George was both my neighbor and my friend. He lived on Cherry Street next to Ocean County Park and we lived on the North Oakland Street which was the next street off Route 88 going toward downtown Lakewood. One summer George, Margarete Munoz (we called her Geet) and I hung out quite often because we got detention for skipping school a number of times and had to attend summer school. We attended the minimum of classes to pass because we cut many summer school classes too. But we got through it and had a wonderful time building memories of many sun and fun days filled with our laughter. It broke my heart to learn of George's passing. His brother, Steve, who was a close friend of my brother's Jan and Lance Hartman, had passed about ten years before we lost George, so it was a very sad for us to lose George too. A good friend and neighbor.
