Getting old isn’t easy for a lot of reasons, including the slide toward invisibility.
So it was for Gene McDermott, not because he was invisible, but because society didn’t see him the way it once had.
That can happen at 91, when life is confined to a hospital bed in the living room, and Parkinson’s disease muffles the voice.
McDermott spent his career in journalism and marketing after serving in the Navy in the South Pacific. He has been married for 46 years. He helped raise three kids.
“A great life,” said his wife, Sue McDermott.