Losses
Fall 2025
The following list of losses appeared in the Fall 2025 Oberlin Alumni Magazine. Online obituaries (where available) are linked from a person’s name.
*Please note this list represents losses that have been reported to OAM between February 13, 2025, and August 26, 2025. Any losses received after that will appear in a future issue.
Former Faculty/Staff/Affiliates
Robert Fuller ’56, 10th president of Oberlin College
July 15, 2025
Alan W. Houseman ’65, alumni-elected member of the Oberlin Board of Trustees
February 27, 2025
Daune Mahy, professor of voice
July 31, 2025
Marlene Rosen, professor of voice
August 5, 2025
Larry Shinn, retired Danforth Professor of Religion
April 2, 2025
David Young, Longman Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing
May 3, 2025
Oberlin Alums
V12
Earl Biel
March 3, 2016George Menster
November 6, 20201946
Roxane Goldstein
November 22, 2019Margaret (Peggy) Winslow Maier
July 29, 20201947
Janice Bloomingdale
December 2, 2023Margaret Thompson Kearfott
August 19, 2021John Meyer
September 24, 2020Phyllis Perry
April 6, 2024Joyce Roy
February 12, 20231948
Edith Schweser Dundon
July 23, 2025Julia Hitchcock
April 27, 20231951
Shirley Ann Kerslake Southmayd
July 18, 2025David Howard Wilder
March 23, 20251952
Jane Chalmers Jukes
June 20, 20221953
James Winters
August 1, 20231955
Ruthanne DeWolfe
January 25, 2025Carol (Perry) Frey
May 31, 2025Leslie M. Lisle
April 13, 2025Charles Mahnken
January 24, 20061956
Jean Anthony Coffman
August 27, 2024Paul Glasoe
December 31, 2021Barbara Sue Harman Garvey
February 17, 2025Dr. Delos D. Hughes
January 30, 2025Fred Emil Zacharias
May 4, 20221957
Joe Hickerson
August 17, 2025Peter J Sommer
March 25th 20231958
Bob Pendleton
April 23, 20251959
Jane Irving Bond
March 21, 20231960
Robert Alan Cook
Friday, June 27, 2025Susan (Cowan) Knebel
November 2022Sandra Kessler Woodward
March 19, 20251961
Cynthia Jean (Letts) Adcock
February 25, 20251962
Joel A. Jones
September 27, 2023Alice (Fry) Run Lanntair
March 15, 2025Jane Fildey Tugurian
May 23, 2025Jonathan Weintraub
June 29, 20241963
John Henze Buehler, M.D.
July 6, 20251964
David Swain
March 14, 20241965
Robert Chartoff
March 16, 2022Peter J. Rakay
August 21, 2025Naomi Weinstein
April 27, 20251968
The Very Reverend Father Theodore Panchak, Jr.
December 30, 2022Leon Simson
July 2, 20241969
William R. Skerratt
September 14, 20241971
Mary Fischer
November 2024Margaret (Peggy) Rabin
July 28, 2022Gerald “Jerry” Specht
February 6, 20251972
Bruce E. Breslauer
July 23, 2025Kazuo Tokito
December 28, 20241973
Marty Dougan
July 15, 20251980
Paula Whitney Best
20251983
David T. Carbonneau
July 1, 2025John Palombi
May 5, 20251987
Lizzi Wolf (Liz Brent)
January 17, 20251991
Alice Kittrell (Karie) Harris
February 11, 20252000
Rob Reich
May 15, 20252007
Phillip K. Jones II
May 22, 20252023
Heidi Scott
June 5, 2025
The following list of losses appeared in the Spring 2025 Oberlin Alumni Magazine. Online obituaries (where available) are linked from a person’s name.
*Please note this list represents losses that have been reported to OAM between December 12, 2024, and February 12, 2025. Any losses received after that will appear in a future issue.
