George Gose; Ex-President of Chamber of Commerce
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George B. Gose, a past president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and a lawyer and insurance company executive who became a guiding force in the construction of the Los Angeles Convention Center, is dead at 84.
A family spokeswoman said he died Jan. 25 at a Torrance hospital.
In the mid-1960s, Gose and Neil Petree were named to head the new Los Angeles Auditorium Lease Co., which led the bid for a convention center for Los Angeles. The center was dedicated in 1971.
Gose, executive vice president and general counsel for Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. until his retirement in 1970, was involved with the Music Center Lease Co., was a longtime president of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Assn. board and a trustee of Harvey Mudd College.
He was a director of the Chamber of Commerce from 1952 to 1961 and was president in 1958-59.
Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Helen, two daughters and a son.
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