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In Memoriam — Spring 2025

Please note: This list includes updates reported by family members, newspapers and other sources from December 1, 2024, through February 28, 2025. Each entry includes name, graduation year(s), city of residence and date of passing.

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

1940s

Martha L. Bratton ’44, Columbus, Ohio, February 1, 2025

Isabel McCants Yates ’45 MA, Lexington, Kentucky, February 26, 2025

Ronald D. Best ’48, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, December 26, 2024

Eloise Edwards Hays ’49, Columbus, Ohio, December 30, 2024

Normalee S. Metzger ’49, Dublin, Ohio, January 24, 2025

 

1950s

Anne Loweth Kyle ’50, Overland Park, Kansas, January 24, 2025

Calvin Lesley Simpson ’50, Canton, Ohio, February 1, 2025

John William Baldwin ’51, ’65 MA, Plain City, Ohio, January 24, 2025

Charles E. Jordan ’51, Carmel, Indiana, January 16, 2025

Otho J. Miller ’51 DVM, Kirkwood, Illinois, December 28, 2024

Barbara J. Clarkin ’52, Benbrook, Texas, January 13, 2025

Richard Gene Reichel ’52, ’54 JD, Estero, Florida, January 23, 2025

Norman Davis ’53, ’62 MD, New Albany, Ohio, February 21, 2025

George T. Deringer ’53, Worthington, Ohio, February 13, 2025

William McNair Fox ’54 PhD, Denver, Colorado, December 6, 2024

John Yeatman Taggart ’54, ’59 JD, New York, New York, December 30, 2024

Mary Elizabeth Barrett ’55, ’56, Downingtown, Pennsylvania, February 4, 2025

Anne C. Foltz ’55, ’79 MS, Richland, Washington, February 24, 2025

Grace Ellen Lang ’55, Kansas City, Kansas, January 6, 2025

Elmer H. Viertel ’55, Canton, Ohio, January 14, 2025

Ronald M. Backus ’56 MD, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, December 3, 2024

Margaret Allison Elliott ’56, Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 4, 2024

George Robert Fitz ’56, ’57 MS, ’61 MD, ’66 M, North Canton, Ohio, February 2, 2025

Richard Henry Groth ’56 PhD, Meriden, Connecticut, January 22, 2025

Helen Pappas Lias ’56, ’71 MA, Columbus, Ohio, December 16, 2024

Paul Henry Miller ’56, Washington Court House, Ohio, January 7, 2025

Richard Perry Rundt ’56, Westerville, Ohio, December 3, 2024

Jane Josephine Smith ’56, Los Alamitos, California, December 30, 2024

William Albert Wilson ’56 MS, Scotia, New York, December 21, 2024

Sherwin H. Baer ’58 PhD, South Jordan, Utah, January 24, 2025

Gene William Blumenschein ’58, Marysville, Ohio, December 21, 2024

William Oscar Ferguson ’58, Mount Vernon, Ohio, February 21, 2025

James R. Kinsner ’58, Bowling Green, Kentucky, December 23, 2024

Donald W. Longshore ’58, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 14, 2025

Shirley F. Patterson ’58, Green Valley, Arizona, December 11, 2024

James Bennett Randels ’58 MA, ’65 PhD, Columbus, Ohio, January 20, 2025

Donald Roger Redman ’58, ’62 DVM, ’66 MS, ’73 PhD, Wooster, Ohio, December 20, 2024

Laxmikant J. Tanna ’58 MBA, Mumbai, Marshall Islands, December 28, 2024

Richard H. Anderson ’59, Columbus, Ohio, December 12, 2024

Roger Willis Brown ’59, Longboat Key, Florida, January 12, 2025

Linda G. Gilliam ’59, Delaware, Ohio, February 28, 2025

E. Kenneth Greenwald ’59, ’67 PhD, Vonore, Tennessee, February 8, 2025

Dae Sik Kim ’59, ’60 MS, ’65 PhD, Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, January 20, 2025

Carolyn White Ledman ’59, Franklin, Tennessee, January 3, 2025

David R. Lipphardt ’59, Newark, Ohio, January 16, 2025

Robert Leonard Sharp ’59, Rochester, Minnesota, February 25, 2025

John Wesley Williamson ’59 MS, ’65 PhD, Nashville, Tennessee, February 27, 2025

 

