Jordan Michael "Mike" Holloway

Jan 29, 1940 -

June 8, 2020

Jordan Michael "Mike" Holloway, 80, passed away peacefully in his home in Silver City, N.M., on June 8, 2020. Mike spent much of his career as an orthopedic surgeon at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska. He retired from there in 2001 after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, and spent several years teaching orthopedics in third world countries through Health Volunteers Overseas. He and his wife Margie Gibson moved to Silver City last September.

Mike's interest in Native health was the result of meeting two Gwich'in elders, and inspired his book Dreaming Bears, published by Epicenter Press in 2014. He was a skilled outdoorsman who loved wild country, and worked to protect it as well as the subsistence way of life.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by his son, David Holloway and his wife Marilyn, and their daughters Mikayla and Lauren. He also leaves behind his sister, Barbara Smith; and brother, Ted Holloway.

Donations in Mike's honor be made to the conservation group of your choice, or to the University of Alaska Foundation, P.O. Box 755080, Fairbanks AK 99775. Please mark your check "in honor of Mike Holloway." Funds received will be used to endow the Johnny and Sarah Frank Scholarship.