John Merrill Sellers

His parents moved the family to California where he graduated from high school in Carlsbad, CA. He then came back to Yuma to help his father start what would be a successful family business for several generations. He then married Melinda Edwards and had 3 children in Pittsburg, CA where he worked for Holly Sugar as a Journeyman Welder. In 1985 he moved his family back to Yuma to help his brothers and parents with the family business. After his father passed away and through a divorce, he raised his children as a single father and continued to help run Sellers Petroleum with his mother and brother Dave in Yuma and his brother Reed who ran the Imperial, CA location. In 1995 he married Charmaine Jaeger and was married to her for 27 years until his passing.

John was a man who told it how it was, continued to educate himself throughout his lifetime and gave back to people and the community by helping people with all the knowledge and experience he had accumulated over his lifetime. There wasn't a project that he would turn down if he didn't think he could accomplish it. He used his unconventional ways to get the job done even if people didn't believe he could do it. He never actually retired once his family sold their business, he believed that people needed to get up and keep going. He is going to be missed for his humor, his extreme love for his family and his old ways of doing things.

John is proceeded in death by his parents, Johnny and Verna Sellers.

He is survived by his wife Charmaine Sellers, his 3 children Jennifer Sellers (Isaac Zamorano), Brittany Hatcher (Eric), Brandon Sellers, his 7 grandchildren Samantha (Mikey Rodriguez), Aviana, Isaac, Lily, Grant, Lyric and Brody, his great grandchild Nevaeh (Samantha) and his 2 brothers Reed and Dave Sellers.

The family has already had private services and Celebration of John's Life.

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