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1935
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2024
Joe Bazan Obituary
Visitation will be held 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Friday, January 19th, 2024, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church – 192 North Fireweed Ave – Soldotna, Alaska 99669. Funeral services will be held the following day Saturday, January 20th, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. at the church. A reception with food and refreshments will follow the service on Saturday. His cremated remains will be scattered at his home in Sterling in the Kenai River.
Joe was born February 28, 1935, in Albany, New York. He served in the U.S. Marine Corp and was honorably discharged in 1962. Joe moved to Alaska in 1987, living in Sterling, Alaska. Joe worked for the D& H Railroad, U.S.M.C. and was in charge of the maintenance and engineering for Flying Tiger Airlines for all of Asia from which he retired from in 1987. Joe loved hunting, fishing, and trapping.
The family wrote, "Joe's family would like to thank his Alaskan community for taking care of him in his later years. In Lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in memory of Joe to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church – 129 N Fireweed Street – Soldotna, AK 99669, V.F.W. Post #10046 – 134 N. Birch Street – Soldotna, Alaska 99669, or the American Legion Psot #20 – 902 Cook Drive – Kenai, AK 99611."
Joe was preceded in death by his wife, Chiya Bazan and his parents, Ernest and Mary (Bolton) Bazan.
He is survived by his daughter, Candice Bazan and granddaughter, Samantha Thomas; brother, Ernest (Josephine) Bazan, Jr. of E. Greenbush, New York; sisters, Dorothy (David) Bazan Greene of Halifax, Massachusetts, and Mary Ellen (Walter) Boynton of Prince Frederick, Maryland; numerous nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews and great-great nieces and nephews.
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Laurie Horner
January 19, 2024
I am a richer woman for having known Joe and Chiya.
As former owner of TCC The Cabinet Co-Custom Countertops, they paid a visit to my shop and we developed a lovely friendship. We finished all the business with cabinets/countertops and proceeded to discuss corn plants and indoor agriculture, where Joe and Chiya showed me their green thumbs. I gave them cuttings off of flourishing plants in my show room and we enjoyed numerous visits, when they simply stopped in to say, "Hello."
Often, we saw each other at the Sterling Post Office with more opportunities to exchange pleasantries.
Chiya, an avid golfer, always visited me before the up coming Pink Ribbon Soldotna Golf Tournament took place for a donation, for the organization's auction, as I was always happy to contribute.
After Chiya died and after I sold the business, I continued to see Joe at the Sterling Post Office.
I noticed Joe's declining health and as recently as 1/16/24, I fondly thought about him, as I had not seen him in quite sometime.
God bless and rest this wonderful man's soul as I knew in my heart, he was a good, good man.
With heartfelt condolences to his loving family,
Laurie Horner
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January 18, 2024
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