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Charlotte Edna Churchill went to her "reward" on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 2019, wrapped in the arms of her loving husband of 37 years, Bill Churchill of Wrangell, Alaska. Born Charlotte Edna Hubert on May 8, 1924 in Sitka, Alaska, Charlotte had many hobbies including beading, cooking, weaving, knitting and reading. She was a lifetime member of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, (ANS) Camp # 1. She was preceded in death by brothers, Arthur and Rosco Max and sisters, Jean Anderson and Edith...
Johanna Marie (Bradley) Joseph, 74, passed away in Wrangell, Alaska on October 16, 2019 after a short battle with cancer. She was born in Wrangell on February 20, 1945 to Henry Bradley and Theodosia ( "Fanny" ) Nauska. She was Aleut and Tlingit (Raven, and Frog from the Sun House.) Johanna lived and loved her whole life in Wrangell. She graduated from Wrangell High School, during which time she worked for the parents of her girlfriend, Linda Goodrich, in their restaurant. She married Morgan...
William Joe Stover, 75, died on October 8, 2019. He was born November 12, 1943 to William L. Stover and Mildred Ann Stover in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was the eldest of 13 children. He came to Alaska in 1964 and quickly came to love it and made Wrangell his home. He married Pamela Kaye McCormick in 1966 and together they had two children Kimberly and Nicole. Joe made a career in the safety industry and worked throughout Alaska until his retirement in 2005. He was preceded in death by: sister June;...
Robert (Bob) Michael Maxand, 78, died June 10, 2019, in Boise, Idaho. Bob was born in Wrangell, Alaska on February 14, 1941. He graduated from Wrangell High School in 1960. He then spent three years in the U.S Army stationed in Germany, where he was a civil engineer with the U.S Army Corps of Engineers. He was a member of the Wrangell Elks Lodge, and the Amercian Legion. He helped with the building of the existing Legion Hall. He spent 12 consecutive years on the Wrangell City Council, was a...
Stephani Ann Ruks, 77, died on August 16, 2019, in Wrangell, Alaska. Ann was born in Louisville, Kentucky and moved with her family to Wrangell when she was young. She graduated from Wrangell High School in 1961 and worked in Nome and Anchorage and the Alaska Pipeline in Valdez. She lived 18 years in Arizona before returning home to Wrangell where she worked at Wrangell Medical Center until her retirement. Ann was a member of the hospital auxiliary and served in hospice for many years. She was...
Stephani Ann Ruks, 77, passed away on August 16, 2019. A celebration of life will be held in Wrangell in October. An obituary will follow....
Laurence Bryan Taylor, Jr., 55, passed away on August 6, 2019 after a battle with cancer. A celebration of life will be held August 17, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. at City Park. An obituary will follow....
Michael Patrick Nash, 68, of Wrangell, Alaska passed away on July 11, 2019 in a plane crash on Judy Hill near Ketchikan, Alaska. Michael was born to Albert and Priscilla Nash and grew up in Friday Harbor, Washington along with his six siblings. It was there he fell in love with airplanes and flying, a love that never wavered throughout his lifetime. At age 16 he baled hay for the summer in order to earn enough money to buy his first airplane. As a young man he struggled between wanting to serve...
Nadine Ione Phillips, 88, passed away on July 15, 2019 in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Service arrangements to be announced. An obituary will follow....
Norman L. Ream, 96, passed away on June 24, 2019. He was born in Ketchikan, Territory of Alaska, on November 23, 1922, the second of four children of Anna and Joel S. Ream. Norm graduated from the University of Washington with a master's in structural engineering, and served in WWII and Korea in the Army Corps of Engineers. He worked in the field of construction, eventually co-founding AIC Construction. AIC had work in the Pacific from Midway Island to Guam and remote areas in Alaska. Norm never...
Carla Louise Abild (Johnson), 53, passed away on April 18, 2019 in Owensville, Missouri. She had great artistic ability, was intelligent, and had a right to the line sense of humor that could get anyone laughing. Carla was preceded in death by her father, Lewis Oliver Johnson. She is survived by her long time friend and partner, Mike Tindall; her mother, Mable McMurren; and three sons, Stephen and Eric Purvis, and Jared Abild. There will be a memorial service and potluck held in Wrangell at the...
Melba Ann Marshall, 83, passed on June 18, 2019. She was born in Limon, Colorado on April 1, 1936. She came to Wrangell in 2001 to live out her life with her three children and grandchildren. A memorial will be held at Harbor Light Church on July 20, 2019 at 4 p.m....
Judy (Judith) Ann Rochester, age 76, passed away on June 22, 2019 with her family at her side in Juneau, Alaska. She was born in Portland, Maine and moved to Sacramento, California at the age of 13. Judy graduated Hiram W. Johnson High School and attended Sacramento Community College. After marrying Dan, she moved to Thorne Bay, Alaska to work and raise a family. During her time in Thorne Bay, Judy worked her way from bull cook, cleaning bunkhouses, to second cook. Judy also was a co-owner in...
