AK AK - Gerald DeBerry, 53, Fairbanks SAR member, 10 Oct 2011

[CatFancier]

Subfreezing temperatures had already begun to lock Interior Alaska in ice for the winter when 53-year-old Gerald DeBerry volunteered to join the search for a woman who'd gone missing Sunday night along the remote Steese Highway. She was found safe Monday near Frozen Foot Creek about 70 miles north of Fairbanks.

And then rescuers noticed DeBerry was missing. Nobody's seen or heard from the 53-year-old Fairbanksan since. While the search for 38-year-old Melinda "Mindy" Stratz of Utah ended with everyone celebrating her rescue, there are growing worries about DeBerry.

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/widening-search-missing-fairbanks-search-and-rescue-volunteer

 

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http://newsminer.com/view/full_stor...-mission?instance=home_news_window_left_top_2

by Dorothy Chomicz / [email protected]
Oct 15, 2011

FAIRBANKS — Hope is fading in the search for missing Fairbanks resident Gerald DeBerry, who disappeared Monday after participating in a successful search for a missing family friend.

 

[summer_breeze]

http://newsminer.com/bookmark/16094432-Search-for-missing-searcher-now-body-recovery

by Sam Friedman/[email protected] Oct 18, 2011

FAIRBANKS — The search for Gerald DeBerry continues, but friends and family believe it’s a body recovery mission now.

 

[longtallcold]

How sad this story is...

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

[snip]

Potvin's friend Gerald DeBerry last fall disappeared into the White Mountains along with his four-wheeler after helping to search for a missing woman safely found. An exhaustive search for DeBerry followed. No sign of the 53-year-old man or the 600-pound vehicle he was riding has ever been found.

"People looked and looked and looked," Potvin said this week. "People have been looking all spring."

There were expectations that at least DeBerry's all-terrain vehicle might be found in the brief period between when the snows melt in Alaska and the leaves explode into life. Then, the land is gray and open, and a lot can be seen from the air or from the ground. And yet searchers still couldn't find any hint of DeBerry.

"No one's every found anything of him," Potvin said, "but he's out there somewhere. He comes up almost every day. He had a lot of friends (here). It is weird."

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/no-sign-missing-mount-marathon-runner-search-begins-fourth-day

 

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http://newsminer.com/view/full_stor...by-miner?instance=home_news_window_left_top_4

by Sam Friedman/[email protected] Sep 11, 2012

FAIRBANKS — The four-wheeler ridden by a Fairbanks man who went missing off the Steese Highway last October was discovered by a miner last week, giving friends and family of the missing man some clue as to where he might have gone.

 

[CatFancier]

NAMUS page...

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/show/18418

 

[JerseyGirl]

still missing.

Gerald Deberry, 53, was a Fairbanks man who joined a search for a woman missing in the White Mounains 70 miles north of that community in 2011 only to disappear forever himself. The missing woman was found.

 

[BrownBear]

Updated NamUs link

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[Pennysmom1]

update Sept 27, 2016

Four-wheeler of Alaskan missing since 2011 found near Steese Highway

A miner hiking near Faith Creek Mine, off the Steese Highway, stumbled upon DeBerry's green, Yahama Kodiak four-wheeler over Labor Day weekend.

www.adn.com

<<A miner hiking near Faith Creek Mine, off 69 Mile of the Steese Highway, stumbled upon DeBerry's green, Yahama Kodiak four-wheeler over Labor Day weekend.

The four-wheeler was found stuck in the tundra. Alaska State Troopers said it was turned off. Trooper spokeswoman Megan Peters speculated to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner that it was stuck "at an angle that would indicate to us that the gas wasn't getting sucked up, and it probably stalled out.''>>

Gerald Allen Deberry - Alaska Missing Person Directory

Details and Pictures of Gerald Allen Deberry, Missing since October 2011

www.missingin.org

Last seen alive: October 10, 2011 at 05:30

Circumstances: was on a search and rescue with Family members around 70 mile but they found the 4-wheeler a year later around 2 to 5 miles away from there, in the woods, very bad place. We need to find something for closure.
First Name: Gerald Allen
Middle Name: Allen
Last Name: Deberry

Details​

Age When Last Known Alive: 51
Race: White
Ethnicity: Other
Sex: Male
Height: 60.0 to
Weight: 130.0 to

Location​

City: Fairbanks
State: Alaska
County: Fairbanks North Star

Appearance​

Hair: White
Head Hair: white/ blonde
Body Hair: blondeish/white
Facial Hair: blondeish/white
Eye: Blue
Scars And Marks: had open heart surgery, rods in legs from being broken
Foreign Objects: rods in legs

Clothing and Accessories​

Clothing: blue jeans, t-shirt, heavy flannel overcoat/shirt
Footwear: tennis shoes, I beleive
Eyewear: glasses
Accessories: billfold, not sure what else, cell phone

Transportation​

Vehicle Make: All-terrain veh
Vehicle Model: Wheels only
Vehicle Color: Green
4-wheeler--- but they found it