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Carlton William Coss, 87, passed away August 30, 2012 at his home in Sierra Vista, Ariz. Carl was born in Battle Creek, Mich. on May 29, 1925 to Carl and Mary Coss. During WWII, Carl served in the western Pacific with the 96th Infantry – Dead Eye Division. Wounded in Okinawa, he received the Purple Heart. Carl graduated from Western Michigan. After graduation he moved to Tucson, Ariz. in 1958 to work for Hughes Aircraft. Carl retired in 1968. Carl and his wife Jan enjoyed many wonderful years as residents of Sonata, Ariz. and Wrangell and t...
Kathleen Fischer passed away on November 30, 2012 in Anchorage. A full obituary will follow. Hippie Chris Cawthorne passed away December 3, 2012 in Wrangell. A full obituary will follow....
Grandma Betty passed away quietly with family members beside her on Tuesday, November 13, 2012. Elizabeth Louise “Betty” Nore, 80 was born March 29, 1932 to Livingston Desmond and Rae Desmond (Sowle). She lived most of her life in Wrangell with the exception of a brief stay in the Seattle area and also Fairbanks. She met her husband Kjell Nore in Wrangell and were married January 9, 1952. Kjell and Betty spent the next 60 years together raising a family that included Betsy, Ruth, Kjell, and She...
Dennis Chapman, 65, passed away November 12, 2012 at his home in Salesville, Ark. Dennis was born to Carl B. and Lucy Chapman in Terre Haute, Ind. Dennis was an U.S. Army veteran and a Green Beret. He moved to Alaska after being hired by the City of Wrangell to be the director of the museum. Dennis was employed from September 2002 until his retirement in May of 2010. Dennis is survived by his brother Montie (Karlyn) Chapman of Collierville, Tenn., and his children....
Lee Myers passed away on November 20 after a short illness. After statehood, Lee Myers became the DOT Maintenance foreman for the Wrangell highways for the 20 years. He was responsible for the 12 miles of gravel road, the airport turnaround and ferry terminal. He also had to keep the state vehicles, equipment, and road signs in repair. Tiny, Ray and Bill were his assistants through those years. In Lee's time off he hunted, fished, prospected and grew the biggest flower garden on Shustak Point. The school science class would often view his...
Peter B. Iversen, Sr. of Anchorage, died on October 16, 2012 at the age of 62. He passed away while pursuing his lifelong passion of flying as a bush pilot in his home state. His plane went down near Skwentna, as he was heading to Nixon Fork Mine. Pete was born July 24, 1950 in Wrangell to Doris and Barney Iversen. He spent his youth hunting, fishing, playing basketball and dreaming of flying planes. He first snuck out of his home as a toddler, heading down to the docks to see the float planes....
Michael R. Patterson passed away September 23, 2012 near Laramie, Wyo. He loved traveling and died doing what he loved. He was born in Astoria, Ore. on November 9, 1942 to Cora Halvorsen Patterson and Clair LeRoy Patterson. The family lived in a floathouse on the John Day River. In 1951 he moved with his family to Anchorage. Mike attended school in Anchorage and joined the Navy after high school in 1960. Part of his service time was shipping out on the Aircraft Carrier Midway. After his...
Erik Borgen, 73, of Sitka, Alaska passed away at home on September 7, 2012 after a long illness with his wife by his side. Erik was born on September 12, 1938 to John and Elisabeth Borgen in Bergen, Norway. Erik came to Seattle, Wash. in 1958 after working as a Merchant Marine from Norway. In 1965, he became an American Citizen. He owned two businesses including a brick masonry company for over 20 years in Seattle. He then worked for Alaska Marine Highway ferry called the Wickersham. His next...
John Henry Schultz’s funeral will be held Saturday, Sept. 1, at 2 p.m. at Harborlight Assembly of God, with graveside service, where he will be interred with his mother and other family members, to follow. A reception will be held at the Stikine Inn after the services....
