Frederick Peek Gilbert

We were next door neighbors on the extinct street South Carolina in Tulsa. A we were next door neighbors on the extinct street, S. Carolina, in Tulsa. A l couple of times I was his sitter. It is no surprise that he was so successful. His parents were wonderful and his Dad's law partner, Mr. Peek, doted on him.

A man who left a mark like that of a shooting star ... brilliant, impactful, and a joy to have known. Rest well, my friend.

My youngest daughter, Laura, recently learned of Fred´s passing. IT was sad news as he had been the junior partner in the Dorman & Gilbert law firm of my late husband William S Dorman for many years. I had lost track of Fred since the passage of my husband and my re-marriage since. Fred was a practitioner primarily in Constitutional law, but he and Bill had shared a special love of Bill´s, that of patent law. He was our one true friend in that endeavor from the 1980´s on. He was a good...

I could never "sum up" my feelings for Fred in a few words. He was a constant fixture in my childhood home and was by all measures considered family. Every year until we´ll into my adulthood, Fred would place a dollar Bill in the tiny stockings made by his mother on my parents´ Christmas tree for my siblings and me. As a child I knew him to be a highly intelligent Harvard graduate and superior attorney as well as being as well as a Green Beret in tip top physical condition. I was fortunate...