1960s

Johanna Hartung Chen ’60 MA, Aliso Viejo, California, January 3, 2025

Anne Smith Hash ’60, Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, January 26, 2025

Judy M. Hobbs ’60, ’64 MA, Jamestown, Ohio, January 9, 2025

Carl David Kenney ’60, Pataskala, Ohio, January 24, 2025

Samuel G. Lefkowitz ’60 MS, ’64 PhD, Needham, Massachusetts, December 30, 2024

Larry Dale Wood ’60, Burbank, Ohio, January 12, 2025

Paul Douglas Barnaby ’61, Metamora, Ohio, February 13, 2025

Robert E. Chapman ’61 MD, Normal, Illinois, December 9, 2024

Gerald R. Crawmer ’61, ’65 MS, Clifton Park, New York, January 31, 2025

William Mitchell Daniels ’61, Lady Lake, Florida, December 18, 2024

Sharon Hall Eddy ’61, ’79 MS, Hilliard, Ohio, January 4, 2025

John Francis Feltz ’61, ’79 MBA, Fairborn, Ohio, December 5, 2024

Robert Lee Griffith ’61, Fuquay Varina, North Carolina, January 7, 2025

Stanley D. Hannah ’61, New Vienna, Ohio, December 30, 2024

Marilee G. Peterson ’61, Washington Court House, Ohio, February 7, 2025

Kenneth Roy Swanson ’61, Dublin, Ohio, December 1, 2024

Suzanne Ochsenbein Willson ’61, Midland, Texas, December 13, 2024

Charles E. Eicher ’62 MEd, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, December 19, 2024

Mary Katherine Hummel ’62, Otway, Ohio, January 23, 2025

Marvin Orlo Jones ’62, ’65 DVM, Liberty Center, Ohio, December 7, 2024

Walter Earl Morton ’62, Galena, Ohio, February 17, 2025

Jacquelyn Long Vaughan ’62, ’62, Dublin, Ohio, January 22, 2025

George M. Drosos ’63, ’66 DDS, Columbus, Ohio, February 11, 2025

John F. Graver ’63 DDS, ’67 MS, Columbus, Ohio, December 2, 2024

Peggy L. Hardin ’63, Cambridge, Ohio, January 5, 2025

Lee Martin Adelsberg ’64 PhD, Elmira, New York, January 29, 2025

G. Allen Brunner ’64 PhD, Ottawa Hills, Ohio, February 1, 2025

James W. Bushee ’64, Sterling, Virginia, February 15, 2025

Philip Robert Johnson ’64, Columbus, Ohio, February 20, 2025

Robert Nelson Ludwig ’64 MD, Clearwater, Florida, December 10, 2024

Richard H. Margolin ’64 MS, Wilmington, Delaware, December 31, 2024

Roger Ray Smith ’64, Newark, Ohio, December 29, 2024

Willard S. Thomas ’64, Fort Myers, Florida, February 15, 2025

Charles J. Tyburski ’64 JD, Louisville, Ohio, January 31, 2025

Sanford Parsons Bishop ’65 MS, ’68 PhD, Birmingham, Alabama, January 4, 2025

Jerry D. Cotterman ’65, Newark, Ohio, February 27, 2025

Ben E. Espy ’65, Columbus, Ohio, January 6, 2025

James Scott McOwen ’65 DVM, Delray Beach, Florida, February 11, 2025

Robert M. Mennel ’65 MA, ’69 PhD, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, December 26, 2024

