John Graham Kessel
John Graham Kessel, a resident of Fort Collins since 1984, departed from this life on July 26, 2011 at home after several years of ill health. He received treatment for throat cancer in 2000, and lung cancer in 2004. He was again struck with cancer in December of 2010 and decided not to undergo treatment this time, feeling he had lived a long full life.
John was born July 5, 1924 in Lincoln, Neb., the son of Hans F. and A. Margaret Kessel. He attended Nebraska Wesleyan University before earning graduate degrees from the University of Nebraska and Michigan State University. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Glenadine; his daughters, Mari Oxentenko and Nora Su Alvarado; his sons, Kurt (Anne) and Carl Kessel; his three grandchildren, Nicholas, Sean, and Alys; and his sister, Alice Murray. He was preceded in death by his parents, his brother, Jerry, and an infant son, Gary.
He began his teaching career in his native Nebraska at both Big Springs and Scottsbluff. From there he traveled to the Island of Guam and taught at George Washington High School. His next adventure was with the children of military service members overseas, through the Department of Defense. He was an excellent teacher. Over the long course of his career he taught at Narimasu, Yamato, and Yokota High schools in Tokyo, Japan; Bad Kreutznach, Frankfurt, and Ansbach High schools in Germany; and Lajes High School in the Azores, on the Portuguese Island of Terceira.
John embraced new technology and was one of the first seniors we knew of to get a home computer. He used it mainly to communicate with friends from his youth, and many former students, who wrote to tell him how he had made a difference to them. He was glad to reconnect with them, and to have been a big part of their lives. John marveled at the amount of information available on the Internet and how quickly it could be accessed, contemplating how different it would have been to teach in this day and age.
His photography hobby had him taking many pictures of the people and places he traveled. He enjoyed books and read extensively, passing along his love of books and knowledge to his children and grandchildren.
John loved Jazz music, and listened to all the greats from Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk, and Duke Ellington, to more modern Jazz musicians like Norah Jones, John Pizzarelli, and Michael Franks.
During World War II he served as a Navy Pharmacist's Mate with the 28th Regt. of the Fifth Marine Division and was proud to have been a member of the 40-man squad at Iwo Jima planting Old Glory atop Mt. Suribachi on February 23, 1945. Besides his service medals he was a recipient of the Purple Heart Award, presented by Adm. Chester A. Nimitz on Guam in May, 1945.
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Over the long course of his career he taught at Narimasu, Yamato, and Yokota High schools in Tokyo, Japan; Bad Kreutznach, Frankfurt, and Ansbach High schools in Germany; and Lajes High School in the Azores, on the Portuguese Island of Terceira.
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