In Memoriam - Fall 2023
Please note: This list includes updates reported by family members, newspapers and other sources from May 1, 2023, through July 31, 2023. Each entry includes name, graduation year(s), city of residence and date of passing.
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1930s
Dick L. Schumacher ’38, Horseshoe Bay, Texas, July 25, 2023
1940s
Robert H. Sauer ’43, Warren, Ohio, May 24, 2023
Marjorie McNab Kreilick ’46, ’47 MA, Madison, Wisconsin, July 5, 2023
Sue Askin Siegler ’46, Cleveland, Ohio, July 27, 2023
Betty J. Nichol ’48, Columbus, Ohio, May 2, 2023
Mary Isenman Torgler ’48, Virginia Beach, Virginia, May 19, 2023
Dorothy A. Kreinbihl ’49, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 3, 2023
Richard Roscoe Thompson ’49, Kerrville, Texas, July 5, 2023
1950s
Robert H. Brebberman ’50, Toledo, Ohio, May 14, 2023
Elizabeth Dunham Itts ’50, Canfield, Ohio, June 18, 2023
Bess Ring Koval ’50, La Salle, Illinois, May 25, 2023
Roberta Nevis Robinson ’50, Palm Beach, Florida, June 23, 2023
James O. Simmons ’50, Sugar Land, Texas, May 21, 2023
Edward Lee Bowlus ’51, ’53 DVM, Mount Vernon, Ohio, July 11, 2023
Charles Leslie Dornbusch ’51, Oxford, Michigan, July 6, 2023
Donald G. Hodge ’51, Knoxville, Tennessee, June 5, 2023
Robert Allen Hodson ’51, Washington Court House, Ohio, July 29, 2023
Harold E. McDaniel ’51, ’58 DDS, Reisterstown, Maryland, May 8, 2023
Harry T. McKnight ’51, Columbus, Ohio, June 11, 2023
Doris Mae Bergen ’53, Oxford, Ohio, July 5, 2023
Roger Lee Briggs ’53, ’53 MS, Midland, Michigan, May 26, 2023
Thomas E. Jenks ’53 JD, Miamisburg, Ohio, June 28, 2023
William K. Judy ’53, Columbus, Ohio, June 19, 2023
John Clinton Keggan ’53, Marion, Ohio, June 21, 2023
Rollo M. Marchant ’53 JD, Washington Court House, Ohio, May 28, 2023
Jean Rasor Langhout ’54, ’54, Beavercreek, Ohio, May 14, 2023
Alice J. Lenker ’54, Bettendorf, Iowa, June 29, 2023
Grace Friedrich Ogden ’54 MS, Federal Way, Washington, May 10, 2023
George Russell Huston ’55, Flagler Beach, Florida, May 29, 2023
Irwin Pass ’55, Columbus, Ohio, May 16, 2023
Richard Newton Payne ’55 MS, ’67 PhD, Stillwater, Oklahoma, May 12, 2023
Harold Thomas Allyn ’56, Ironton, Ohio, June 26, 2023
Barbara Beekley Bachman ’56, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 21, 2023
John Wells Cammarn ’56, ’56 MS, Harpswell, Maine, July 17, 2023
Wilma Kuehn Dickey ’56, Slidell, Louisiana, May 14, 2023
Lou Ann Putnam Harrold ’56, Evergreen, Colorado, June 12, 2023
Emily McCullough Rickman ’56, Elk Grove, California, July 21, 2023
Theodore Paul Swingle ’56, ’60 MS, ’69, Cocoa Beach, Florida, June 24, 2023
Alan L. Edmonson ’57, ’61 MD, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 5, 2023
Ray J. Groves ’57, Denver, Colorado, May 3, 2023
Alice G. Napier ’57, Corpus Christi, Texas, July 23, 2023
Margaret E. Rudy ’57, Westerville, Ohio, June 30, 2023
Eleanor Rose Bauer ’58 MS, ’70 PhD, Brecksville, Ohio, July 9, 2023
