In Memoriam — Fall 2026
Please note: This list includes updates reported by family members, newspapers and other sources from June 1, 2026, through August 31, 2026. 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
J. Claude Williamson ’41, ’47 MS, Wayland, Massachusetts, June 19, 2026
Elsa Smith Allen ’48, ’66, ’76 MA, Alpharetta, Georgia, July 3, 2026
Marjorie Welsh Dole ’48 MS, Bar Harbor, Maine, June 8, 2026
Lisa Ebert Greenfield ’48, ’50 MA, Roslyn Heights, New York, August 1, 2026
Sally Miller Sisterhen ’48, ’49, London, Ohio, July 22, 2026
1950s
Yvonne Warren Brown ’50 MBA, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 18, 2026
Edith M. Herrel ’50, Reynoldsburg, Ohio, May 31, 2026
Emma Dixon Johanson ’50 MA, Clearwater Beach, Florida, June 1, 2026
Jocelyn Link Greive ’51, Normal, Illinois, July 15, 2026
Clyde E. McKeand ’51, ’56 DDS, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, July 10, 2026
Elizabeth Leeper Melick ’51, Gambier, Ohio, June 16, 2026
Sarah Miller Smith ’51, ’53 MEd, ’78 PhD, Columbus, Ohio, August 24, 2026
Sally Koepp Smith ’51, Fishers, Indiana, August 3, 2026
Wayne Holderness Martin ’52, ’58 PhD, Cashmere, Washington, June 23, 2026
John Thomas McFarland ’52, Reynoldsburg, Ohio, June 5, 2026
James J. Montalto ’52, Richfield, Ohio, August 11, 2026
Esther Friedland Reisman ’52, ’54 MA, Poughkeepsie, New York, June 19, 2026
Carolyn Easley Thayer ’52, The Plains, Ohio, June 19, 2026
Jerry Litwack ’53, Carmel, Indiana, July 7, 2026
Jacquelin Ann Merchant ’53, ’82 MA, Columbus, Ohio, June 7, 2026
William J. Sachs ’53, Dublin, Ohio, August 2, 2026
Marilyn R. Cohen ’54, Columbus, Ohio, June 18, 2026
Alan P. Cragg ’54 DVM, Fort Myers, Florida, August 3, 2026
James B. Findley ’54, Sylvania, Ohio, July 19, 2026
Ernest S. Melaragno ’54, ’58 MD, Columbus, Ohio, July 29, 2026
John Doyle Ong ’54, ’54 MA, ’96 DRH, Hudson, Ohio, June 4, 2026
Barbara Jarvis Payson ’54, Thetford Center, Vermont, August 17, 2026
L. Andre Swiger ’54, Blacksburg, Virginia, June 14, 2026
Barbara Sayers Ady ’55, Summit, New Jersey, June 22, 2026
James J. Houglan ’55, ’59 MD, New Philadelphia, Ohio, July 8, 2026
Anna Louie Sasaki ’55, Rochester, Michigan, July 10, 2026
Sidney Wallace Street ’55, Hacienda Heights, California, May 18, 2026
Nora E. Tattersall ’55, Fort Myers, Florida, July 18, 2026
David D. Clymer ’56, ’59 MD, Mansfield, Ohio, May 10, 2026
James Lawrence Jarvis ’56 MS, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 23, 2026
Robert William Kerpsack ’56 DVM, Youngstown, Ohio, May 15, 2026
Kenneth K. McMahon ’56 DDS, ’60 MS, Broadview Heights, Ohio, July 19, 2026
John O. Neufeld ’56 MS, Winfield, British Columbia, Canada, June 1, 2026
Neil Swissman ’56, ’60 MD, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 30, 2026
Jerome E. Brislin ’57, Syracuse, New York, July 25, 2026
Charles Robert Carroll ’57, ’58 MA, ’65 PhD, Xenia, Ohio, May 6, 2026
Bobbie Dean Davis ’57, Logan, Ohio, July 16, 2026
Roger L. Faust ’57, Rogers City, Michigan, June 2, 2026
R. William Gardner ’57, ’63 MBA, Charlotte, North Carolina, June 28, 2026
Joseph A. Mamone ’57, Cleveland, Ohio, July 13, 2026
Russell Anthony Rogers ’57 DDS, Jupiter, Florida, August 15, 2026
