In Memoriam
If you have questions concerning a classmate's death, please email us and we will assist you as best we can. The list below reflects deaths reported to the School of Dentistry within the past five years. Feel free to contact us if you notice someone missing from the list.
Charles Williams, Jr., DMD '47 May 10, 2019 | Harlan J. Waltz, DDS '47 May 12, 2019 |
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Martin Steiner, DDS '44 June 14, 2019 | Jerome M. Sorrel, DMD '46 June 24, 2019 |
John W. Duff, DMD '45 March 9, 2019 | Thomas D. Pryse, DMD '46 November 30, 2020 |
Paul W. Evans, DMD ’48 June 25, 2021 | Albert Rohrer, DMD '45 October 6, 2021 |
Charles Leslie Lake, DMD '46 December 4, 2021 | Willard E. Lane, DMD '47 April 23, 2022 |
Julius M. Stephenson, DMD '53 May 5, 2018 | Horace D. Wilder, DMD '51 May 5, 2018 |
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George W. Starks, DMD '50 July 29, 2018 | Onous J. Wells, Jr., DMD '59 August 13, 2018 |
Wayne W. Collier, DMD '52 August 18, 2018 | Robert S. Martin, Sr., DMD '54 October 7, 2018 |
James R. Rusterholz, DMD '59 February 27, 2019 | Philip Mazzocchi, DDS '53 May 5, 2019 |
Roy Lee Ross, DMD '58 June 7, 2019 | Melvin A. Baumann, DMD '59 August 11, 2019 |
William H. Wuetcher, DMD '57 September 7, 2019 | Max Marvin Behr, DMD '53 September 11, 2019 |
Jack D. Razor, DMD '57 January 7, 2020 | James Paul Truluck, Jr., DMD '58 January 25, 2020 |
Max Wilson Carpenter, DMD '51 March 2, 2020 | John W. Parler, Jr., DMD '56 March 10, 2020 |
Howard "Bud" Clinton Mitchell, Jr., DMD '53 March 29, 2020 | Earl Joseph Schlegel Sr., DMD '58 April 17, 2020 |
Bertram R. Bohn, DMD '53 May 21, 2020 | James Roy Holsclaw, DMD '59 June 16, 2020 |
Raymond E. Russman, DMD '57 November 6, 2020 | David G. Simmons, DMD '58 November 7, 2020 |
James M. Childers, DMD '53 January 2021 | William Joseph Meyers, DMD '58 March 6, 2021 |
C. William Johnston Jr., DMD '55 June 2, 2021 | Ben B. Pence, Jr., DMD '55 June 11, 2021 |
James C. McKenzie, DMD '59 August 16, 2021 | Dean W. Gordon, DMD '59 August 31, 2021 |
Norma Sue (Conley) Taylor, DH ’54 September 1, 2021 | Noel B. “Buddy” Maddox Jr., DMD '57 November 5, 2021 |
T. Lee Adams, DMD '58 November 25, 2021 | Thomas J. O'Toole, DMD '58 December 19, 2021 |
Cynthia Robinson Schinagle, DH '55 January 30, 2022 | William B. Worthington, DMD '53 March 19, 2022 |
James Dale ‘J.D.’ Outland, DMD '58 July 4, 2022 | James L. Bugg Jr., DMD '58 December 10, 2022 |
William E. Snowden, DMD '57 January 22, 2023 | Charles Infante DMD, Oral Surgery '57 February 15, 2023 |
James Y. O'Bannon, DMD '52 April 20, 2023 | Mary Ann Schuh, DH '55 June 3, 2023 |
Charles Lee Hager, DMD '55 August 6, 2023 | Earl Edward Schuh, DMD '56 November 17, 2023 |
George J. Sullivan, DMD '55 January 3, 2024 | Carol J. Read, DH '59, MEd January 10, 2024 |
James C. Ross, DMD '57 January 11, 2024 | William D. Berger, DMD '57 February 25, 2024 |