Phillip Howard Gifford ’58 MS, ’58, ’61 PhD, Grand Junction, Colorado, June 15, 2023
David Emerson Mizer ’58, Cadiz, Ohio, July 30, 2023
Hugh Philip Barber ’59, Springfield, Ohio, July 28, 2023
Stanton C. Gilliland ’59, Columbus, Ohio, June 26, 2023
Charles B. Hardin ’59 DVM, Kingston, Ohio, June 23, 2023
Rollin E. Hook ’59 MS, ’66 PhD, Cornville, Arizona, June 3, 2023
Douglas Edgar Hunt ’59, Charleston, West Virginia, July 3, 2023
Gavin Roy Larrimer ’59, ’61 JD, Columbus, Ohio, May 1, 2023
George H. Manaker ’59 MS, Malvern, Pennsylvania, June 27, 2023
Judith Louise O’Hara ’59, Charleston, South Carolina, May 28, 2023
James Ernest Omweg ’59, ’63 MA, Gloucester, Virginia, July 24, 2023
Harold Lloyd Ray ’59 PhD, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 26, 2023
Nancy Burns Ritz ’59, The Villages, Florida, July 20, 2023
Lawrence Bruce Shaffer ’59, Lebanon, Indiana, July 1, 2023
Donald Harris Sharp ’59, Centennial, Colorado, June 6, 2023
1960s
Frederick Dean Bright ’60, Fremont, Indiana, July 14, 2023
Judith Evans Daum ’60, Marion, Ohio, June 10, 2023
Donald Emerson Fender ’60, ’63 MBA, Hillsboro, Ohio, July 4, 2023
Gwendolyn L. Lemmon ’60, Bluffton, Ohio, May 30, 2023
James Russell Loukx ’60, Accomac, Virginia, July 25, 2023
Preston V. McMurry ’60, Phoenix, Arizona, May 31, 2023
James R. Pappas ’60, Saint Augustine, Florida, June 9, 2023
Elizabeth Ford Pitorak ’60, Chardon, Ohio, May 7, 2023
Bruce Roser ’60, Saint Marys, Ohio, May 3, 2023
Gary A. Stefan ’60, Tucson, Arizona, July 25, 2023
John C. Stoner ’60 DVM, Rock Hill, South Carolina, May 27, 2023
Daniel A. Textoris ’60 MS, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, July 25, 2023
Franz Ryan Epting ’61 MA, ’67 PhD, Gainesville, Florida, June 19, 2023
Nancy S. Hamilton ’61, Columbus, Ohio, June 21, 2023
Georg Stephan Jaschek ’61, Eugene, Oregon, May 19, 2023
John A. Kanoski ’61, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 4, 2023
Virginia A. Titonis ’61, Bellaire, Ohio, July 19, 2023
Garry L. Wharton ’61 JD, Sarasota, Florida, May 11, 2023
Lanny Eugene Beekman ’62 DDS, Lawrenceville, Georgia, May 21, 2023
Hazel Kennedy Bergamo ’62, Columbus, Ohio, June 5, 2023
Irving N. Blickstein ’62, Columbia, Maryland, May 9, 2023
David O. Brechbill ’62, Newark, Ohio, June 28, 2023
John Edward Bryner ’62, Hilliard, Ohio, June 13, 2023
John Joseph Germaine ’62, Dublin, Ohio, May 4, 2023
Marilyn A. Roesti ’62, Ottawa Hills, Ohio, July 25, 2023
Daniel T. Spitler ’62, Bowling Green, Ohio, June 11, 2023
Rodney R. Blake ’63, Crystal River, Florida, June 23, 2023
Robert Edward Fultz ’63, Naples, Florida, May 4, 2023
Lyn M. Geiser ’63, Worthington, Ohio, June 9, 2023
Herbert Schenk ’63 MA, Travelers Rest, South Carolina, May 5, 2023
Robert A. Searles ’63, Westerville, Ohio, June 11, 2023
Albert C. Braden ’64 MA, Sacramento, California, June 4, 2023
Matthew A. Haban ’64, Lancaster, Ohio, July 27, 2023
Arden Luther Hothem ’64, ’68 MD, Gainesville, Georgia, June 7, 2023
Linda J. Jordan ’64, Staunton, Illinois, July 3, 2023
