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Late Tribute to Ex-LBA Leader Right on Time

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 8/18/21

When longtime Lieutenants Benevolent Association President James Gebhardt died May 26 last year at age 85, his two daughters decided to wait out the pandemic to hold a lunch in his memory in the style which the man known as Big Jim would have appreciated.

And so on Aug. 17, when more than a few of the attendees were swapping stories about having overcome the coronavirus over the past six months, several dozen of them showed up at the Water Club—which daughter Lee Robin Gebhardt noted had been the gathering point for numerous Saturday family Thanksgiving dinners after Broadway matineesto reminisce and laugh about the man more than one speaker said was "literally and figuratively larger than life."

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