TERREBONNE and LAFOURCHE Parishes, La.

OBITUARIY for GASTON, GERALD NICHOLAS 
  
Submitted by: Louis Lavedan

Published in Houma Today & The Daily Comet from Mar. 3 to Mar. 4, 2016

Died: Tuesday, March 1, 2016

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GASTON, GERALD NICHOLAS 

Gerald Nicholas Gaston, 83 of Vero Beach, passed away on March 1, 2016 at 
Indian River Medical Center. 
Born in Houma, LA on August 16, 1932, he had been a resident of Vero Beach 
since 1999, coming from Miami, FL. 

He received his B.S. from Nicholls State University and an MBA from Loyola 
University of New Orleans and was awarded honorary PHD in Business from 
Nicholls State University and Loyola University. He retired as Chief Executive 
Officer of American Bankers Insurance Group in 1999 where he spent over 22 
years of his business career. A frequent lecturer at the Harvard Business 
School on business and overcoming life obstacles, he served as the Chairman of 
the Board of Trustee at Loyola University and was on the Board of Trustees of 
the Eastman School of Music at The University of Rochester New York. 
During his years in business he served on many corporate and philanthropic 
boards including the Miami Ballet. He was an avid big-game fisherman 
participating in many Billfish Tournaments around the Caribbean and fished 
extensively around the world with his only son. He began playing music at an 
early age and was selected for the Air Force Band during his service with the 
Strategic Air Command at Walker Air Force Base in Roswell New Mexico and 
Schilling Air Force Base Salina Kansas during the Korean War. 

He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Anita June Gaston; son, Matt Gaston and 
his wife, Liza and their son, Blake Andrew Gaston of Vero Beach, FL; sisters, 
Josephine Gaston Falterman and Marie Unetta Gaston, both of Harrison, AK and 
nieces and nephews. 

The family will receive friends on Friday, March 4, 2016 from 2:00 until 5:00 
PM at Cox-Gifford-Seawinds Funeral Home in Vero Beach. 

Entombment will take place at St. Charles Borromeo Cemetery in Destrehan, LA. 

In lieu of flowers donations can be made to US Navy UDT-SEAL Museum, 3300 N. 
Highway A1A, North Hutchinson Island, Ft. Pierce, FL. 34949 or VNA Hospice 
Foundation, 1110 35th Lane, Vero Beach, FL 32960. 

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