Milton Moses Jr.

Rest in peace grandpa Dune Dune, best cheerleader n supporter for young basketball players.

Milton was a kind man who was quick to laugh and loved telling stories. He was a cousin from our big Moses family. I worked with his boys at the Alaska Fire Service and I was close with Lawrence otherwise known as Larry, Big Moe, or other names that his many friends called him and I talked with Milton after Lawrence passed and he really missed his boy and I know that Larry was waiting to guide him home. I would see him at card games and at Native gatherings and he always had a story to tell. Rest in peace cousin Milton and my condolences to his big extended family and his many friends.

Captain of the Wild Savage - Yukon 800 champ!

There are too many to choose a favorite -- but the Spring of 1961 when DIane (now Gurtler) encouraged me to take a bus with her down to the Nenana dog races, we ended up staying in Al John's house, which was overflowing with people! One of them was a young dog handler whom I had previously only seen from a distance, as he drove a dog team past the place where we then lived, across the Chena from Canoro Road. In the course of our stay in Nenana that young man had started our day by tearing up a wooden box that had been one of the "chairs" in order to make a fire in the barrel stove. After the day's race had finished, he decided to walk with me and entertain us with dog mushing stories. In the course of conversation, he informed me, "I'm going to marry you." Of course, I thought that was a complete joke. . . About 2 1/2 ears later it turned out to be a prophesy. . ,