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.
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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