Our Demers of November 11, 2026 is Gerard « Jerry » Demers, who fought the Second World War in the navy, and survived the D-day of the famous landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944.
Gerard « Jerry » Demers is a descendant of Jean. Gérard-Jerry was born on July 5, 1926 in Springfield, Massachusetts and is the son of Rosario Demers and Mathilda Breton. A native of St-Apollinaire, it was Rosario who emigrated to the United States. The exact date of Rosario’s arrival in the United States is not known but he married in NH in 1917, had his first son in St-Apollinaire in 1918 and the following children were born in the United States (New Hampshire then Massachusetts). His last Canada-USA transit appears to be in 1923 according to his application for naturalisation (See attached).
He married at least 2 times (3 according to our database). He married Joann Gattuso and Eileen Reynolds. The latter was his sister-in-law, whom he married in 1968, after the death of his brother Albert in 1967. His older brother Raymond, born in 1918 in St-Apollinaire, died in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1924 in tragic circumstances: he was sent to a neighbourhood store to buy peanuts and was fatally hit by a car on his way home. Gerard-Jerry was a machinist at Alden Product and died in 1998 in Massachusetts.
Gerard « Jerry » Demers is a descendant of Jean. Gérard-Jerry was born on July 5, 1926 in Springfield, Massachusetts and is the son of Rosario Demers and Mathilda Breton. A native of St-Apollinaire, it was Rosario who emigrated to the United States. The exact date of Rosario’s arrival in the United States is not known but he married in NH in 1917, had his first son in St-Apollinaire in 1918 and the following children were born in the United States (New Hampshire then Massachusetts). His last Canada-USA transit appears to be in 1923 according to his application for naturalisation (See attached).
He married at least 2 times (3 according to our database). He married Joann Gattuso and Eileen Reynolds. The latter was his sister-in-law, whom he married in 1968, after the death of his brother Albert in 1967. His older brother Raymond, born in 1918 in St-Apollinaire, died in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1924 in tragic circumstances: he was sent to a neighbourhood store to buy peanuts and was fatally hit by a car on his way home. Gerard-Jerry was a machinist at Alden Product and died in 1998 in Massachusetts.