Thomas G. Baldacci ’58, Savannah, Georgia, June 18, 2026
Robert Lyndon Caldwell ’58 DDS, Shadyside, Ohio, August 26, 2026
Paul Edward Figgins ’58 MS, Lebanon, Ohio, June 23, 2026
L. Robert Irvin ’58, Delaware, Ohio, August 10, 2026
Marianne Alice Mathews ’58, Columbus, Ohio, July 6, 2026
Marilou H. McMillen ’58, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 28, 2026
Richard Lee Meehan ’58, ’61 DDS, ’66 MS, Rolling Hills Estates, California, July 13, 2026
Barbara Jiles Riehm ’58, Lansdale, Pennsylvania, July 11, 2026
J. Philip Robertson ’58, Dayton, Ohio, July 14, 2026
Lynn Francis Boyd ’59, ’77 PR, Huber Heights, Ohio, May 26, 2026
Robert G. Galbreath ’59, Kingwood, Texas, July 7, 2026
Carol J. Gray ’59, Dublin, Ohio, July 18, 2026
Gayle K. Mulberry ’59, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 18, 2026
Louis George Soos ’59, Washington Court House, Ohio, August 12, 2026
1960s
Ronald Frederick Bates ’60, Amanda, Ohio, July 11, 2026
Gary Bruce Brumback ’60 MA, ’63 PhD, Palm Coast, Florida, August 7, 2026
Gwen Suver Carey ’60, Muncie, Indiana, August 1, 2026
James David Lehman ’60, Columbus, Ohio, June 27, 2026
Kathryn Roche Lyons ’60, Bonita Springs, Florida, July 23, 2026
Robert E. Reber ’60, Columbus, Ohio, July 14, 2026
Thomas T. Vogel ’60 MS, ’62 PhD, Columbus, Ohio, July 4, 2026
Edwin L. Gibbon ’61, Prospect, Kentucky, June 25, 2026
James R. Helt ’61, ’72 MS, Mount Gilead, Ohio, June 15, 2026
Richard Louis Judd ’61 MA, New Britain, Connecticut, July 15, 2026
Neil Arthur Myers ’61, Mentor, Ohio, May 28, 2026
Harvey M. Piccus ’61 DDS, Tarzana, California, August 1, 2026
Raymond Arthur Schindler ’61, ’62 MS, Oxford, Ohio, June 28, 2026
Kenneth Eugene Zimmerman ’61 MA, Columbus, Ohio, June 22, 2026
Eve L. Ciner ’62 MA, Downers Grove, Illinois, June 15, 2026
William Dale Coombs ’62, Hilliard, Ohio, July 11, 2026
Richard Caleb Nairn ’62, Newark, Ohio, May 8, 2026
Martin Frederick Schwartz ’62 PhD, New York, New York, May 18, 2026
Carol A. Winans ’62, ’62, Columbus, Ohio, August 1, 2026
Nancy Messimer Woolard ’62, Newark, Ohio, June 20, 2026
Richard Howard Bohning ’63, ’66 DVM, New Rochelle, New York, July 2, 2026
David Lloyd Fisher ’63, Columbus, Ohio, June 26, 2026
John Charles Frazier ’63, Delaware, Ohio, July 19, 2026
Brian Paul Hill ’63 DDS, Charlotte, North Carolina, June 21, 2026
Kent B. Horn ’63, Fairport, New York, July 26, 2026
John Alan Morgan ’63 DDS, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 7, 2026
Ralph Edwin Oberly ’63, ’70 PhD, Chesapeake, Ohio, June 13, 2026
Bhupendra P. Parikh ’63 MS, Canton, Michigan, July 23, 2026
Susan Schowalter Ruffing ’63, Sheffield Lk, Ohio, July 8, 2026
Richard N. Wolman ’63 MA, ’66 PhD, Lake Worth, Florida, July 11, 2026
Malcolm W. Callison ’64, Marshfield, Massachusetts, June 10, 2026
Arthur J. Haft ’64, Temperance, Michigan, July 21, 2026
John Henry Hughes ’64, ’72 PhD, Columbus, Ohio, July 1, 2026
Edmund Frank Pawlowicz ’64, ’65 MS, ’69 PhD, Centennial, Colorado, August 2, 2026
Roger Matthew Singer ’64, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 29, 2026
Michael W. Bertz ’65 DDS, Denver, Colorado, May 29, 2026
Garis Fred Distelhorst ’65, Avon Lake, Ohio, July 6, 2026
