Fred Allen Dimler (1904 - 1982)

Born 17 Sep 1904 in Dayton Kentucky

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Died 25 Feb 1982 at age 77 in Flowery Branch, Georgia

Biography

Fred Allen Dimler was Born in Dayton, Kentucky. Attended Maryville College in Maryville Tennessee. There He met Gwendolyn E. Mann and after graduation were married. They had a son Herbert Lionel Dimler in 1937 in Alcoa, Tennessee. They both applied for Teaching jobs with the Department of Indian affairs and acepted jobs teaching in Alaska. During 1940 their daugher Mary Carolyn Dimler was born in Fairbanks, Alaska. In 1943 another son Leighton Alan Dimler was born in Yakutat, Alaska. On or about 1945 they moved to Sells, Arizona to teach on the Papago Indian Reservation. Fred went back to school to get his Masters Degree from the University of Tennessee. He received his Masters around 1958. Fred and Gwendolyn lost their son Herbert Lionel Dimler in an Air Force flight training accident in 1959. They Moved from Sells, Arizona to Casa Blanca On the Gila River Indian Reservation during August 1959. Their Daughter Mary Carolyn Married John R Scott December of 1960. Fred and Gabe Paxton wrote a book titled "We are the Pima's" around 1960. Revised by Fred Dimler 1965, 1968, and 1971. Their son Leighton Married Lois Elaine Daughtery in October of 1963. In the summer of 1971 Fred and Gwendolyn Retired from the Indian service and had a home built on their property that Gwendolyn had inherited from her mother Shasta Viola Mann (approxamently 11 acres). They moved to Flowery Branch Georgia when the home was completed. Both my mother and father enjoyed gardening and had a very large garden on the North side of their home. Just about every summer Lois and I would go to Georgia to visit. On the trip home the back of our truck was loaded with canned vegtables they hadd grown in their back yard garded. My Dad died at the age of 78 and my mother 98.

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• Son Leighton Dimler