Jacqueline A. Morrison ’65, ’68 MSW, ’95 PhD, Columbus, Ohio, February 13, 2025

Robert Raymond Snyder ’65, Columbus, Ohio, January 5, 2025

David J. Stazenski ’65, Perrysburg, Ohio, December 8, 2024

David K. Dawson ’66 PhD, Marstons Mills, Massachusetts, December 1, 2024

Nicholas David Maul ’66, Pickerington, Ohio, January 27, 2025

T. Marll McDonald ’66 MA, White River Junction, Vermont, January 24, 2025

Keith Alan Sommer ’66 JD, Columbus, Ohio, January 18, 2025

James Robert Swope ’66, Oxford, Florida, December 21, 2024

Charles E. Freeman ’67 MA, Lima, Ohio, January 2, 2025

David Lester Hopcraft ’67, Dublin, Ohio, February 7, 2025

Daniel P. McQuade ’67 JD, Swanton, Ohio, January 18, 2025

Forest Vern Muir ’67 PhD, Wooster, Ohio, January 2, 2025

John C. Veselenak ’67, ’82 MS, Bradenton, Florida, January 1, 2025

Penny Sue Kreinberg ’68, Monroe Township, New Jersey, December 26, 2024

William John Lynch ’68, Sandusky, Ohio, February 15, 2025

Sarah Holden McLaren ’68, Crozier, Virginia, December 6, 2024

Henry Charles Nixt ’68 MS, ’72 PhD, Marion, Ohio, December 24, 2024

Gary Ernest Owens ’68 DDS, Ontario, Ohio, January 15, 2025

Robert L. Ramus ’68 DDS, Hicksville, Ohio, January 8, 2025

David Mark Selcer ’68 JD, Columbus, Ohio, January 25, 2025

Allan Sadler Brubaker ’69, ’74 DVM, Maineville, Ohio, December 23, 2024

James Goodman Connell ’69 MA, ’73 PhD, Arlington, Virginia, December 20, 2024

Henry Sylvester Elchert ’69, ’89 MS, New Riegel, Ohio, January 27, 2025

Judy R. Godwin ’69 MS, Leawood, Kansas, December 5, 2024

Richard Carl Hoop ’69, Coshocton, Ohio, January 29, 2025

Richard Ewart Moloy ’69, Pittsfield, New Hampshire, February 3, 2025

Howard Neal Shapiro ’69, ’71 MS, ’75 PhD, Des Moines, Iowa, January 17, 2025

David Edward Shreiner ’69, Millersburg, Ohio, February 2, 2025

Timothy Blair Swango ’69, ’74 DVM, Winter Haven, Florida, January 24, 2025

 

1970s

Wayne Carl Baker ’70, Greenville, Ohio, December 11, 2024

Robert Stephen Bar ’70 MD, ’70 MS, Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, February 23, 2025

