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Maury Buness passed away Saturday, August 23. Obituary to follow....
Lester (Les) Olds of Wrangell passed away on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. He was born in Seattle, Wash. on Dec. 15, 1925. Les was a crewman aboard the heavy cruiser, the USS Portland, which fought in 18 major sea battles during World War II. He was the proud recipient of several military commendations, including a Purple Heart for sustaining an injury during an airstrike. He married the late Rita Mae Olds in 1951. Les was a respected member of the community and touched many lives. As an avid outdoors...
Ruth Warfel passed away at age 91 in Klamath Falls, Ore. on May 21, 2014, with family at her side. She was a large part of Wrangell for over 80 years. Ruth was born in Bellingham, Wash. on March 8, 1923, and adopted by Henry and Gertrude Scribner from Seattle, Wash. Ruth had fond memories of Henry taking her to watch the Mariners baseball team at Safeco Field and Gertrude taking her to Pike Street Market for fresh produce. When Ruth was three years old, they moved to Wrangell for a brief time...
Robert (Bob) Sowle passed away on July 26, 2014. He was born March 28, 1935, in Ingahm, Neb. to Arthur and Edna Sowle. The family moved to Oregon when he was a child. Bob graduated from Nestucca High School in Cloverdale, Ore. in 1954. After graduation he worked for his father doing rock crushing and road construction in Pacific City, Ore. In 1957, Bob bought his first dump truck. In the '60s Bob started Nestucca Valley Construction Co., which offered septic tank repair and replacement. He said...
Lifelong Alaskan, Edward "Ted" McLean Eastaugh, 74, passed away July 16, 2014 at his home in Anchorage. Ted was born November 25, 1939 to William Ladd and Doris Jessie (McLean) Eastaugh in Seattle, Wash. The family returned to Wrangell, Alaska where Ted grew up. As a teenager he roamed the woods, hunted with his brother and friends and starred as the center for his high school basketball team. In Fairbanks he attended UAF, receiving a bachelor's degree in biology. While there he met his future...
Marion Jay Neyman died Sunday, July 6, 2014, in his hometown of Wrangell with family by his side. He was born Feb. 19, 1931, in Burley, Idaho, to Dorothy and Virgil Neyman. The family moved to Wrangell, Alaska, in 1937 when Marion was six. As a kid, he and brother, Martin, ran a trap line for mink in the winter, rowed a double-ender out to Elephant's Nose to fish for halibut and rode their bikes out to Pat's Creek to camp and fish for trout, among other pursuits. In high school Marion did well...
Marlene Delores Summerfield passed from this life peacefully May 23, 2014, under the compassionate care of the staff at Country Villa healthcare of Quincy. Her family was at her side. Marlene was born in Olympia, Wash., on July 16, 1933, to the late Washington natives Clyde and Lena (Ellis) Webber. She was raised and educated in Wrangell, Alaska, where she graduated high school as a member of the Class of 1951. Following her graduation, she returned to the lower 48 to seek employment. In 1964, Marlene moved to the northeastern California...
Thomas Charles Feller, Sr. died peacefully June 5 at the Alaska Native Medical Center surrounded by family and close friends after recently being diagnosed with cancer. Tom was born on November 9, 1926, in Wrangell to Otto Feller, Sr. and Susie Cooday Feller. Tom was a member of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. He was Tlingit of the Kik'sadi, Raven/Frog, of the Sun House in Wrangell. As a member of the Alaska Territorial Guard, Tom served his country honorably from 1942 to 1947....
Evan Paul (E.P.) Lloyd, 92, passed away on May 25, 2014 in Edmonds Wash. He was born in Wrangell, Alaska on October 26, 1921, the son of Chester Henry Lloyd and Inez Mabel Binkley. In his youth he developed a passion for fishing, hunting and exploring the Alaskan wilderness. When called to serve his country, Evan joined a new Air Force command of patrol and crash rescue boats in the Aleutian Islands serving as Chief Engineer and Warrant Officer until his honorable discharge in 1945. On January...
