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Dr. Donald (Don) Henry Hensler passed away on February 15, 2025
Don was a proud physicist, an avid sailor, and a beloved father and grandfather.
Dr. Donald (Don) Henry Hensler passed away peacefully on February 15 , 2025 in Shelton, CT. Born on March 2, 1933, in Baltimore, MD, to parents Henry and Caroline (Kircher) Hensler, his life was marked by his integrity, dedication to family and loyalty to friends.
Don is survived by his daughters Julie Hensler (San Antonio, TX), Ann Wendling (Macungie, PA), Katherine Hensler (Milford, CT), his sister Margaret Norman (Baltimore, MD), grandchildren Jason, Jenifer, Aurey, Alex, Alicia, Austin, Ethan, Lawson, and Samantha, and eight great grandchildren.
Don was an Eagle Scout, and a proud graduate of Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (1951). He was an alumnus of Western Maryland College, where he met his wife of 60 years, Beverly Warner. He received a Master of Science degree in physics from Dartmouth University in 1957, before attending the doctoral program in physics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison where he earned a PhD (1963). After serving his country during the Vietnam War as a captain in the Army Signal Corp, he began a career at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. He retired from Bell Labs/AT&T in 1998.
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Don was an avid sailor and a member of the Windward Sailing Club (Allentown, PA) and the Petit Manan Yacht Club (Milbridge, ME). He loved Down East Maine and lived for a number of years in Winter Harbor and South Gouldsboro where he enjoyed the friendship of many. He could fix just about anything and enjoyed tinkering in his work shop. With his daughters he built a model train garden, aquariums for turtles and salamanders, and a large mouse-ary. He taught his daughters how to sail, drive, change a tire, handle a chain saw. He loved fishing, building spud guns, making can-joes (banjos made from soda cans) and stargazing with his grandchildren. He was a quiet, humble man; kind, always thoughtful and genuinely concerned for the well being of others. Even in his decline, he never complained and always had a big smile to share and a hearty hello. He valued education, loved to read, loved music of all kinds – from folk music to steel drums to opera -, dogs and his family.
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