Former Faculty/Staff/Affiliates
Joe Elder ’51, Instructor, Oberlin College's Sociology Department, 1959-1961
January 2025
Carl Gerber ’58, President of the Oberlin Alumni Association (1971-72); chair of the Allen Memorial Art Museum Visiting Committee (2008-2024); Alumni Medal Winner (2008)
No date given
Oberlin Alums
V12
John K. Gooch
April 13, 20231943
Jean Wilson Chandler
December 23, 20241946
Thornton Milton
April 20, 20201948
Anna Knelle Stormer
December 16, 2024Y1949
Jean Van Tuyl Elliott
December 18, 20241950
Ben Mercer
January 2, 20251952
Robert Rexford Chamberlain
April 12, 2024Berthaida Fairbanks
May 19, 2024John Haeussler
September 6, 2024Reed Howald
November 30, 2024William (Bill) Moyer
December 18, 2024Susan Helen Schatzki Skinner
January 15, 20251955
Louise Fowler
No date given1957
Alice Ann (Kroc) Hattemer
January 2025Martha Bicking Nagy
October 25, 20241959
Carmine Campione
January 2, 2018Samuel Farlow
February 18, 20171960
David White
September 25, 20241963
Dale Bardo
September 1, 2024Richard Railsback
December 13, 20241964
John Andrus
March 9, 2021Gerald Lancz
May 17, 2020Marie Link
October 7, 2019Patricia Myers
August 20221965
Peggy (Bierer) Shapera
November 15, 20241967
Alan Buster
November 29, 2024Roberta Dew Conant
April 29, 20241971
Douglas R Everhart
December 8, 20241976
Arthurie Lemise Buraimoh
May 21, 2024Mark M. Stein
September 6, 20241977
Richard MacPhail
October 2, 2024Miriam Seaver
December 7, 20231982
Lou Ann Shafer
July 12, 20241994
Anne Owen Jackson
October 14, 2024
The following list of losses appeared in the Fall 2024 Oberlin Alumni Magazine. Online obituaries (where available) are linked from a person’s name.
Former Faculty/Staff/Affiliates
John Dunlop, professor of Russian; chairman, department of German and Russian, 1970–1983
October 14, 2023
Eric Estes, vice president and dean of students; director of the Multicultural Resource Center (MRC), 2004–2016
June 4, 2024
Marlene “Marly” Merrill, historian and author who helped found the Oberlin College Affiliate Scholar Program; Oberlin College Archives volunteer
November 7, 2024
Alison Ricker, head of the Science Library, 1983–2023
May 14, 2024
Joseph Schwartz, professor of piano, 1960–1998
February 13, 2024
Shirley “Mama ’Sco” Sikora, Dionysus Disco night manager, 1983–2020
June 3, 2024
Oberlin Alums
1944
Dr. Lynn Randolph Peters
November 22, 20241946
Marilyn Deichert
November 16, 2019Alice Henderson
April 15, 20241947
Mineko Sasahara Avery
February 1, 2024Nancy Bassett
November 15, 2024Eleanor Letts Lewis
May 27, 20241948
Edith Cripe Knauer
July 12, 2023V12
Jack W. Upper
May 28, 20241949
Marie Houghton
January 21, 20231951
Patricia Mink Rath Balsamo
June 13, 2022Susanne Cottier
No date givenMarion Czar
November 15, 20211952
Georgene Allen
April 19, 2024Tony Armer
August 12, 2024Milton Heinberg
January 23, 2021Lawrence Siddall
May 22, 2024William Lynn Vance
September 25, 20241953
Margaret Helen (Elderfield) Ritchie
March 16, 2024Don Robertson
November 24, 2024Bruce Watson Steiner
February 8, 2024BJ Ursin
No date given1955
Dr. Harrison Leslie Adams Jr.
May 24, 2024Barry Martin Browner
June 2, 2024Mary C. “Kate” Hoh
June 25, 2024Judith Marie
July 13, 2024Jessica Ann (Perry) Slosser
September 8, 2024Ellen K. Thomas
September 17, 20241956
Joni Jaeger
March 16, 2024Allen Lovekin
May 30, 2024Sue Wagner
October 2021Martha Warnock
February 2022William “Bill” Wittig
August 17, 20241957
Carol Godes
July 13, 2024David Gordon Mitten
January 18, 2022Ellen Weiss
October 15, 20241958
Amédine Allis Bella
October 11, 2024William Munson
October 28, 2024Robert Snodgrass
April 15, 2022Joyce (Martin) Wilson
September 21, 20241959
Harriet R. Clark
June 6, 2024Alan Hooper
June 22, 2024Dr. William Charles McHarris
September 19, 2022Lucia Claff Parker
May 24, 2024Roberta A. Skerrett
July 8, 2023Patricia Day Strecker
June 21, 20241960
Suzanne Elizabeth Abbey
July 13, 2022Judd Kessler
October 24, 2024Suzanne (Brown) Kilczewski
No date givenJohn P. Mayer
September 10, 2024Joyce Schaub
May 20, 2022David John Yeomans
January 24, 20241961
Donald C. McKay Jr.
