Résumé

Officer, United States Navy, c. 1975-1980.

Principal, Barry Gehl Design, Architects, Seattle, WA, c. 1998.

Partner, Krannitz / Gehl Architects, Seattle, WA, 05/1999- .

College

B.A., Environmental Design, University of Washington, Seattle, 1975. Gehl was involved in the Naval Reserve Officer Training Program c. 1974 as a junior. (See The University of Washington Binnacle NROTC Yearbook, 1974, p. 22.)

B.A., Industrial Design, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, 1984.

Parents

His mother was Dolores Mary Bogdanowicz (born 11/01/1926 in Chicago, IL-d. 09/19/2005 in Bellingham, WA). His father was George Fred Gehl (born 05/02/1926 in New Salem, ND-d. 07/26/2014 in King County, WA). His parents wed on 09/10/1949 in Cook County, IL. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Cook County Clerk; Chicago, Il; Cook County Genealogy Records (Marriages) Source Information Ancestry.com. Cook County, Illinois Marriage Index, 1930-1960 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008, accessed 07/18/2024.)

On 05/04/1944, George Gehl worked for the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railroad in Bensenville, IL. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Wwii Draft Registration Cards For Illinois, 10/16/1940-03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 599, accessed 07/18/2024.) The 1950 US Census indicated that he worked as a railroad steam fitter in Chicago, IL. Dolores worked as a secretary for a wholesale clothing company in that city. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois; Roll: 5067; Page: 15; Enumeration District: 103-3354, accessed 07/18/2024.)

Gehl had two siblings: Patty Gehl Soppe and Kathy J. Gehl.