Chuck Mann, treasurer and a vice president of Owens Community College during its enrollment and building boom, died March 8 in ProMedica Ebeid Hospice, Sylania. He was 69.

He had cancer, his wife, Jan, said.

Mr. Mann, a certified public accountant, retired in December, 2006, as a senior vice president of Owens. He’d been treasurer to the board of trustees since April, 1976.

The trustees, in a resolution, commended his service and noted his trips to Columbus for Owens and the resulting state capital and instruction appropriations. They also noted that the school added 316 acres and 17 buildings at its Perrysburg Township and Findlay campuses during his tenure.

“He was highly respected in the state of Ohio,” said Paul Unger, who retired in 2009 as Owens executive vice president and provost. “At one time, Owens was ranked the fastest growing community college of its size in the United States. He was very good about maintaining the fiscal health of the institution.”

Mr. Mann worked with his academic-side counterparts as Owens changed from a technical to a comprehensive state community college, offering courses in the arts and sciences. Owens’ enrollment jumped from 9,130 in 1993, its last full year as a technical college, to 23,606 in 2009, but began a big decline the next year.

“Chuck was a forward thinker, he was a visionary,” Mr. Unger said. “He wanted to make sure the students had the latest in technology, the nicest buildings, so the academic programs would be very solid,” Mr. Unger said.

Charles Lee Mann was born Aug. 17, 1945, in Morenci, Mich., to Catherine and Ernest Mann. He was a 1963 graduate of Blissfield High School and a 1967 graduate of Michigan State University. He was an accountant for nine years at what was then Ernst & Ernst in Toledo.

The Lambertville resident was a fan of University of Michigan sports — his children are alumni — and in retirement he and his wife visited family around the country and abroad and spent time at their Lake Seneca cottage in Ohio, and he resumed reading for pleasure — “Things he didn’t have time to do when he was working,” his wife said.

Surviving are his wife, the former Janice Fischer, whom he married June 30, 1967; daughters, Julie Mann, Kathleen Owens, and Jessica Arizo; son, Charles; sisters, Peggy Reynolds and Gwen Greenman; and five grandchildren.

Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in Urbanski’s Bedford Funeral Chapel, Temperance.

The family suggests tributes to Owens Community College or Planned Pethood.

Contact Mark Zaborney at: mzaborney@theblade.com or 419-724-6182.

First Published March 19, 2015, 4:00 a.m.