In Memory of Cheryl Kolb Roht ’65

CHERYL KOLB ROHT ’65 of Leawood, Kansas, died March 7, 2023. At Ripon, she participated in Alpha Chi Omega/Alpha Gamma Theta. She spent her early years in Green Lake, Wisconsin, and moved many times with her military family. She was the administrative assistant to the chairman of the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, a real estate agent in Houston, Texas, and a docent in the Kansas City Zoo and the Nelson Atkins Art Museum. She enjoyed attending the performing arts, animals and birds, training therapy dogs, flowers and gardening, nature, reading, drawing, cooking, golf and traveling extensively, especially to Scotland and Japan. Survivors include her husband, Lewis; and three daughters. Her parents were the late EMILY GENGE KOLB ’40 and ROLAND L. KOLB ’39, who later headed the ROTC program at Ripon.

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Cheryl Kolb Roht '65