Richard Gere’s dad dies few months after celebrating his 100th birthday in a restauran, rest in peace

Richard Gere’s dad dies few months after celebrating his 100th birthday in a restauran, rest in peace

1922-2023 Homer George Gere, a community activist in North Syracuse, 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 known in the community as a gifted 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 was featured in national advertisements alongside his son Richard Gere. Known for his everyday kindnesses, he was also a dedicated public school advocate.

Gere was born May 7, 1922, in Brooklyn, Pennsylvania, a small dairy farming town in the Endless Mountains south of Binghamton. The third of five children of Albert and Hazel Snover Gere, he graduated from Brooklyn Vocational High School and enlisted in the U.S.

Navy at the start of World War II, serving in the Pacific on the USS Aristaeus. He earned his B.A. degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania under the G.I. Bill. His first post-college job was as an accountant with Atlantic Refining Company in Philadelphia. After transferring to the Syracuse office in 1950, Gere gradually grew a side business as an insurance agent with Nationwide, following in his brother Howard’s footsteps.

Four Gere brothers worked for Nationwide at one time or other. By the time he retired from Nationwide, Homer Gere was one of the company’s best-known and best-loved agents. He accomplished all this in collaboration with his wife, Doris Tiffany Gere, who hailed from the same small town in Pennsylvania. They met in grade school and were married in 1945. Doris Gere died in 2016. During their 70-year-long marriage, they raised five children: Susan, Richard, Joanne, David, and Laura.

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