Todd Edward Ostheller was a retired Army lieutenant colonel and defense industry engineer who was a Hunt Valley Station neighborhood leader.
Born in Spokane, Washington, he was the son of Orland Ostheller, a World War II veteran and wheat farmer, and Betty Berger, an artist and gallery owner who wrote an advice column for the Fairfield Standard Register.
Todd Ostheller was a 1976 graduate of Liberty High School in Spangle, Washington, where he played football, basketball and ran track and field.
He became a competitive skier at age seven and trained at Mount Spokane and Silver Mountain.
He attended the Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he earned a degree in general engineering.
An athlete, he was a member of West Point’s ski team and 150-pound sprint football squad.
Mr. Ostheller attended Army Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia and later went to Army Flight School at Fort Rucker, Alabama. He received his wings as a Cobra attack helicopter pilot and was known as Stellar.
In late 1981 he was assigned to the 501st Combat Aviation Battalion in Katterbach, Germany. He served as an attack helicopter platoon leader.
Todd was married to Julie Shanks. They met on July 4, 1983, and were married in Cockeysville within five months.
Todd Ostheller Obituary – Cause Of Death
Todd Ostheller died of a cardiac event after teaching his grandchildren to ski at Liberty Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania on January 31, 2022.
The Hunt Valley resident was 64.
He is survivors by his wife, Julie Shanks Ostheller, a storyteller at the Mall in Columbia; a daughter, Greta Kodan of Fulton; a son, Max Ostheller of Bethesda; a sister Kari Fisher of Portland, Oregon; a brother, David Ostheller of Sweden; and three grandchildren.
Services were held Saturday at the Timonium United Methodist Church.