Benn L. Hauman ’65, Newark, Ohio, July 10, 2026
Mary L. King ’65, Worthington, Ohio, June 24, 2026
Jerome Albert Briner ’66, Goodyear, Arizona, May 11, 2026
Karalyn Lue Heimlich ’66, ’68 MA, Austin, Texas, June 19, 2026
Lizbeth Mohler Hunter ’66, Fairfield, Connecticut, June 24, 2026
Allan Henry Markowitz ’66 MS, ’69 PhD, Pasadena, California, August 1, 2026
Franklin P. Skoch ’66, Perry, Ohio, June 19, 2026
Charles W. Smallwood ’66, Columbus, Ohio, July 13, 2026
Janet Louise Urmson ’66, Columbiana, Ohio, June 26, 2026
Richard Shoemaker Baker ’67, Port Charlotte, Florida, June 19, 2026
Mary Margaret Elsass ’67, Chillicothe, Ohio, July 7, 2026
Sara J. Landon ’67, Alexandria, Kentucky, July 21, 2026
Edward John Lewis ’67, Ocala, Florida, May 25, 2026
Daniel M. Saunders ’67 DDS, Oregon, Ohio, August 30, 2026
Donald J. Tucci ’67, Westerville, Ohio, July 13, 2026
William L. Yakely ’67 DVM, Mead, Washington, June 13, 2026
Edgar L. Erlanger ’68, ’71 MA, Columbus, Ohio, July 23, 2026
Richard David Gerson ’68 MD, Boulder, Colorado, July 5, 2026
Dennis Glenn Howman ’68, Wooster, Ohio, July 11, 2026
Carole Darlene Moyer ’68, ’75 MA, Columbus, Ohio, June 22, 2026
John Edward Schmidlapp ’68, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 31, 2026
Robert Thomas Silverberg ’68, Stow, Ohio, June 22, 2026
Willard Sidney Titus ’68, North Canton, Ohio, August 1, 2026
Eugene Zayac ’68, Middlefield, Ohio, August 29, 2026
William Michael Isaac ’69 JD, Sarasota, Florida, June 19, 2026
John Craig Montgomery ’69, Hilliard, Ohio, May 18, 2026
Myra Sue Myers ’69, Mansfield, Ohio, July 22, 2026
Robert Alan Oakley ’69 MBA, ’73 PhD, Dublin, Ohio, August 9, 2026
Constance Edith Rudd ’69 MA, Kingston, New York, July 2, 2026
W. Kent Van Tyle ’69 MS, ’72 PhD, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 28, 2026
1970s
Jerry Michael Benis ’70 DDS, South Bloomfield, Ohio, July 21, 2026
Cora Brown Miller ’70, Kissimmee, Florida, July 7, 2026
Lawrence Russell Rittgers ’70, ’77 MBA, Hilliard, Ohio, July 16, 2026
Edward Lee Wingard ’70 PhD, Xenia, Ohio, July 11, 2026
Jon Kim Burton ’71, Mansfield, Ohio, June 4, 2026
Herndon Reginald Cummings ’71, Saint Augustine, Florida, June 19, 2026
Philip Wayne Lawrence ’71, McConnelsville, Ohio, July 22, 2026
Tommy Ray McElhaney ’71 DVM, Manheim, Pennsylvania, May 31, 2026
Ray Ray Miller ’71, Columbus, Ohio, August 26, 2026
General Grant Oliver ’71, Newark, Ohio, June 6, 2026
Mark Edward Rodman ’71, Fullerton, California, August 6, 2026
Michael J. Arena ’72, Columbus, Ohio, May 18, 2026
Paula Schneider Egbert ’72, Westerville, Ohio, August 6, 2026
Rodney Allan Lewis ’72, Rio Grande, Ohio, May 19, 2026
John Tucker Magill ’72 OD, Circleville, Ohio, July 15, 2026
Ronald Clovis Mann ’72, Indianapolis, Indiana, July 18, 2026
Richard Allen Markel ’72, Elyria, Ohio, July 22, 2026
Scott Edward Swisher ’72, Columbus, Ohio, August 28, 2026
Ralph Sheldon Tyler ’72, Beachwood, Ohio, June 5, 2026
Peter Wainin Au ’73 MS, Woburn, Massachusetts, July 8, 2026
Patricia Diane Booker ’73 MA, South Prince George, Virginia, July 7, 2026
Steven C. Futrell ’73, The Villages, Florida, May 21, 2026
Gregory Paul Kracher ’73 OD, Frederick, Maryland, August 19, 2026
