Today's Obituaries
Linda Joy Carson (Breseman)
Juneau, AK
Linda's life started in Juneau, Alaska on November 18, 1948 when she was born to John and Anna Beseman. It also ended there 68 years later. She is Tlingit and Carries the traditional Name of her grandmother: Woosh Kin Da Aat. Her mother, Anna Mork Breseman's Name was: Chais...
Daniel Charles Sr
Juneau, AK
Daniel Charles Sr. died on April 6, 2017, at the age of 79. Charles was in the Marines for four years. He drove cabs and worked in the pulp mills. His last job was a school bus driver for First Student. A resident of Ketchikan for more than 20 years, he died in his home. Mr....
Li-Teh Kyzia Mary Elizabeth "Lady Tay" Fogg
Juneau, AK
Anchorage resident, Ms. Li-Teh Kyzia Mary Elizabeth Fogg, 40, was brutally murdered by being shot point blank in the chest on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 in Anchorage. Funeral services will be held June 1, 2017 at 4 p.m., at Anchorage Funeral Home, 1800 Dare Ave., Anchorage, AK....
David John Harman
Juneau, AK
David John Harman died March 31, 2017 in Kent, Washington. He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Eloise Harman; sisters, Janet (Jerry) Fagan and Patty (Richard) Stevens; his daughters Theresa (Buck) Carroll, Denise (Sid) Cox, Kathleen Harman and Jacqueline (Alfonso) Tagaban;...
Georgina Howard (Glover)
Juneau, AK
Georgina passed away in Coos Bay, Oregon on April 28, 2017, after a short battle with cancer. She was born to Glenn and Lottie Glover on June 11, 1948 in Hoonah, Alaska. She graduated from high school in 1966. She worked at various office jobs in different places, and her...
Elizabeth "Liz" Johnson (Seligsohn)
Juneau, AK
Elizabeth (Liz) Seligson Johnson, 74, of Missoula, died at home surrounded by her family on Wednesday, April 12, 2017. She was born September 1, 1942 in a Jewish hospital in Hampton Court, London, to Rudolph and Gerda Seligsohn. Rudolf (the former Rabbi of Bonn) died shortly...
Brenda Ann McInturff
Juneau, AK
Our beloved sister, mother, wife, aunt Brenda Ann McInturff passed away peacefully on April 26, 2017 at ANMC in Anchorage, Alaska. She will always be remembered for living life to the fullest and bringing joy and laughter to those around her. Brenda loved to fish, so you...
Lola M. Nance (Bowman)
Juneau, AK
Lola M. Nance July 12, 1919 - March 29, 2017 Lola M. Nance of Juneau, Alaska completed this life and moved gently on to the next on March 29, 2017 at 97 years of age. Lola was born in Milton, Oregon to Clara and Ercil Bowman on July 12, 1919 just minutes after her identical...
Earline Smith
Juneau, AK
Earline Smith arrived from Los Angeles on Bethel Island in 1963 as a Public Health Nurse and a lifetime love for life in Alaska began. She married William E. Smith in 1965 and enjoyed a fulfilling life with him until his death in 2003. Her career has spanned nursing, teaching...
Michael Edward "Mike" Sweeney
Juneau, AK
Michael Edward Sweeney passed away peacefully with his family by his side, on Jan. 28, 2017 at his home in Juneau. Mike was born in Butte, Montana to Bill and Dorothy Sweeney on Jan. 5, 1940. He came to join his father in Juneau in 1944 with his mother and sister Pat, via the...
Cody Matthew Wolf
Juneau, AK
In Loving Memory of Cody Matthew Wolf Cody Matthew Wolf, a loving son, brother, uncle, nephew, grandson, cousin and friend, passed away unexpectedly April 29, 2017, in Spokane, Washington. Cody was born January 19, 1988, in Ketchikan, Alaska. He is the son of Kirk (Tracy)...
May 24, 2017 Obituaries
Tualauta Timu Levale Jr.
Juneau, AK
Tualauta Timu Levale Jr. was born on September 27, 1961 at Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii to Tualauta Elisara Timu Sr. and Lani Elisara Timu. JR was raised on the island of Oahu, the eldest boy of what would eventually be, 21 siblings. JR valued time with his...
May 23, 2017 Obituaries
Charles Joseph Howard
Juneau, AK
Charles Joseph Howard passed away on April 6, 2017 due to complications from having double pneumonia. He was born at St. Ann's Hospital in Juneau on December 24, 1955 to Peter and Rosalind Howard, Sr., the second of nine children. As the son of a commercial fisherman, he...
