Losses: 2025

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, 2016

George Menster
November 6, 2020

1946

Roxane Goldstein
November 22, 2019

Margaret (Peggy) Winslow Maier
July 29, 2020

1947

Janice Bloomingdale
December 2, 2023

Margaret Thompson Kearfott
August 19, 2021

John Meyer
September 24, 2020

Phyllis Perry
April 6, 2024

Joyce Roy
February 12, 2023

1948

Edith Schweser Dundon
July 23, 2025

Julia Hitchcock
April 27, 2023

1951

Shirley Ann Kerslake Southmayd
July 18, 2025

David Howard Wilder
March 23, 2025

1952

Jane Chalmers Jukes
June 20, 2022

1953

James Winters
August 1, 2023

1955

Ruthanne DeWolfe
January 25, 2025

Carol (Perry) Frey
May 31, 2025

Leslie M. Lisle
April 13, 2025

Charles Mahnken
January 24, 2006

1956

Jean Anthony Coffman
August 27, 2024

Paul Glasoe
December 31, 2021

Barbara Sue Harman Garvey
February 17, 2025

Dr. Delos D. Hughes
January 30, 2025

Fred Emil Zacharias
May 4, 2022

1957

Joe Hickerson
August 17, 2025

Peter J Sommer
March 25th 2023

1958

Bob Pendleton
April 23, 2025

1959

Jane Irving Bond
March 21, 2023

1960

Robert Alan Cook
Friday, June 27, 2025

Susan (Cowan) Knebel
November 2022

Sandra Kessler Woodward
March 19, 2025

1961

Cynthia Jean (Letts) Adcock
February 25, 2025

1962

Joel A. Jones
September 27, 2023

Alice (Fry) Run Lanntair
March 15, 2025

Jane Fildey Tugurian
May 23, 2025

Jonathan Weintraub
June 29, 2024

1963

John Henze Buehler, M.D.
July 6, 2025

1964

David Swain
March 14, 2024

1965

Robert Chartoff
March 16, 2022

Peter J. Rakay
August 21, 2025

Naomi Weinstein
April 27, 2025

1968

The Very Reverend Father Theodore Panchak, Jr. 
December 30, 2022

Leon Simson
July 2, 2024

1969

William R. Skerratt
September 14, 2024

1971

Mary Fischer
November 2024

Margaret (Peggy) Rabin
July 28, 2022

Gerald “Jerry” Specht
February 6, 2025

1972

Bruce E. Breslauer
July 23, 2025

Kazuo Tokito
December 28, 2024

1973

Marty Dugan
July 15, 2025

1980

Paula Whitney Best
2025

1983

David T. Carbonneau
July 1, 2025

John Palombi
May 5, 2025

1987

Lizzi Wolf (Liz Brent)
January 17, 2025

1991

Alice Kittrell (Karie) Harris
February 11, 2025

2000

Rob Reich
May 15, 2025

2007

Phillip K. Jones II
May 22, 2025

2023

Heidi Scott
June 5, 2025