Helen Gayle Ehler, age 88, of Henderson, Nevada passed away on Sunday, June 4, 2023. She was born on September 3, 1934, to Homer and Chessie Callaway as the youngest of three children. Charles and Carolyn were her older siblings. Gayle grew up in Marlow, Oklahoma, and attended Marlow High School. She attended the Oklahoma College for Women (now the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma) for one year before transferring to Oklahoma University, where she joined the Delta Gamma Sorority and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Education in 1957.
Gayle then took her first full time teaching position at Brighton High School in Brighton, Colorado. At a football game in her first semester, she met John Ehler, a local farmer and BHS graduate nearly four years her senior. They started dating a few months later, and married on July 5, 1958, in Brighton. The new couple took their honeymoon at Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico.
Gayle continued to teach while John farmed until the birth of their son Alan on December 12, 1964. Gayle stayed home to raise Alan and their daughter Deborah (born December 27, 1965) for the next several years. In that season, she provided bookkeeping for Ehler Farms, served on the Brighton School Board, and sang in the choir, taught classes, and served as a deacon at First United Presbyterian Church. The couple also discovered their passion for world traveling in that season.
Gayle returned to teaching junior high English in the late 1970s and moved to teaching students held in the juvenile delinquency system for several years in the 1980s and 1990s. John and Gayle sold the farm in 1999 and moved to Wenatchee, Washington, to be closer to their children and grandchildren. Summers were spent on Lakes Chelan and Roosevelt in addition to their Wenatchee home, and, beginning in 2003, the couple wintered in Palm Desert, California.
In 2018, the couple moved to Lake Las Vegas, Nevada, and Gayle began to show signs of dementia. Gayle caught COVID-19 in September 2020 and continued to experienced the symptoms known as Long COVID for the next two-and-a-half years. A fall in a recovery center in March 2023 broke her hip, and on May 25 Gayle was diagnosed with liver and pancreatic cancer. She was placed on hospice on May 31, and passed into the arms of her Savior Jesus Christ on Sunday, June 4, 2023.
Gayle is survived by her husband, John Ehler; children: Alan Ehler and Deborah Strahm; and grandchildren: Hannah and Stephen Ehler and Luke and Jake strahm.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.palmboulderhighway.com for the Ehler family.
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