#OTD 12 February 1918, Donald Edward Gearing was born in Watervliet, Michigan.

#OTD 12 February 1918, Donald Edward Gearing was born in Watervliet, Michigan. He registered for the draft in 1940 and his number was called two months before Pearl Harbor was attacked. He served in the Army in the Pacific Theatre. After the war he worked at a paper mill for 30 years. In 1949, he married a war widow, Opal Pitcher Kepil, my mother's first cousin. The couple had no children, but together raised Opal's young daughter from her first marriage. Don had been widowed for 15 years when he died at age 88 in a tragic automobile accident, trying to turn left across a busy street.
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