SHELBURNE - Charles F. Kellner died in Shelburne on Aug. 25, 2010, at the age of 97.
He was born to Charles L. and Fanny Kellner in Far Rockaway, N.Y. on March 16, 1913, the fourth of five children.
He graduated from Woodmere Academy and then Rutgers College (Class of 1935), where he played football, captained the fencing team, earned Phi Beta Kappa honors and won a scholarship to Harvard Business School. After completing his education, Charles entered his family's furniture business in Manhattan.
When World War II began, like so many others of his generation, Charles chose to enlist.
Initially his flat feet and poor eyesight prevented the military from accepting his offer, but (like with everything else he did in life) Charles persisted until he wore down the U.S. Army and was commissioned as an officer. Charles served in the Pacific, leading an amphibious landing craft squad.
Upon his discharge, Charles returned to the business world, working for several retailers and eventually taking a position in Cleveland, OH, where he met Shirley Bogen, the wonderful woman who would become his wife. Charles and Shirley moved to the Chicago area where he ran an electronics parts business and they raised five children.
Charles built his life around his marriage, his children and his business. He saw to it that each of his offspring obtained higher educations and inherited his core values of loyalty and family. His children were Charles' pride and joy, and he delighted in sharing their accomplishments with them and others (woe to the strangers who found themselves stuck in an elevator with Charles; by the time those elevator doors opened, those strangers had heard the biographies of each of Charles' children, like it or not). After retirement, Charles devoted his time to his family, his vegetable and flower gardens, and travel, fully committing himself to each of those passions. After Shirley's death in 1989, Charles remained in his Illinois home until 2003, when he moved to Shelburne to be near his children and their families.
Charles is survived by his daughter, Rosanne Kellner of Cambridge, Mass.; his son, Charles H. Kellner and his wife, Halimah, of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; his son, John L. Kellner and his wife, Dayle, of Weybridge; his daughter, Frances Kellner and her husband, Donald Hawthorne, of Chappaqua, N.Y.; and his son, William D. Kellner and his wife, Joanne Wolfe, of Charlotte; and by his grandchildren, Chazz Kellner and his wife, Elizabeth, John Kellner, William Kellner, Samuel Kellner, Michael Kellner, Peter Kellner, Danial Lissborg, Katherine Hawthorne, Claire Kellner, Eliza Hawthorne, and Phoebe Hawthorne. He was predeceased by his wife, Shirley Bogen Kellner; and his brothers and sisters.
Services will be private.
Published in The Burlington Free Press on August 28, 2010
He was born to Charles L. and Fanny Kellner in Far Rockaway, N.Y. on March 16, 1913, the fourth of five children.
He graduated from Woodmere Academy and then Rutgers College (Class of 1935), where he played football, captained the fencing team, earned Phi Beta Kappa honors and won a scholarship to Harvard Business School. After completing his education, Charles entered his family's furniture business in Manhattan.
When World War II began, like so many others of his generation, Charles chose to enlist.
Initially his flat feet and poor eyesight prevented the military from accepting his offer, but (like with everything else he did in life) Charles persisted until he wore down the U.S. Army and was commissioned as an officer. Charles served in the Pacific, leading an amphibious landing craft squad.
Upon his discharge, Charles returned to the business world, working for several retailers and eventually taking a position in Cleveland, OH, where he met Shirley Bogen, the wonderful woman who would become his wife. Charles and Shirley moved to the Chicago area where he ran an electronics parts business and they raised five children.
Charles built his life around his marriage, his children and his business. He saw to it that each of his offspring obtained higher educations and inherited his core values of loyalty and family. His children were Charles' pride and joy, and he delighted in sharing their accomplishments with them and others (woe to the strangers who found themselves stuck in an elevator with Charles; by the time those elevator doors opened, those strangers had heard the biographies of each of Charles' children, like it or not). After retirement, Charles devoted his time to his family, his vegetable and flower gardens, and travel, fully committing himself to each of those passions. After Shirley's death in 1989, Charles remained in his Illinois home until 2003, when he moved to Shelburne to be near his children and their families.
Charles is survived by his daughter, Rosanne Kellner of Cambridge, Mass.; his son, Charles H. Kellner and his wife, Halimah, of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; his son, John L. Kellner and his wife, Dayle, of Weybridge; his daughter, Frances Kellner and her husband, Donald Hawthorne, of Chappaqua, N.Y.; and his son, William D. Kellner and his wife, Joanne Wolfe, of Charlotte; and by his grandchildren, Chazz Kellner and his wife, Elizabeth, John Kellner, William Kellner, Samuel Kellner, Michael Kellner, Peter Kellner, Danial Lissborg, Katherine Hawthorne, Claire Kellner, Eliza Hawthorne, and Phoebe Hawthorne. He was predeceased by his wife, Shirley Bogen Kellner; and his brothers and sisters.
Services will be private.
