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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.

Email bioupdate@osu.edu to tell the alumni association about the death of an Ohio State alum.

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