Daniel Scott Baldwin Sr., husband, father of four and missionary pilot, died at the age of 82. He took off on his final flight, heaven bound, on April 17, 2014 at 7:50 am from his home in Wrangell, Alaska. He was born July 18, 1931 in Hughson, Calif., the second child of Walter Earl and Eula Fern (Miller) Baldwin. He had three sisters, Wiyizety, Fern and Sylvetta along with one brother, Gordon. He was raised in Northern Calif. on a vineyard. At the age of 15 he moved to a farm with his aunt, his...
Sandra Kay (Kenny) Griswold of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho passed away April 12, 2014 at the Hospice House in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho after a 5 year battle with multiple myeloma. Sandra was born January 15, 1955 in Kalispell, Mont. to William and Loretta (Galland) Kenny. Sandra's father passed away in 1972 when she was 17, and the family moved from Montana to Coeur d'Alene. Sandra graduated from Upper Columbia Academy in Spangle, Wash. in 1974. In 1983 she married Donald Griswold. In 1984, Sandra, Don,...
Anne Carroll (Carol Anne) (Mamsie) Petticrew, 75, of Wasilla died on March 20, 2014 in the arms of her children she loved so dearly. She was born December 27, 1938, in Nikolski (Umnak Island), Alaska to Steve Casey and Tatiana Ermeloff. She was the grandchild of George Ermeloff, Chief of Umnak, and Sophie Dushkin of Morzhovi. In 1941, Anne was an Aleut Evacuee. As a young girl, she spent time in Ketchikan and Wrangell. She attended Wrangell High School, was a cheerleader, and graduated in 1959....
Bill Andrew Dodson passed away unexpectedly Jan. 8, 2014. He made his home in Edna Bay, Alaska for the past twenty years. He moved to Alaska in 1980, first living two years in Point Baker, then ten years in Wrangell before relocating to Edna Bay in 1994. Bill was born July 3, 1947 to Vernon and Irene Dodson in Walla Walla, Wash. He was raised in Anacortes, Wash. and graduated from Anacortes High School in 1965. He received an Associate of Arts Degree from Skagit Valley College in 1968, plus a...
Louis A. Thompson, 77, died on Jan. 8, 2014, in Palm Springs. He was born to Agnes Rose Young and Louis Thompson on July 21, 1936, in Kasaan. Mr. Thompson was raised in Kasaan and was given two Haida names: Xie'n Skinai, which comes from Daxién Skinai, "owner of a large bay" and La'na Kíngel, "the chief that looks at his village." When the Alaska Native corporation Kavilco formed after the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1972, Mr. Thompson was present as one of Kasaan's representatives. H...
Emil Nelson Churchill passed away peacefully January 12, 2014 in Wrangell, Alaska with loved ones by his side. Emil was born February 25, 1936 in Craig, Alaska to David and Rebecca Churchill. He was the youngest of five children. One day in 1943 Emil was outside playing and got a stick jabbed through his neck and needed medical attention. The family brought him to Wrangell, and here is where they made their home. Emil attended school and played basketball on both the high school team and ANB...
John Wellons was born to Grace and Hubert Wellons, Sr. in Wrangell, Alaska on December 10, 1944, joining big brother Hoop. He was a lifelong Wrangellite, and loved this little town very much. He met Donna Loveland in 1977 and married her on May 5, 1979. His eldest daughter Luana was born in 1982 and his baby girl Melissa was born in 1984. Nothing made John prouder than being a father, and then later a Papa to his grandchildren Elizabeth and Houston. John was a jack of all trades who held many...
Orin F. Piatt, 75, died of cancer December 21, 2013 at his home in Soldotna surrounded by his family. Piatt was born May 26, 1938 in Orofino, Idaho to Bill and Tana Piatt. Just a month shy of his ninth birthday, his parents moved the family to Wrangell, Alaska. Taking a train to Seattle from Lewiston, Idaho they boarded a steam ship to Wrangell. One can just imagine Orin's eyes lighting up at his first sight of the ocean and it's pretty safe to assume that his lifelong love of boats was born at...
