Gerry Squires

A couple of years ago I posted (in colour) the picture that was next

to this on the negative. I had taken them at the opening of my

bernlaw's exhibition in a local art gallery.



A few days ago, Gerry Squires, the man on the right, the younger of

these two men, died. My bernlaw and Gerry had been friends and

colleagues for four decades. Gerry had been until recently a very

youthful and active man, but at 77 he got sick and fairly quickly died

of cancer. He was 75 in this picture.



The last time I spoke to him was in the hospital one day this past

summer when I was waiting for a simple blood test and he happened by