John Joseph Gill ’34

John Gill, who suffered a debilitating stroke in 1991 that left him blind and paralyzed, died May 29, 1995, in Scottsdale, Ariz. He had lived in nearby Paradise Valley since his retirement, in 1977, from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., where he was v.p. in the marketing and field management division. John joined the Metropolitan a month after our graduation from college and had been an officer of the company since 1953.

He and his wife, Gertrude "Trude" Rheb, a 1936 graduate of Columbia whom he married in 1937, moved to Arizona after many years in Manhasset, N.Y., where both had been active in community affairs: he in the P.T.A., Kiwanis, Community Chest; she in bridge and garden clubs and a theater group. In Arizona they enjoyed, as he once wrote, "good friends and golf. We live on the fourth fairway of the Paradise Valley Country Cub."

Surviving, besides Trude, are two daughters, Karen Meyer and Celeste Stevens, and three grandchildren. To them, we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934