Judy Langstaff Butler ’70, Worthington, Ohio, February 15, 2025

Sondra Miley Cooney ’70 PhD, Kent, Ohio, January 20, 2025

Evelyn Noelle Lawton ’70 MA, Columbus, Ohio, December 28, 2024

Stephen Edward Martin ’70, Centerville, Ohio, January 24, 2025

William Urquhart Reeves ’70 OD, Munroe Falls, Ohio, February 20, 2025

Larry Taylor Walker ’70, ’75 MS, Richardson, Texas, January 19, 2025

Charles Michael Weber ’70, ’70 MS, Lynchburg, Virginia, February 14, 2025

William Reese Wilson ’70, Newark, Ohio, February 17, 2025

Frederick Theodore Burkey ’71 MA, ’75 PhD, Westerville, Ohio, January 17, 2025

Arthur Brent Cowden ’71, Minerva, Ohio, December 12, 2024

Jerry Mallory Davis ’71 PhD, Cary, North Carolina, February 12, 2025

Harold Kenneth Freeman ’71, Dublin, Ohio, February 15, 2025

Vickie S. Groenke ’71 MA, Ashland, Ohio, December 28, 2024

Joseph Edward Lawless ’71, Perrysburg, Ohio, January 17, 2025

Gary Lloyd Parker ’71, Chester, Virginia, January 22, 2025

William Andrew Payer ’71, Daniel Island, South Carolina, January 21, 2025

Thomas E. Schoener ’71, Pickerington, Ohio, January 6, 2025

Dale O. Huber ’72, Columbus, Ohio, January 21, 2025

Florence C. Odita ’72 PhD, Columbus, Ohio, February 2, 2025

Jane A. Peters ’72, Columbus, Ohio, February 25, 2025

Donald George Stoffer ’72, Worthington, Ohio, February 11, 2025

Ronald Escome Ward ’72, Burke, Virginia, January 22, 2025

Marta Nevampaa Whitlock ’72 PhD, Worthington, Ohio, December 23, 2024

Kenneth Richard Allshouse ’73, Findlay, Ohio, December 17, 2024

Viswanathan N. Bringi ’73 MS, ’76 PhD, Boulder, Colorado, December 18, 2024

Rosemary Koehler Craig ’73, Morral, Ohio, December 3, 2024

Larry Herman Gregory ’73, ’83, Westerville, Ohio, February 23, 2025

Joseph Edward Kole ’73, ’77 MA, Columbus, Ohio, January 1, 2025

Daniel Mark Kover ’73, Naples, Florida, December 3, 2024

Linda Lou May ’73, East Palestine, Ohio, December 9, 2024

David Anthony Merrelli ’73 MS, Beavercreek, Ohio, January 12, 2025

Gayle Elizabeth Monks ’73, Westerville, Ohio, December 20, 2024

Harry Eugene Smith ’73, ’76 MS, ’79 MS, Pataskala, Ohio, January 26, 2025

John Thomas Brenner ’74, Lexington, Kentucky, December 11, 2024

Dale Eileen Craxton ’74, College Station, Texas, February 3, 2025

Donald Richard Kapper ’74, Dover, Ohio, February 14, 2025

Madeleine Leveille ’74 MA, ’77 PhD, Silver City, New Mexico, January 20, 2025

Charles Jenkins Thurston ’74, Kingston, Ohio, December 18, 2024

Nancy L. Vonalmen ’74, Lima, Ohio, December 19, 2024

Robert Hall Wagoner ’74, ’75 MS, ’76 PhD, Powell, Ohio, January 28, 2025

Michael George Patton ’75, Dublin, Ohio, December 7, 2024

Jane Santry Pierce ’75, Columbus, Ohio, January 18, 2025

June A. White ’75 MA, Pickerington, Ohio, January 26, 2025

William Bluford Luke ’76, Columbus, Ohio, January 2, 2025

Ruth Proeschel Meyer ’76, Eaton, Ohio, January 30, 2025

Kathryn M. Perlman ’76, ’88 MS, Rockville, Maryland, February 28, 2025

Howard Scott Phillips ’76, Fredericktown, Ohio, December 3, 2024

Donald Nicholas Starr ’76, Lima, Ohio, January 23, 2025

Lana T. Henderson ’77 PhD, Durham, North Carolina, December 4, 2024

Benjamin Erskin Lay ’77, Columbus, Ohio, January 8, 2025

David Conrad Schuster ’77, Indianapolis, Indiana, December 4, 2024

Beth Samson Shane ’77, Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania, December 22, 2024

Paul Amling ’78, Columbus, Ohio, January 8, 2025

Scott James Anderson ’78, Canton, Ohio, December 3, 2024

John Edwin Hecht ’78, Mansfield, Ohio, December 23, 2024

Debra Hilliard ’78, ’84 MSW, Columbus, Ohio, February 5, 2025

Jean Utley Lavinger ’78, Burbank, California, December 28, 2024

Donald F. Cuddihee ’79, Wheaton, Illinois, February 8, 2025

C. David D. Eeles ’79, ’83 MA, Columbus, Ohio, January 25, 2025

Paul Stephen Fekete ’79 MD, Lawrenceville, Georgia, February 10, 2025

Robert Alan Fortman ’79, Findlay, Ohio, December 1, 2024

Neil Phillip Preston ’79, Troy, Ohio, December 6, 2024

Timothy Eugene Simmons ’79 MBA, Tulsa, Oklahoma, December 13, 2024

Richard James Walker ’79, Frankfort, Ohio, February 14, 2025

Robert Louis Wirth ’79, Cleveland, Ohio, February 24, 2025

 

