Steven-Geller-Obituary

Steven Paul Geller

New York, New York

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Kitchen Improvisations
How to describe Steven P. Geller's love of cooking? Envision a man prowling the touchstones of Upper West Side cuisine ‹ Zabar's, Citarella and the like ‹ looking, say, for the perfect green pepper. Imagine a Food Network enthusiast for whom an episode of "Iron Chef" was reason to drop everything.

"I have pots and pans here that are worth more than my jewelry," said his wife, Debra Geller, with complete seriousness and not a trace of resentment. Mrs. Geller suspects that she may have been the catalyst for Mr. Geller's quest for great food. "I come from a long line of non-cooking women," she confessed. Her husband, she suggested, most likely gravitated toward the kitchen as "a sort of survival technique."

Mr. Geller, a 52-year-old institutional trader at Cantor Fitzgerald, embraced the role. Presentation ‹ the more ostentatious the better ‹ became a pet cause. He wore chef shirts and he cooked not by the book ‹ heavens, no ‹ but like a jazz artist. He made their daughter, Hali, 12, his chief assistant and partner in cuisine. "He was sort of cloning himself," Mrs. Geller said.

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We continue to think of you often, Steven, and especially during this 20th year of remembrance. We will never forget you and all those who perished on that tragic day. God bless you, your family and those who knew you well and miss you.

Thinking of you today, Steven. God bless your family and friends on this day or remembrance. We will never forget.

Steven. We light yet another candle for you today. Carina and I send Debra and Hali and all of those who knew and miss Steven our best wishes. God bless you. We never will forget.

We send our continued deep sympathy to your family. With each new day may God give the needed help to cope. Steven will always be missed.

Thinking of you and those who miss you once again today. God bless.

Remembering you and wishing peace to those who loved you. Remembering all those lost; remembering the innocence lost. Never forget.

We will never forget you and the nearly 3000 other innocents murdered 15 years ago. May god bless you and your family on this tragic anniversary.

dancing with me @ Edlins first wedding......telling me I danced like a man (!)....Now thats classic.....!!!

Another year goes by.....as thoughts turn to you & your loved ones.....never thinking in a million years that something like this could remotely happen on " our turf" yet it did.....

No answers as Richard wrote years & years ago....." I wonder".......

xo Laurie G

You'll never be forgotten! RIP