Alan Kent Gorg

My husband, Alan Gorg died on Friday, July 31. We met while we were both working in the Civil Rights Movement in 1963. Three weeks after having met, we were married. A Black woman and a White man in 1963 was not typical at that time.

Friends advised us to move to Hawaii so that perhaps we could blend into the community to escape many of the pejorative attitudes we had dealt with. In 1970, We moved to the Big Island, later to Oahu, eventually back to the mainland. In 2010 we relocated on

Maui and finally we returned to the Big Island where Alan, my love made his departure. Our marriage has lasted for 57 years. We are the parents of five children, five grandchildren and a very large extended family from different parts of the world. The extraordinary

experiences we were able to share have been amazing.

Alan was a man of integrity, compassion, kindness and generosity. He respected people from varying perspectives, religions, ethnicities and socioeconomic statuses. He was an instructor as well as a filmmaker.

His film Felicia was recently inducted into the Library of Congress and another of his films, The Savages was just restored by UCLA. Some of the Traditional Hopis in Hotevilla, Arizona requested him to make a film representing their

story. Earth Spirit will be released soon. There are more films that he has been responsible for and each of them tells an honest story of disenfranchised people who search for better lives.

He was not perfect as are none of us, but he certainly led an exemplary life and I am happy to have had his support in all of my ventures.

I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU MY DARLING HUSBAND