Published in The Burlington Free Press on August 28, 2010
SHELBURNE - Charles F. Kellner died in Shelburne on Aug. 25, 2010, at the age of 97.
He was born to Charles L. and Fanny Kellner in Far Rockaway, N.Y. on March 16, 1913, the fourth of five children.
He graduated from Woodmere Academy and then Rutgers College (Class of 1935), where he played football, captained the fencing team, earned Phi Beta Kappa honors and won a scholarship to Harvard Business School. After completing his education, Charles entered his family's furniture business in Manhattan.
When World War II began, like so many others of his generation, Charles chose to enlist.
Initially his flat feet and poor eyesight prevented the military from accepting his offer, but (like with everything else he did in life) Charles persisted until he wore down the U.S. Army and was commissioned as an officer. Charles served in the Pacific, leading an amphibious landing craft squad.
Upon his discharge, Charles returned to the business world, working for several retailers and eventually taking a position in Cleveland, OH, where he met Shirley Bogen, the wonderful woman who would become his wife. Charles and Shirley moved to the Chicago area where he ran an electronics parts business and they raised five children.
Charles built his life around his marriage, his children and his business. He saw to it that each of his offspring obtained higher educations and inherited his core values of loyalty and family. His children were Charles' pride and joy, and he delighted in sharing their accomplishments with them and others (woe to the strangers who found themselves stuck in an elevator with Charles; by the time those elevator doors opened, those strangers had heard the biographies of each of Charles' children, like it or not). After retirement, Charles devoted his time to his family, his vegetable and flower gardens, and travel, fully committing himself to each of those passions. After Shirley's death in 1989, Charles remained in his Illinois home until 2003, when he moved to Shelburne to be near his children and their families.
Charles is survived by his daughter, Rosanne Kellner of Cambridge, Mass.; his son, Charles H. Kellner and his wife, Halimah, of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; his son, John L. Kellner and his wife, Dayle, of Weybridge; his daughter, Frances Kellner and her husband, Donald Hawthorne, of Chappaqua, N.Y.; and his son, William D. Kellner and his wife, Joanne Wolfe, of Charlotte; and by his grandchildren, Chazz Kellner and his wife, Elizabeth, John Kellner, William Kellner, Samuel Kellner, Michael Kellner, Peter Kellner, Danial Lissborg, Katherine Hawthorne, Claire Kellner, Eliza Hawthorne, and Phoebe Hawthorne. He was predeceased by his wife, Shirley Bogen Kellner; and his brothers and sisters.
Services will be private.
Published in The Burlington Free Press on August 28, 2010
He was born to Charles L. and Fanny Kellner in Far Rockaway, N.Y. on March 16, 1913, the fourth of five children.
He graduated from Woodmere Academy and then Rutgers College (Class of 1935), where he played football, captained the fencing team, earned Phi Beta Kappa honors and won a scholarship to Harvard Business School. After completing his education, Charles entered his family's furniture business in Manhattan.
When World War II began, like so many others of his generation, Charles chose to enlist.
Initially his flat feet and poor eyesight prevented the military from accepting his offer, but (like with everything else he did in life) Charles persisted until he wore down the U.S. Army and was commissioned as an officer. Charles served in the Pacific, leading an amphibious landing craft squad.
Upon his discharge, Charles returned to the business world, working for several retailers and eventually taking a position in Cleveland, OH, where he met Shirley Bogen, the wonderful woman who would become his wife. Charles and Shirley moved to the Chicago area where he ran an electronics parts business and they raised five children.
Charles built his life around his marriage, his children and his business. He saw to it that each of his offspring obtained higher educations and inherited his core values of loyalty and family. His children were Charles' pride and joy, and he delighted in sharing their accomplishments with them and others (woe to the strangers who found themselves stuck in an elevator with Charles; by the time those elevator doors opened, those strangers had heard the biographies of each of Charles' children, like it or not). After retirement, Charles devoted his time to his family, his vegetable and flower gardens, and travel, fully committing himself to each of those passions. After Shirley's death in 1989, Charles remained in his Illinois home until 2003, when he moved to Shelburne to be near his children and their families.
Charles is survived by his daughter, Rosanne Kellner of Cambridge, Mass.; his son, Charles H. Kellner and his wife, Halimah, of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; his son, John L. Kellner and his wife, Dayle, of Weybridge; his daughter, Frances Kellner and her husband, Donald Hawthorne, of Chappaqua, N.Y.; and his son, William D. Kellner and his wife, Joanne Wolfe, of Charlotte; and by his grandchildren, Chazz Kellner and his wife, Elizabeth, John Kellner, William Kellner, Samuel Kellner, Michael Kellner, Peter Kellner, Danial Lissborg, Katherine Hawthorne, Claire Kellner, Eliza Hawthorne, and Phoebe Hawthorne. He was predeceased by his wife, Shirley Bogen Kellner; and his brothers and sisters.
Services will be private.
Published in The Burlington Free Press on August 28, 2010
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