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

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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by Dorothy Chomicz / dchomicz@newsminer.com
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.

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

by Sam Friedman/sfriedman@newsminer.com Oct 18, 2011

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

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How sad this story is...

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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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by Sam Friedman/sfriedman@newsminer.com 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.

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NAMUS page...

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

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.

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The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)