Nicholas C. Katris, DMD '62 January 6, 2019 | Hiram Thomas Carr, Jr., DMD '66 March 30, 2019 |
Len M. Mays, DMD '64 April 11, 2019 | William G. Tabb, DMD '68 May 2, 2019 |
Robert H. Owen, Jr., DMD '62 May 13, 2019 | Orlando Delorme Hudson, DMD '67 June 15, 2019 |
R. W. "Bill" Lawrence, DMD '64 June 28, 2019 | James M. Tenery, DMD '60 July 14, 2019 |
James D. Phillips, DMD '69 July 20, 2019 | Coleman P. Gum, DMD '61 August 31, 2019 |
Don F. Likens, DMD '68 November 8, 2019 | Donald Lee Gambrall, DMD '64 January 2, 2020 |
S. Gerald Marx, DMD '62 February 1, 2020 | Roland Combs, DMD '63 February 4, 2020 |
James Edward Meffert Sr, DMD '68 April 11, 2020 | Richard Sullivan Bonn Sr, DMD '63 April 17, 2020 |
Harry Allan Schifferli, DMD '65 August 22, 2020 | John McElwain Young, DMD '65 September 22, 2020 |
Lawrence Louis Vornholt Jr., DMD '67 September 25, 2020 | Fredric Ford Hatcher, DMD '61 November 12, 2020 |
James C. Murphy, DMD '62 November 17, 2020 | Wyman L. Shealy, DMD '66 November 24, 2020 |
Robert Louis Ferdinand, DMD '66 September 28, 2020 | Harriet B. Dunski, DH '63 November 29, 2020 |
Ernest M. Entin, DMD '64 December 1, 2020 | Gerald Lee Gearhart, DMD '65 December 13, 2020 |
Marsha Ann Hewitt Kelly, DH '63 January 17, 2021 | Harold Gordon DePoyster, DMD '67 January 12, 2021 |
Paul J. Armstrong Jr., DMD '67 January 31, 2021 | Thomas V. Doty, DDS '67 March 20, 2021 |
Barry M. Ragone, DMD '69 April 28, 2021 | Wade T. Ward, DMD '67 May 29, 2021 |
Austin Gerald Riddle, DMD '60 June 5, 2021 | Kenneth Paul Manning Sr., DMD '69 June 6, 2021 |
Joseph R. Havill, DMD '67 July 26, 2021 | Lawrence R. Imber, DMD '67 July 26, 2021 |
Wayde Ronald Barrett, DMD '68 July 28, 2021 | Mark Flynn, DMD '68 August 14, 2021 |
Darrell L. Craig, DMD '65 September 28, 2021 | William Myers, DMD '60 October 16, 2021 |
Edwin L. Stroud, DMD '63 October 18, 2021 | William Spalding Green Jr., DMD '62 November 26, 2021 |
Claude Durfee Marshall, DMD '68 February 8, 2022 | David W. Vaughn, DMD '62 March 6, 2022 |
Wood E. Currens, DMD '67 April 3, 2022 | Gordon Dennis Wiebe, DMD '65 April 3, 2022 |
Beverly Gail Maloney, RDH '60 May 7, 2022 | Donald Red Goldstein, DMD '63 May 27, 2022 |
Frederick W. Hogan, DMD '63 September 5, 2022 | Lou Leslie, DMD '65 October 7, 2022 |
Doris A. Jones, DMD '66 October 18, 2022 | Ivan D. Marks, DMD '63 October 19, 2022 |
Ronald G. Crume, DMD '66 November 5, 2022 | David N. Widmer, DMD '63 December 7, 2022 |
Gilbert A. Principe, DMD '67 January 18, 2023 | Larry J. Pack, DMD '62 February 8, 2023 |
Joseph Edward Maloney Jr., DMD '62 February 23, 2023 | John Taylor Isaacs Sr., DMD '61 March 6, 2023 |
James Ethan Phillips, DMD '62 April 2, 2023 | Col. Behrle W. Hubbuch Jr., DMD '62 April 22, 2023 |
Robert J. Hobbs, DMD '64 April 28, 2023 | Joe W. Spears, DMD '62 May 19, 2023 |
Elbert Lewis Ballou, DMD '64 July 7, 2023 | Edward L. Payne, DMD '61 October 18, 2023 |
