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I remember him and the Pyramids from my days at Antioch College. Kimathe was a joyful soul!
Bobby Gates
February 03, 2026 | School


Toledo, Ohio
Nov 9, 1951 – Dec 1, 2025 (Age 74)
News storyBy Tom HenryBlade Staff WriterKimathi Asante, a noted jazz musician, music educator, world traveler, and avid record collector who lived in the Toledo area for the past 25 years, died suddenly of heart failure on Dec. 1 in Toledo. He was 74.Mr. Asante was born in Springfield, Ohio, on...
Read MoreI remember him and the Pyramids from my days at Antioch College. Kimathe was a joyful soul!
Bobby Gates
February 03, 2026 | School
Kimathi Asante was my friend, he told me recently, that he prayed for me every day! How blessed was I. I was also a student of Antioch Yellowsprings, San Francisco, and I received my Masters from the McGregor School of Antioch. Kimathi was a powerful warrior. He walked the talk and led by example. He has other things to do now, I get it! Eternal Energy on the move. Always, Evelyn Hatcher
Evelyn Hatcher
January 16, 2026 | Friend
He was my Lyft driver. One of the most amazing people I´ve ever met in my life. I was going through a very hard time when I met him and he was just there for me. Just an amazing person. We have been friends ever since that first drive 8 years ago. I will miss him dearly. He had a heart of gold. He always told me I did just a wonderful person.
Amy Newell
January 10, 2026 | Friend
Jasper Rascal was my first college roommate at Antioch, Fall `70. A local, he showed me the ropes and we bonded over music eternally. I´ve got wonderful memories from Ohio to Cali. We are brothers forever. Kimathi, Vaya con nuestro ancestros.
Greg Bryant
January 09, 2026
Never had the privilege of knowing the man, but having had the good fortune of making the acquaintance of the good Bobbie Johnston (who's heart exhibits a genuinely sweet, good natured humanity) can say without fear of being at all off base that I could see and almost feel the love and joyous humanity plainly evident in those photos of Kimathi Asante. This troubled world has surely lost a good deal of what it is already in desperately short supply of. R. I. P. dear Kimathi.
Edward Zelinski
January 09, 2026 | Other
Kimathi was a sweet friend of mine since we were about 6 or 7yrs old, the Williams family lived two houses away on Marshall Street in Yellow Springs Ohio......
Gregory "Duke" Dewey
January 09, 2026 | Family
In loving memory of a wonderful person. We will love you and miss you always. I remember Kimathi from Paul Lawrence Dunbar Academy. He was the school leader and I was a teacher there. He had so much to teach me a to learn from me. Kimathi
Mark J Jesionowski
January 09, 2026 | Work