Jack Lee Fain, 61, died on June 10, 2019 at Wrangell Hospital with his wife standing by him. He was born on July 8, 1957 in Crescent City, California to Clara and Jack Fain. He had one brother, Tom, and a sister, Karen. He also had seven children he raised by himself. He loved working with cars; tearing them apart and putting them back together, like a big puzzle. Jack also loved gardening and trout fishing. When he was a teenager, he was a Golden Glove boxer. His parents and a sister preceded...
Florence Pringle (Rinehart) 83, died on April 6, 2019 in Missoula, Montana where she was living with her daughter, Wendy. She was born on August 12, 1935 in Wrangell, Alaska to Helen and Harry Pringle. She had three brothers, Richard, Harry and Robert and sisters, Marlene and Shirley. She also has half-brothers and sisters, the Jacksons, who live in Mississippi. She graduated from Kent High School in Washington and later continued her education at the University of Washington. She worked at Husk...
Lisa Marie Merritt (Pearson), 55, died in Gilbert, Arizona on December 6, 2018. She was born May 1, 1963, in Sturgis, South Dakota, and in 1967, came to Wrangell with her parents Ron and Marlene Merritt, and siblings, Steven, Brian and Michelle. After graduation from Wrangell High School, she continued her education in Oregon and received an undergraduate degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Pacific University. Later, she earned her MS in Speech-Language Pathology from the...
Meredith Sykes, 79, passed away on May 12, 2019 in Washington State. She was a small-town girl from Fargo, North Dakota, who traveled the world, with adventures in Asia, Europe, and Africa. She braved the wilds (and not-so-wilds) of Alaska for 32 years before moving to Gig Harbor, Washington in 1993. She and her family lived in Wrangell from about 1961 to 1972 and her children were born in Wrangell. She was an excellent cook and baker and instilled that passion and talent in all three of her daughters. She belonged to gourmet groups in Anchorag...
Lurine M. McGee, 96, passed away April 30, 2019 at Wrangell Medical Long Term Care. An obituary will follow....
Charles P. Berg, 88, of Litchfield Park, Arizona, passed away peacefully at Abrazo West Medical Center on April 9, 2019. He was born in Pierpoint, South Dakota on March 2, 1931 and spent his youth in Seward, Alaska and Wrangell, Alaska. His parents, Claude and Geraldine were teachers. He graduated from Wrangell High School in 1949 and played varsity basketball for the Wrangell Wolves. Charlie met his wife, Helen Angerman, during high school and they were married on September 17, 1954 in...
Charles "Charlie" Marvin Wills, 77, a long time resident of Ketchikan, Alaska passed away on March 25, 2019, near Redding, California. He was born on June 29, 1941, in Medford, Oregon to Marvin and Freda Wills. Before arriving in Alaska in 1954, Charlie traveled with his family throughout the western states as his father was a horse trader with the traveling rodeos. When the family first moved to Alaska, they home- steaded on the Unuk River before settling in Ketchikan. Charlie has worn many...
David Charles (Chuck) Oliver, 90, passed away peacefully March 17, 2019, in Anchorage, Alaska. He was born September 30, 1928 in Fall Creek, Oregon, to David and Dorothy Oliver and raised by Dorothy and Lloyd Williams. On September 29, 1947, Chuck married his high school sweetheart Alice Irene Rice. He attended Oregon State University before joining the U.S. Army and served during the Korean conflict. He was honorably discharged as a First Lieutenant. He returned to Oregon where he and Alice sta...
Mary Ann Phillips, 65 and a lifelong Wrangell resident, passed away February 5, 2019 in Zihuantanejo, Mexico while on vacation with her family. She was born on November 18, 1953 in Bishop Rowe Hospital to Maurice and Mary Buness. She attended Wrangell Public Schools until her family moved to the Tacoma area in 1964. She returned to Wrangell with them in January 1970 and made her home here since. After graduating from Wrangell High School, she attended the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She...
Ethan Walter Petticrew Jr. (Joe Jr.), 81, died on February 9, 2019 at his home in Wrangell, Alaska. Born January 22, 1938 in Wrangell to Ethan Walter Petticrew Sr. (Joe Sr.) and Florence Imogene (West) Petticrew. He spent his childhood in Wrangell amongst good friends that he kept for a lifetime. He attended Wrangell High School, was a basketball player, and graduated on May 10, 1957. He married Anne Carroll (Carol Anne) Casey on August 8, 1959 in Sitka at St. Peter's by the Sea. He was a...
Mary Anne Phillips, 65, passed away February 6, 2019 in Ixtapa, Mexico. Funeral services will be held at Harbor Light Church at 1pm on Thursday, February 21, 2019. Following the funeral a celebration of life will be held at the Elks Lodge. An obituary will follow....
James Frederick King, 89, passed away in Marysville, Washington on January 28, 2019. Jim was born on July 20, 1929 in Nipawin, Saskatchewan to Fred and Dorothy King. He was the youngest of four boys. His engineering work started as a surveyor of roads in Saskatchewan and Alberta before moving to Idaho where he designed portions of the Interstate highway system. Jim moved to Marysville where he started a surveying company and later worked at Alderwood Water District engineer. After retiring he...