Glenside Fire Company Volunteer Who Lived Life of Service to Others, Dies at 104

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Glenside Leo Kuehl
Image via Megan DeLany, The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Leo B. Kuehl, a Glenside Fire Company volunteer who lived a life of service to others, died on April 24 at Rydal Park retirement community aged 104, writes Rita Giordano for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“Everything he did was for other people,” said his granddaughter Megan Sweeney. “Very rarely did he ever take time to do anything for himself.”

A Minnesota native, Kuehl moved to Glenside after returning from World War II, where he served with the 4th Marine Air Wing in the Pacific. He then worked as a supervisor of cost accounting at Honeywell for nearly five decades where he met his wife, Betty. The pair had been married for 57 years when she died in 2010.

A huge proponent of education, Leo Kuehl took business classes at Temple University for fifteen years while working full-time until he earned enough credits to receive his bachelor’s degree in business administration. He even graduated magna cum laude and was recognized as a President’s Scholar.

He volunteered with the Glenside Fire Company for 65 years in various roles, including head engineer, treasurer, and member of the board of directors.

Read more about Leo Kuehl in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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