Douglas Boyd Thayer, 59, of Bowling Green died on Friday, October 7, 2016 at the Hospice of Northwest Ohio in Perrysburg. He was born in Wichita, Kansas, on May 1, 1957. He graduated from the State University of New York, College at Potsdam, with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in English and art, the latter with a concentration in photography. He held a master’s degree in technical writing from Bowling Green State University.
Following completion of his undergraduate studies, he served as staff photographer for Clarkson University, then moved to Taiwan to pursue the study of Mandarin Chinese. He remained in Taiwan for eighteen years, working in the technology field. He married Chang Hsiu-Chiu, a native of Taiwan, and fathered a son, Jason Karl Thayer. In the mid-1980s he returned to the United States for two years, completing a master’s degree in technical writing from Bowling Green State University. His marriage ended in divorce.
He was an artist, leaving photographs that show rare depths of observation and feeling. He loved reading, hiking, ice-skating and watching hockey games. He was an adventurer, fully engaged and ever curious, willing to take chances, a seeker of new environments, completely open to untried experiences. He was a devoted father.
He was predeceased by a brother, Stephen. His immediate survivors are his parents, Robert and Norma Thayer, and a son, Jason Thayer.
There will be no services.