Jerry Dowd, 60, the president of Trident Seafoods, died of a heart attack on Aug. 6 in Igiugig. Dowd was on vacation at a sportsman’s lodge with members of his family during a fly fishing trip when he passed away. Dowd came to Trident in 2004 as an advisor to executive managers and was named president of Trident’s domestic arm in August of 2006. He began his career in 1973 with Swift and Company, moving to Tyson Foods in 1979 where he spent the next 20 years in a variety of senior-level sal...
Make no mistake, the Coastal Zone Planning Initiative that will appear on this August’s Primary Ballot, as Proposition 2 is very different from the Bill that passed the House 40-0 in the 2011 session of the Legislature. Proposition 2 will do nothing more than add more government and another permitting layer that will delay projects and cost jobs. As proof – only 7 out of 60 Alaska Legislators supported what will be Proposition 2 when it was proposed as legislation in the 2012 session of the Legislature. Remember – there had been debate on Co...
Frances (Fran) Bolstad, 63, died July 26, 2012 in Seattle, Wash. Fran was born August 31, 1948 to Ruby Hannaford (Taylor) and Frank Ramirez in San Francisco, Calif. She spent her early years with her parents who sharecropped strawberry fields while she toddled around in her orthopedic shoes wading through the irrigation ditches. She reaped the benefits of having a praying Christian paternal grandmother and great grandmothers on both sides. After her parents divorced she and her mom spent...
Karri Anderson, 51, passed away at her home in Great Falls, Mont. on May 22, 2012. She was born Aug. 8, 1960 in Coos Bay, Ore. to Charles and Agnes Waldron. As a child she was adopted by her stepfather Carroll Merritt. After high school graduation in Wrangell and business school in Portland, Ore. she worked for the U.S. Forest Service for a number of years in Alaska, Montana, and Colorado. She was preceded in death by her birth father and all grandparents. Karri is survived by her parents Carroll and Agnes Merritt, stepbrother Vince,...
Ellen Louise Schirmer, 80, passed away July 11, 2012 after a long illness. Ellen was born in Burns, Ore. on November 2, 1931 to Henry and Julia Geer. She graduated from Eastern Oregon College in 1951 and married Dan Crump shortly thereafter. Her only child, Julie Ann was born in 1957. Ellen and Dan divorced in 1966 and she married Bill Schirmer in 1967 and then moved to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Ellen worked in the Kootenai County Courthouse as Chief Deputy Clerk of the Court until 1975 when Bill r...
John Henry Schultz, 47, passed away July 6, 2012 in Ketchikan with his brothers by his side. He was born August 12, 1964 in Wrangell to August “Rabbit” Schultz and Loretta Schultz, the youngest of the Schultz family. He lived most of his life in Wrangell. He loved to run the river and to have fun with his friends. John had a contagious laugh and great sense of humor. He loved to live life to the fullest and he had a blast getting there. John was preceded in death by his parents August “Ra...
William “Bill” S. Lloyd passed away June 23, 2012 in Sedro Woolley, Wash. He was born April 5, 1923 in Wrangell. Bill served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during W.W.II and was stationed in the Aleutian Islands in the Sea Air Rescue. Bill married Lois G. Hammer on October 3, 1946 and they homesteaded in Anchorage from 1946-1953. In 1953 the couple moved to Everett, Wash. and then settled in Skagit County in 1975. Lois passed away in 1979 and Bill married Phyllis Thompson on Sept 19, 1981. He worked over 39 years as an electrician and was a lif...
Colin was an experienced hiker, backpacker, and kayaker. He was lost to us on the Katete River on June 22, 2012. Colin was born in Ketchikan, Alaska on December 17th, 1986. He grew up in Wrangell. He was an avid baseball player throughout elementary school and middle school and was a member of the Wrangell High School’s first baseball team. Colin was always ready for an outdoor adventure. He could be found organizing a hike up to the top of High Island or trying to persuade his friends to go o...
