George Louis Borelli

Borelli Dr. George Louis Borelli, passed away at Trillium Place in Columbus, Ohio, surrounded by his family, on March 9, 2015. He was born June 13, 1926, the youngest of nine children, in New York City, and grew up on the Lower East Side in Manhattan's Little Italy. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946 in the South Pacific as a Radio Operator on two different destroyers. He used the G.I. Bill to go to college, starting at Champlain College in New York, continuing at Kent State in Ohio, and finishing at The Ohio State University with a PH.D. in Clinical Psychology. He practiced privately as a clinical psychologist for over fifty years in Ohio and Florida, was an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at The Ohio State University, an authority on the use of the Rorschach Ink Blot Test, and Role Play Simulation. He worked at the OSU School of Nursing, the OSU Rehabilitation Center, the Pritikin Longevity Center, and the NOVA University in Miami, Florida. He vacationed with his family in the Bahamas, and in later life, took up screenplay writing. George was preceded in death by his parents Anthony and Mary Borelli, his six brothers, two sisters, and his wife of over fifty years, Carol Jeffers. He is survived by his four children, Jeffrey (Susan) Borelli, Lisa (Sadie Michael) Borelli, Scott Borelli, and Michael (Linda) Borelli; his five grandchildren, Benjamin Borelli, Zachary Borelli, Jake Borelli, Andrea (Jeff) Shaner, and Natalie Adkins; six great-grandchildren; and his companion of four years, Cathy Yerington. A private memorial for family will be arranged at a later date. Condolences will be gratefully accepted by his family members, and the Columbus Dispatch on-line book. Donations in his name can be made to the National Kidney Foundation. His family gives special thanks to all who cared for him at Trillium Place, Kobacker House, and Ohio Health Hospice.