George "Gilbert" Remmers

He was known to his family and Lutheran church family as Gilbert.

He grew up and lived in Baltimore.

He served in the Coast Guards stationed in Hawaii during the Second World War.

After the war he attended college and became a very popular school teacher and taught 6th grade in the Baltimore school district.

After retirement he moved to Fells point and opened an antique shop called the Yankee Peddler and became a very popular character in the Fells Point community.

He loved to drive to flea markets all over the Baltimore area to find things to sell in his store.

He was very active in his beloved St John Lutheran church located in Brooklyn Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore.

He loved to sing and sang in the church choir and also with the Baltimore men's chorus.

He recently was an important part of the church's 100th anniversary celebration with his recollections of his early years in the church read out by his good friend Sue Calvert in June of this year.

He loved local and national theatre and the arts and supported many local theatre's in the area right up until his death.

He was a loyal volunteer at Movable Feast from its beginning and was dedicated to helping others, especially people suffering with AIDS, delivering food to housebound clients always giving a big 'ole hug before he left.

He loved travel and travelled extensively all over Europe.

In 2002 he suffered a debilitating stroke which affected his left side but after extensive therapy at Johns Hopkins hospital he was able to walk again with a cane but was unable to return to his beloved home on Aliceanna street in Fells point.

He went to live with good friends Phil and Ron in the Mount Vernon area of Baltimore after his stroke and was there until just before his death in Dallas.

Despite his stroke he continued to travel with his friend and partner Mike, going on an Alaskan cruise, a trip to Mexico and a seniors conference in Las Vegas and frequent trips to Dallas Texas.

He was always a very positive person and always looked at the bright side.

He was an inspiration to all of us that knew him.

He was visiting Mike in Dallas for his 91st Birthday when he got sick.

He is survived by his partner and friend Mike Jackson and cousins Catherine Jorgensen and Eric Matuszewski and many friends in Baltimore, Dallas and the United Kingdom.

He was loved by so many and will be sadly missed.