Nancy M. Hagan, DH '63 October 24, 2023 | John Thompson Cooper Sr., DMD '65 December 23, 2023 |
Rufus Edward Durden, DMD ’63 December 28, 2023 | Allan L. “Duke” Myers, DMD '61 December 31, 2023 |
Sandra Rae (Pitts) Faulkner, DH '66 January 4, 2024 | Thomas Richard Marshall, DMD '61 January 19, 2024 |
Grace Barnett Hunt, DH '67 February 4, 2024 | Lynn H. Habacker, DMD '61 February 27, 2024 |
Patrick Anderson Kirkpatrick, DMD ’63 April 25, 2024 | Frank Anthony Moller, DMD ’62 May 2, 2024 |
David Kent Ross, DMD '69 June 10, 2024 | Jack Franklin Richardson, DMD '66 October 2, 2024 |
Morris Clement Yates, DMD '60 October 26, 2024 |
John Nicholson, DMD '79 May 2, 2019 | Edward M. Burkhardt, DMD '77 August 29, 2019 |
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Susie Jackson Riley, DMD '79 September 14, 2019 | Edward H. Swan Jr., DMD '74 October 14, 2019 |
James R. Long, DMD '74 November 22, 2019 | William J. Von Sick III, DMD '76 December 20, 2019 |
John E. Braithwaite, DMD '73 January 29, 2020 | Susan Denise Brown Mansfield, DS '79 February 10, 2020 |
Nicholas Kent Olberding, DMD '70 April 5, 2020 | Lawrence Marvin Gillespie, DMD '74 August 18, 2020 |
Gordon B. Crawford, DMD '72 December 24, 2020 | John Starling Disher , DMD '71 February 6, 2021 |
Kenneth Ernest Bewley, DMD '77 February 21, 2021 | Robert John Biedenbender Jr., DMD '78 March 18, 2021 |
Kathleen P. von Roenn, DH '73, DMD '91 May 19, 2021 | Thomas C. Lehman, DMD '76 May 24, 2021 |
Ross Cheesman, DMD '76 May 25, 2021 | Timothy S. Fritsch, DMD '76 May 30, 2021 |
Michael Lee Amodeo, DMD '76 June 22, 2021 | Joseph Michael Pruitt, DMD '71 July 16, 2021 |
Roger L. Tomlin, DMD '75 September 2, 2021 | Charles M. Kremer, DMD '74 September 25, 2021 |
E. Robert Dick IV, DMD '79 October 21, 2021 | Michael H. Speigel, DMD '74 November 22, 2021 |
Frederick James Giglia, DMD '75 November 25, 2021 | Sergius A Rinaldi, DMD '73 November 29, 2021 |
Ralph I. Rayles, DMD '73 December 28, 2021 | James R. Taylor, DMD '73 January 19, 2022 |
David Tasman, DMD '78 January 22, 2022 | Alan G. Hastings, DMD '72 February 21, 2022 |
George Rodney Heath, DMD '70 May 25, 2022 | Michael L. Sala, DMD '72 June 2, 2022 |
Roy D. Johnson Jr., DMD '72 June 30, 2022 | Philip Whiteside Jr., DMD '70 July 22, 2022 |
Harold R. Howard, DMD '70 August 5, 2022 | Beth A. Bennett, DH '79, DMD '89 August 26, 2022 |
John David "JD" Moore, DMD '76 November 18, 2022 | Oscar Alonzo "Sonny" Ethridge III, DMD '71 January 12, 2023 |
| Mary Weston Hamilton, DMD '79 February 20, 2023 | William F. Dagilis, DMD '76 April 9, 2023 |
Joseph R. Kost, DMD '76 May 3, 2023 | Peter W. Demko, DMD '70 May 16, 2023 |
Henry Greenwell III, DMD '77 June 1, 2023 | Raymond C. McMillon Jr., DMD '72 June 16, 2023 |
Sue Ellen Crego, DH '71 July 4, 2023 | Joseph C. Gingrich, DMD '73 July 2023 |
Yvonne Garland Bishop, DH '77 July 28, 2023 | William McKinley Walden, DMD '76 October 28, 2023 |
