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DEHLER -- JOHN CHARLES 2/25/23-6/29/11. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Feb. 2, 1923, lost his mother tragically in a fire just days after his birth. His father, consumed by grief, passed on his only child to be raised by friends and relatives. Despite such rough beginnings, John carried on to graduate high school, flew 30 missions over Europe during WWII, received the Distinguished Flying Cross from Winston Churchill, hitch-hiked from Brooklyn N.Y. to Monterrey, Mexico where he lived and studied Spanish, received a degree from St. John's Univ. in N.Y., married Ethel Winifred Serls from England, helped raise six kids, ate wheat germ, bone meal and rose hips before most of us realized we were all eating junk food; played musical instruments, studied the arts and religions, watched clouds and sunsets, created illustrations b.c. (before computers) for the lunar lander and space shuttle that can still be found today in old NASA manuals, worked briefly in Roswell (while in search of aliens), traveled, lived and explored in this Land of Enchantment, shot incredible photographs and on, and on, and on. John, with his angels, left this life of joy and suffering on Wednesday, June 29, 2011. His surviving family, his six children, Christopher, Jacolin, Jennifer, Richard, Pamela, and Beth; their mates Lynn, Ken, and Bob: grandchildren JB, Christopher, Zachary, Nicholas, Malachai, and Isabeau, their mates Kenny and Carlie, and his great- grandson Angel. We will all miss him dearly, yet rejoice in love and gratitude for all his guidance, his light, his shadow, his being,his love. May you find that perfectly round cloud John. Godspeed!
        Published on: Sun July 17, 2011