Greg and his wife Bee moved to Charbonneau in June 2021 from Inverness, IL, a northwest suburb of Chicago. All their children now live in the west, two in Seattle, one in Portland and one in Hilo, Hawaii. The pandemic made clear the need to move closer to them and the 5 grandchildren.
Both Greg and Bee grew up in New Jersey and met at Ridgefield Park High School. Their first date was the senior prom. This year was the 50th anniversary of their marriage.
Greg went to Rice University in Houston, the class of 1972. After college, Greg and Bee moved to the Hartford, Ct area, where he worked as an actuary for Travelers Ins. In 1989, Greg joined MetLife, working in the Chicago area. After retiring from MetLife in 2012, Greg then joined Dearborn National, a subsidiary of HCSC (Blue Cross of IL, TX, etc.), first as their CFO and later as President and CEO.
After his second retirement began in January 2019, Bee and Greg traveled extensively until March 2020.
Greg’s volunteer work has included coaching his children’s soccer and basketball teams, being treasurer and president of their neighborhood pool club, a cub scout den “mother”, a finance advisor for two Catholic churches, and singing in the folk group, choir, or as a cantor at various churches over the years.
They are very happy to have found Charbonneau. Greg is enjoying the golf and bridge here, while Bee is active in the knitting group, book club, Social Niners and CWA.