Ag Society
Please use the fair office phone, email, or address to make contact with a fair board member.
Senior Fair Board Upcoming Meetings
The Fair Board meeting is held on the second Wednesday of every month at 7pm in the Henry County Event Center Meeting room.
The next meeting is JUNE 10, 2026.
Joshua Rettig
President
Director
Todd Fedderke
Vice President
Director
Wayne Michaelis
Treasurer
Director
Erin Willis
Secretary
Kelly Behrman
Director
Denton Blue
Director
Tim Brinkman
Director
Lyndon Engler
Director
Cody Agler
Director
Jim Flowers
Director
Jeanne Gerdeman
Director
Erynn Gerken
Director
John Poulson
Director
John Ritz
Director
Douglas Powell
Director
Garrett Rettig
Director
Calvin Hill
Director
Tricia Gerken
Director
Austin Genter
Director
Ashley Klein
Director
Dirk Meyer
Director
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Dues are $5.00 annually
Includes voting rights
Membership must be completed by Aug 31st
Available in the Fair Office
Other Personnel
Sarah Shepard
Events Manager
Morgan Parcher
OSU Extension Agent
Jim Santa Maria
Groundskeeper
Henry County
Agriculture Hall of Fame
2025 – Kevin Homan (posthumously), Mark Schwiebert, David Shively, Fred Yarnell (posthumously)
2024 – Paul Martin, James C. Meyer, Jeffrey Stober, George Weasel Jr.
2023 – Jan R. Leaders, J. Scott Miller, John Schwiebert, Steven J. Roby
2022 – Glenn W. “Sandy” Kieffer, Michael K. Miller, Jerry & Brenda Rosebrock, Thomas Wolf
2021 – Charles E. Griffith, Arthur Gustwiller, Jr., Laura Rolf, Richard & Esther Storch
2020 – No recipients named in 2020
2019 – Donald Maassel, Otto Miller, Jr., John Rettig, Bert Showman
2018 – Theodore “Ted” W. Baughman, Emerson R. Brinkman, Leonard “Bud” Hatcher, John Rohrs
2017 – Lawrence C. Gerken Jr., Walter Delventhal, Eldon Cohrs, Dr. Douglas Burgei
2016 – Jerry R. Davis, Clarence D. Huddle, Eric Klein, Doug Powell
2015 – Larry Agler, Elmer Hastedt, Jack Lugbill, Ed Rosebrook, Jr.
2014 – Merle & Betty Bishop, James Homan, Darwin Beck, Johney Ritz
2013 – Gene H. Meller, Eugene E. Rosebrook, Paul J. Schlotterbeck, Mary Ann Creager
2012 – Robert McLimans, Ervin Meyer, Lawrence C. Gerken Sr., Raymond Rickley
2011 – Henry W. Seedorf, E.H. Bond, Lawrence W. Gerken, Lynn Geitgey
2010 – George Little, James Bowers, Victor Damman, Victor Sonnenberg
2009 – Theodore A. Fritz, Robert L. Baker, Albert E. Huber, Lowell G. Leatherman
2008 – Marten Luther Howell, Walter Seedorf, Earl Short, William Oedy
2007 – Paul H. Pfau, Leo L. Zenz, Ralph E. Young
2006 – UNKNOWN
2005 – Bob Cole, Earl Stober, Elmer Cohrs, John J. Miller
2004 – Daris Mohler, Allen Clady, Jay Huddle