Dwain Lee Gibson, Alaskan Pioneer and Korean War Veteran passed away on July 13, 2021 at age 89 in Soldotna, Alaska. Graveside services will be 3 p.m. Friday, July 23, at the Kenai City Cemetery. He will be laid to rest next to his wife, Rachel. A celebration of his life will be 2 p.m. Saturday, July 24, at Calvary Baptist Church in Kenai. Pastor Phil Reetsma will officiate. Dwain was born in Oklahoma to Jake and Daisy Gibson in 1931. The family moved to the coal mining town of Cameo, Colo. and then later to Clifton Colo. and started a peach ranch. After graduation from the Grand Junction Central High School, he joined the Air Force. He achieved the rank of Staff Sergeant while serving during the Korean War. At Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi, he met and later married his wife, Rachel. After an honorable discharge from the Air Force, Dwain worked for George McCune learning the construction business in Colorado. He and Rachel had two children, Dwain II, and Nancy. In the summer of 1957, Dwain and family moved to Delta Junction, Alaska where he held a Civil Service construction job at Ft. Greely. Dwain started the Gibson Construction Company that did home building and commercial remodeling from Fairbanks to Homer, Alaska. George Walton, a close friend, convinced Dwain to start selling insurance for State Farm in 1967. He started the State Farm agency in Kenai, and in 1968 the family moved to Soldotna. He retired in 2000 from State Farm after 34 years to pursue his favorite hobbies, building homes, and playing his guitar. Dwain was a kind and generous man, helping people in need and volunteering for many organizations like the Delta Junction Lions Club and the Peninsula Oilers Baseball organization. Family was everything to him, and he was most happy surrounded by his children and grandchildren. Dwain was preceded in death by his wife, Rachel, brothers, Chuck and Jimmy Dean Gibson, and sister, Betty Fern Gibson Evans. Dwain is survived by children, Dwain II and Nancy; sisters, Dolly McCune and Glenda Profeta; sisters-in-law, Patty and Shirley Gibson; grandchildren, Adeena Stading, Bryson Twidwell III, and Anna Cowan and numerous great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins. Arrangements were made by Peninsula Memorial Chapel in Kenai.