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VIRGINIA BEACH - Gary Edward Stemm, 70, passed away Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009, at his home. He was born July 19, 1939, in Elkhart, Ind., the son of Richard Lynden and Gladys Viola Stemm, who preceded him in death. After graduating from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 1961, Gary had a long, varied, and colorful career, including service as a Green Beret in the U.S. Army, pharmaceutical salesperson, radio disc jockey, Elkhart television news anchor, and reporter at several newspapers across the country including the National Enquirer. He had a lifelong passion for the strange and unexplained phenomena of the world. A resident of Virginia Beach for the last 30 years, Gary was a former local newspaper reporter for the Virginia Beach Beacon and a mathematics teacher at several area schools, most recently at Holy Trinity School in Norfolk. A recent convert to Catholicism, he was a parishioner at St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Virginia Beach. He was a devoted husband, father, and grandfather, and he will be deeply missed by his family.
He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Nancy Jean Stemm; his daughter, Karen E. Fournier of Darnestown, Md., and her husband Richard; his sons, Eric A. Stemm and Brian C. Stemm, both of Virginia Beach; four grandchildren, Braeden Stemm, Kieran Stemm, Liam Stemm, and Sean Fournier; a brother, Alan R. Stemm, of Albuquerque, N.M., and his wife Joan; a brother, Denis L. Stemm of Goshen, Ind.; a sister, Joan K. Stemm of Elkhart, Ind.; many nieces and nephews.See the full content of this document
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