Richard Pellett

Private family services have already been conducted for Richard A. Pellett, 80, who died May 9 at his Anchorage home. He was born on May 15, 1930, in Tacoma, Wash., to the late Joe and Lucy Pellett. He came to Alaska in 1954.

He worked mostly in the logging industry and was superintendent of the Blue Lake Project out of Sitka in 1961. He was superintendent of the Philippine logging project in 1965-66. He was also the superintendent of the Chile, South America, logging project and the Tyonek Timber Logging project for the Japanese out of Anchorage. He also commercial fished. His last job was on the North Slope for five years.

He enjoyed flying as a private pilot, fishing and hunting wolves, caribou, moose, sheep and deer.

According to his family, "Richard was asked to go to several places in the Philippines, Malaysia, Chile and the Amazon to check out timber for different companies. He accepted each and every one and took his family with him. He earned many letters of commendations and many offers of work, but he decided that Alaska was his home."

He was preceded in death by his brother, Fred Pellett.

He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Whyomia Jean Pellett of Anchorage; two sons and daughters-in-laws, Richard and Jeanie of Big Lake and Ronald and Teresa of Anchorage; four grandchildren, Ryan, Bill, Staci and Robert; three great-grandchildren, Kaitlin, Corey and Ali; two brothers and sister-in-law, Don Pellett and Jack and Joan Pellett both of Alsea, Ore.; two sisters, Marylou McCoy of Kelso, Wash., and Betty Pellett of Albany, Ore.

Arrangements by Alaskan Heritage Memorial Chapel of Anchorage, www.akheritage.com.