James Arthur Messner ’73, Delaware, Ohio, May 16, 2026
Kenneth Austin Milner ’73, Youngstown, Ohio, June 19, 2026
Michael James Angle ’74, Bellefontaine, Ohio, June 26, 2026
Connie L. Hansen ’74, Orient, Ohio, July 21, 2026
Suzanne Margaret Jacobs ’74, Grandview Heights, Ohio, June 14, 2026
Mary Kay McKenzie ’74, Newark, Ohio, August 18, 2026
Dean Robert Schell ’74, Columbus, Ohio, July 17, 2026
Douglas Paul Starr ’74, ’75 M, ’78 DR, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 18, 2026
Thomas Albert Ziska ’74, Strongsville, Ohio, July 18, 2026
Steven John Anthony ’75, Chillicothe, Ohio, June 14, 2026
George William Coffey ’75, Oldsmar, Florida, June 23, 2026
Diana Dickson Halloran ’75, Worthington, Ohio, August 15, 2026
James Eugene Harrington ’75, Lawrence, Michigan, July 10, 2026
Daniel Steven Koenig ’75, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 17, 2026
Rita Leubitz-Hypes ’75, Marion, Ohio, June 14, 2026
Sheri Lynne Powell ’75, Columbus, Ohio, August 11, 2026
Peter Alexander Saliba ’75, Marietta, Ohio, June 26, 2026
Rosalyn Zimpfer Short ’75, Columbus, Ohio, June 25, 2026
Julia Ann Sims ’75, Port Clinton, Ohio, July 18, 2026
Jay Leslie Kuck ’76, Saint Marys, Ohio, August 19, 2026
Kurt William Paulus ’76, Delaware, Ohio, June 11, 2026
Vincent J. Straughter ’76, Dublin, Ohio, July 2, 2026
Ernest Melvin Watts ’76, Baltimore, Ohio, June 22, 2026
Bruce Alan Williams ’76, Scottsdale, Arizona, August 18, 2026
John Torbert Carl ’77, ’80 MS, Raymond, Ohio, June 18, 2026
Brooks Cash Carter ’77 DVM, Dickson, Tennessee, July 1, 2026
Kenneth Wayne MacDonald ’77, Upper Sandusky, Ohio, June 26, 2026
Jeffrey Kim Martin ’77 OD, Littleton, Colorado, August 12, 2026
William Roy Staton ’77, Nashville, Tennessee, May 31, 2026
Fred Gary Ripepi ’78, Weeki Wachee, Florida, June 20, 2026
James Allen Yoakum ’78, Califon, New Jersey, June 9, 2026
June Alice Bibler ’79 MA, Columbus, Ohio, June 22, 2026
Nancy Ann Fountos ’79, Powell, Ohio, May 29, 2026
Scott Allen Gary ’79, ’87 MPA, Mount Sterling, Ohio, June 6, 2026
Kenneth Ross Johnston ’79, New Concord, Ohio, May 19, 2026
1980s
Gerald Alan Kasuga ’80, Bellefontaine, Ohio, June 25, 2026
Thomas James Lorman ’80, Centerville, Ohio, July 8, 2026
Raymond Edward Bernotas ’81 DDS, Mansfield, Ohio, June 12, 2026
Jodene Ann Caron-Buchanan ’81, Grove City, Ohio, June 26, 2026
Thomas Joseph Della Flora ’81, Lewis Center, Ohio, July 27, 2026
James Carl Noel ’81 PhD, Bend, Oregon, July 6, 2026
Jeffrey Albert Bourret ’82 MS, Ambler, Pennsylvania, July 12, 2026
Pete Anthony Male ’82, Findlay, Ohio, July 13, 2026
David Scott Knechtges ’83, ’87 MD, Loveland, Colorado, August 2, 2026
Marilyn Jean Phelps ’83, Columbus, Ohio, May 22, 2026
Patricia Meyers Zitko ’83 MS, ’92 OD, Shelby, Ohio, May 11, 2026
Barbara Hood Acker ’84 MA, Pickerington, Ohio, July 16, 2026
William Scott Keck ’84, ’91 MS, Raymond, Ohio, July 28, 2026
Joann C. Scanlon ’84, Medina, Ohio, July 22, 2026
Kelly Kathleen Strang ’84, Loveland, Ohio, June 10, 2026
Timothy Paul Sulken ’84 DDS, Fostoria, Ohio, May 25, 2026
Carmine Joseph Nardis ’85, ’89 MA, ’94 PhD, Blacklick, Ohio, July 6, 2026
Laurie Sidle ’85, Shreve, Ohio, July 2, 2026
