In Memoriam — Fall 2025
Please note: This list includes updates reported by family members, newspapers and other sources from June 1, 2025, through Aug. 31, 2025. Each entry includes name, graduation year(s), city of residence and date of passing. An explanation of degree abbreviations can be found on this webpage.
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1940s
Ruth Goucher Shoemaker ’44, Fuquay Varina, North Carolina, June 26, 2025
Mary E. Koogler Bayman ’47, Dayton, Ohio, June 9, 2025
Shirley Schottenstein Cohen ’47, Miami, Florida, June 13, 2025
Carol Ellies Moorehead ’48, Columbus, Ohio, August 23, 2025
Donald F. Ryman ’48, Buchanan, Michigan, June 8, 2025
1950s
Myron S. Felden ’50, Youngstown, Ohio, August 29, 2025
May E. Rylander ’50, Solon, Ohio, August 11, 2025
William Neff Scarff ’50, New Carlisle, Ohio, August 6, 2025
James Robert Scott ’50, ’66 MS, Prairie Village, Kansas, July 14, 2025
Lois Ann Hungate ’51, ’58 MS, ’67 PhD, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 12, 2025
Robert H. King ’51, Canton, Ohio, July 18, 2025
Paul L. Struewing ’51, Tipp City, Ohio, July 4, 2025
David Barker Dudley ’52, Akron, Ohio, June 18, 2025
Martin S. Goldberg ’52 JD, ’52, Palm Desert, California, June 8, 2025
Dean R. Kelble ’52, Avon Lake, Ohio, June 1, 2025
Howard Marowitz ’52, Maple City, Michigan, August 11, 2025
Helen C. Swank ’53, ’66 MA, Columbus, Ohio, August 6, 2025
Kenneth Myron Clemens ’54 DDS, Lima, Ohio, June 27, 2025
Russell Hilscher Hill ’54, Columbus, Ohio, August 20, 2025
William Joseph Rutledge ’54, Louisville, Kentucky, June 10, 2025
Dorothy Seath Teater ’54 MS, Hilliard, Ohio, July 29, 2025
Jack Edward Bobst ’55, Terry, Mississippi, August 27, 2025
Mary H. Bowers ’55, Hockessin, Delaware, June 12, 2025
Peter Holmes Edwards ’55, Columbus, Ohio, August 13, 2025
Dolores Jean Spencer ’55, Columbus, Ohio, June 25, 2025
Floyd James Williams ’55, ’58 MS, ’61 PhD, Taneytown, Maryland, June 20, 2025
Elgene George Mainous ’56 DDS, Galveston, Texas, July 31, 2025
Donald L. Overmyer ’56, Concord Township, Ohio, June 4, 2025
Thomas Aloys Willke ’56 MS, ’60 PhD, Columbus, Ohio, August 21, 2025
Patricia Ryan Drumwright ’57 MS, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, June 30, 2025
Norval Dean Goss ’57 MEd, Columbus, Ohio, July 26, 2025
Sally Ann Hurt ’57, Wildwood, Florida, July 27, 2025
William A. Lestini ’57, Wheeling, West Virginia, July 17, 2025
Jean Moore May ’57, Hockessin, Delaware, July 18, 2025
Vincent James Mennetti ’57, ’74 MA, Pickerington, Ohio, June 4, 2025
Donald W. Polen ’57, High Springs, Florida, August 24, 2025
Howard J. Haddow ’58, ’61 JD, Columbus, Ohio, July 1, 2025
Robert Oscar Jepsen ’58, ’62 DVM, Canal Winchester, Ohio, June 24, 2025
Val S. Vore ’58, ’64 MA, Hilliard, Ohio, July 9, 2025
James Q. Burgess ’59, Denver, Colorado, July 19, 2025
Carole High Burkey ’59, Millersburg, Ohio, July 14, 2025
Elaine Tucker Hawley ’59, Eaton, Ohio, July 19, 2025
