Thursday, November 30, 0002
Please accept my deepest condolences in the passing of Gerry. I worked with Gerry at Hardee's from 1987-1993 and stayed in irregular contact with him in the years since. I remember Gerry teaching me the concepts of customer service, the proper way to make decisions about setting priorities (both in work and at home), and provided me with so many work skills that I've since taken with me to work in the communications construction field as someone who has to work with customers, other vendors, and people. The old marine simply had a way with customers and people. Gerry was the ultimate people person. I've stopped by to see Gerry several times since the early nineties, and it was always fun to sit in his kitchen with a brandy Coke and hear about his latest "adventures," hear him talk of his time in Korea, or of his life in California where he met Marilynne Monroe and John Wayne. The last time I saw him, my wife (we were not yet married at the time) and I stopped by to visit him at his apartment and he charmed the socks off of her...at 70+ years old. If he'd been younger, I'd have never brought a girl I wanted to keep around him!!! I lost track of Gerry in recent years with getting married and having kids...I know now from the obituary that he had been in Grandview. Bless you Gerry, old man, and may God receive you as one of his own.
