Anchor Point, Alaska
Pioneering Alaska nurse Elizabeth Berry Fritz died quietly in her sleep at her home in Anchor Point on April 15, 2009. She was 95 years old. In accordance with her wishes, no memorial service is planned. "Betsy" and her late husband, Dr. Milo H. Fritz, Alaska's legendary bush pilot,...
Read MoreSuch a sad loss, she was a good woman, along with her husband, helping bring Alaskans to where we are today...I extend my condolences to all their family...My God Be with you in this time of loss.
May 01, 2009
Dear Fritz Family,
Of Betsy and Doc Fritz I will forever cherish their memory. At a very impressionable tender age when I was sixteen years old, I was given the opportunity to work in their ophthalmology practice in Anchorage in the early 70'. My mother, Claris Syren, as head nurse of Obstetrics at Old Providence Hospital back in the 50's had worked along side Betsy and Doc Fritz. She introduced me to them many years later. Doc and Betsy trained me to become a registered ophthalmic...
Jane Langston
April 28, 2009 | Bend, OR
To the Fritz Family:
We were saddened to read of your loss. What a wonderful assett to the community who will be sincerely missed by all. Her benevolent ways will never be forgotten.
Elizabeth is now in God's memory with the wonderful hope of being among the many who are called from the memorial tombs to life on a righteous, peaceful earth.
May you draw comfort and strength of this and all the bible-based promises that will be realized under God's Kingdom...
April 28, 2009
A wonderful woman, who was important to so many Alaskans, working at her husband's side providing health care in communities which had never had access to medical care before. Through her careful preservation of records and photos of their work in the Bush and the city, Alaskans will be able to draw inspiration for generations to come.
Connie Godwin
April 25, 2009 | Chestertown, MD