Charles E. Korb ’64, Dayton, Ohio, May 21, 2023
James Ronald Morrow ’64, Reynoldsburg, Ohio, June 8, 2023
Roland James Robbins ’64, Dublin, Ohio, July 23, 2023
John A. Spoff ’64, Columbus, Ohio, May 11, 2023
Robert Eugene Wood ’64 DDS, Columbus, Ohio, June 18, 2023
Rodney Howard Detty ’65, Marshall, Michigan, July 8, 2023
Patrick Corcoran Ebert ’65 DDS, San Marcos, California, June 28, 2023
Don D. Farst ’65 DVM, Medina, Texas, July 25, 2023
Lynn Hunsinger Kisker ’65, Beckley, West Virginia, May 27, 2023
John Edward Nahan ’66, ’69 MA, Reston, Virginia, July 5, 2023
Edward J. Quickert ’66, Columbus, Ohio, June 12, 2023
David Kirby Smucker ’66, Columbus, Ohio, June 23, 2023
Sandra J. Gaines ’67, Dayton, Ohio, May 27, 2023
Lee Alan Hosler ’67, Traverse City, Michigan, May 10, 2023
Douglas Alan Smith ’67, Bonita Springs, Florida, July 24, 2023
Denis Jordan Winder ’67 MD, Durango, Colorado, May 13, 2023
Dennis J. Berryman ’68, Grover Hill, Ohio, July 23, 2023
Clark William Distelhorst ’68, ’71 MD, Shaker Heights, Ohio, July 3, 2023
William Earl Hammer ’68 MS, Dayton, Ohio, June 20, 2023
Ernest Charles Smith ’68, ’72 MS, Wooster, Ohio, May 31, 2023
L. Joe Starcher ’68 DVM, Poca, West Virginia, June 15, 2023
Susan Ethel Au Arnold ’69, Columbus, Ohio, July 24, 2023
Glen Edward Bernhardt ’69, Norwalk, Ohio, July 25, 2023
Coralie Liggett Caron ’69, ’69, Columbus, Ohio, June 10, 2023
Constance Cheney Charnas ’69, Columbus, Ohio, May 29, 2023
David Alan Dachner ’69, ’72 JD, Bexley, Ohio, June 1, 2023
Timothy Omer Downing ’69, Grove City, Ohio, May 2, 2023
Kenneth Frank Holec ’69 DVM, Mount Dora, Florida, July 13, 2023
William Allen Mayor ’69, Lafayette, Indiana, July 1, 2023
Lilah Miles Mott ’69, Loudonville, Ohio, July 5, 2023
Richard Halford Pritchard ’69 MS, ’74 PhD, Worthington, Ohio, May 23, 2023
1970s
Don Patrick Bowermaster ’70 DDS, Granville, Ohio, July 16, 2023
Kathy Bahorek De Ring ’70, Columbus, Ohio, May 22, 2023
Daniel A. Keller ’70, Ada, Ohio, June 2, 2023
Lamar La Fayette Kerr ’70 MS, Dayton, Ohio, May 1, 2023
Lawrence Eugene Valentine ’70, ’70 MS, New Philadelphia, Ohio, June 5, 2023
Kyral Francis Wylie ’70 PhD, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 26, 2023
David Christian Allen ’71, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, July 21, 2023
Alan Darrell Klonowski ’71, Independence, Ohio, May 29, 2023
Rita T. Long ’71, ’72 MA, Chillicothe, Ohio, May 14, 2023
Inese Alice Neiders ’71, ’74 MS, ’85 PhD, Columbus, Ohio, June 12, 2023
Dean Alan Pokrandt ’71, Sneads Ferry, North Carolina, May 4, 2023
Richard L. Robinson ’71 MA, Columbus, Ohio, June 27, 2023
Tai Chung Wong ’71 MS, Columbus, Ohio, June 27, 2023
Gilbert Wilson Atnip ’72 MA, ’75 PhD, Henryville, Indiana, June 6, 2023
Marcelyn Stobbs Brainerd ’72, Chattanooga, Tennessee, June 10, 2023
William Michael Egbert ’72, Westerville, Ohio, June 18, 2023
Paul Andrew Folfas ’72 JD, Dayton, Ohio, July 23, 2023
Edward Joseph Harris ’72, Columbus, Ohio, July 21, 2023
