In Memoriam - Spring 2023
Please note: This list includes updates reported by family members, newspapers and other sources from Nov. 1, 2022, through Jan. 31, 2023. Each entry includes name, graduation year(s), city of residence and date of passing.
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1940s
Betty McCann Binder ’43, ’47 MA, Columbus, Ohio, December 30, 2022
George C. Kent ’43, Lake Oswego, Oregon, December 19, 2022
Marian M. Derfer ’46, Jacksonville, Florida, November 9, 2022
Richard E. Claes ’47, Akron, Ohio, December 8, 2022
Dorothy Mount Horn ’47, Columbus, Ohio, January 25, 2023
Margaret Clapper Baker ’49, Dayton, Ohio, November 27, 2022
Jo Anne Barnes ’49, Akron, Ohio, November 27, 2022
1950s
Donald A. Sullivan ’50, Hamilton, Ohio, January 6, 2023
Nancy Louise Dougherty ’51, Dayton, Ohio, December 6, 2022
Sander J. Goldman ’51, North Miami Beach, Florida, November 20, 2022
Emanuel G. Mehallis ’51, Saint Clairsville, Ohio, January 6, 2023
Carolyn Piercy Mobley ’51, Prattville, Alabama, November 8, 2022
George Carr Williams ’51 MS, ’51, Tampa, Florida, January 30, 2023
Fred Fisher ’52, Columbus, Ohio, January 14, 2023
Richard A. Hayden ’52, ’56 PhD, West Lafayette, Indiana, December 29, 2022
Dona L. McConnell ’52, Greenville, South Carolina, November 15, 2022
Robert L. Wessman ’52, Holland, Michigan, January 2, 2023
Patricia Mortley Bichsel ’53, ’53, New Philadelphia, Ohio, December 9, 2022
William Harold Casto ’53, Xenia, Ohio, November 23, 2022
Lowell Bennett Garverick ’53, ’59 JD, Powell, Ohio, November 11, 2022
William Gordon ’54 DDS, Warren, Ohio, December 13, 2022
Forrest Z. Miles ’54, Melbourne, Florida, January 10, 2023
Ellen Greenzalis Skelley ’54, New Albany, Ohio, December 6, 2022
Louis W. Chosy ’55, ’59 MD, Madison, Wisconsin, January 15, 2023
Donald Louis Glaser ’55, Fort Myers, Florida, January 24, 2023
Ronald Alfred Mezger ’55 MD, Columbus, Ohio, December 30, 2022
John Louis Eberts ’56, Gahanna, Ohio, December 31, 2022
Douglas D. MacIntyre ’56, Girard, Ohio, November 7, 2022
John Reed Wish ’56, ’62 MBA, Portland, Oregon, December 2, 2022
Roger Allen Yeary ’56 DVM, Jackson, Mississippi, December 1, 2022
Robert Gustav Bostrom ’57 MS, ’57, Shawnee, Kansas, December 7, 2022
Dona Schaffner Roberts ’57, Port Sanilac, Michigan, December 30, 2022
Robert E. Roberts ’57, Cambridge, Ohio, January 15, 2023
A. Joel Arnold ’58, Highland Heights, Ohio, November 22, 2022
James R. Droese ’58 DVM, Pierpont, Ohio, January 18, 2023
Sander A. Flaum ’58, New York, New York, December 11, 2022
Jan Duane Huber ’58 DVM, Sun City West, Arizona, December 5, 2022
Robert D. Orphey ’58, La Jolla, California, November 29, 2022
Keith Davis ’59, Massillon, Ohio, November 16, 2022
James W. Lacksonen ’59, ’59 MS, ’64 PhD, Columbus, Ohio, November 18, 2022
Harold C. Miles ’59 MA, University Heights, Ohio, November 20, 2022
Elsie Lee Williams-Wilson ’59 MS, Columbus, Ohio, November 22, 2022
1960s
Laurence Ramsey ’60, Brookville, Ohio, November 13, 2022
