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Gordon Raymond Ferrell, 89, a retired business owner, has died. Gordon was born in Rock Springs, WY, to Raymond Warden Ferrell and Mary Adelaide Gordon on June 28, 1917.

He was the youngest of four children and grew up in Garden City, KS, until the age of 18, when he moved to California. He worked at various jobs, including that as a bank teller. He worked for Lockheed during the early part of WWII in Northern Ireland and then enlisted in the US Army. He worked as a staff sergeant and, after the war, was part of the occupation force in Japan, where he met his wife, Anne Elizabeth Hines, wh...