Kenneth Sully Leghorn
Juneau, AK
Kenneth Sully Leghorn, age 62, died April 11 in his home in Juneau, Alaska, surrounded by family and friends after a seven-month struggle with cancer. Ken was born on March 9, 1955 in Weston, Mass. He is survived by his wife, Julie York Coppens; his daughter, Yana Warner; her...
May 19, 2017 Obituaries
Elizabeth May "Beth" Miller (Lacock)
Juneau, AK
Elizabeth May Miller (née Lacock) stepped into the light on April 9, 2017. She was born in Hinsdale, Montana to Rolla and Laura Griggs Lacock on July 7, 1926. After the end of World War II there was a shortage of teachers so Beth attended teachers' college in Dillon, Montana...
May 16, 2017 Obituaries
Brenda Lea Marx (Guesman)
Juneau, AK
Brenda once butchered a pig with a chainsaw in our kitchen. I think some of the best advice she ever game me was to never butcher a pig with a chainsaw in your own kitchen. Every day was meant to be an adventure, and she often thought she was born a hundred years too late. She...
Donald See
Juneau, AK
Donald See was born at Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital and was a Shungukeidee of the Eagle Thunderbird Clan. Don spent his childhood in Tenakee Springs and graduated from Mt. Edgecumbe High School in 1967. He signed up for the U.S. Army the day he graduated. Donald was stationed in...
May 11, 2017 Obituaries
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Janet Ann [Whelan] Ruotsala (Clark)
Juneau, AK
Janet Ann (Whelan) Ruotsala passed away peacefully April 6, 2017 at her home at Wildflower Court. Janet was born in Boston, Massachusetts on November 6, 1930, and was raised in Easton, PA. During the war years she and her younger sister would travel by train to their...
Lester Lloyd Henkins
Juneau, AK
Lester (Spike) Henkins, 79 years old, passed away peacefully December 6, 2016 at the Ketchikan Pioneers Home. Lester was born July 9th, 1937 in Wyoming, Illinois to Evelyn and Clancy Henkins. He moved to Douglas, Alaska in 1938 with his mother and father, grew up in the...
May 6, 2017 Obituaries
Mary Ann Johnson (Hill)
Juneau, AK
Mary Ann (Hill) Johnson died in hospice care in Fairbanks, Alaska on March 21, 2017 with her daughter holding her hand and the Duruflé Requiem playing in the background. Born on July 25, 1937 in Pittsburgh, she grew up in Leechburg, Pennsylvania, the eldest of four children....
Eugene Mark Rehfield
Juneau, AK
Eugene Mark Rehfield was a kind and intelligent man, public servant, and loving father. Born on December 30th 1952 in Trenton, NJ, he grew up in Levittown, PA with his parents, June and Lawrence Rehfield, and two sisters, Patricia and Amy. He enjoyed an adventurous childhood,...
May 1, 2017 Obituaries
Beverly Ann Mueller (Emerick)
Juneau, AK
Beverly Ann Mueller passed away the evening of Wednesday February 22, 2017. She suffered from interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, a rare, incurable, progressive disease which took her father fifteen years earlier. Bev was born February 9, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan to Hubert and...
April 29, 2017 Obituaries
Suasa'a Kalala Ilalio (Senio)
Juneau, AK
Suasa'a Kalala Ilalio died peacefully on March 24, 2017, surrounded by her family. Suasa'a was born to her mother Pona and her father Ofoia Senio on July 15, 1926 in Western Samoa. She was the youngest of five children. Suasa'a was raised in Western Samoa, in the village...
April 13, 2017 Obituaries
Adrian Eugene D’Cafango
Juneau, AK
Adrian Eugene D'Cafango died March 3, 2017 in Juneau, AK. Adrian was born August 29, 1950 to Aubrey Eugene D'Cafango and Irene Jacobs. He was 67 years old and is survived by his brothers Stewart D'Cafango, Anthony D'Cafango, Gino D'Cafango, and Michael D'Cafango; his sisters...
Robert J. "Bob" Hurley
Juneau, AK
Life-long Juneau resident, "Bob" Hurley passed away suddenly on November 3, 2016. Bob was born at St. Ann's Hospital to Dorothy and Robert Hurley and raised on what is known as "Telephone Hill". He graduated Juneau-Douglas High School in 1965 and continued his education at...
Harry Orrin Watkins
Juneau, AK
Harry O. Watkins, 94, of Anacortes, passed away on Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at Island Hospital in Anacortes. He was born in 1922, the son of Earl F. and Hazel (Laferty) Watkins in Juneau, AK, where he was raised. Harry served in the US Navy during World War II and was a...