John Walter Squire ’60, Sylvania, Ohio, December 30, 2022
Garrett Seymour Dill ’61 DVM, Columbus, Ohio, November 15, 2022
Jill A. Dixon ’61, ’88 MS, Galion, Ohio, December 21, 2022
Theodore Ma Hayes ’61 DVM, Angola, Indiana, November 7, 2022
Dennis A. Nabors ’61 DDS, Cincinnati, Ohio, December 22, 2022
John Henry Bucher ’62 MS, ’64 PhD, Carlsbad, California, January 2, 2023
Robert Wayne Core ’62, Spencerville, Ohio, January 12, 2023
Joseph K. Harrison ’62, Boynton Beach, Florida, January 27, 2023
Albert Oscar Humbertson ’62 PhD, Staunton, Virginia, November 1, 2022
Jim A. McLaughlin ’62, ’65 JD, Morgantown, West Virginia, January 27, 2023
Frances S. Starinchak ’62, Granville, Ohio, December 24, 2022
Amar Nath Bhattacharya ’63 MS, ’67 PhD, Loveland, Ohio, January 25, 2023
Richard R. Manahan ’63 MS, Merritt Is, Florida, January 6, 2023
John Franklin Morris ’63, Washington Court House, Ohio, December 22, 2022
Robert Richard Smith ’63, ’68 DDS, Put-in-Bay, Ohio, January 10, 2023
John B. Strong ’63 DDS, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 4, 2022
William Franklin Toothman ’63, Newark, Ohio, December 31, 2022
Kenneth L. Underwood ’63, ’64 MBA, Columbus, Ohio, November 6, 2022
John T. Danylyk ’64, Wilmington, North Carolina, November 1, 2022
James Elmo Fox ’64, Saint Simons Island, Georgia, January 28, 2023
Robert Edmund Jones ’64, Brighton, Michigan, November 4, 2022
Fen Rhodes ’64 PhD, Long Beach, California, November 26, 2022
Robert George Sponable ’64, Williamson, New York, November 30, 2022
Peter John Utrata ’64, ’68 MD, Dublin, Ohio, January 17, 2023
Cletus Norman Welch ’64 MS, ’66 PhD, Massillon, Ohio, November 24, 2022
Eugene Neil Elleman ’65, Fairfield Township, Ohio, January 24, 2023
Richard H. Horsfall ’65 MBA, Simpsonville, South Carolina, December 12, 2022
Joan Hartsel Shkolnik ’65, Columbus, Ohio, June 8, 2021
S. S. Dhillon ’66 PhD, Broadview Heights, Ohio, December 2, 2022
Theodore Jesse Leczo ’66, Wexford, Pennsylvania, December 29, 2022
Tim E. Tillman ’66 DVM, Bellefontaine, Ohio, January 7, 2023
Linda Sue Frey ’67, ’67, ’68 MA, ’71 PhD, Missoula, Montana, December 1, 2022
James Thomas Kienle ’67, Indianapolis, Indiana, December 7, 2022
Max Lee Amberson ’68 PhD, Bozeman, Montana, November 6, 2022
Charles Dwight Braswell ’68, Barberton, Ohio, November 1, 2022
James Alec Reinhardt ’68 JD, ’79 M, Findlay, Ohio, January 11, 2023
Anne Coble Voss ’68, ’84 PhD, Palm Bay, Florida, January 26, 2023
Barry Bates Witham ’68 PhD, Redmond, Washington, December 26, 2022
Samuel Mark Baker ’69, Columbus, Ohio, December 21, 2022
Norman Lawrence Gearhart ’69 MS, ’73 PhD, Worthington, Ohio, November 21, 2022
Sharon Kay Oakley ’69, Hilliard, Ohio, November 10, 2022
Kenneth Gilbert Ruby ’69, Canton, Ohio, December 12, 2022
Lvera V. Sprague ’69, Hamilton, Ohio, January 8, 2023
1970s
William F. Andrews ’70, ’75 MS, Edisto Island, South Carolina, January 12, 2023
Nancy Richardson Blackford ’70 MA, Perrysville, Ohio, December 30, 2022
