Gordon Eastman Obituary
Graveside services will be held at a day and time to be announced in woodside cemetery belleville.
Gordon eastman obituary. Eastman 70 adams passed away monday july 1st 2019 at his home. He learned all aspects of building and carpentry from working with and being his fathers son. Arrangements are with the carpenter stoodley funeral home belleville.
Eastmans son mike eastman went on to found eastmans hunting. Gordon created a new genre of films as early as 1957 while guiding in alaska. The hall of fame is to promote wyomings rich outdoor heritage.
From there his son and our father mike eastman created eastmans hunting journals publications where hunters could share. He grew up in garden home and finished high school in hillsboro. Prior to graduation he married jan pulliam in 1962.
The primary purpose of the hall of fame is to honor those individuals who have made significant lasting lifetime contributions to the conservation of wyoming outdoor heritage. Funeral home services for gordon are being provided by reed benoit funeral home inc. In those early years he produced a landmark documentary hunting alaska today.
Wyoming outdoor film legend gordon eastman films a scene from the movie hunting alaska today in 1957 in the brooks range. Our story begins with our grandfather gordon eastman and his adventure films that started in the 1950s and showcased the wildlife of the north the country they lived in and the grit it took to hunt them. Gordon eastman passed away on july 1 2019 in adams new york.
Gordon eastman passed away in fort worth texas. After growing up with a military father and moving often gordon earned his masters degree in chemistry from mississippi state university in 1963. Receive obituaries james roland october 31 2020 77 years old view obituary.
Gordon eastman is today considered not only a pioneer in the outdoors filming industry but also in big game hunting. My dad gordon eastman was inducted into the wyoming outdoor hall of fame. Gordon was born on october 6 1938 in laurel mississippi to william and rachel maddox eastman.
The obituary was featured in star telegram on august 13 2014. Funeral home services for gordon are being provided by thompson harveson cole.