Douglas Sindt

Wasilla resident Douglas Walter Sindt, 63, died on June 15, 2010, at Elmendorf Air Force Base Hospital after a brief battle with lymphoma.

A Celebration of Life will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at his home, 2700 N. Heathermay Circle, Wasilla. Call 631-3071 for further details. There will also be a graveside service at Fort Richardson National Cemetery starting at 1:30 p.m. Monday. Those attending the service will need to be at the Fort Richardson gate no later than 1:15 p.m. to be in the procession and be escorted to the cemetery. Please pull into the back of the parking lot and line up on the back curb. Douglas' ashes will be buried at Fort Richardson National Cemetery.

Douglas was born on July 17, 1946, in the Panama Canal Zone at Fort Clayton Hospital. He graduated from Schertz-Cibolo high school in Texas in 1964. He enlisted in the army in 1966, was wounded in action in Vietnam and received a Purple Heart. He was honorably discharged in 1971.

He worked as a computer programmer for many years in Texas before moving to Alaska with his family in 1984. He worked for CFAB before retiring in 2007.

His family wrote: "He was a great person and a true family man. He was kind, generous, thought of others before himself, and was always willing to lend a hand no matter what the project was. He had a quick wit and always had a joke up his sleeve. He delighted in being a doting grandpa to his grandkids."

Douglas is survived by his daughter and son-in-law,Yvonne and Tony Brooke; son and daughter-in-law, Alex (Sindt) and Teresa Raine; sister and brother-in-law, Vicky and Jim Grossenbach; brother, Richard Sindt; grandchildren, Hannah Brooke and Sebastian Brooke; aunt, Elizabeth Flassig; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Emil and Delores Sindt; sister, Patricia Anderson; and sister-in-law, Sammie Sindt.

Arrangements were with Valley Funeral Home and Crematory in Wasilla.