Philip Ferdinand Freytag

Philip Ferdinand Freytag, 81, 330 E. Pinehurst St., Sidney, Ohio, passed away on Monday, December 19, 2016 at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio at 4:15 PM from injuries recieved after falling on the ice in Sidney.  He was born July 26, 1935 in Piqua, Ohio the son of Ferdinand Ernst and Sylvia Faye (Morris) Freytag and they are deceased.  He was married to Jane Hover on April 20, 1963 and she survives along with a daughter, Gail Penhollow and husband Erik of Westland, Michigan and a son, Jeffrey Alexander Freytag and wife Judi of Mansfield, Ohio; one sister, Julia Clayton of Sedgewick, Maine and four grandchildren.   He was a 1953 graduate of Sidney High School and a 1957 graduate of Yale University and a 1960 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a Master’s Degree in Architecture.   He had been an architect at Freytag and Associates in Sidney for many years.   He was a member of the Sidney Noon Kiwanis Club and recently received the 50 year Legion of Honor award by Ohio Kiwanis Governor Bill Flinta.   He had been President of the Kiwanis Club in 1976-1977 and had nine years of perfect attendance.  He liked to play golf, garden, cook and read.   Cremation services will take place with Salm-McGill and Tangeman Funeral Home in Sidney and a private family gathering will be at a later date.   In lieu of flowers, the family request that memorial contributions be made to Sidney Noon Kiwanis Club, P.O. Box 115, Sidney, Ohio  45365 or the Shelby Oaks Memorial Tree Fund, P.O. Box 4639, Sidney, Ohio  45365.   Condolences may be expressed to the Freytag family on Salm-McGill and Tangeman Funeral Home’s web site at:   www.salm-mcgillandtangemanfh.com

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