Walter "Barry" Kane

1953 - 2022

Walter "Barry" Kane passed away suddenly at his home in Kenai, AK December 2, 2022. Walter was born June 1, 1953 in Cut Bank, Montana to Charles B. "Chuck" Kane and Laura E. "Betty" Simpson. The family moved to Hayden Creek, Lemhi County, ID in 1956, eventually settling in Salmon, Idaho in 1963. Walter graduated from Salmon High School in 1971 and joined the US Navy the same year. Walter was a Vietnam Veteran, serving from 1971 to 1975. He worked as an Aviation Maintenance Hydraulics (AMH) mechanic in VA-147. In this role he spent two tours in the Gulf of Tonkin aboard the aircraft carrier USS Constellation. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW).
Walter met Terresa Decker in Salmon and they married Sept. 18, 1976. To this union they had two children, a daughter, Maci Rae, and a son Levi Christian. They later divorced. Walter married Anna Stillings in Salmon in 1984 and they had a son, David. Walter and Anna later divorced. He married Dorothy Younger in Clayton, ID in 1993 and the couple moved to Alaska shortly after.
Walter and Dorothy divorced in 1997 in Wasilla, and he moved to the Kenai peninsula. While in Kenai, Walter earned his Instrumentation degree from Kenai Peninsula College and joined the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). He retired as a master electrician in 2015.
Walter was a talented individual. He worked as a helicopter mechanic across the Northwest, a structural steel welder, a millwright, instrumentation technician, and industrial electrician. He worked across Alaska, from the Red Dog Mine in Kotzebue to multiple projects on the North Slope, the Alyeska pipeline, Fort Greely Army base in Fairbanks, Shemya in the Aleutian Islands, Seward, Valdez and spent a year on Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific. When work was scarce in Alaska, he also worked in the lower 48 on jobs at Diablo Nuclear Power Plant in Morro Bay, CA and at Intuit's data center in Wenatchee, WA.
Walter was preceded in death by his father Charles B. "Chuck" Kane, stepfather Charles R. Morton and sister Joy Susanne Sorensen. Walter is survived by his daughter Maci (Glen) Hansen, son Levi (Brittany) Kane, son David Kane, mother Laura "Betty" Morton, brother Steven (Linda) Kane, stepbrothers Robert "Bob" Morton, