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Licking Heights Alumni Association, Inc.
Preserving the Past for the Promise of a Future
P.O. Box 77
Summit Station, Ohio 43073

Tom Dunkle, President
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Deceased Alumni
This is where we honor and remember our beloved Alumni that are deceased. May they rest in peace.
Sue Freeman Sligh, Class of 1971, 59 of Pataskala, passed away at St. Ann's Hospital on January 16, 2012.Born on January 4, 1953 to Eileen (Ratliff) and the late James Freeman in Columbus, Ohio. Sue lived her life faithfully for the Lord, was a loving wife, mom and grandma. She worked at SCBO for 13 years and enjoyed singing and teaching Sunday School. Survived by husband of 39 years, David Sligh; daughters, Lydia (Michael) Smith and Tabitha (Luke) McKeeth; grandchildren, Mikayla, Isaac, Zachariah and Elijah; siblings, Jim Freeman, Ed (Lee) Freeman, David (Terry) Freeman, Judy (Rich) Rupp and Carolyn (Michael) Gordon.Friends may call at Kauber-Sammons Funeral Home, Pataskala on Thursday, January 19, 2012 from 6-8 p.m. Funeral service on Friday at the First Baptist Church of Groveport, 5521 Groveport Rd., Groveport, OH at 11 a.m. with Pastor Greg Cooper officiating. Burial to follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens.

Billie Sherrylynn Davis, Class of 1961, 68, of Reynoldsburg, passed away February 10, 2012. Graduate of Licking Heights High School. During the 60's she was with the Welcome Wagon. She bowled for several years in Reynoldsburg Ladies league; was a 20+ years volunteer for the Reynoldsburg Tomato Festival. Billie worked for the Reynoldsburg Water Department for many years, and later worked and retired from JC Penney Phone Center. She is preceded in death by her parents Harry and Margaret Johnson. Billie is survived by her sister, Joan Johnson; daughter, Jennifer Davis; granddaughters, Chasity and Cheyenne Davis; great-granddaughters, Ava Salmas and Genoveva "Veva" Mendoza; four-legged grandchildren, Bubba and Zoey.

Paul "Buck" Bakenhaster, Class of 1946, age 83, was picked up and carried by angels to be with the Lord on February 21, 2012. Born May 25, 1928 in Columbus, Ohio. Retired from Landmark as Petroleum Manager after 28 years. Preceded in death by parents James and Lora (Jenkins) Bakenhaster, brothers Charlie and Bill. Survived by loving wife of 63 years, Jo (Kitzmiller) Bakenhaster. Left to cherish his memory, children, Paula (Mike) Wood, Brenda (Larry) May, Dave (Kay) Bakenhaster, Mike (Carla) Bakenhaster. Buck was very proud of his grandchildren, Michael Craig Wood, Beau (Erin) May, Nicole (Jason) Niday, Zachary Bakenhaster, Brittney Bakenhaster. Wonderful great-grandchildren, Morgan, Adyn and Ella. He will be sadly missed by his brothers, Bud, Ronnie; sisters, Norma-Jean, Geneva; and his many nieces and nephews.