Donald Philip Griswold, 68, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho passed away January 3, 2014 at his home in Coeur d'Alene. Donald was born September 14, 1945 in Red Buff, Calif. to Frank and Ocie (Tate) Griswold. Donald grew up in California, and as a young man he traveled throughout that state and the Pacific Northwest, finally fulfilling his lifelong dream of moving to Alaska in 1984, where he lived for the next 20 years. He moved back to Coeur d'Alene, where he had lived previously, in 2006. Donald first...
Bernard Conrad Iversen, 89, died on August 31, 2013 in Portland, Ore. with his family surrounding him. He had been through a difficult year, losing his son Peter in an airplane crash last October, 2012 and shortly thereafter his wife Doris died in late November, just days before their 66th wedding anniversary and her 88th birthday. His sister, Millie Iversen Grant, passed in June of this year in Anchorage. Barney had been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer last fall, but through it all, he...
Fr. James R. Blaney, OMI, 76, died on December 4, 2013 in Sitka, Alaska after a brief illness. At the time of his death he was serving as the pastor of St. Gregory Nazianzen Catholic Church in Sitka. Fr. Blaney, a member of the missionary religious order of priests, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, was born on July 30, 1937 in South Boston, Mass. The son of John Blaney and Anna O'Sullivan Blaney, he grew up on the grounds of the maximum security state prison in Charlestown, Mass where his father...
Michael George Hurley, known as "Rock Pit Mike", passed away in the early morning hours on November 25, 2013. Mike was a quiet, solitary man who lived alone in "his" rock pit out the road for the past 20 years or so. Mike was born on February 9, 1950 in Seattle, Wash., and grew up on a farm in Oregon with his sister and their adopted parents, Patrick and Kathryn Hurley. He joined the U.S. Navy when he was 18, serving in Vietnam as a Gunners Mate on a river boat and later trained as an Aviation...
Michael Daris Frazier, known to friends as Wolf Creek Mike, was born May 30, 1939 in Walla Walla, Wash. to Daris and Ellen Frazier. He grew up in Walla Walla, Spokane, Lake Pend Orrville, and Bremerton, Illahee, and Gilberton on the Kitsap Peninsula. Mike graduated from Lincoln High School in Seattle, and joined the Marines on November 10, 1957. After receiving his honorable discharge Mike spent a couple of years in college and then it was on to industry, firmly establishing himself in the...
Rita Rae Perez, 65, died on November 11, 2013. She was born Tlingit/Aleut Raven/Frog on May 6, 1948 in Wrangell, Alaska to Henry and Fanny (Theordosia) Bradley. She was their 4th daughter. Rita loved to spend time with her kids and grandkids and watch her grandsons' school sporting events. She also could be found playing bingo, card games and dice games. She enjoyed derby fishing with her sister Johanna, plus City Park family picnics. She loved family and friends' company as long as there was...
Michael Daris Frazier, died on Nov. 6, 2013. A celebration of life will be held at 1 p.m. on Thurs., Nov. 14 at Harbor Light Assembly of God Church with a graveside service and potluck reception to follow. An obituary will follow. Rita Rae Perez passed away Nov. 11, 2013. An obituary will follow....
Louise Amy Bradley, 62, died on October 28, 2013. Louise was Tlingit, Raven/Frog and was born September 26, 1952 in Wrangell, Alaska to Henry and Fannie Bradley. She was the 6th if 11 children. She was named after her grandmother Louise Bradley, a founding member of ANS Camp #1. Louise was an active member of ANS Camp #1 throughout her life. Louise loved to play bingo, pick berries and make cookies for her family. She found pleasure in playing with her cats. She enjoyed sobriety for 30 years...