Gus G. Widmayer

Who is Gus G. Widmayer?

Born in 1958, Gus G. Widmayer of Groton, Massachusetts, is a businessman and real estate developer, and is known locally as news correspondent. His signature column is “Gus on Groton,” and has appeared in the Groton Landmark since April 8, 2011. Widmayer was born August 24th at No. 142 George Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York, fourth of the five children of Francis J. Widmayer, Jr. and Gertrude Marie. The house was also his mother's birthplace and childhood home to his maternal grandfather and namesake, Accursio Gustave "Gus" Catanese, who arrived there in 1906 at the age of six months. After moving with the father's career to homes in Denville, New Jersey and Watertown, Connecticut, Widmayer suffered a three year bout with Legg-Perthes disease, affecting his right hip that incapacitated him from the age of four until the age of seven years. The family settled in Acton, Massachusetts by 1965 where Widmayer attended school from the first grade. He completed his education at the Acton Boxborough Regional High School before being accepted and graduated by the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana with the Class of 1980. His major studies were in Business Marketing and French. He studied abroad in 1977-78 at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest in Angers, France.