Michael Gene Baldwin, DMD '72 November 19, 2023 | Jeanne Dee (Jones) Meredith, DH '77 November 27, 2023 |
Jere L. Painter, DMD '70 November 27, 2023 | Carmon Ray Black, DMD '72 December 12, 2023 |
Larry J. Meffert, DMD '78 December 31, 2023 | Thomas E. Davey, DMD '74 May 24, 2024 |
Stuart Roland Baldwin, DMD '79 June 17, 2024 | Mark Nelson Day, DMD '70 July 24, 2024 |
Carol Lee Kays, DH '76 October 11, 2024 |
Gordon W. McAlpin, DMD '80 May 15, 2019 | Michael G. Hammonds, DMD '84 August 13, 2019 |
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Vernon A. Sellers, DMD '83 October 4, 2019 | David Thomas Dodd, DMD '85 April 7, 2020 |
Crispin Vernon Cloud, DMD '82 March 7, 2021 | Timothy W. Lynch, DMD '81 March 19, 2021 |
Burnett "Buz" R. Sanders III, DMD '82 April 17, 2021 | Diane Dellario Armstrong, DMD '84 May 31, 2021 |
Gregory C. Sutton, DMD '89 July 28, 2021 | Janet M. McIntyre, DMD '85 September 2, 2021 |
Steven Earl Harris, DMD '84 January 21, 2022 | Beth A. Bennett, DH '79, DMD '89 August 26, 2022 |
James D. White, DMD '81 November 23, 2022 | Michael L. Hamilton, DMD '83 February 20, 2023 |
James H. Adams Jr., DMD '80 January 25, 2024 | Linda Ann Smith, DMD '82 February 1, 2024 |
Walter Franklin (Frank) Druckenmiller Jr., DMD '86 February 26, 2024 | Cathy Gale Van Hook, DMD '85 April 17, 2024 |
Fred Wicknick, DMD, Oral Surgery '88 June 14, 2024 | William Louden Sanders, DMD '84 September 2024 |
Brian D. O'Neil, DMD '95 July 9, 2019 | Kevin L. Zaugg, DMD '99 May 25, 2020 |
Gregory T. Boss, DMD '94 May 26, 2020 | Dawn Keen Stinson Wilhite, DMD '95, DR '98 October 2020 |
Kathleen P. von Roenn, DH '73, DMD '91 May 19, 2021 | David N. Waugh, DMD '96 February 12, 2022 |
Elisa Pape Millett, DMD '94 August 12, 2022 | Will Engilman, DMD '96 July 16, 2023 |
JoAnn Lewis, DMD '92 March 11, 2024 | Charles "Kent" Conder Jr., DMD '92 November 13, 2024 |
Michael Bradford “Brad” Cruse, DMD '03 November 21, 2021 | John Alan Kaze, DMD '00 March 17, 2023 |
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Rodney Harwood Jones, DMD, Orthodontics '02 May 12, 2024 | Matthew Brian Lopp, DMD '04 November 4, 2024 |
Jordan Taylor Mattingly, DMD '17 December 12, 2020 | Benjamin L. Porter, DMD '10 March 31, 2023 |
Kavya P. Balaji, DMD '22 June 6, 2021 |
Patricia A. Sibley November 1, 2018 | Dr. Thomas K. Binkley December 25, 2019 |
Betty A. Reed ("Dean Betty") March 18, 2020 | Elsie Mae (Stringfield) Barrow August 7, 2020 |
Amirage "Ami" Saling September 13, 2020 | Esther (Walton) "Monnie" Parker, RDH '66 November 15, 2020 |
Dr. Robert W. Mendel, Professor Emeritus, Endodontics January 6, 2021 | Dr. Brian Alpert, Professor and Former Chair, Oral Surgery August 24, 2021 |
Dr. Tom Sleamaker, Faculty 1979-2009 May 13, 2022 | Louis Bauer, Associate Dean for Business and Financial Affairs, 1984-2010 September 15, 2022 |
Dr. Norbert J. Burzynski, Faculty 1960s-early 2000s August 4, 2023 |
