Charles Stoll Jr.

Charles Fredrick Stoll Jr., 81, died peacefully Aug. 24, 2008, at Providence Alaska Medical Center, surrounded by family.
A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 3250 Strawberry Road. Brother Leonard Anderson will officiate. Pallbearers are John Stoll, Ryan Stoll, Tanner Stoll, Garrett Stoll, and Elijah Stoll, Aaron Darnell, Scott Allen.
Honorary pallbearers are Ray Stoll, Mike Stoll, Jim Stoll, Ben T. Darnell, Ben H. Darnell, Matt Darnell, Owen Stoll, Aidan Stoll, Tyler Retherford-Stoll, John Martin, Clifford Allen and Chuck Perry.
Charlie was born Aug. 18, 1927, in Dillon, Mont., to Charles Sr. and Alice Stoll. He was drafted into the Army in 1947, and served in Korea, Japan and Hawaii. He married Josephine Evelyn Martin on Oct. 28th, 1954, in Dillon.
Charlie moved Josephine, five kids and Josephine's father to Alaska in early 1964. His sixth child was born in 1965 fulfilling a goal he had always wanted to have six kids. He went to work for the Alaska Railroad until his retirement in 1985. He then worked for Bell's Nursery untill he retired for good in 1993.
His family wrote: "Charlie enjoyed cooking for his family. We all remember waking up on Saturday mornings to the smell of breakfast and Hank Snow playing. The holidays were a favorite time for him. He always made sure they were filled with food, presents and family.
"He was an avid reader all his life; that was how he got his education. If he was sitting, there was a book in his hands.
"He enjoyed a good joke and Saturday morning cartoons, laughing harder than any of his kids. When he was a kid in Butte, Mont., the theater owner would let him in free because he laughed and slapped his leg so hard.
"He loved a good political debate, his view being the only right one. He knew the Constitution frontwards and backwards, and his grandkids took great delight in hearing grandpa on the radio."
His son Mike said, "He was a real cowboy, and he did things his own way."
His brother Ray said, "He was a lucky man, he had a wife he could live with and kids who loved him."
He was very proud this year when his granddaughter, Brynn Stoll, entered the Army and grandson, Ben Darnell, entered the Navy.
He is survived by his wife, Josephine; brother, Ray Stoll of Dillon; sons Michael (Barbara), John (Kristen), and James; daughters, Rachel (Clifford Allen), Patricia (Chuch Perry), Johanna (Ben Darnell). 13 grandchildren, Ryan, Tanner, Brynn and Garrett Stoll, Kari and Scott Allen, Eli, Ben H., Matt and Aaron Darnell, Kylie Perry, Owen and Aidan Stoll; great-grandson Tyler Retherford-Stoll.