John William Guyader, 77,  passed away January 24, 2021. John graduated from the University of Arizona. After college graduation he moved to Manhattan Beach, California where his new career at RCA Computer Systems had taken him. Seven years later and with his MBA from the University of Southern California, John returned to the Phoenix area as a project leader at the Arizona Department of Revenue and after that as a director of Information Technology at ASU where he worked for 22 years until his retirement in 2006.



John was smart and quick witted. He never tried to be funny, he just had a good eye for the absurd and the quickness and vocabulary to accurately comment on it. He was generous but wouldn't suffer fools and, if you were his friend, you knew it. He had a gift for spotting untruthfulness in others and he could not stand a bully. If he was with his dogs he was happy. Better still, if he was with his dogs and friends watching football or snow skiing, or - best of all - on a southern California beach, he was in heaven. But most of all, he was a man who was secure in who he was and happiest when with his friends and the people he loved.



John is survived by his wife, Donna, a brother, three nephews and three grand nieces. It was John's wish that, because of Covid, there be no service at this time but if you go to the beach, take a ski trip or pet your dog, remember him. (Source: Arizona Republic)