John Leonard Gerweck, 69, passed peacefully at home in Beverley Farms, Massachusetts, June 28, 2022, from heart complications. John was born March 29, 1953, at Riverview Hospital, Red Bank, and grew up in Fair Haven. He graduated Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (‘71) and Babson College (‘75) in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a degree in business administration.
In Babson fashion he was a true entrepreneur. John successfully spent most of his career placing high-caliber attorneys and physicians through his company Oceanic Partners.
John met the love of his life, Debbie Spitzley, in New York City and they were married 42 years ago at the Grosse Pointe Hunt Club. Raising a family and throughout his career, John and his family remained in the Northeast, sequentially living in Manhattan and Bronxville, New York; New Canaan, Essex and Old Lyme, Connecticut; and Marblehead and Beverley Farms, Massachusetts. Wherever John lived, he certainly left his mark.
All of his friends and anyone who met John truly appreciated his eccentrically creative sense of humor and engaging personality. Known around the North Shore Mass pub scene as “Jersey,” he enjoyed coastal Massachusetts scuba diving for lobster, fishing, golf and boating on his dive boat “Viagra Falls” which could be seen putting about Marblehead Harbor to local amusement.
Anyone John engaged with would immediately know if he liked them or not. As a distinguished member of Marblehead’s Dolphin Yacht Club, and in classic form, John certainly distinguished himself, regularly entertaining most and offending a small few.
John is survived by his loving wife Debbie and best-bud son Jonathan of Beverley Farms and lifelong friend Billy of Stowe, Vermont. He was predeceased by his cherished daughter Brindley and parents Len and Pam Gerweck.
If you wish to donate something in John’s memory, make it in the form of humor to your friends and family.
The article originally appeared in the July 21 – 27, 2022 print edition of The Two River Times.
