William H. Hehr

Dad, William Henry Hehr, was born on Finley Street, in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, January 29th 1930, by a midwife. He had an older brother, Don, and an older sister, Lucille, and younger sister, Marilyn. His father, Carl Hehr was a house painter and his mother, Mary Gamber Hehr stayed home with her children and remodeled the different homes they lived in.
Dad went to church a lot with the family and sang in the choir, which probably started his musical career. He sang in school and learned to play the trumpet. He was also in a band. If you’ve been around Dad a lot you know he’s always humming and jingling the change in his pocket to the tune he’s humming. He doesn’t think anyone notices though, so we never said anything.
Over his lifetime, Dad, worked many long and hard hours doing things like running a paper route, during the War he worked in a bakery, in the Air Force he worked with jet airplanes and missiles, when he retired from the military he was a mechanic and finally went to work at NAPA and retired from there, twice.
He loved bikes, his motorcycles and cars that went fast and furious. When Nascar was on, you couldn’t talk to Dad. He was a semi-professional boxer and played trumpet. He played with Tommy Dorset and the Big Bands as a “trumpet for hire”.
Daddy’s life wasn’t complete until he met and married the love of his life, Phyllis Elaine Rutherford, they married in 1953, had two beautiful, wonderful daughter’s, Shelley Jean and me, Terry Elaine and two handsome, pretty terrific sons, Michael, who passed away March 19th, 2018 and Hans, who is our strength now. Grandkids and great grandkids, they know who they are and that Dad loved and accepted each and everyone for their special talents and the love, that was their legacy.
If you want to know who William Henry Hehr was…look into the eyes of his children and Grand Children and his legacy lives on and on and on and on…
Daddy you are missed more than words can say, you are loved more than life. Daddy….YOU ARE OUR HERO!!!!!