GENE GONZALEZ

WESTFIELD – GENE GONZALEZ, 51, PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME SURROUNDED BY HIS LOVING AND DEVOTED FAMILY ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2022. 

GENE WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER 4, 1970, IN WESTFIELD, MA TO JULIO AND ROSITA GONZALEZ.

GENE ATTENDED WESTFIELD HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1989.

GENE HAD A MEMORABLE PERSONALITY AND A UNIQUE CHARACTER.  GENE WAS RESILIENT, ALWAYS FOCUSING AND PUSHING THROUGH MANY HARDSHIPS THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE.

GENE WAS A MASTER GARDNER AND AN AMAZING COOK.  HE ENJOYED BEING IN NATURE AND SPENDING TIME TAKING WALKS.  MUSIC WAS A BIG PART OF GENE’S LIFE, HE ENJOYED REGGAE, CALYPSO, AND ROCK.  GENE WAS A MEMBER OF FORM HOUSE. 

GENE LEAVES HIS DAUGHTERS AMY GONZALEZ OF WEST SPRINGFIELD AND ALYSSA FLEMMING AND HER HUSBAND BRANDON OF WORCESTER, MA, HIS SON RYLAN RIVERA AND HIS WIFE MYRA RIVERA OF NEW JERSEY, HIS BROTHER JUNIOR GONZALEZ, HIS SISTER LISA GONZALEZ OF HOLYOKE, MA, HIS GRANDCHILDREN ETHAN AND AMYAH RIVERA, ALONG WITH MAY OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS. 

TO ASSIST THE FAMILY WITH FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS PLEASE CONSIDER MAKING A DONATION TO GENE'S GOFUNDME CAMPAIGN BY CLICKING HERE 

FAMILY AND FRIENDS ARE INVITED TO GATHER FOR A PERIOD OF VISITATION ON FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2022, FROM 11:00 AM – 12:45 PM AT WESTFIELD FUNERAL HOME & CREMATION, 4 PRINCETON ST, WESTFIELD, MA 01085  A FUNERAL HOME SERVICE WILL BE HELD AT 12:45 PM FOLLOWED BY BURIAL AT PINE HILL CEMETERY, WESTFIELD, MA 01085

TO EXPRESS CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY, AND SHARE PHOTOS, OR MEMORIES PLEASE VISIT GENE’S MEMORIAL PAGE AT WWW.WESTFIELDFUNERALHOME.COM

Until the day I let you go, until we say our next hello, It´s not good-bye.  ´Til I see you again, I´ll be right here rememberin´ when.  And if time is on our side there´ll be no tears to cry on down the road. There is one thing I can´t deny It´s not good-bye.

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