Gerard L. Pelletier (Jerry), beloved father and grandfather, passed away peacefully in his sleep early Tuesday morning in Morgan Hill, CA. He was born in Fall River, Massachusetts and resided in Morgan Hill since 1988.
Born and raised in Webster, MA, the eldest son of Frank E. and Hazel (Ostberg) Wylde. WWII and Korean War veteran, Marine Corps pilot. He received an Aeronautical Engineering degree from Tri-State College, Angola, IN and worked as a Missile Launch Engineer with the Atlas missile program in the emerging space industry at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Maria, CA, and as a project engineer with United Technologies Center, Sunnyvale, CA. He retired as a Lockheed Engineer. His interests included gardening, antique flint lock pistols, numismatic, and traveling - finding his roots in England and Sweden.