Geraldine Elizabeth Abrams, 88, a resident of The Commons in Lincoln, MA, died on September 11, 2024.

Gerri was friendly, adventurous, a dedicated teacher, a victim of Alzheimer's and paranoia. Early in the disease, she wanted to let others who might be affected by the disease learn how things seemed to them, and a seminar was held with Nurse Dorothy Kelly Gay, interlocutor.

Soon after you met Gerri you would hear one of two stories: Why she traveled to the other side of the moon, or Who she met in a line for free beer and pizza.

One winter during WWII, after her family moved via two dump trucks from Connecticut to Florida, so she could have her tonsils and adenoids attended to, she had to give up skiing for swimming and tropical boredom. She decided that, as soon as she could, she would travel to the other side of the moon. She completed her teaching degree and found that the Defense Department would indeed send you far. So shortly after the shooting stopped, she landed a job teaching the children of service members in Seoul Korea for two years and then on to Japan for another two, followed by Great Britain for two. She then moved on to Germany where her plans were interrupted by a meeting with a guy in a line for free beer and pizza.

After a whirlwind courtship she married Ernie on the Thanksgiving break. That marriage only lasted 67 years.

The classrooms in Korea were Quonset Huts heated by open 60 gallon barrels with a few inches of fuel ignited by the teacher throwing a lighted match in. The North Koreans were all of 75 miles way. Gerri became the protected one of a (red) union by treating them to a spaghetti dinner followed by American ice cream. In Japan she befriended a Japanese teacher and she and Gerri's Austin-Healy Sprite toured much of Japan.

In addition to her husband, Ernie, she is survived by her sister Marlene Holl of Camano Island, WA, and her stepson, Clayton Abrams of Carlisle, MA.

Gerri was laid to rest during a private burial service on September 18, 2024 at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.

In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to Friends of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail , P.O. Box 1192, Concord, MA 01742.

Arrangements are entrusted to Dee Funeral Home & Cremation Service of Concord.