Dean Wesley Obituary (2022) – San Jose, CA – Mercury News – Legacy.com

Beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle, who will be mourned but who leaves us with so many memories of his kindness, generosity and sense of fun and adventure. Wesley was born and grew up in Burbank, California. The middle of three boys. In high school, he was a pole-vaulter and worked as an auto mechanic. After high school, Wesley transferred from UCLA to Cal where he earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Through his connection with the John Wesley House in Berkeley, he attended a dinner with Niels Bohr and had a lifelong passion for physics. In his leisure time, Wesley was a champion weightlifter, horseshoe-thrower and ping pong player.Working at Rohr Aircraft, Wesley courted and won the heart of his wife, Dorothea Gugan. During their 63-year marriage, they enjoyed skiing, backpacking, gardening and world travel together. Wesley was a skilled amateur videographer and editor, creating commemorative videos for University of California Berkeley Beartreks and Santa Clara University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute trips. His nearly 50 videos of trips throughout Europe and the neareast, narrated by Dorothea, the lecturer for those trips, can be viewed at this link: https://vimeo.com/user46005026/videos. If you want to honor him, please follow him on…
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