May 26, 2024Harry Lewis Patterson
June 7, 2024James S. “Jim” Wolfe
October 30, 20231962
Sharon J. (Shaw) Barnes
November 15, 2024Richard “Dick” Hayden Bromund
March 15, 2024John Caddey
February 2, 2023Jon Margolis
January 29, 2024Rev. Dr. James H. Price
August 8, 2024Anne (McFarland) Southworth
June 21, 2024Peter E. Strauss
October 6, 20241963
Ellen (Graham) Anderson
February 12, 2024Kim Allen Herzinger
August 18, 2023Robert E. Stiefel
July 20, 2024Barbara (Dyson) Westerberg
January 17, 20241964
William Henry Zachry
June 19, 20231966
Barbara Kohler
December 8, 20221967
William Wilder Colson
October 13, 20241968
Jeff Alteri
June 21, 2024James R. Bartlett
March 31, 2021Charles Bates
June 5, 2024Kenneth Krohn
June 3, 20241970
Michael Skinner
December 20201971
Dennis Paul Nordquest
October 24, 20241972
Martha Hewitt Hickman Hild
August 23, 20241976
William “Bill” Carroll Perkins
May 21, 2024Judith Strong
November 16, 20231977
Joanne Chory
November 12, 20241978
Douglas Frank
May 8, 20241979
Steve Silberman
August 28, 20241981
Matthew Finch
July 28, 20241983
James G. (Jim) Lyman
August 21, 2024Dr. Suzette L. Speight
August 29, 20241990
Rev. Dr. Sammie Davis-Dyson
November 28, 20242002
Scott Saylor
July 14, 2024
The following list of losses appeared in the Summer 2024 Oberlin Alumni Magazine. Online obituaries (where available) are linked from a person’s name.
Former Faculty/Staff/Affiliates
Marcia Colish, a professor of history at Oberlin from 1963 to 2001.
April 9, 2024
Tom Sherman ’56, who taught biology at Oberlin for 30 years.
April 9, 2024.
Oberlin Alums
1938
Jean Moore
November 20211942
Ellen MacDaniels Speers
January 21, 20241943
Amy Hauss
January 17, 20241948
Caroline (Miller) Erney
April 18, 20241949
Howard Y.C. Hew
2018Elizabeth A. Lichtwardt
March 4, 2024Barbara C. Wightman Wieseman
February 22, 20241950
Frances Berting
February 23, 20241951
Rexford Francis Tucker
March 28, 2024Thomas West
September 20, 20191952
Georgene Allen
April 19, 2024Mary Francis Dann Little
February 17, 20231955
Jerrold Ehrlich
April 22, 2024Albert Hirsch
no date given1958
Dr. Henry Lawrence Danaceau
August 5, 2023Kathy Kendall
February 17, 2024Sally Miller
March 13, 20241960
Mary Lee Owens
February 5, 2023Constance Pipok
May 29, 20191961
Guerri Finnigan
March 30, 20241962
Richard H. Bromund
March 15, 20241963
Larry Culp
no date givenLawrence David Kenney
November 15, 20231964
Tim Hiatt
March 12, 2024Leslie Hartrich Leighninger
March 3, 20241965
Elizabeth Randolph Cox
January 26, 2024Bill Hilton
March 16, 20241969
John Charles Holliger
March 10, 20241970
Stephen (Steve) Easton
March 17, 2024John Merritt Hunter
January 20241971
Timothy Vincent Clark
January 19, 20231972
Emmanuel Hatzidakis
January 9, 20241978
Russell W. Baxter
July 24, 2023Angela Williams
March 30, 20211983
Margaret Mary Wood
January 15, 2022
How to Submit Losses
Our alumni have asked Oberlin to share news of classmates passing in a more timely way, a request that can’t often be accommodated in OAM, which publishes three times a year. Moving forward, we will link to online obituaries published by a newspaper, funeral home, or legacy website in a dedicated website page. This will offer readers a more timely announcement and a more complete picture of the lives and accomplishments of our deceased community members.
Going forward, please submit death notices by emailing alum.mag@oberlin.edu with the link to a published online obituary or a letter confirming the date of death. Please type “Losses” in the subject line and include the class year of the deceased. You can also mail a printed obituary to:
Oberlin Alumni Magazine
247 W. Lorain St., Suite C
Oberlin, OH
44074