Paul Richard Hothem ’59, ’71 MS, Wayne, Pennsylvania, July 7, 2025
Robert L. Kasner ’59, Holmesville, Ohio, July 3, 2025
Nancy Reiner Tenenbaum ’59, Solon, Ohio, June 6, 2025
Richard Haggerty Turner ’59, ’66 MD, Dublin, Ohio, June 24, 2025
1960s
Joseph T. Calovini ’60, Westerville, Ohio, June 21, 2025
Wesley Eugene Gamble ’60, ’60 MS, Circleville, Ohio, July 18, 2025
John B. McGowan ’60, Fairport, New York, July 9, 2025
Jean Ockerman Gallaway ’61, Placida, Florida, July 17, 2025
Joanne Friend Huffman ’61, El Prado, New Mexico, August 13, 2025
Milan C. Johnson ’61, Aptos, California, August 5, 2025
Charles A. Rotolo ’61, Columbus, Ohio, July 12, 2025
Diana Heywood Talmage ’61, Ottawa Hills, Ohio, June 21, 2025
Harrison Frankland Tempest ’61 JD, White Stone, Virginia, July 21, 2025
Don C. Will ’61, Phoenix, Arizona, July 5, 2025
Charles Douglas Buford ’62 MA, Worthington, Ohio, July 1, 2025
Danny L. Canterbury ’62 DDS, Melbourne, Florida, June 12, 2025
Lawrence Eisenman ’62 DDS, Columbus, Ohio, June 7, 2025
Lester E. Webb ’63, ’66 MD, Saginaw, Michigan, July 12, 2025
Michaele Snyder Battles ’64, McLean, Virginia, July 6, 2025
Richard Carlton Brooks ’64, Dayton, Ohio, July 28, 2025
John Ivor Hollenbeck ’64, ’68 MD, Gainesville, Florida, July 7, 2025
Ralph Ray Hoover ’64, Fayetteville, New York, June 26, 2025
George F. Hubbard ’64 MA, Worthington, Ohio, August 6, 2025
Edwin Dale Kranz ’64, ’68 MA, South Charleston, Ohio, June 24, 2025
William D. Hirneise ’65, Gainesville, Texas, July 5, 2025
Russell E. La Fever ’65, Raleigh, North Carolina, July 21, 2025
Linda Yandle Larmee ’65, Saint Paris, Ohio, August 3, 2025
James E. Smiley ’65, Columbus, Ohio, August 25, 2025
William Philip White ’65, Lewis Center, Ohio, July 3, 2025
Arthur Maris Franke ’66, ’67 MS, Columbus, Ohio, June 1, 2025
Robert E. Gregg ’66, ’67 OD, Ashland, Ohio, July 30, 2025
Jason Roman Kappanadze ’66, Elmira, New York, June 14, 2025
Frank Alexander Norcross ’66, Dumfries, Virginia, July 1, 2025
Richard Stephan Stoddard ’66, Columbus, Ohio, June 10, 2025
Stephen Andrew Billy ’67 DDS, Akron, Ohio, July 3, 2025
John Edward Brady ’67, ’70 JD, Westerville, Ohio, August 9, 2025
Theodore Robert Harless ’67 DDS, ’75 MS, Hiram, Georgia, June 28, 2025
Carl Christian Jooss ’67, Utica, Ohio, June 24, 2025
Donald James Loveman ’67, ’72 MA, Babson Park, Florida, July 12, 2025
Richard Lee Muegge ’67 MA, Bloomingdale, Illinois, August 2, 2025
Dale Le Roy Baker ’68 MA, ’73 PhD, The Villages, Florida, July 17, 2025
Sandra Williams Carothers ’68, Tyler, Texas, July 20, 2025
Harold Hunter Davis ’68 JD, Findlay, Ohio, June 28, 2025
George Watt Hairston ’68 JD, Naples, Florida, July 13, 2025
Mary Datish Sankey ’68 MA, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, June 13, 2025
Laurence Gene Bowman ’69, Colorado Springs, Colorado, August 10, 2025
Robert Watson Gongaware ’69 MBA, Delaware, Ohio, June 11, 2025
Gordon Walter Halliday ’69, Uniontown, Ohio, August 14, 2025
Katie Lovett ’69, Anderson, South Carolina, June 20, 2025