Michael Scott Kaiser ’86, Colorado Springs, Colorado, August 1, 2026
Damon Zex ’86, ’91 MFA, Columbus, Ohio, June 21, 2026
Pamela A. Meyer ’87, Gahanna, Ohio, June 23, 2026
Matthew Gavin Norman ’87 PhD, Columbus, Ohio, July 4, 2026
Lisa Kader Reed ’87, Sugar Grove, Ohio, June 22, 2026
David Edward Kropp ’88 MArch, Powell, Ohio, July 18, 2026
Kathy Buchanan Ciminillo ’89, ’99 MA, Toledo, Ohio, June 9, 2026
1990s
John Charles Addington ’90 MA, Orient, Ohio, June 29, 2026
Debra Ann Burke ’90, Lancaster, Ohio, July 24, 2026
Jeffrey Ralph Lovett ’91, Paint Lick, Kentucky, July 15, 2026
Clinton J. Brown ’92, Franklin, Tennessee, June 9, 2026
Julie Anne Colacarro ’92, Wickliffe, Ohio, June 28, 2026
Kevin Thomas Harty ’92 MA, Worthington, Ohio, July 28, 2026
Jennifer Kashani Motlagh ’92, ’24, Dublin, Ohio, May 8, 2026
Kathy Poynter McManamon ’92, Columbus, Ohio, July 9, 2026
Jonathan M. Menuez ’92, Doylestown, Ohio, May 5, 2026
Andrew Charles Schweitzer ’92, Defiance, Ohio, June 1, 2026
Rachel G. Winder ’92, Powell, Ohio, August 10, 2026
Bret Aaron Fox ’93, Ocala, Florida, July 19, 2026
Joel G. Jose ’93 DDS, New Albany, Ohio, July 28, 2026
Craig Alan Tennenbaum ’93, ’96 MS, Columbus, Ohio, August 7, 2026
Karen Sue Chernesky ’94, ’97 M, Columbus, Ohio, June 7, 2026
Esther Marie Hampton ’94 MA, ’03 PhD, Columbus, Ohio, August 9, 2026
Heidi Jo Krieger ’95, Loveland, Ohio, August 3, 2026
Manpreet Singh Wadhwa ’95 PhD, Thousand Oaks, California, July 4, 2026
Patrick J. Clark ’96, Dublin, Ohio, July 19, 2026
Kevin Patrick Mackin ’96, Cleveland, Ohio, July 6, 2026
John Oreste Brunicardi ’97, Columbus, Ohio, August 13, 2026
James David Isett ’99 MS, York, Pennsylvania, August 1, 2026
Attila Zoltan Nagy ’99, ’03 DDS, Galena, Ohio, June 23, 2026
Angela Denise Redd ’99, Reynoldsburg, Ohio, June 26, 2026
2000s
Michael Keith Gurr ’01, Hamilton, Ohio, May 7, 2026
Kenneth Wayne Boutwell ’02, Xenia, Ohio, July 14, 2026
Karen Louise Rogers ’02, Plain City, Ohio, August 14, 2026
Shannon E. Surber ’02 MPH, Leesburg, Ohio, July 2, 2026
Jeremy Peter Kalgreen ’05, Columbus, Ohio, July 27, 2026
Danielle Marrelli Richards ’05, Pickerington, Ohio, July 9, 2026
Tessa Suzanne Gossett ’06, Pickerington, Ohio, June 7, 2026
Joshua Clinton Ingram ’06, Bexley, Ohio, July 10, 2026
Jessica E. Rudd ’06, Columbus, Ohio, July 21, 2026
Robert William Tangeman ’06, New Bremen, Ohio, June 7, 2026
Gregory Edwin Steinbaugh ’07 PhD, Plain City, Ohio, July 22, 2026
Matthew Joseph Bisaro ’09, Columbus, Ohio, June 14, 2026
George Richard Kern ’09, West Liberty, Ohio, July 3, 2026
Colin Douglas Lapasky ’09, New Albany, Ohio, May 4, 2026
Patrice Ann Palmer ’09, ’10 MSW, Canal Winchester, Ohio, May 30, 2026
Dawn Renee Rickard ’09, Van Wert, Ohio, May 16, 2026
Mercedez Michel Stinson ’09 JD, Columbus, Ohio, May 23, 2026
2010s
Jenna Stein Schellhause ’10, Loveland, Ohio, July 30, 2026
Delana E. Rivers ’12, Lexington, Ohio, May 6, 2026
Coltin Eugene Osborne ’15, Columbus, Ohio, August 4, 2026
Anthony Raymond Gillespie ’18, Granville, Ohio, June 17, 2026
2020s
Curtis Edward Grube ’21, Xenia, Ohio, July 6, 2026
Prabhat Kumar ’21, Westerville, Ohio, June 1, 2026
Zachary Miller ’21, Columbus, Ohio, August 3, 2026