Gerald Thomas Stanley, who owned and operated Stanley and Son residential refuse service and G.T. Stanley cesspool service in East Hampton, died on May 26 in Canandaigua, N.Y. He was 95 and had been mowing his lawn at the time.
After serving with the Marines during World War II, he went to work with his father, who founded Stanley and Son in 1948. He later ran G.T. Stanley until moving upstate in the early 1980s. He was a maintenance manager at the Wegmans food market in Canandaigua until he was in his late 80s.
Mr. Stanley was born in East Hampton on June 19, 1924, to Samuel Stanley and the former Margaret Bennett, and grew up here. He was a member of the Rotary Club and a captain in the East Hampton Fire Department. His lifelong interests included boating, fishing, waterfowl hunting, motorcycles and race cars, riding and driving horses, and woodworking. At one time he held the world record for catching the largest mako shark.
His wife, Barbara Stanley, his daughter, Deborah Lester of East Hampton, a sister, Judith Darenberg of Montauk, one grandchild, and one great-grandchild survive him. Two previous marriages, to Freida Johns and Gayle McAree, ended in divorce.
Memorial contributions have been suggested to the Wounded Warrior Project, P.O. Box 758517, Topeka, Kan. 66675.