Ellen Carter Clark ’70, Huntsville, Alabama, December 10, 2022
Tina Sisisky Rice ’70, Lewis Center, Ohio, December 26, 2022
Ted Arthur Beattie ’71, ’72 MA, Osprey, Florida, January 6, 2023
Michael Stuart Coalson ’71 MS, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 6, 2022
Gary P. Dimenna ’71, ’73 MS, Midlothian, Virginia, January 9, 2023
Sandra Kay Hiatt ’71, ’77 MS, Hebron, Ohio, November 13, 2022
Max Martin Van Buren ’71, ’76 DVM, Lisbon, Ohio, December 7, 2022
Harold Richard Keller ’72 MS, North Chesterfield, Virginia, December 1, 2022
Donald Joseph Murphy ’72, Columbus, Ohio, January 19, 2023
Deborah Ann Silverman ’72, Tucson, Arizona, December 10, 2022
Carol Zelizer Stoff ’72, ’75 MA, ’77 JD, Columbus, Ohio, January 20, 2023
Alan William Brass ’73 MS, Maumee, Ohio, December 9, 2022
Glenda Irene Clark ’73 MA, Sheffield Village, Ohio, December 20, 2022
Janet Olney Lasley ’73, Dayton, Ohio, January 26, 2023
Loretta Seither McCollum ’73, Lakeland, Florida, January 3, 2023
Marjorie A. Page ’73, Hilliard, Ohio, January 8, 2023
Thomas Patrick D’Onofrio ’75, New Albany, Ohio, December 23, 2022
Robert Hyman Katz ’75 JD, Columbus, Ohio, December 26, 2022
Philip Sanford Phillips ’75 JD, Westerville, Ohio, January 29, 2023
Cynthia Ann Taylor ’75, Westerville, Ohio, January 25, 2023
Michael Rudolf Czinkota ’76 MBA, ’80 PhD, Luray, Virginia, November 23, 2022
Charles Benjamin Franklin ’76 MS, Plano, Texas, January 25, 2023
Robert Michael Curtis ’78, Galena, Ohio, November 4, 2022
Joan Samuels Hedrick ’78, Amanda, Ohio, January 9, 2023
Kathy Eileen Comer ’79, Spencerville, Ohio, January 16, 2023
John Scott Walkenhorst ’79 DVM, Lebanon, Ohio, November 1, 2022
1980s
Stephen Richard Beanblossom ’80, ’84 MS, Bradford, Ohio, December 31, 2022
Don W. Gunhus ’80 OD, Broomfield, Colorado, December 25, 2022
Jean Skoog Heisman ’80, ’84 OD, Mullica Hill, New Jersey, December 5, 2022
Thomas John Keable ’81 JD, Buffalo, New York, January 10, 2023
James Irvin Miller ’82 MA, Dublin, Ohio, December 4, 2022
Theresa A. Powell ’83 PhD, Media, Pennsylvania, January 2, 2023
Ruth Marie Revere ’85 MS, Miamisburg, Ohio, December 15, 2022
Clarice Elaine Stepp ’85 MSW, Milford, Ohio, December 11, 2022
Jenifer Hren-Gaffney ’87 DVM, Akron, Ohio, November 15, 2022
Patrick French ’88, Delaware, Ohio, January 1, 2023
Jacqueline Ann Mitchell ’89 MA, Westerville, Ohio, December 21, 2022
1990s
Gregory Charles Kaufman ’91, Ottawa, Ohio, December 31, 2022
Joseph Day Sheaffer ’91, Harpster, Ohio, January 24, 2023
Linda Joanne Boyed ’96, Lewis Center, Ohio, November 28, 2022
Liz Irish Greve ’97, ’98 MEd, Columbus, Ohio, November 8, 2022
Susan Nicole Jacobs ’98 JD, Dayton, Ohio, December 13, 2022
Richard Chikoo Pyun ’98, ’01 PharmD, Powell, Ohio, November 11, 2022
2000s
Lucas Levi Bazell ’02, Columbus, Ohio, January 25, 2023
Christie Whittington Wilt ’02, Bloomingburg, Ohio, December 21, 2022
Daniel Raul Ramos ’03, Lorain, Ohio, January 28, 2023
Justin Ryan Yoho ’09, Columbus, Ohio, December 2, 2022