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Gilmer Wallace Dehn
22 Feb 1923 – 18 Feb 1990
| Birth | 22 Feb 1923 |
| Death | 18 Feb 1990 |
| Cemetery | Payne Cemetery Polk , Polk County , Missouri , USA |
| Added by | Mardi on 07 Dec 2014 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86840537 |
Bio
Gilmer Wallace Dehn was born on February 22, 1923 in Vichy, Maries County, Missouri to Julius Albert Dehn and Ethel Lee (Wallace) Dehn, the youngest of three children. He passed away on February 18, 1990 in Springfield, Missouri. He grew up outside of Vichy on his family’s farm and graduated from Rolla (MO) High School. After graduating, he went to live with his sister and brother-in-law, Alvena (Dehn) and Joe Rickards in Los Angeles, CA. He entered the Air Force as an airplane mechanic in 1943, and left as a Sergeant at the end of the war in 1946. He served in Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes and Central Europe during the two years he was overseas. He returned to Missouri and graduated from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1950. He married Irene Jones on May 11, 1952. He first worked as a County Extension Agent for the University, in Hickory County, Missouri. He later received his Masters in Agriculture from University of Missouri and moved to Kirksville, MO and later to Troy, MO. They had four children. After twenty years with the Extension Service especially active with 4-H Clubs, Gilmer became a social worker in Lincoln County and St. Louis County, starting many services. He worked with Kiwanis and received the Kiwanis Man of the Year Award, led local American Youth Hostels, American Wheelmen and long distance bicycling charity rides, including founding the "Midnight Ramble" in St. Louis, plus was the oldest to complete a double century in 20 hours. Gilmer was also very involved in the Church of Christ as an elder of the church. They later retired to Springfield Missouri in 1983.
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