Fifth Generation

34. Guy Randall ACKLEY was born on 2 Dec 1948 in Allentown, Lehigh , Pennsylvania.⁹ He died on 15 Sep 2007 in Allentown, Lehigh , Pennsylvania.³⁴ His Obituary appeared in the The Morning Call on 17 Sep 2007 in Allentown, Lehigh , Pennsylvania Guy R. Ackley, 58, of Allentown, died Suddenly on Saturday. He was the husband of Fran Ward Ackley for the past 36 years. He was the owner of Ackley Advertising. Born in Allentown, he was a son of Dorothea K. (ONeil) Ackley and the late S. Robert Ackley.
Survivors: Wife; parents; daughters, Brooke Ackley Linkow and her husband, Benjamin, Kate Ackley Kitz and her husband, Matthew and Rory Ackley; grandson, Brady Patrick Kitz.
Services: memorial, 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Bachman, Kulik & Reinsmith Funeral Home, 17th and Hamilton streets, Allentown. No calling hours.
Contributions: Alzheimers Association, 617-A Main St., Hellertown, PA 18055.
His Obituary appeared in the the Morning Call on 17 Sep 2007 in Allentown, Lehigh , Pennsylvania Area biker recalled as radio legend ** Ex-DJ Guy Ackley, 58, died Saturday in crash near Schnecksville. Whenever things ran slow on his "Outraged Citizens" show, radio personality Guy Ackley would ask his friend Rich Boandl to create a character and call in.
"He could take a couple of things I'd say and he'd run with it," Boandl recalled. "He'd make 10 or 15 minutes out of it. He was very clever."
Ackley, 58, was killed Saturday when his motorcycle crashed in Lowhill Township. A longtime motorcycle enthusiast, Ackley was riding east on Millcreek Road about 4:55 p.m. when he collided with a westbound sport utility vehicle driven by a 17-year-old Schnecksville girl.
He died at the scene, state police said.
Boandl recalled Ackley as someone who frequently managed to wring fun out of hard work.
"He would do stuff that none of the other disc jockeys would do, I know that," said Boandl, noting that Ackley once flushed a toilet on the air as a gag.
Considered by many a local radio legend, Ackley hosted a program on radio station WAEB-AM during the '70s, enjoying a brief resurgence in the 1990s. He was one of several rock 'n' roll era DJ's who in 1999 appeared on a "Radio Legends Weekend" organized by a local oldies station. "If you wanted to compare it (his show) to anything you'd compare it to Howard Stern," said Dave Moser, a friend who had known him since high school. "It wasn't risque like Howard Stern. It was satire and humor."
Ackley later took over Ackley Advertising, a business owned by his father Robert, a one-time WAEB general manager who was also vice president, general manager and part owner of Rust Communications, a radio company consisting of 13 AM and FM stations throughout Pennsylvania, New York, New Hampshire and Virginia.
Ackley, who once operated his advertising company at Seventh and Linden Streets in Allentown, last year built a home in Lowhill Township, locating his business downstairs and his residence upstairs, said his daughter, Kate Kitz of Allentown said.
Throughout his endeavors, Ackley showed a deep and unusual caring for others, friends and family said.
Kitz recalled that her father would often give money to homeless people and hire them for odd jobs. "We didn't like that," she recalled. "We would tell him it was a little unsafe."
Moser and his wife, Kathy, said that when their daughter had a threatening confrontation with her landlord several years ago, Ackley came to her rescue. She was living in Allentown at the time, they recalled, and they couldn't themselves intercede themselves right away because of their Weisenberg Township address. They asked Ackley for help because he, too, lived in Allentown at the time.
"You call Guy, he drops everything," Kathy Moser said.
Boandl recalled how Ackley, when he worked at Seventh and Linden, would respond to people asking him for money whenever he would visit a nearby convenience store for coffee.
"They'd say give me $5, he'd give them $20!" Boandl recalled. He recalled Ackley would explain his generosity by saying, "If you give them $20 and they want five then they won't have to come back and ask me for three more fives."

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