James Michael Highsmith ’72 JD, Fresno, California, May 29, 2023
Paul Eugene Peck ’72, Columbus, Ohio, May 8, 2023
Glen David Smucker ’72, Orrville, Ohio, May 1, 2023
Miriam Kuhn Blalock ’73, Maple Grove, Minnesota, July 23, 2023
Larry Francis Caldwell ’73, Lewis Center, Ohio, May 13, 2023
Ann Campbell Peterhof ’73, Sinzing, Germany, July 1, 2023
Mary Harvey Glendenning ’73 MA, Lima, Ohio, May 28, 2023
Paul Robert Kleifgen ’73, Irving, Texas, July 17, 2023
Dennis Herman Leebow ’73, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, July 12, 2023
Joseph Wrink Orem ’73, Nolensville, Tennessee, July 22, 2023
Sandra W. Harbrecht Ratchford ’74 MA, ’82 MBA, Columbus, Ohio, June 18, 2023
Linwood Mansfield Harton ’74 MA, Durham, North Carolina, May 21, 2023
Robert James Kehoe ’74, ’76 PR, ’79 MBA, Columbus, Ohio, July 19, 2023
Ervel Gene Ratcliffe ’74, Columbus, Ohio, July 21, 2023
Carolyn Clifford Ross ’74 PhD, Broomfield, Colorado, May 2, 2023
Michael Ray Terry ’74, Marion, Ohio, July 29, 2023
Theodore Lawrence Willke ’74 PhD, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, June 17, 2023
David Albert Blauser ’75, Crooksville, Ohio, June 25, 2023
James Douglas Boyd ’75, Westerville, Ohio, May 2, 2023
Paul Stephan Derocher ’75, Raynham, Massachusetts, July 3, 2023
Allen Eugene Jackson ’75, Pickerington, Ohio, July 4, 2023
Gary Lynn Lewis ’75, Broomfield, Colorado, June 14, 2023
Kittye Yoakam Lewis ’75, Tipp City, Ohio, May 26, 2023
Robert Allen Young ’75 MS, ’78 MD, Saint Louis, Missouri, July 29, 2023
Richard Jay Blum ’76, Dayton, Ohio, July 5, 2023
Robert Edward Fletcher ’76 JD, Columbus, Ohio, June 19, 2023
Anne Marie Frayne ’76, ’79 JD, Dayton, Ohio, July 8, 2023
Barbara Jean Rich ’76 MA, Columbus, Ohio, July 12, 2023
Louis Lane Staffilino ’76 MA, Grove City, Ohio, June 19, 2023
John Alvin Dickey ’77, Rockford, Illinois, May 2, 2023
Mark Steven Ervin ’77, Centerburg, Ohio, May 10, 2023
Thomas Harold Mick ’77, Diamond, Ohio, June 26, 2023
Ginny Reed Thompson ’77, Botkins, Ohio, May 26, 2023
Roger Jeffery Vowell ’77, Dublin, Ohio, June 18, 2023
Charles Steven Cooper ’78, Mechanicsburg, Ohio, May 25, 2023
R. Michael Netz ’78, Elmore, Ohio, May 23, 2023
Robert E. Ward ’78, Troutman, North Carolina, May 16, 2023
Thomas Sidney Sloane ’79 PhD, Morgantown, West Virginia, June 14, 2023
1980s
W. Charlene Arthur ’80 MA, Mansfield, Ohio, May 4, 2023
Michael R. Dick ’80 MS, ’89 MD, Powell, Ohio, May 3, 2023
Michael Curtis Gilliland ’80, Lago Vista, Texas, May 1, 2023
Joy L. Laughlin ’80, Chillicothe, Ohio, June 15, 2023
Laura Sue Williams ’80 MS, Winchester, Virginia, July 30, 2023
Joseph Robert Armeni ’81, Columbus, Ohio, May 13, 2023
Donald Lewis Fisher ’81, Powell, Ohio, May 10, 2023
Rebecca Lynn Schlaegel ’81, ’85 MA, Franklin, West Virginia, July 4, 2023
Isabelle Cecilia Dawson ’82, Columbus, Ohio, July 17, 2023
Edith Nemeth Hartmus ’82, ’84 MPH, Columbus, Ohio, July 14, 2023
Barbara I. Kiefer ’82 PhD, Columbus, Ohio, May 27, 2023
Susan Ellen Ogle ’82, Columbus, Ohio, May 4, 2023
