- Date Of Birth: September 8, 1918
- Date Of Death: January 13, 2019
- State: Arizona
Dr. David G. Siehl, long-time resident of Sidney, Ohio and Phoenix, Arizona, passed away on
January 13, 2019. David George Siehl was born on September 8, 1918, to Dr. Walter H. Siehl
and Flora (Sontag) Siehl. David was the second of the famous “Siehl Boys” who grew up
playing baseball and rooting for the Reds in the Western Hills area of Cincinnati. He graduated
from Western Hills High School in 1936 and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1940. He
followed in the footsteps of his father, Walter, and his aunt, Elizabeth Siehl, to earn his Doctorate
of Osteopathic Medicine from the Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery in December,
1943. He married Betty Carol Beckner on May 27, 1944, in St. Louis, Missouri. After his
internship and residency at Grandview Hospital in Dayton, the couple moved to Dalton, Ohio,
where Dr. Siehl served at the behest of the Ohio Medical Board as a physician in medically
under-served communities as did many physicians at the close of WWII. The couple settled in
Sidney in 1946 where Dr. Siehl opened a family medical practice, and they raised 3 children. Dr.
Siehl retired in 1987, when he married Lee Meyer, formerly of Sidney. They resided in Phoenix.
Dr. Siehl lived a long and fulfilling life of 100 years. He celebrated this milestone birthday in
Scottsdale, Arizona in September with his family. During this celebration, he loved to recount
his many stories, including seeing Babe Ruth play baseball in 1926, watching the first baseball
game under the lights in 1935, and his famous trip to California in 1940. He played saxophone in
the Miami University Band at the Kentucky Derby and the Indianapolis 500 in 1939. Dr. Siehl
was a 37-year member of the Kiwanis Club and a Trustee and Elder of the First Presbyterian
Church in Sidney. He served as President of the Miami University Alumni of Shelby County,
and was a founding member of the Sidney Junior Chamber of Commerce. He enjoyed boating
and golf with his family and friends. A life-long sports fan, baseball was his favorite – the
Cincinnati Reds and the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Dr. Siehl is preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Betty Carol, and six brothers, Don, Paul,
Tom and Dick, all osteopathic physicians, Jim, a successful teacher and coach, and Phillip, who
died in infancy.
Dr. Siehl is survived by his second wife, Lee Meyer Siehl, and his children, Dave (Edna Mae
Boroski-Siehl) of Goose Creek, South Carolina, Sandy of Huron, Ohio, and Sally (Clark
Elwood) of Bay Harbor, Michigan. Sister-in-law, Patricia Siehl-Dowell, survives in Ohio. Also
surviving are stepson, Mike Meyer, of Tempe, Arizona, sister-in-law, Shirley (Jay Gardella) of
Surprise, Arizona, and cousin Dr. Gladys Taylor McGarey of Scottsdale, Arizona.
and . Memorial gifts may
be directed to A.T. Still University, Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, 800 W.
Jefferson St., Kirksville, MO, 63501, Attn: Nancy Parrish.