1980s

Karen Rose Carney ’80 MA, ’83 PhD, San Francisco, California, December 2, 2024

Nelson Leslie Feeney ’80, Houston, Texas, January 15, 2025

Debra L. Jones ’80 MA, Newark, Ohio, December 1, 2024

Mark Andrew Maiberger ’80, Westerville, Ohio, December 25, 2024

Carolyn Joyce Perkins ’80, ’83 MS, Denver, Colorado, February 16, 2025

Charlotte Y. Price ’80 MA, Columbus, Ohio, February 26, 2025

Dennis Charles Couch ’81, Mansfield, Ohio, February 2, 2025

Dennis Alan Johnson ’81 MA, Lima, Ohio, February 2, 2025

Mark Steven D’Aversa ’82, Rigby, Idaho, December 15, 2024

Jeffrey Raymond Houk ’82, Fairfield Township, Ohio, January 29, 2025

Susan H. Mott ’82 PhD, Columbus, Ohio, February 23, 2025

Richard Alan Skora ’82, Columbus, Ohio, January 27, 2025

Luann M. Toth ’82, Columbus, Ohio, February 20, 2025

Susan Andrea Triplett ’82, ’82, Dublin, Ohio, December 4, 2024

Janice Sue Ziskin ’82, Kettering, Ohio, February 24, 2025

Beth Anne Cross Harmount ’83, Columbus, Ohio, December 13, 2024

Michael Robert Knurek ’84, Bentonville, Arkansas, December 4, 2024

H. Alan Putman ’84, Valrico, Florida, December 3, 2024

Bernard C. Martin ’85 MA, Columbus, Ohio, January 5, 2025

Lee Ann Marie Massucci ’85 MA, Columbus, Ohio, January 19, 2025

Doreen Knapp Riley ’85, Mogadore, Ohio, January 26, 2025

Lettricia Brelsford Roeth ’85, Fort Wayne, Indiana, December 29, 2024

John Frederick Williams ’85, Upper Arlington, Ohio, December 19, 2024

Russell Neil Cunningham ’86, Powell, Ohio, December 3, 2024

Yvette Peck Newlin ’86 PhD, Aurora, Ohio, December 31, 2024

Michael Edward Putnam ’86 MPA, Westerville, Ohio, January 6, 2025

Scott Adam Mittman ’87, Columbus, Ohio, January 2, 2025

Charles D. Via ’87 MBA, Pickerington, Ohio, January 24, 2025

Kristofer Kyler Williams ’87, Blacklick, Ohio, February 8, 2025

Tamalisa Leot Al-Sultan ’88, Findlay, Ohio, December 19, 2024

Robert I. Fisher ’88 PhD, Strongsville, Ohio, January 6, 2025

James William Fournier ’88, Dublin, Ohio, January 30, 2025

Phyllis Jo Polumbo ’88 DVM, Waterford, Pennsylvania, December 24, 2024

Jeffrey David Radebaugh ’88, ’89, Delphos, Ohio, January 26, 2025

 

1990s

Joseph Harold Cieslak ’90 DDS, Louisville, Kentucky, December 13, 2024

Deborah Thomas Snode ’90, Columbus, Ohio, December 19, 2024

Kristi Dupre Saathoff ’91, Prospect, Kentucky, February 21, 2025

Thomas Matthew Stephenitch ’91, Columbus, Ohio, February 16, 2025

John Thomas Kreager ’92, Sunbury, Ohio, January 31, 2025

Fred Crowner ’93 MS, Mount Vernon, Ohio, December 15, 2024

Sherry L. Cover ’94, Nevada, Ohio, January 14, 2025

Blanca Alicia Cruz ’94 MA, Tower Lakes, Illinois, January 25, 2025

Daniel John Eck ’94, Mechanicsburg, Ohio, February 15, 2025

Kimberly Ann Mick ’94, Etna, Ohio, December 28, 2024

Kenneth Kushner ’95, Columbus, Ohio, December 17, 2024

Perry Allan Simpkins ’95, Galloway, Ohio, February 8, 2025

Jo Anne Elizabeth Blaha ’96 DVM, Olmsted Twp, Ohio, December 21, 2024

 

2000s

Douglas Edward Birkhimer ’00, ’10 DRP, Columbus, Ohio, December 5, 2024

Thomas Henry Delisio ’02, New Albany, Ohio, December 16, 2024

Angie Christine Hyter ’02, ’04, Lima, Ohio, February 21, 2025

Dianna Simone Sayre ’02, ’03, Granville, Ohio, January 9, 2025

De-Chao Ralph Chiao ’05 MSW, Columbus, Ohio, December 27, 2024

Eric Michael Schmitt ’05, Grove City, Ohio, January 21, 2025

Alphonso Dwayne Mobley ’06, Columbus, Ohio, December 18, 2024

Samara L. Rister ’06, Lima, Ohio, February 22, 2025

Zachary Ryan Molbreak ’07, Lakewood Ranch, Florida, December 25, 2024

Stephanie Marie Vogt ’07, Ostrander, Ohio, January 26, 2025

Amanda Paige Hart ’09, Skokie, Illinois, February 10, 2025

 

2010s

Ernest David Levert ’13, Columbus, Ohio, January 8, 2025

Denise Marie McCarthy ’13 MS, Zanesville, Ohio, February 9, 2025

Fei Han ’16, Columbus, Ohio, January 24, 2025

Julianne Bang Mai ’16, Batavia, Ohio, December 24, 2024

 

2020s

Nan Zhang ’21, Willington, Connecticut, January 28, 2025

Jesse Ory ’24 MBA, Lakewood, Ohio, February 25, 2025