Cheri Lynn O’Mathuna ’82, Columbus, Ohio, July 2, 2023
Karen L. Eisenbach ’83, Norwalk, Connecticut, May 30, 2023
Daniel Martin Lincoln ’83, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 8, 2023
Bruce Allen Fox ’84, Miamisburg, Ohio, July 19, 2023
Sivasankaran Srikanth ’84 MS, Charlottesville, Virginia, July 22, 2023
Matthew Nolan Sterrett ’84, Heyworth, Illinois, June 20, 2023
Daryl Mark Stewart ’84 DDS, Granville, Ohio, May 23, 2023
Jeffrey Cameron Ehlers ’85, Delaware, Ohio, May 15, 2023
Michael Derwin Fetters ’85, ’89 MD, Columbus, Ohio, July 16, 2023
Virginia Joan Gillett ’85 MS, Modesto, California, June 1, 2023
Elaine F. Harffman ’85 MSW, Mason, Ohio, July 7, 2023
Carol Lee Clinton ’86, ’90 MD, Dublin, Ohio, June 24, 2023
Donald Charles Vonins ’86, Ashville, Ohio, May 1, 2023
Sue Wyskiver Yount ’86 JD, Logan, Ohio, June 10, 2023
Jeffrey Paul Andrews ’87 MSW, Xenia, Ohio, May 29, 2023
Warren Lamar Beard ’88 MS, Olsburg, Kansas, July 24, 2023
Narongsak Osottanakorn ’88 MS, Washington, D.C., June 21, 2023
Jessie Lynn Born ’89, Amherst, Ohio, June 28, 2023
Paul E. Brown ’89, Urbana, Ohio, June 19, 2023
1990s
Kathleen Tarbay Branson ’90 MSW, Grove City, Ohio, July 10, 2023
Michael Elliott Zweig ’90, Cleveland, Ohio, May 1, 2023
Shari A. Austin ’91, Stow, Ohio, June 20, 2023
Allan E. Baker ’91, Saint Augustine, Florida, May 23, 2023
Terrence Eugene Marsh ’91, Columbus, Ohio, June 24, 2023
Michael Leander Reid ’91, Chicago, Illinois, June 11, 2023
Rosemary Lynn Steinbauer ’92, Columbus, Ohio, May 28, 2023
Ann Toth Baldwin ’93, Columbus, Ohio, July 18, 2023
William Ayers Lord ’93 DDS, ’93, Springfield, Ohio, July 3, 2023
Jennifer Lyn Carr ’94, Dublin, Ohio, June 8, 2023
Paul James Dessoir ’94, Defiance, Ohio, June 7, 2023
Katherine Anne Fanning ’94, Columbus, Ohio, June 8, 2023
Anthony Terrell Greene ’94, Columbus, Ohio, July 10, 2023
Roger William Howdyshell ’94, Hilliard, Ohio, June 10, 2023
Florence Esther Valli ’94, Columbus, Ohio, June 15, 2023
Thea Belinda Milder ’95 ME, Downers Grove, Illinois, May 15, 2023
Pamela Ann Paliga ’95, Powell, Ohio, June 13, 2023
Christopher Corey Ward ’95, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 23, 2023
Tammy Marie Stewart ’96 JD, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 24, 2023
Jennifer Dutey Readler ’97 JD, Dublin, Ohio, July 22, 2023
Alexis Elizabeth Payne ’99 JD, Columbus, Ohio, July 20, 2023
2000s
Frank Nicholas Fagnano ’01, Youngstown, Ohio, June 24, 2023
Shu-Huei Wang ’03 PhD, Columbus, Ohio, June 28, 2023
Kyle Matthew Brown ’04, Canfield, Ohio, June 10, 2023
Kevin Joseph McAllister ’04 JD, Wooster, Ohio, May 4, 2023
Charles Thomas Tucker ’04, South Bend, Indiana, May 4, 2023
Paul James Logue ’08 MCRP, Athens, Ohio, July 5, 2023
2010s
Nathan John Harmony ’13, Plain City, Ohio, July 14, 2023
Grace Catherine Pophal ’19, Westlake, Ohio, July 7, 2023
2020s
Amina Theresa Alhaj-Omar ’21, Columbus, Ohio, July 12, 2023
Jasmine Brianna Reed ’22, ’23 MA, Columbus, Ohio, May 22, 2023