July 2020 - 66

In Memoriam
Canada
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Jan Bromley, Langley BC
Rosalee L. Hardin, Vancouver BC
John A. Maunder, Hope BC
Stephen W. Raffel, Salmon Arm BC
Sharon Tettamanti, Nanaimo BC
Lyle Poole, Winnipeg MB
Pille Leonfellner, Bathurst NB
Elinor R. Grill, St. Catharines ON
* David W. Steadman, Lindsay ON
John Verkaik, Chatham ON
* Ian Karper, Mont-Royal QC
* Lil Hemeon, Saskatoon SK

United States

Shelba H. Crawford, Bull Shoals AR
* Patricia Blasingame, Gilbert AZ
* Gerald W. Bare, Altadena CA
Luella Becken, Cathedral City CA
Yvonne Farris, Oxnard CA
Howard B. Grossman, San Bernardino CA
Alan E. Loebel, Healdsburg CA
Erika N. Richards, Palo Alto CA
Phyllis Robb, Clovis CA
Thurman A. Rock, Tustin CA
Perry Shapiro, Ventura CA
Howard Taub, Los Angeles CA
* Dr. Nick Olberding, Colorado Springs CO
William Viott, Monument CO
* Carol H. Minor, Madison CT
* Barbara Cleary, Bethany Beach DE
* Susan G. Aronson, Clermont FL
* Don J. Caton, Pensacola FL
Judith E. Conner, Palm Coast FL

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Richard K. Fleischman, Bradenton FL
George A. Rupprecht, Palm Coast FL
James I. Spandau, Sun City Center FL
David J. Waltz, Riviera Beach FL
Alice L. Zayac, Jacksonville FL
Ronald Henbest, Bolingbrook IL
Jules F. Knapp, Glencoe IL
Sue F. Balmer, New Orleans LA
Shirley H. Buisson, Metairie LA
Geoff Chichester, Jefferson LA
Susan M. Cockerham, Shreveport LA
Lilian R. Kirshbom, New Orleans LA
Nonie B. Leavitt, St. Rose LA
Howard E. Nobles Jr., New Orleans LA
Martie W. Sisco, La Place LA
Dr. Jack S. Zoller, New Orleans LA
Pamela W. Miller, Cambridge MA
Jane S. Bahn, Ellicott City MD
Lewis Gold, Silver Spring MD
Elizabeth Nock, Ocean City MD
Mrs. M. Racz, Pasadena MD
Lois Q. Taylor, Frederick MD
Louis A. Poisson, Redford MI
Mary Anne Zinn, Grosse Pointe MI
D. Kielty, Minneapolis MN
Ronald A. Menzel, Brooklyn Park MN
Margaret S. Rimer, Lexington NC
Morgan Wells, Axtell NE
Robert H. Kanter, Clifton NJ
Robert M. Kelly Jr., Shrewsbury NJ
Arnold Kronfeld, Hackensack NJ
Tom F. Thornhill III, Albuquerque NM
Howard L. Canaan, Cold Spring NY

John Verkaik 1930-2020
By John Boekhoud
John Verkaik of Chatham ON died May
16 at the Chatham-Kent Hospice at the age
of 90.
John was my bridge partner for 35 years
and has promoted bridge in the community
for all of that time. He has been involved
with fundraising locally and has organized
bridge events that have collected more than $50,000 for the
local hospital, as well as the Active Lifestyle Centre, Legion, and
other agencies. John has been a cornerstone of bridge in our
area, and he has had our tournament named after him in tribute.
He is survived by his wife Alice, children, grandchildren and
bridge players who will always remember his love of the game,
kindness and willingness to promote the activity. During his
time in the local hospice, John, in typical fashion, informed the
staff of the need to organize a bridge fundraiser in return for
the kindness he received and to promote the facility. He will be
missed by us all.

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* Lynn Deas, Schenectady NY
Bill Galarno, New York NY
Melicent Ganem, White Plains NY
* Joan Pollenz, Jericho NY
Armond Schiff, Rock Hill NY
Ernestine S. Pantel, Chagrin Falls OH
* Delores S. Poneman, Toledo OH
* Ray Wulf, Batavia OH
* Barbara A. Jones, Tulsa OK
* Ernestine Boyd, Memphis TN
* Judy L. Fernald, Houston TX

* Michael W. Goldman, Fort Worth TX
Adele P. Hart, Fort Worth TX
* Jolie Hess, Houston TX
* William A. Kibikas, Friendswood TX
* Bernie R. Lange, Wichita Falls TX
* Mathilde E. Wiewiorowski, Plano TX
* Dr. Tadeusz K. Wiewiorowski, Plano TX
* Brian Boyce, Norfolk VA
Carolyn C. Choate, Bellevue WA
* Dr. Jack K. Erickson, Marysville WA
*Life Master

Gerald Bare 1933-2020
By Grace Briscoe
Gerald William Bare died due to heart
failure on May 11 at his home in Altadena
CA at age 87.
Gerald, known to everyone as Gerry, was
born June 12, 1933, in Spokane WA. Gerry
grew up on the family farm in Fairfield WA
and was valedictorian of his class at Fairfield High School. After
earning a degree in civil engineering from Washington State
University, Gerry moved to Los Angeles to work for North
American Aviation in 1955.
In 1957, Gerry began his career with Caltrans as a junior civil
engineer, before being called to military service and serving two
years in the U.S. Army. After returning to Caltrans, Gerry spent
the majority of his career working in traffic modeling, developing
computer models to predict traffic and air quality for the entire
Southern California area. Among his many career achievements,
he was the senior engineer in charge of designing carpool lanes
on the San Diego Freeway.
The other passion of Gerry's life was bridge. A Grand Life
Master, Gerry earned more than 15,000 masterpoints. He was a
two-time NABC champion, winning the 1970 Freeman Mixed
Board-a-Match Teams and the 2005 Truscott/U.S. Playing
Card Seniors Swiss Teams.
Gerry met his first wife, Dorothy Olson Bare, at the Ardmore
Bridge Club in 1962 and they were wed in 1965. She and Gerry
owned Nelson's Travel in Covina from 1967-1973 and co-founded Tops in Travel in Santa Monica in 1976. Dorothy and Gerry
enjoyed playing bridge together and shared a love of travel and
exploration until her death in 1996.
In 1999, Gerry met his match, Patricia McKinney Bare, via
a matchmaking service (which he loved to joke about). They
quickly became inseparable and were wed in 2000. Gerry took
an active and loving role in the lives of Pat's eight children.
Gerry was able to merge his love of bridge and travel by teaching bridge on over a dozen cruises - allowing he and Pat to
travel the world together after his retirement.
Gerry was loving and loyal, an amazing conversationalist with
a quick wit, always up for a spirited board game, and a man who
was fearless to life's challenges and carried no regrets.
Gerry is survived by his wife Patricia, two siblings, 12 children
and 12 grandchildren.

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