Lifelong Alaskan John (Larsen) Corwin, 53, passed away peacefully in his sleep June 10, 2012 at his home in Anchorage. John was born in Wrangell, and moved to Anchorage in 1967 with his parents, sisters and brothers. He attended Williwaw Elementary, Clark Jr. High and East High. After graduating he attended the University of Washington. He returned to Anchorage and began working in construction, eventually becoming certified in asbestos abatement. John was a loving father, grandfather, uncle...
Al Taylor, 83, passed peacefully in his sleep June 7, 2012. Allen Martin Taylor was born at home in Floydata, Texas to John Allen Taylor and Elzie Elizabeth (Bever) Taylor on July 5, 1928. His five year old uncle ran for the doctor and the doctor arrived late, intoxicated and ran his Model A right into the front porch. Allen’s grandmother therefore delivered him. His first bed was a shoe box on the oven door because he was premature at only four pounds. Allen was the oldest of five children a...
Christina Gale Glass, 36, passed away May 11, 2012, in Anchorage. “Chrissie” Glass was born on June 16, 1976 in Wrangell. Chrissie lived much of her life in Wrangell where she had many lifelong friendships. Chrissie took great joy in scrap booking and beading. She loved scrap booking so much that she opened her own business in Wrangell. Chrissie is survived by her loving son Eric James of Wrangell, father and stepmother, Gale and Debbie Glass, brothers Will Barlow of Talkeetna and Jordan Gla...
Diana Marie Knapp, 29, died April 22, 2102 in Anchorage. Born November 8, 1982 to Jerry and Lu Knapp, Diana was the youngest of four children. She was affectionately known as blueberry pie by her sister Leslie. Left to cherish her memory and whom she loved so much are her parents, Jerry and Lu Knapp, grandparents Broker and Carol Brady, siblings, Marca, Leslie and Jerry, and nephews, Nicholas, Zachary, Christopher, Riley and one great niece Jocelyn, and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and...
Charles (Skip) McKibben, 74, passed away peacefully after a long and courageous battle with cancer on March 12 at the Wrangell Medical Center. He was surrounded by family and friends. Skip was born in Wrangell on May 19, 1937. He was an original river rat, having been conceived on the Stikine River. The middle child of Lena (Ellis) McKibben, he was raised on the river where he acquired his life long love for nature and the great outdoors. He was known for constantly building and testing water...
Mike Carney, 76, died January 27, 2012. Mike was born in LaConner, Wash. on June 21, 1935 and moved soon after to Kittitas, Wash. where he was raised with six brothers and three sisters on a farm. Mike married Helen in June of 1957. He moved with his family to Alaska, starting in Metlakatla in 1960 and then to Wrangell in 1971. Mike worked as a millwright and a sawyer, later becoming a foreman. When Mike was not working, he was always fishing or hunting; a true outdoorsman. After Mike retired...
Elsie Jeanne McFarland, 72, died February 16, 2012. Elsie grew up in Wrangell and graduated from Wrangell High School in 1957. After living in Wrangell she moved to Canada for nine years, then moving to Washington. She graduated from nursing school in Moses Lake, Wash, in 1975. Her parents Homer Earl Rooney and Ester Ruby Rooney, and her son Paul Edward Nosler Verrall precede her in death. Elise is survived by her husband of 27 years Arnold J. McFarland, eight children; Thell, David, Reba, Bobbie, Hope, Carol, Shirley and Roxina, two brothers;...
John Charles Ellis, the youngest of four children was born to Chet and Margaret Ellis on May 20, 1947 in Juneau, Alaska. The Ellis family lived near the Mendenhall Glacier, homesteading behind Auke Lake. Young John spent his first ten years subsisting with the family in the lifestyle of wood stoves, coal oil lamps, outhouses, and water buckets. They survived on a menu of venison and fish in addition to vegetables grown in a big garden. Early on in John’s life he spent summers trolling with C...