Joseph Andrew Mesaros ’69, ’75 OD, ’99 MA, Adrian, Michigan, June 1, 2025
Joyce W. Walls ’69, Columbus, Ohio, July 14, 2025
1970s
Osiefield Anderson ’70 PhD, Tallahassee, Florida, August 10, 2025
Michael David Bork ’70, Huron, Ohio, June 18, 2025
Clayton Henry Coffey ’70, ’82 MS, Salesville, Ohio, June 30, 2025
John Michael Cook ’70 OD, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, June 25, 2025
Raymond Maurice Fournier ’70, ’74 DVM, Miamisburg, Ohio, July 14, 2025
Robert Edward Greenamyer ’70, North Lima, Ohio, July 21, 2025
Glenn Stuart Jacobs ’70, Englewood, New Jersey, July 4, 2025
Dana Lee McQuinn ’70 OD, Maineville, Ohio, July 15, 2025
Paul Cheng-Hsiung Chiu ’71 MA, ’78 PhD, Taipei, July 23, 2025
Richard Deatlee Colby ’71, Powell, Ohio, July 26, 2025
Richard Ellsworth Crable ’71 MA, ’73 PhD, Sacramento, California, June 19, 2025
John Myles McCarthy ’71, Reynoldsburg, Ohio, June 21, 2025
Mary Faith Tanney ’71 MA, ’72 PhD, Washington, D.C., July 16, 2025
Thomas Jay Brown ’72, ’75 JD, Columbus, Ohio, July 1, 2025
Robert Armin Buerki ’72 PhD, Springfield, Ohio, June 7, 2025
Barbara Ann Herman ’72, Columbus, Ohio, June 30, 2025
George Congdon Mayhew ’72, Lake Placid, Florida, July 26, 2025
Thomas Eugene Moyer ’72, Wauseon, Ohio, June 6, 2025
Laurie Gilbert Oser ’72, ’74 MSW, Columbus, Ohio, June 23, 2025
Daniel Erwin Rosner ’72, Beavercreek, Ohio, August 5, 2025
Sandra S. Sowash ’72, Washington Court House, Ohio, June 29, 2025
Timothy Kurt VanWey ’72, Key Biscayne, Florida, July 26, 2025
William Edwin Thompson ’73, ’78 DDS, Columbus, Ohio, August 30, 2025
David Lewis Walters ’73, Niantic, Connecticut, August 29, 2025
Cheryl Davis Ames ’74, Grove City, Ohio, July 4, 2025
James Lewis Beeson ’74 MS, Westerville, Ohio, June 3, 2025
Marian Robinson Burnside ’74 MA, Columbus, Ohio, June 9, 2025
Joseph William Deck ’74, Columbus, Ohio, August 22, 2025
Debra J. Ewart ’74, Upper Arlington, Ohio, June 2, 2025
Richard Lee Hieshetter ’74, Cedar Grove, New Jersey, August 11, 2025
Charles Lawrence Kidder ’74 DVM, Lexington, Kentucky, July 23, 2025
David Edward Texler ’74, Columbus, Ohio, July 22, 2025
Kathleen Harris Thompson ’74 MA, Columbus, Ohio, June 13, 2025
Lynne Mildred Kirby ’75, ’10 MA, Powell, Ohio, July 16, 2025
Evan Scott Sloan ’75, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, July 16, 2025
Robert Gerald Smith ’75, Huntsville, Ohio, July 16, 2025
Mary Hummer Bauer ’76 MA, Columbus, Ohio, July 9, 2025
Vickie Valentine Fantozzi ’76, Columbus, Ohio, August 2, 2025
Shawn Michael Geary ’76, Wexford, Pennsylvania, June 20, 2025
George Wayne Houk ’76, ’77 MS, Poland, Ohio, July 19, 2025
Howard Edward Lewis ’76, Galloway, Ohio, June 15, 2025
James Steven Szorady ’76, Eastlake, Ohio, July 12, 2025
Judith Lee Neidig ’77, ’92 MS, ’98 PhD, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, July 25, 2025
William C. Colley ’78, Oberlin, Ohio, June 7, 2025
James Karpac ’78, ’81 DDS, ’89 MS, ’89 MA, Columbus, Ohio, July 28, 2025
