Donald “Don” Lee Gallogly, age 95, of Marysville, died Thursday, February 6, 2025 at Memorial Hospital.

He was born September 26, 1929 in Grove City, Pennsylvania to the late Dennis and Eva Forsythe Gallogly. In 1940, the family moved to Mount Vernon, Ohio where Don enjoyed playing clarinet in the high school marching band he graduated in 1947.

He went on to Muskingum College where he met Mary Eagleson. They were married March 30, 1951 in the New Concord Methodist Church by Reverend Howard Patrick. Upon graduation from Muskingum in June 1951, they moved to New Castle, Pennsylvania to live with Mary’s parents. Don went to work for Cooper Bessemer in Grove City, Pennsylvania.

On August 18, 1951, Don was inducted into the United States Marine Corps. After two years, he was honorably discharged and came back to Newcastle and Cooper Bessemer. In August 1954, he took a job with Kaiser Aluminum in Newark, Ohio. Their first child, Carol Sue, was born in September 1954 in Newark. Two other children followed – Robert Dennis in 1956 and Laura Jean in 1959. Don worked in the Kaiser accounting department until 1980 when he was transferred to the Bedford, Indiana plant as Controller. He retired from there in 1985 and came to Marysville, Ohio to work for Automotive Testing Laboratories where he worked with his brother, Myron, until he retired in 1992.

He and Mary learned to square dance in Indiana and immediately upon coming to Marysville, joined the Village Squares in 1985. They began to travel full time in their motor home until 2011 when they called it quits and moved back home. They joined the First United Methodist Church (now Cornerstone Global) and have enjoyed the fellowship there although many of their friends have passed on.

Don was predeceased by his parents and grandson Cory Siegle, and his brother and sister-in-law, Myron and Priscilla Gallogly.

Don is survived by his wife, Mary; his children, Carol (Carl) Siegle, Robert (Cathy) Gallogly and Laura (Joseph) Rivera;  grandchildren, Cody Siegle and  Daniel and Allen Rivera; many step grandchildren and step great grandchildren.