James Danial “Dan” Gonder died Aug. 30 at DeKalb Regional Medical Center in Fort Payne, Ala. He was born in Tennessee on Saturday, Jan. 12, 1935 to Thomas Warner Gonder and Sallie Foster Gonder. He was predeceased by his brothers Forest Gonder, John Gonder and Dee Roy Gonder, and is survived by his wife of 53 years, Mary Clarke Gonder, as well as his sisters Oma Shubert, Joanne Cunningham and Marie Stubblefield.