April 1, 2017 Obituaries
Blaine Gale Berg
Juneau, AK
Blaine Gale Berg, 84, passed away on February 10, 2017 in Anchorage, AK following a battle with lung cancer. Blaine was born July 4, 1932 in Portland, OR to Earl John Berg and Cora May (Larson) Berg. He attended West Seattle High School and St. Martins High School. He...
March 18, 2017 Obituaries
Lisle Francis Xavier Hebert Jr.
Juneau, AK
Lisle Francis Xavier Hebert Jr. died at his Starr Hill home on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, surrounded by his three children and wife. Lisle died after 2½-year struggle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), an incurable, progressive nervous system disorder. He was 71 years...
Edward William Maki
Juneau, AK
Juneau resident Edward William Maki died January 19, 2017. He was 61. A celebration of life will be from 1-3 pm on Saturday, February 25th at the Moose Family Center. Ed was born May 9, 1955, in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Beth Crawford and Edward Maki. He moved with his...
Edward Leo Nygard
Juneau, AK
Edward Leo Nygard died peacefully on January 21, 2017, at the Juneau Pioneer Home. He was 89. Ed was born on June 6, 1927, in Big Sandy, Montana, to Julius and Irma (Tuomi) Nygard. He was the eldest of four children. Ed was raised in Big Sandy, Montana. He grew up on the...
March 15, 2017 Obituaries
Richard "Rick" Anderson
Juneau, AK
Richard "Rick" Anderson was born in Shelton, Washington on November 27, 1951, and passed away surrounded by family on December 15, 2016, at his home in Parkdale, Oregon. Rick was the son of Sydney Anderson and Ann Barger Anderson. Rick grew up in Lake Cushman, Washington in...
March 11, 2017 Obituaries
Ruth Brown (Barnes)
Juneau, AK
Ruth Brown's youthful, beautiful spirit was set free on February 3rd, 2017 in Juneau, Alaska after a brief illness. She was 96. Ruth was born on December 3rd, 1920 in Billings, Montana to Sanford and Jennie Barnes. She spent her early years in Montana and Wyoming and then the...
March 9, 2017 Obituaries
Dr. George W. Brown
Juneau, AK
George W. Brown was born November 21, 1937 in North Carolina a few minutes before his twin brother John. Three hours earlier, his wife had been born in Texas. That journey of "soul mates" was in the making. George graduated from North Carolina State University (honors) with...
Norma Jean "Jeannie" Burgess (McDowell)
Juneau, AK
Norma Jean Burgess, was born January 12, 1931 in Seattle, Washington and passed away November 26th 2016 in Wenatchee, Washington after a long illness. "Jeannie McDowell" was raised in Wenatchee, Washington by her Grandmother, Bertha Dial and her Mom Mamie McDowell. Jeannie was...
Debra Jeanne Ross
Juneau, AK
Debra Jeanne Ross, born Eva Maria Noppel in Gunzberg Germany, was adopted in 1955 by Seymor 'Bud' and Dorothy Wallach following WW2. Growing up years were spent in Southern California. Debra graduated with a diploma from Marinello-Comer Schools of Beauty. In Juneau she worked...
March 8, 2017 Obituaries
Joan Pelto (McAlmond)
Juneau, AK
Joan McAlmond Pelto died January 31, 2017 of complications due to kidney failure. A fourth-generation Washingtonian, she was born April 25, 1929, in Dungeness, the daughter of Lyle and Thelma McAlmond. She graduated from West Seattle High School in 1946 and attended Washington...
March 6, 2017 Obituaries
Robert McNally "Bob" Walp
Juneau, AK
Alaska lost a true visionary with the passing of Robert "Bob" McNally Walp on Jan. 26, 2017. Walp, a legendary figure in Alaska telecommunications, was 89 years old. In 1979, Walp and Ron Duncan founded General Communication, Inc. (GCI) with the vision of providing...
March 4, 2017 Obituaries
Mark J. Burger
Juneau, AK
Mark was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with a fishing pole in one hand and a rifle in the other. He spent his childhood between Michigan and Florida. After graduating from Western New Mexico University, he taught school in New Mexico and Florida. In 1973, he fulfilled his...
Myrtle Vivian Jorgensen (Hughes)
Juneau, AK
Myrtle Vivian Jorgensen (Hughes) passed away peacefully January 24, 2017 due to pneumonia complications. Myrtle was born February 16, 1934 in Juneau, AK to her mother Katheryn Annin-off . Due to circumstances, she was raised in The Johnson's Childrens Home in Juneau, Alaska by...
Gloria Mackey (Christensen)
Juneau, AK
On December 30, 2016 after more than a year of fighting for her health Gloria Ann Christensen Mackey lost the battle at home, surrounded by her family. Our mother was a loving, kind and generous woman, who dedicated her life to her children and family as well as a lifetime...
