Losses
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.
*Please note this list represents losses that have been reported to OAM between late May and December 10, 2024. Any losses received after that will appear in a future issue.
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
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Dr. Lynn Randolph Peters
November 22, 2024 - 1946
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Marilyn Deichert
November 16, 2019Alice Henderson
April 15, 2024 - 1947
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Mineko Sasahara Avery
February 1, 2024Nancy Bassett
November 15, 2024Eleanor Letts Lewis
May 27, 2024 - 1948
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Edith Cripe Knauer
July 12, 2023V12
Jack W. Upper
May 28, 2024 - 1949
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Marie Houghton
January 21, 2023 - 1951
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Patricia Mink Rath Balsamo
June 13, 2022Susanne Cottier
No date givenMarion Czar
November 15, 2021 - 1952
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Georgene Allen
April 19, 2024Tony Armer
August 12, 2024Milton Heinberg
January 23, 2021Lawrence Siddall
May 22, 2024William Lynn Vance
September 25, 2024 - 1953
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Margaret Helen (Elderfield) Ritchie
March 16, 2024Don Robertson
November 24, 2024Bruce Watson Steiner
February 8, 2024BJ Ursin
No date given - 1955
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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, 2024 - 1956
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Joni Jaeger
March 16, 2024Allen Lovekin
May 30, 2024Sue Wagner
October 2021Martha Warnock
February 2022William “Bill” Wittig
August 17, 2024 - 1957
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Carol Godes
July 13, 2024David Gordon Mitten
January 18, 2022Ellen Weiss
October 15, 2024 - 1958
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Amédine Allis Bella
October 11, 2024William Munson
October 28, 2024Robert Snodgrass
April 15, 2022Joyce (Martin) Wilson
September 21, 2024 - 1959
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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, 2024 - 1960
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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, 2024 - 1961
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Donald C. McKay Jr.
May 26, 2024Harry Lewis Patterson
June 7, 2024James S. “Jim” Wolfe
October 30, 2023 - 1962
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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, 2024 - 1963
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Ellen (Graham) Anderson
February 12, 2024Kim Allen Herzinger
August 18, 2023Robert E. Stiefel
July 20, 2024Barbara (Dyson) Westerberg
January 17, 2024 - 1964
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William Henry Zachry
June 19, 2023 - 1966
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Barbara Kohler
December 8, 2022 - 1967
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William Wilder Colson
October 13, 2024 - 1968
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Jeff Alteri
June 21, 2024James R. Bartlett
March 31, 2021Charles Bates
June 5, 2024Kenneth Krohn
June 3, 2024 - 1970
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Michael Skinner
December 2020 - 1971
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Dennis Paul Nordquest
October 24, 2024 - 1972
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Martha Hewitt Hickman Hild
August 23, 2024 - 1976
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William “Bill” Carroll Perkins
May 21, 2024Judith Strong
November 16, 2023 - 1977
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Joanne Chory
November 12, 2024 - 1978
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Douglas Frank
May 8, 2024 - 1979
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Steve Silberman
August 28, 2024 - 1981
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Matthew Finch
July 28, 2024 - 1983
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James G. (Jim) Lyman
August 21, 2024Dr. Suzette L. Speight
August 29, 2024 - 1990
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Rev. Dr. Sammie Davis-Dyson
November 28, 2024 - 2002
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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
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Jean Moore
November 2021 - 1942
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Ellen MacDaniels Speers
January 21, 2024 - 1943
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Amy Hauss
January 17, 2024 - 1948
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Caroline (Miller) Erney
April 18, 2024 - 1949
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Howard Y.C. Hew
2018Elizabeth A. Lichtwardt
March 4, 2024Barbara C. Wightman Wieseman
February 22, 2024 - 1950
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Frances Berting
February 23, 2024 - 1951
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Rexford Francis Tucker
March 28, 2024Thomas West
September 20, 2019 - 1952
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Georgene Allen
April 19, 2024Mary Francis Dann Little
February 17, 2023 - 1955
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Jerrold Ehrlich
April 22, 2024Albert Hirsch
no date given - 1958
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Dr. Henry Lawrence Danaceau
August 5, 2023Kathy Kendall
February 17, 2024Sally Miller
March 13, 2024 - 1960
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Mary Lee Owens
February 5, 2023Constance Pipok
May 29, 2019 - 1961
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Guerri Finnigan
March 30, 2024 - 1962
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Richard H. Bromund
March 15, 2024 - 1963
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Larry Culp
no date givenLawrence David Kenney
November 15, 2023 - 1964
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Tim Hiatt
March 12, 2024Leslie Hartrich Leighninger
March 3, 2024 - 1965
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Elizabeth Randolph Cox
January 26, 2024Bill Hilton
March 16, 2024 - 1969
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John Charles Holliger
March 10, 2024 - 1970
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Stephen (Steve) Easton
March 17, 2024John Merritt Hunter
January 2024 - 1971
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Timothy Vincent Clark
January 19, 2023 - 1972
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Emmanuel Hatzidakis
January 9, 2024 - 1978
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Russell W. Baxter
July 24, 2023Angela Williams
March 30, 2021 - 1983
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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