James T. (Jay) Gamble |
| Posted 2009-07-17 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage, Alaska Thursday, January 15, 1998 Former Alaska resident James T. 'Jay' Gamble, 82, died Jan. 6, 1998, at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Prescott, Ariz., due to complications of diabetes. A gathering of family and friends will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Anchorage home of Demoine and Norma Gamble. Mr. Gamble was born July 4, 1915, in Herford, Texas, to James and Mary (Burns) Gamble. He married Wanda Hincks in Wyoming in 1934. After working in the shipyards in Portland, Ore., during most of World War II, he was inducted into the U.S. Army toward the end of the war. Following that, he working construction in Montana for several years before bringing his family to Alaska in 1952. He worked as a construction superintendent in Anchorage, Kenai, Soldotna, Nome, Kodiak, Amchitka and Sitkinak. He supervised the construction of more than 60 permanent buildings at Elmendorf Air Force Base. He also supervised the reconstruction of Seward following the 1964 earthquake and the return to the runway of a Boeing 747 at Anchorage International Airport in the mid-70s. Mr. Gamble retired to Arizona in 1977. He was preceded in death by his wife, Wanda, in 1986. He is survived by his son and daughter-in-law, Demoine and Norma Gamble; three grandchildren and their spouses, Jim and Irene Persson-Gamble, Kent Gamble and Janelle and Mark Hull; and five great-grandchildren, Kaley and Ben Gamble and Andrew, Shelby and Austin Hull. Interment will be at a later date at Angelus Memorial Park. Memorial donations may be made to any hospice association or the American Diabetes Association, Alaska Affiliate, 800 E. Dimond Blvd., Anchorage 99515. |
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