Class of:
1923 Layton Wine
1930 Rosanna Owens Appleman, Olivia Slonaker
1930 Francis Slonaker (2003)
1930 Lee M Layton
1931 Fred (Ted ) Appleman (1994)
1931 Ronald Eyman
1932 Richard Baker
1933 Mildred Appleman Gieseck, Fleda Axline Johnston
1934 Emerson McIntosh, Paul Strahm (husband of Anna Mary Brown Strahm-36), Madonna Russell Cowell
1936 Anna Mary Brown Strahm
1937 Lotta Pool Warthen
1938 Claribel Russell Brennan
1938 Edwin Dale Houck
1939 Atha Green Donavan (mother of Jim, John), Emerson Shoaf, Ruth E. Landrum Calvert
1940 Ernestine Knoderer, John Brown, Samuel Dean, Inez Gieseck, John Houck, Jean Landrum, Patricia Price, Harold Turner, Wendell Garee, Betty Moore Runkle
1941 Fred Walter
1942 Mary Evelyn Starr Cahill, Dorothy Strait
1943 Kenneth Kuehner, Betty Swinning Power, George Houck, Robert O.W. Moore
1944 Lucille Henderlick Christy, Marcella (Rhodeback) Cady
1945 Clytus Hewitt
1946 Harold Irion, Thomas Wine, Marjorie R. Gimbey Reese, Paul "Buck" Bakenhaster
1947 Paul Brown, Francis "Doc" Lewis, Gladys Looker Howell Brisker, Mary Alice Shough, Joseph V. Camden
1948 Margaret Wittman Suver, Francis Martin Strait, Billie (Kathleen) Fravel
1949 Wilma Jean Randall Turner, Leo Howell (2004), John Edward Harr, Howard Fravel
1950 Mable Wolcott Cheadle, James Mount, Eileen Krumm Kirpatrick, Clarence Ray Laughlin, James Earl Fries, Jane Ann Layton Wittman, Donna Carsey Stinger
1951 Darlene Baker Butler
1952 Don Bruner, Phoebe Thompson, Donald L. Phillips, Betty Monaghan
Barrett
1953 Dale Wolcott, Bill Knight, Vaughn Ware, Bob Wilt, Marlyn Appleman Burr, William (Bill) Lines, Harold Lines
1954 Jerry Phillips (1998), Roger Wine
1955 Darrell Short (1999), Betty Schuler Hall
1956 Bill Green, Jim Washburn, Marion Grimm Armstrong, Bruce J. Baird
1957 John Price, Jim Vickers, Leroy Minor, Bill Hottle, Lyle Sells
1958 June Swanser McNerlin, Margaret Arter, Jerry Donavan, Virginia Neal, Barbara Osborn Boehm, Stewart Frederick Stock, M.D, Kelly Snook, Ralph M. "Buck" Haegele
1959 Elsie Bauerle, Larry Phalen, Eva Rosemary Laughlin
1960 John Stewart
1961 Billie Sherrylynn Davis
1962 Donna Foor, Phillip Angevine, Shirley Border Wagy, Shirley Allen Williamson Sparks
1963 Johnnie Michael Lewis
1964 Robert Dennis Green, Connie Todd, James Kellett, James Robinson, Jiggs Shannon, Michael Swinning
1965 Dr. Mark William Stock, Betty Notter Smith, Anna Pietrowski, Rose Lewis, Judy Haney
1966 Steve Booker (4/4/92)
1967 Derril Swinning, Debby (McIntosh) Haegele, Jerry Lee Brossman, Kathleen (Grosse) Wycoff
1969 Eugene Gollihue, James Sammons
1970 Robert Stout
1971 Jerry Black, Ronald Huff, Sharlene Lowry Rollins, Ed Mackey, Debra Ann (Hartley) Nestor, Sue Freeman Sligh
1972 Calvin Gore, Christy (Rader) Zimmerman, Monty Albert Cummings
1973 Judith Prater, Donna Moore Queen, Jeff McKnight, Marilyn Chan Simmons, Eddie Stamper
1974 George Burns, Cindy Souder Schumaker, , Patricia Madden, Grover "Chip" Fraley III, John Patrick Hines
1975 Guy Chambers, Janet L. Husk, James “Jim” Lucas
1976 Kelly Ann Sipe, Sheila Darlene (Rowsey) Edmonds, Jon Wesley Starr
1977 Jim Hammond, Nick Hopper, Jenny McQreary and Chuck Hartley
1978 - Dale Ramsey
1980 Karen Spurlock
1982 Jeffrey Joseph Kirchner
1985 Jay Baird
1986 Timothy Bryan DuBoe, Ronald J. Van Horn
1987 Kim Donaldson
1988 Cheryl Davis, Thomas L. Demolet, William Lee Davis
1990 Tina Mackey
1994 Melissa Ann Butsko
1998 Shannon Wilson, Gregory Moore
1999 Michele Lynn Keaton
2007 Shawn Mark Hall
Bus Driver--Judy Wedertz, Lavonne Hoffman (bus driver, wife of Ralph, mother of Vicki & Terre West and Mark, Jeff and Michael Hoffman)
Marilyn Sikora--Secretary at Licking Heights from 1969 to 1978