Gerard Wilson was born in the Woodlawn section of the Bronx and lived
most of his life in Yonkers. He graduated St Barnabas School in 1958, going
on to Fordham Prep and then Fordham University, from which he graduated:
in 1967. After college, he spent two years in the Peace Corps in India. When
he returned to the U.S. in 1969, he obtained a graduate degree in diplomacy
from the University of Southern California, and joined the U.S. State
Department, with assignments in Senegal, Iran and Washington D.C. When
he left the State Department he worked for Citibank in Manhattan. He is
survived by his brother, Lawrence Wilson, and sister, Mary Harding, and
their children and grandchildren, who brightened the last years of his life.
