometime Monday morning, he was beaten to death, police said.

Members of the Cincinnati Homicide Department said that objects were missing from Strauss' apartment after the break-in. They said that they have not determined the identity of the murderer but added that an investigation is underway.

While attending Harvard, Strauss was an economics concentrator, and he graduated from the University of Virginia Business School in 1987. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald R. Strauss of Buffalo, his sister, Anne E. Strauss, and his grandmother, Mrs. Ralph E. Weber, of Palm Beach.

Funeral services for Strauss were held yesterday at 1 p.m. at the Sisterhood Chapel at Temple Beth Zion in Buffalo, New York.