Past Presidents
2021-2023 Ted Bruner – Darke County
2020-2021 Neil Polk – Noble County
2019 – 2020 Jared Smith – Washington County
2018-2019 Ashley Webb – Montgomery County
2017-2018 Ron Distel – Ottawa County
2016-2017 Ted Bruner – Darke County
2015-2016 Robert Mackin – Lorain County
2014-2015 David Ridenour -Wood County
2013-2014 Robert Brothers – Trumbull County
2012-2013 William “Bill” Powell – Licking County
2011-2012 Mike Morman – Putnam County
2010-2011 James “Jim” Delano Fernihough – Washington County
2009-2010 Carolyn “Kay” Crawford – Greene County
2008-2009 Dr. John Wasylick- Erie County
2007-2008 Robert E. Lee Stewart – Lucas County
2006-2007 Daniel K Wiggins – Guernsey County
2005-2006 Daniel T. Weist – Cuyahoga County
2004-2005 Donald Kuether – Miami County
2003-2004 Larry D. Moore – Richland County
2002-2003 David M. Ridenour – Wood County
2001-2002 Robert E. Straker – Miami County
2000-2001 David Levering – Knox County
1999-2000 Dale Cox – Butler County
1998-1999 Glen E. Johnson – Cuyahoga County
1997-1998 Paul Trimble – Warren County
1996-1997 Larry J. Patton – Crawford County
1995-1996 James A. Buday, Sr. – Coshocton County
1994-1995 William R. Thompson – Butler County
1993-1994 Robert B. Steele – Greene County
1992-1993 Thomas Pitts – Summit County
1991-1992 Robert L. McCarty – Morrow County
1990-1991 L. Olan Sanor – Columbiana County
1989-1990 Kenneth E. Reiger – Lucas County
1988-1989 Dennis O. Schaffner – Defiance County
*****The Ohio State Association of Soldiers and Sailors Relief Commission of Ohio was changed to the Ohio State Association of Veterans Service Commissioners. Effective 14 September 1988.
1987-1988 Nelson V. Lonz – Huron County
1986-1987 Marvin D. Gearhart – Williams County
1985-1986 F. Clark Engelmeier – Clark County
1984-1985 Parke G. Thompson – Summit County
1983-1984 Stanley E. Weigman – Sandusky County
1982-1983 Merle F. Brady – Van Wert County
1981-1982 Joseph J. Grof – Lake County
1980-1981 George E. Wenner – Stark County
1979-1980 Norman L. Hittinger – Hamilton County
1978-1979 James C. McBride – Ashtabula County
1977-1978 Dewey E. Breckenridge – Carroll County
1976-1977 Clement C. Dombroski – Lucas County
1975-1976 Nick Angele – Richland County
1974-1975 Jay E. Myers – Carroll County
1973-1974 Thomas Mihalis – Lorain County
1972-1973 Stephen A. Semetko – Lucas County
1971-1972 David M. Brown – Summit County
1970-1971 Donald L. Bruenbaum – Union County
1969-1970 Kenneth M. Robey – Montgomery County
1968-1969 Walter F. Pawelkoski – Butler County
1967-1968 Edgar L Williams – Butler County
1966-1967
1965-1966
1964-1965
1963-1964 Howard Swops – Clermont County
1962-1963 John P. LaFene – Erie County
1961-1962 Edward J.Smith – Stark County
1960-1961
1959-1960 William C. Tucci – Carroll County
1958-1959 Robert C. Marshall – Wayne County
20-22 June 1958 Leo (Ace) Kubacki – Lucas County
19-21 June 1957 Carl T. Mapes – Richland County
15-17 June 1956 Raymond H. Dickerson – Coshocton County
17-19 June 1955 Ligouri A. Dusseau – Lucas County
18-20 June 1954 Ligouri A. Dusseau – Lucas County
****The Ohio State Seal was adopted
26-28 June 1953 Reynard Hill – Trumbull County
20-22 June 1952 Reynard Hill – Trumbull County
8-10 June 1951 William J. Toth – Hamilton County
9-10 June 1950 Lewis H. Smith – Summit County
10-12 June 1949 John E. Steele – Richland County
***Articles of incorporation, Ohio State Association of Soldiers and Sailors Relief Commissioners’ signed 10 March 1949 by Harold G. Skinner, William J. Toth and James H. Nelson (Lucas County), incorporators, John P. LaFene agent for incorporation.
11-13 June 1948 Harold G. Skinner – Lucas County
6-8 June 1947 Maurice W. Taylor – Butler County
21-23 June 1946 Clarence W. Sickles – Wood County
28 June 1945 Arthur P. Smith – Cuyahoga County
17-18 June 1944 Fred Lohrum – Hamilton County
19-20 June 1943 George B. Moore – Summit County
**WWII Hiatus from 7 June 1941 to 6 March 1943
13 October 1940 George B. Moore – Summit County
*The Ohio State Association of Soldiers Relief Commission of Ohio Organized 26 September 1940 at the Neil House in Columbus, Ohio.