Thanks for the memories my old friend and  condolences to family and friends. With much Aloha
Perry and Kimberley

Here's a chuckle from our Edison H.S. yearbook in 1962 when Gary was a junior in Tulsa. Researching genealogy is fun!

Genie and Elizabeth, I am so sorry for your loss. Janice

We miss you.  Gary and Genie made a great team

Gary has a passion for vintage cars.  He wrote about, photographed, traveled to concours, raced, and could do some mechanical work on all opportunities to be near them.  

Gary was a wonderful teacher at OLLI.  His class on zoom on the Economic History of the Rogue Valley was most interesting.  I appreciated his effort to create a way to continue learning during the pandemic.  I heard about his passing yesterday and was so surprised and saddened.  Prayers for his family and loved ones at this time. Bless you, Gary!  Laura Kramer

From Gary's niece:  My mom loves babies and kids. And she's so good with them, too.  Growing up in Oklahoma in the 50s and 60s, it would have been easy and somewhat expected of her to pursue a career in homemaking. And it's clear she would have been great at it.

But her older brother, Gary, saw how talented she was in other areas as well, like math and science.
It was with his encouragement that she applied to universities on the east coast. And him who traveled across the country w/ her to tour campuses. She ended up applying + getting a full ride to Vassar College.

At Vassar she majored in Math and Computer Science. After graduation, she worked as a subcontractor at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, running crucial tests to ensure that the ground stations would be able to communicate to the Space Shuttle on its first flight.
After her successful career in computer science she came back to her other passion and talent and raised 4 kids of her own.

My Uncle Gary sadly passed away earlier this week. In 2019, he asked me get a "clear, coherent story" from my mom about her career in computer science, write it down, and share it with the family. It was in this process of interviewing her about her experience that I learned about the positive role that he played in her life and career. And it wasn't just her, my Uncle Gary continued to mentor high school students throughout his life.
A Racine boy with degrees from Princeton and Carnegie Mellon, he was a champion of education, a talented writer, and loved connecting people in ways that would propel them forward and upward. I'll keep his passion for education, writing, and lifting others up with me forever ❤️


What a loss to Genie and their family and friends.  We here at Mountain Meadows as well as Ashland mourn our Gary's passing.

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