Losses: 2024
Fall 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
Spring 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
