Gary William PIERSON

I first met Gary sometime in the mid 1990s when I would go with my husband Danny to Book Soup in Los Angeles. We always got a nod hello, a smile and little conversation. The year after my husband Danny passed in 2005, I went to work at Book Soup which was a real privilege and a God send. I had always wanted to work in a bookstore and I loved Book Soup and knew it would be a safe place to move through the years of grief ahead of me. Gary welcomed me and between the two of us and Tosh we...

Gary and I were quite close in the fraternity and were both Minnesota boys. We took that old Chrysler up to MN one summer and it was a true adventure since we did it in one day. The cops in Chicage have loud speakers and I can still hear the speaker crack, "Hey buddy, you're LUCKY...live through a move like that, ya gotta be lucky"! We had just cut across 6 lanes on the Skyway in the dark to make an exit...it was yesterday...

Gary also ran the ball in from the 10 to score for the...

Gary and I were best friends at George Washington University as well as fellow members of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. We spent many entertaining times together at the Campus Club, The Cellar Door and One Step Down Lounge.Adventures were plentiful during outings piloted by Gary in his 1948 Chrysler with semi-automatic transmission which had a nasty habit of downshifting when going full speed on the George Washington Parkway.We later shared an apartment on F St. which became the nexus for many...