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LOCAL BUSINESSMAN AND PHILANTHROPIST GREG GOMES PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY AT HOME SURROUNDED BY FAMILY ON DECEMBER 14, 2020 AFTER A VALIANT BATTLE WITH PANCREATIC CANCER. HE WAS 82 YEARS OLD. GREGORY ROGER GOMES WAS BORN AND RAISED IN HONOLULU AND ATTENDED ST. LOUIS SCHOOL ('56) AND THEN WENT ON TO ATTEND THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA.GREG WAS PASSIONATE ABOUT SERVING HIS COMMUNITY AND SPEARHEADED MANY PHILANTHROPIC ENDEAVORS, INCLUDING THE SAINT LOUIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION GOLF TOURNAMENT. RAISING OVER $1 MILLION DOLLARS OVER THE COURSE OF HIS 15 YEARS OF INVOLVEMENT, HE WAS SO INSPIRED BY THE SUCCESS OF THAT INITIATIVE. HE THEN FOUNDED THE WEBCO FOUNDATION IN 2003 WHICH FURTHER CONTRIBUTED TO A WIDE NUMBER OF CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS.
IN HIS SPARE TIME HE WAS AN AVID GOLFER. HIS LOVE OF THE GAME BEGAN DURING HIS CHILDHOOD WHILE WORKING AT THE KAPIOLANI GOLF DRIVING RANGE. IT WAS THERE THAT HE MET AND LEARNED THE GAME FROM MANY OF HAWAI'I'S OLD-TIME GREAT GOLFERS. HE BECAME A MEMBER OF THE SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL GOLF TEAM AND DEVELOPED INTO AN EXCELLENT SCRATCH GOLFER. HE WAS A LONGTIME MEMBER OF WAIALAE GOLF CLUB WHERE HE SPEND MANY ENJOYABLE HOURS WITH HIS MANY FRIENDS DOING THE THINGS THAT HE LOVED—PLAYING GOLF AND SOCIALIZING WITH HIS THIRSTY THURSDAY GROUP.
IN 1966, GREG FOUNDED WEBCO HAWAII. A DISTRIBUTION COMPANY REPRESENTING MANUFACTURERS TO SERVE RETAILERS THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF HAWAI'I. OVER THE COURSE OF 50 YEARS WEBCO GREW TO BECOME ONE OF THE LARGEST DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES IN THE STATE SERVICING SOME OF HAWAII'S MOST CHERISHED BRANDS AND EMPLOYING OVER 250 EMPLOYEES STATEWIDE.
A DEDICATED AND RESPECTED MEMBER OF OUR COMMUNITY, HE SERVED AS A BOARD MEMBER OF THE SAINT LOUIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION, WAIALAE COUNTRY CLUB, ADVISORY STUDY COMMISSION ON WATER RESOURCES FOR THE BOARD OF WATER SUPPLY. AS WELL AS THE HONOLULU STADIUM AUTHORITY. IN 1996, HE WAS HONORED TO BE NAMED THE SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL'S ALUMNUS OF THE YEAR.
GREG WAS DEEPLY PASSIONATE ABOUT HIS FAMILY, GRANDCHILDREN, GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND BELOVED FRIENDS. HE WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 3, 1938 TO CHARLES AND MINNIE GOMES AND IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE FRANCES, BROTHERS RODNEY, MELVIN AND DENNIS, CHILDREN: CHAR OSHIRO (DEKI), TOMMY, BOBBIE KAMIYA (ALAN), STUART, (DECEASED), 5 GRANDSONS (PATRICK SATO-GOMES (KRISTIE), NICKLAUS SATO (DANI), BRYSON CHANG, JEREMY CHANG & CODY OSHIRO), 5 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN
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