George Wilber McBride, 101, of Sweet Home died March 27, 2010. He was born Aug. 3, 1908 in Sterling, Colo. to William Morris and Hilda (Elsass) McBride.
In 1928, he and his younger brother Gene rode boxcars to California, where Mr. McBride got into construction work operating heavy equipment in the construction of dams and roads in California and Oregon. He worked on the Folsom, Boulder, Shasta and Culver dams. He also helped build Interstate…