Anne Dunnam Littleton ’79, ’87 MD, Columbus, Ohio, August 27, 2025
Dale Edward Williams ’79 JD, Fairhope, Alabama, June 19, 2025
1980s
Jill Biales Buckeye ’80, Aurora, Ohio, August 1, 2025
Carla Tonne Clawson ’80, Oxford, Ohio, August 8, 2025
Daniel Lyn Dunbar ’80, Lewis Center, Ohio, June 22, 2025
Bret Lindsay McLean ’80, Melbourne, Florida, June 2, 2025
Lynn Marie Rose ’80, Lewis Center, Ohio, July 1, 2025
John Albert Nichols ’81, Lexington, Kentucky, July 17, 2025
Paul Franklin Swetnam ’81, ’09 MBA, Fuquay Varina, North Carolina, June 12, 2025
Robert Reagh Carpenter ’82, Columbus, Ohio, July 15, 2025
Patrick Joseph Dugan ’82 JD, Saint Petersburg, Florida, August 21, 2025
Jeffrey Allen Dalzell ’83, Newark, Ohio, June 19, 2025
Anthony James Koski ’83 MS, ’86 PhD, Fort Collins, Colorado, July 12, 2025
Roosevelt Theotis Parker ’83, Columbus, Ohio, July 3, 2025
Douglas Bruce Dirienzo ’84, Hendersonville, North Carolina, June 17, 2025
Laura Hall ’84, ’97 DRP, Columbus, Ohio, July 25, 2025
Lori J. Guban ’85, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 19, 2025
Steven Wylie Binns ’86 OD, Jackson, Ohio, July 6, 2025
Helen Elaine Gregory ’86 MA, Marysville, Ohio, July 8, 2025
Carma Ruth Pausch ’86, Newark, Ohio, June 20, 2025
Margaret A. Sheahan ’86, Powell, Ohio, July 1, 2025
Priscilla E. Stambolos ’86, Summerville, South Carolina, June 17, 2025
Steven Alan Noel ’87 PhD, Jamison, Pennsylvania, June 9, 2025
Terence Judson Kirby ’88, Westerville, Ohio, June 27, 2025
Rebecca Howell Artz ’89, ’90, Greensboro, North Carolina, July 14, 2025
1990s
Stephen J. Bennett ’90, Columbus, Ohio, July 16, 2025
Curtis Wm Goldstein ’90, Berlin, June 7, 2025
Melissa Suzanne Schroeder ’90, Lima, Ohio, July 5, 2025
Donald P. Woods ’90, Columbus, Ohio, August 3, 2025
Kevin Michael Warren ’94, Grove City, Ohio, July 1, 2025
Violet Gray Wetzel ’94, ’99, Mansfield, Ohio, June 26, 2025
Nicholas Lenard Dill ’95, Columbus, Ohio, July 11, 2025
Judith Ann Harley ’95, Crestline, Ohio, July 20, 2025
Todd Meade ’96, Baltimore, Ohio, July 11, 2025
David Joshua Penn ’96 JD, Dayton, Ohio, July 4, 2025
Donald Steven Stack ’96, Youngstown, Ohio, June 20, 2025
Melissa Kay Wiford ’96, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, June 2, 2025
Patricia C. Bates-Woods ’97, Pataskala, Ohio, June 14, 2025
Joseph Francis Pascale ’99, San Jose, California, June 3, 2025
2000s
Sarah Marie Twitty ’00, Columbus, Ohio, July 30, 2025
David Anthony McConoughey ’01, Westlake, Ohio, August 1, 2025
Mary Ellen Modic ’02, ’03 MEd, Spencerville, Ohio, August 13, 2025
Rebeca Patton ’04 MS, ’16 MBA, ’24 MS, Westerville, Ohio, June 30, 2025
April Jo Wolf Boblenz ’05, ’07 MEd, New Bloomington, Ohio, June 22, 2025
2010s
Destiny D. Jackson ’12, Brooklyn, New York, August 1, 2025
David Jay Ash ’14, Columbus, Ohio, June 4, 2025
Alexander Ryan Stagge ’14, Indianapolis, Indiana, July 30, 2025
Kendrick Duane Schwendeman ’17, ’17, Waterford, Ohio, June 20, 2025