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J. F. McAlear
JESSE FAY MCALEAR (1894-1974) was born in Blue Mound, Livingston County, Missouri, on October 25, 1894, the eldest of six children, to George McAlear and Anna Belle Jeffers McAlear. He came to the ...view moreJESSE FAY MCALEAR (1894-1974) was born in Blue Mound, Livingston County, Missouri, on October 25, 1894, the eldest of six children, to George McAlear and Anna Belle Jeffers McAlear. He came to the Flathead Indian Reservation on April 7, 1910 and graduated from Polson High School, Lake County, Montana in 1916. He later attended Northwestern Business College at Spokane and, having been raised on a ranch, homesteaded in Valley View on the Flathead in 1918. McAlear married Olive G. Bishop of Dodge City, Kansas in 1922, and the couple moved to Polson, where he was employed in the lumber industry. In 1928, McAlear began working in the real estate and insurance business. He died in Polson on January 5, 1974 and lies buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Polson.
SHARON FRANCIS BERGMAN (1925-2007) was born in Denver, Colorado on August 13, 1925 to Arthur and Cora Wynne. The family homesteaded in Gila Bend, Arizona and then moved to Polson, Montana, where Sharon attended Polson High School, graduating in 1942. After high school, Sharon relocated to Hollywood, California, where she met and married Ray Bergman. She became stepmother to Don and had three children: Susan, Beverly and Keith. Sharon turned to writing and wrote for a weekly newspaper for seven years before contributing magazine articles to national publications. The Bergman family returned to Montana in 1960 to a cattle ranch in Hamilton, and Sharon later went to work for the electric cooperative and ran a Laundromat in Corvallis. She returned to Southern California in the early 1970s for a few years, then took a position with the Women’s International Bowling Congress (WIBC), retiring as executive assistant in 1988. She moved back to Polson, wrote a newsletter for the Polson newspaper, coached the junior bowlers, and continued to work in the media room at the national bowling tournaments each spring. Sharon died on January 19, 2007, at the age of 81.view less