Leo Kuehl, expense accounting supervisor, longtime Glenside Hearth Firm volunteer, dies at 104.

Leo B. Kuehl, 104, formerly of Glenside and Ambler, a light family members male who lived a existence of company to others, died Saturday, April 24, at Rydal Park retirement neighborhood after problems from a drop.

“Everything he did was for other people today,” reported his granddaughter Megan Sweeney. “Very almost never did he at any time take time to do just about anything for himself.”

“He would converse about how his most loved phrase was integrity, and that was how he lived his lifetime,” Sweeney claimed. “He just grew up with a sense of local community and providing back. That was his way.”

Born in Westbrook, Minn., the next of five kids, Mr. Kuehl’s father John was a fire chief and his mother Lily was active in neighborhood colleges and politics. Mr. Kuehl spent substantially of his boyhood performing on an uncle’s farm in Wausau, Neb.

He graduated high college around the top of his course and went to get the job done for the Honeywell Corporation. For the duration of Environment War II, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps and proudly served with the 4th Maritime Air Wing in the Pacific, his granddaughter mentioned.

Afterward, he returned to Honeywell and figured out the firm had opened a new business in the Philadelphia region. He relocated to Glenside and labored as a supervisor of price accounting at Honeywell for the next 47 years. It was there that he fulfilled his spouse Betty. They have been married 57 yrs when she died in 2010.

Mr. Kuehl was usually a firm believer in the worth of schooling. Quiet and unassuming, Sweeney mentioned he encouraged her and her good friends to pursue their goals — and do the get the job done to attain them.

“He encouraged us to discover what we have been passionate about and get as educated as we could,” she explained.

Knowledgeable of the example he was location and wanting to far better himself, Mr. Kuehl took business enterprise courses at Temple University at evening even though doing work entire-time at Honeywell for 15 decades until eventually he earned more than enough credits for a bachelor’s degree in company administration. Not only that, said Sweeney, he graduated magna cum laude and was named a President’s Scholar for earning the best grade place average in the organization university.

Sweeney said she realized of the honors a couple back when she observed an posting about her grandfather’s achievements in a Honeywell corporation newsletter.

Mr. Kuehl was also a dedicated volunteer with the Glenside Fire Business for 65 yrs, serving many posts including head engineer, treasurer, head of finance and member of the board of administrators. By means of his information of accounting, he served introduce fiscal enhancements that permitted the organization to acquire long-term programs for the buy of up-to-date gear and vehicles — an accomplishment of which he was rather proud, his granddaughter reported.

In his later years, Mr. Kuehl cared for his spouse as she battled colon most cancers. When he moved to Rydal Park from their Ambler dwelling soon after her death, he volunteered as a companion to hospice clients in their properties in his wife’s memory.

He also served on many committees at Rydal Park and led an exertion to switch to a far more sustainable, charge-saving lightbulb at the retirement community.

A loving patriarch, Mr. Kuehl was usually involved about his loved ones and the values he instilled in them.

“We talked everyday about anything,” his granddaughter stated. “He would usually remind me: ‘Megan, what is my most loved phrase?’ Integrity, Pop.”

“He normally required to make guaranteed he was modeling integrity for us,” she claimed.

In addition to his granddaughter, Mr. Kuehl is survived by daughters, Lizanne Newmiller and Marybeth Kuehl two other granddaughters 1 good-granddaughter and quite a few other spouse and children customers.

A funeral assistance will be held at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, June 8, at Washington Crossing National Cemetery, 830 Highland Rd., Newtown, Pa. 18940.

Donations in Mr. Kuehl’s memory may be made to the Glenside Fire Firm, 210 W. Glenside Ave., Glenside, Pa. 19038.