Richard N. Ogle

Richard N. Ogle: Born Nov. 24, 1936, died on March 27th in Vero Beach. Florida.

He was raised in Springfield, Ohio and graduated from Wittenberg University in 1958. He graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1961, and following a clerkship with an appellate court judge in Chicago joined the law firm of Calfee, Halter and Griswold in Cleveland in 1962. He specialized in corporate and business law, and mergers and acquisitions, his entire career, and was a member of the Ohio State Bar Association Corporation Law Committee for 25 years. He retired at the end of 1998.

Several years later he accepted an administrative position at the national office of the United Church of Christ, in Cleveland, where he served for 5-1/2 years.

During his career at Calfee he had memberships in the Hermit Club, Canterbury Golf Club and the Union Club. In 1985 he was invited to join the happy throng of Cleveland lawyers known as the Court of Nisi Prius, and was an active participant in their annual Grand Assize for nearly 25 years.

In 2008 he and his wife of forty-one years, Gail, began to spend winters in Vero Beach. He is also survived by four children, Karen (Eve) and their daughters, Charlotte and Willa, of Brooklyn, NY, Janet, of New York, NY, James (Julie) and their sons, Jared and Jacob, of Solon, Ohio, and Megan, of Athens, Ohio.

A Funeral Service will be held at Plymouth Church of Shaker Heights, 2860 Coventry Rd. 44120, where he was a member for 53 years, on Saturday, April 12th at 3pm. 

The service will be live streamed from the church website: youtube.com/@PlymouthChurchUCC or plymouthchurchucc.org/livestream

The family prefers that those who wish may make contributions in his name to Wittenberg University, 200 West Ward St., Springfield, OH 45504 or Plymouth Church of Shaker Heights, 2860 Coventry Rd., 44120

Friends may call at Brown-Forward, 17022 Chagrin Blvd., Shaker Hts., OH 44120, Friday, April 11th from 4pm-7pm.