Guido D. Guayasamin, 78 of Bradenton, Florida, passed away on November 26, 2012 at the Tidewell Hospice House in Bradenton, FL. He was born on January
13, 1934 in Pasto, Colombia, South America to Delfin Guayasamin and Olivia Guerrero, sharing his early life with his surviving sisters Carmen (Raymond
Wappman) Guayasamin Wappman, Margarita Guayasamin and surviving brothers Manuel Guayasamin, Alvaro (Teresa Salvador) Guayasamin, and Ivan
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Guayasamin. At his father's urging and support, Guido immigrated to the United States in 1951, attending Keystone Junior College in Scranton, PA and then transferred to Allegheny College in Meadville, PA, graduating in 1956 with a BS in Biochemistry. He continued his studies at Allegheny, entering graduate
school and was awarded an MS in Biochemistry in 1958. He married and had two children, surviving him: Robin (late Donald B. Salerno) Guayasamin-Salerno and David (Christine Lenhardt) Guayasamin. After Alleghany, Guido and his family moved to Western New York, where he began his career teaching chemistry and physics at North Collins High School. He relocated to teach at Dunkirk Senior High School where "Mr. G" taught for 38 years, and retired as head of the Science Department. Guido remarried and is survived by his loving wife of 30 years Debbie S. Guayasamin; they eventually relocated to Bradenton,
FL from Fredonia, NY. He adopted and is survived by his loving daughter, Tammy (Andy O'Dell) Guayasamin-O'Dell. Guido's belief in the American dream and for
public education wasn't confined to his teaching career. He brought his sister Carmen to the US where she became a naturalized citizen, a crafter, an
artist and a member in her Forestville, NY Catholic church. Guido developed and managed two foreign student exchange programs between a private school in
El Salvador and dozens of host families in Northern Chautauqua County. He was elected to and served as president of the Board of Education for the Cassadaga Valley Central School district. He was a published author of two in-language college level textbooks of Chemistry and Physics for the Latin American collegiate market. Following in his extended Ecuadorian families' tradition of its internationally renowned in architecture and art, Guido began his own paintings, creating
over ninety pieces spanning four decades and exhibited throughout the period in a number of private galleries. To say Dad's insatiable curiosity with painting, technique and coloring drove him to attend almost every available exhibition was an understatement. He was an extensive traveler, not only with repeated visits to Ecuador and across the US, but throughout Latin America, Spain and more recently, Cuba. In his quiet moments, Dad was an avid jazz lover and reader,
seldom without a book or two or three while music played. Guido deeply loved all of his nephews, nieces, cousins and especially his survived nine grandchildren, delighting in how different each one was, yet singularly proud in how accomplished each became: Robin's children Taylor-Chapman and Mekenna, David's children
Ryann, Olivia and Niall, and Tammy's children Alexander, Samuel, Maxwell, and Harrison. Private celebration of life by family and friends will be held at a later date and time. Memorials or donations may be made to Tidewell Hospice in memory of Guido at www.givetotidewell.org or sent to Tidewell Hospice,
Philanthropy Department, 5955 Rand Blvd., Sarasota, Florida 34238.
