Edward "Ed" Frank Biehler Obituary (1921

Edward "Ed" Frank Biehler, 91, a resident of the Hillsboro community died Saturday morning, August 25, 2012 at his home. Recitation of the Holy Rosary will be said at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday August 29, 2012 at the St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church; 39135 NW Harrington Rd. in Roy. Memorial Mass will follow the Rosary. Family and friends are invited to attend a reception following the Memorial Mass to be held at the St Francis Grade School. Rite of Christian Burial and Vault interment for the immediate family will take place after the reception at 2:00 p.m.at the Fern Hill Cemetery in Cornelius, OR. Ed was born on August 17, 1921 in Ramona, KS, and graduated from Herington High School in 1940. Always an independent spirit, he served in the Armed Forces during WWII in the 652nd Bombardment Squad in Elkenberry, England, United Kingdom, and trained as an airplane and engine mechanic in Airplane Mechanic School. After the war, he returned to Herington, KS to set up farming. He married Marcella (Benda) Biehler on October 6, 1947 in Pilsen, KS at St John Nepomecine Catholic Church. In 1959, Ed and his brother, Francis (Wanda) Biehler purchased a Western Auto franchise and moved their families to Brighton, CO. Ed's love of the land called him back to Kansas in 1974 where he returned to farming in the Kansas Flint Hills Tallgrass Prairiies near Council Grove. Ed and Mickey moved to Sheridan OR in 1992 to be closer to family. He continued to work as a mechanic at Oregon Pride Nursery in McMinnville, OR where employees fondly referred to him as "Grandpa." After heart surgery at Portland Good Samaritan Hospital in 2005, Ed and Mickey moved to Hillsboro to be closer to their daughter and son-in-law Michele and Joe Bass. He was a member of the Veteran of Foreign Wars and Knights of Columbus. Ed was a devout Catholic and mechanics, fishing, and reading. He is preceded in death by his wife of 62 years, Marcella "Mickey" (Benda) and a daughter; Kristine Biehler Parks; his parents John F. and Anna C. (Diepenbrock) Biehler; brothers William, Andrew, Joseph, Leo, Francis, Lawrence, and James Dean; and sisters Emma Fischer, Agnes Schrader, and Ann Herpich. He is survived by five children and their spouses; David and Maria Biehler of Dundee, OR; Richard and Scheri Biehler of Greeley, CO; Claudia and Mike Cepak of Pierre, SD; Judith and James Pasch of Madison, WI; Michele and Joe Bass of Hillsboro, OR; twelve grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations in Ed's name to Parkinson research.