Ann Bauer

Ann Bauer passed away peacefully on Friday, October 31, 2025 in Springfield, Ohio. She is survived by her sister Nancy Borofsky, her two children - Jefferson Bauer and Elizabeth Crawford, her son-in-law Robert Crawford, her three grandchildren – Adam Bauer, Caitlyn Crawford, and Callum Crawford, and her nephew – Matthew Borofsky. 

Ann was born Ann Leslie Drewes on November 26, 1950, in Muskegon, Michigan to parents Egbert and Betty Drewes. The family moved to Wadsworth, Ohio in 1965. Ann graduated from Wadsworth Senior High School in 1968. She married and raised her two children while attending Kent State University, receiving a bachelor’s in education in 1978. She worked as a special education teacher and guidance counselor in Ohio while continuing her education at Kent State, which ended in PhD in 1996. 

Ann worked for Arkansas State University in their counseling department and was instrumental in the response to one of the first mass school shootings in the United States, which occurred in Jonesboro in March 1998. This experience helped her to focus her career on community response to tragedy, which she called the crisis response team. Ann then became a part of a national movement of crisis response. 

She returned to Ohio in 2001 to care for her mother and to work at Cleveland State University, retiring from the Counseling, Administration, Supervision and Adult Learning Department as department chair in 2015. In her tenure at Cleveland State, she published three articles and supervised countless school counselor candidates, serving on the dissertation committee of many future educators. 

In her private life, Ann supported her family members immensely, helping to raise her grandchildren and to care for her aging mother. When anyone in her life needed love and care, Ann was there for them. 

Ann was well traveled and had many interests. She went on safari to Africa and traveled to South Korea, took her mom and sister to Puerto Vallarta, as well many places in the United States, like Sedona and Hawaii, which she visited for her 60th birthday. She sang in a gospel choir in Akron, loved to read, and her later years, to feed the birds and squirrels.

There will be a private ceremony held in Columbus on December 7. 2025. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you consider planting a tree in her memory, as she did to commemorate her successful PhD defense. Arrangements in care of Jackson Lytle & Lewis Life Celebration Center, Springfield, Ohio. Condolences may be expressed to her family by visiting www.jacksonlytle.com.