Gerald Lewis Caspersen

Gerald Lewis Caspersen passed on July 19, 2026, at the age of 90. He was born on February 4, 1936.

He proudly served in the United States military in both the Army as well as the Airforce.

Gerald will be laid to rest alongside his devoted wife, Iris, at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona located in Phoenix.

May we offer our deepest condolences to family, to friends, and to all who had the pleasure of knowing Gerald.

We encourage friends and family to share fond memories, favorite photos, and sympathies of expression below.

Please contact the staff at Advantage Melcher Chapel of the Roses for questions, concerns or comments.

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1 Corinthians 13

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.