I’m so sorry to hear about Uncle John passing. Praying that god will watch over your family. Been so long since I’ve seen your family. Sorry that I wasn’t able to attend the service due to work. Our family will miss Uncle John and keep you all in prayer. Please take care of yourselves.

I was happy to have John (Jonnie) for my brother. He was a little more than a year younger than me. He and me and Brian played board games and wild tag in our big house. When he was older, he would play beautiful Spanish songs on his guitar. I never remember him getting angry. He was very good natured. When he left home and moved to Hawaii I saw him twice more. The second time he looked in his element: handsome with blonde hair and blue eyes; tall and lean in his blue and white Hawaiian shirt. Later when he was seventy, he had a serious lung operation, but he didn’t let that stop him and he worked at his video business until he died. 

Rest with God my brother.

Uncle John was always welcoming and happy to meet again, even after years in between. The way he would chime in with a perfectly timed joke lit up the faces of the people in the room. 

Uncle John, you are loved and missed.

i knew John from our hometown in Garden City, New York. we graduated from the same high school.  here is a photo of the way i will remember John. Rest in Heavenly Peace Johnny!

John Guild was an amazing man to work with.  I met John in the early 1990’s, when I worked in the local stage entertainment community.  Always gentle-spoken, never a harsh word from him when we did jobs together.  John was a pillar in our community, and we did so many shows together I lost count.  John will be forever missed, but never forgotten.  Rest in Peace, my friend.

We went to high school together. This photo is our Babe Ruth team from 1961. John is second row, far right. Condolences to all his family and friends.
Mike Stern

John & Melanie at the Ala Moana Center. We kept in touch after I left and my wife and I visited Hawaii several times.

Photo & Sound Company 1988.
That's Liz in the center.

Photo & Sound Company, Honolulu. 1988
(Kneeling) Xavier, Alan, JG
(Standing) Albert, Kim, Gene, Ken, Johnny, JW
(In back) Derek

John and Mel have been loving friends and providers of opportunities for myself and my family for decades. I’ve been able to raise my family here in Hawai’i in large part due to the trust and love I have always felt from these two wonderful people and the 100s of shows they brought me in on.
I’m the oldest of four kids and John was the big brother I could always look up to and count on.
I miss him more than words can say.
I hope he trys the liver and onions in heaven, I could never get him to try it down here.

All my aloha and condolences to Mel and John’s ohana.

These pics were taken back in May 2020. That year Shinnyo En Hawaii hosted a hybrid Lantern Floating event on the grounds of their temple in Moiliili. John & Mel provided the video wall, which projected simulation of koi swimming in a stream...so cool!

Jimi, JG and myself at Lakewood amphitheater in Atlanta Georgia

Some down time when we were taking a projector class in California

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John Carlton Guild

22 July, 1948 – 6 January, 2024

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