Roger Lee Kaehler passed away on December 2, 2024, with family by his side. He was born in 1940 as the youngest of four, and at three years old, his family moved from Minnesota to the San Francisco Bay Area to find work in the shipyards. After graduating from UC Berkeley, Roger spent two years in the National Guard and two years in the Peace Corps (serving in Nigeria), before teaching math and coaching boys basketball at Kennedy High School in Richmond, CA. In the 1990s, Roger formed a partnership with a friend in Scheller Construction in Novato, CA, and started a new career in real estate development. In his semi-retirement, he and his wife Aggie returned to San Diego County, and Roger spent as much time as possible in his happy place in the Anza-Borrego desert.

Roger is survived and remembered by his wife Aggie; daughter Patsy West; daughter Tammy Kaehler and son-in-law Chet Johnston; daughter Desiree West and son-in-law Vicente Bacilio; granddaughter Isabel Bacilio; honorary grandchildren RJ and Ashley Engler; and dozens of other family and friends who keep his spirit and legacy alive. We will forever remember him as a man with a huge heart, a sharp mind, a smart mouth, a mischievous smile, and more than his fair share of optimism. He usually managed to find the humor in any situation, and in doing so, he brightened the lives of those around him.

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