George received the first 2007 e mails announcing our belated reunion.  He and his wife Caryl had attended her 50^th in 2007 and looked forward to ours.  He died on October 13, 2007.

At school George had enjoyed math, his trumpet, and his blue Plymouth.  After graduation he attended a bible college in Nyack, NY where he met Caryl.  They were married ten days after graduation in her hometown of New Brighton, PA and George never returned to Sea Cliff to live.  But he said that the town of Beaver where he taught for 37 years was “not unlike Sea Cliff” with its one square mile of territory and its narrow streets.  Caryl also taught school, but in New Brighton.  George and Caryl had one daughter and two sons.  For 38 years they lived in the farming community of New Sewickley Township in western Pennsylvania.  “I was born in New York City and after growing up in its suburb, it rather surprised me to end up on the fringe of Appalachia.” 

George began his teaching with elementary school science before he and a colleague developed a computer program.  After that he taught computer operations in second through sixth grades enthusiastically for 15 years.  He and Caryl loved to travel and took a total of 14 cruises.  In 1999 he suffered a severe heart attack with major damage.  Caryl says, “We always felt from then
 on that each day was a gift from God, because I could have lost him then.”   When he recovered they continued traveling. 

George wrote to Pat Mills in 2001, “It seems ironic that all the ailments that afflicted my mother have followed on to me: diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart attack.  What a way to retire.  Needless to say I am living a much more relaxed life style.”  Relaxation, of course, for Geroge meant traveling.  In 2006 he and Caryl took two cruises George had wanted to take for a long time, and in March 2007 they flew to Lima, Peru and cruised through the Panama Canal to Puerto Rico.  Six weeks later they flew to Venice for a Mediterranean trip and George found getting around difficult, but he did not complain.  Two days after their return in May doctors started him on dialysis.  Nevertheless, George was in reasonably good health, Caryl says, until “he went to sleep the evening of the 12th, and woke up  in heaven.  We had 45 wonderful years, and I miss him terribly.”