Alejandra Silva, wife of Richard Gere, has been in charge of communicating through her social networks the death of Homer Gere, father of the actor, at the age of 100 in New York. The family has said goodbye with an emotional open letter that reviews his life and legacy.
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“Homer George Gere has died in North Salem, New York. He was 100 years old at the time of his death on March 1, 2023. A successful insurance agent until his retirement at the age of 65. Gere was well known in the community as a talented entrepreneur and was awarded for his work as a volunteer for North Area Meals on Wheels. As a supporter of that non-profit organization, he appeared in national advertisements alongside his son Richard Gere,” writes the Galician on Instagram.
“The third of five children born to Albert and Hazel Snover Gere, he graduated from Brooklyn Vocational School and enlisted in the United States Navy at the start of World War II, serving in the Pacific on the USS Aristaeus. He earned his degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania under the GI Bill. His first post-college job was as an accountant at the Atlantic Refining Company in Philadelphia,” he adds.
The businesswoman stands out, she also talks about her mother-in-law: “He achieved all this in collaboration with his wife, Doris Tiffany Gere, who hailed from the same small Pennsylvania town. They met in grade school and were married in 1945. Doris Gere died in 2016. During their 70-year marriage, they raised five children: Susan, Richard, Joanne, David y Laura“.
This sad news comes a few days after the scare that the Gere family suffered during their vacation in Mexico. Richard had to be hospitalized for pneumonia and Alejandra and her two children, ages three and one, also fell ill: “We came to Mexico to continue our conservation project south of Puerto Vallarta. We all came sick from New York. James and Richard got pneumonia and Alexander and I got sinus and ear infections.” Fortunately, now “We are all well and almost recovered”he declared.
