My Older Brother

Raoul (Rollo) Hugo de Gaston

Born May 26, 1929

     Rollo was a great friend while I was in high school, coming up to the house at times and taking me to a movie, etc. He was always very knowledgeable about all kinds of engineering and owned and ran his own machine shop.

     Rollo played the piano on almost every vist, and it was great. He had to taught himself to play the piano using a mail-order system that he obtained when he was a boy. He also like to play the "fiddle". Perhaps as you hear the music to this page, you can imagine Rollo sitting at the piano making beautiful music.

     Rollo married Magarete (born October 30, 1938), a German immigrant, in about 1974. They soon sold his house in Lynwood and moved to Gardent Grove. Later they sold that house and bought land in Le Grand (Northern California) where he planted thousands of almond trees.

     Rollo and Margarete now live in Tucson, Arizona. Their two children and one grandson live in Phoenix, Arizona.


Rollo's first child is Patricia, born June 17, 1976.
Picture
to
come.


His second child is Eric, born July 19, 1978.
Eric de Gaston

Here is a picture of Patricia, with her husband, Shan Stewart, as of March 1, 2005,
and her son, Michael (born May 1, 1993).
Michael, Patricia, and Shan







"Liebestraum" by Liszt