Melvin Jacob Guyer

He was truly a great friend. We traveled to Baja for a student education desert retreat. We had many other travel adventures. I miss him.

We spent a week in the Baja of Mexico with a bunch of high school students camping in a tent. It was a great time.

He was a great friend and I miss him so. We had many adventures together. He was a great storyteller about our adventures. I loved to relive these when I listened to him tell of our escapades.

I grew up in Detroit in the 1950s with Melvin and others whose families came from the shtetl of Gombin in Poland. Both our fathers were named Simcha Chaja (Sydney Guyer) in Poland. We considered ourselves cousins although we did not know how related. the last time I saw Melvin was at the home of his actual first cousin, Aida (Guyer) Cutler, who wanted us to look through an amazing collection of old photographs that her father had left after his death. Melvin's son (?Matt) was also there. ...

Mel was married to my cousin Joanna and our family was so blessed to have shared many holidays with them. My favorite memory of Mel was when he shared a story of his fathers tailor shop in Detroit. It was like a story from a best seller book. Wondrous memories of Mel and he will be missed.

I met Mel shortly after Ed and I met in 1977. Mel was (as ED's comment's will attest)a close friend, and quickly became my friend also. We had great times together at our home, our condo in the Sierras and on trips to San Diego, Baja and Virginia. I used to tease him, calling him Eeyore for his sometimes pessimistic views. But then he would smile---a smile that would light up the room . That smile I will always remember as the essence of Mel Guyer. My thoughts are with his wife, Joanna and...

Mel, the only male other than my father that I have truly loved and lost.
Mel and I met as neighbors in 1965. We had moved in to Pittsfield Village in Ann Arbor. I was starting medical school in 66 and Mel was just finishing up his PhD in Psychology. It was an immediate fit for friendship. Because of the fascination with the world around us. We became immediate friends. We liked to talk of travel and where we would go or have been. Mel had been to Baja California and when he told me the...