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Following is the obituary for Jean Nessler. (Gillow)
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Evening Tribune (San Diego, CA) - May 29, 1987 |
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Deceased Name: Jean P. Gillow |
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Memorial services for Jean P. Gillow, 40, of Chula Vista, will be at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Bonita Road Baptist Church. Cremation was planned by Glen Abbey Mortuary, with burial of ashes in Glen Abbey Memorial Park. She died Sunday in a hospital.
Mrs. Gillow, a lifelong county resident, had been a teacher of French at Bonita Vista High School and Bonita Vista Junior High School for 17 years. She attended Castle Park Middle School and Chula Vista High School and graduated from San Diego State University in 1968.
Mrs. Gillow was a member of the Torrey Pines Bicycle Club, the Old Globe Theatre Volunteers, the Junior Achievers and the Mercy Hospital trauma center.
Survivors include two aunts, an uncle and two cousins. The family suggested donations to the Old Globe Theatre, the American Cancer Society or the Bonita Vista High School memorial scholarship fund. |
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George Gillow
Jean was my first wife. She passed away after suffering fatal injuries in a bicycle accident in May of 1987.
Jean lived all her life in Chula Vista (for a few years in the Bonita section of Chula Vista). She grew up on Moss Street which was a short walking distance to her grammar school of Lillian J Rice. Then for Junior High it was a bus ride to Castle Park Junior High School. For High School, again, it was a short walk to Chula Vista High School. After graduating from CVHS in 1964, Jean attended Southwestern College and then San Diego State where she graduated with a degree in English and a minor in French.
She was employed initially at Bonita Vista Junior High were she taught English and French. Then a few years later moved to Bonita Vista High School.
Her passions in life were music and French. She took piano lessons as a young girl and continued to play as an adult. Her aunt willed her a beautiful Knabe baby grand piano which was also a player piano.
Jean received a Masters Degree in French and in the summer of 1971 she studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. She loved traveling to France and visited there many summers. I remember going in 1972 and taking lots of slides which she used in her French classes.
Jean's cousin, March Osborn, lived next door on Moss. Marcy was a 1963 graduate of CVHS and now lives in Rochester, NY where she is a retired Spanish teacher. Jean's other cousin is Dwight Page, a 1965 graduate of Hilltop High. He lives in Washington State. Jean did not have any brothers or sisters.
Jean did not have any children.
One interesting family member was her great aunt Viola (a.k.a. Ola) Johnson by her first marriage and Viola Uland on her second. Ola was the first Postmaster of Chula Vista and she is mentioned in history books on Chula Vista.
Below are a couple of pictures:
This was taken in 1966 when Jean was attending Southwestern College.
The picture below was taken sometime in the 1970s
Nelda Conard (Tidwell)
Jean Nessler and I were childhood friends. We both lived on Moss Street. I would go to Jean's house and play on the piano because I always wanted a piano. Jean taught me to play and in our Castle Park Junior High choir recital, I played "Silver Bells" on the piano while the choir sang. It was my proudest moment. We walked to the bus every day together. When we grew older we grew apart. But I never forgot Jean and our memories together.