Gary Vincent Fowzer, July 14, 1952 - July 30, 2025
Our brother Gary was a curious and adventurous boy with a thirst for learning, loving music, astronomy, reading, and old cinema classics. As he grew, so did his love for the earth and all its creatures. Graduating from Cal State Northridge with a degree in Anthropology, Gary began a lifelong connection to cultures, languages, and the universe around us.
In 1975, he joined Opera A La Carte - a professional theater company performing Gilbert and Sullivan plays across the country. Dressed in authentic costumes, he sang and danced, satisfying this thespian side of his nature. His love of music began with learning the flute as a child, while his guitar stayed with him over his lifetime.
Later, his desire to travel led him to pursue a 20-year career as a free-lance English language trainer based in Bonn, Germany, where his love and knowledge of his native language were inspiring for his students. Even after he returned to the U.S., following the COVID crisis, he continued, via Zoom, teaching classes with some of his students and engaging in social chat groups. He immersed himself in local customs and culture while living in Europe and was able to visit many historical locations - fulfilling his travel bucket list. He even got to see the final live performance of Monty Python in London in 2014.
Gary was a unique individual who pursued his loves and interests on his own terms. He reveled in the availability of the open sky, hiking trails, and the wilds surrounding him. His spiritual life centered around meditation, natural herbs, yoga, and holistic medicine.
His first love, however, was astronomy. On nights when we played in the streets, Gary was often missing. He preferred studying the stars with a friend who owned a telescope. As a young man, this passion brought him to the Griffith Park Observatory, where he worked giving tours of the exhibit galleries and presenting the Laserium show for over twenty years. Also, with his own telescope, he hosted ‘star parties’ throughout Southern California, where he taught people about our solar system and various mysteries of the cosmos. Ultimately, it was his desire to share his knowledge of this universe that best defined him.
Gary would have found it fitting that his final tribute would be travelling amongst the stars.
Much mushy love from siblings Henry, Patty, and Debra.
