Wear, Gordon, 1907-1996.
Gordon Wear drove up the Alaska Highway in the early 1950s, with his wife Doris, opened an insurance company, and settled in Fairbanks, Alaska. Gordon Wear was a prominent civic leader, member of the Civil Air Patrol and the Military National Civilian Advisory Board, as well as President of the Fairbanks Rotary Club. Doris Wear was a schoolteacher at Fort Wainwright and an active member in the Top of the World Garden Club. (From: Alaska magazine, v. 63, no. 2 [March 1997] p. 91; AYP news, [Sept. 1996] pp. 12-14.)
From the description of Gordon and Doris Wear papers, ca. 1920 - 1984. (University of Alaska, Fairbanks). WorldCat record id: 184988554
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| creatorOf | Wear, Gordon, 1907-1996. Gordon and Doris Wear papers, ca. 1920 - 1984. | University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library |
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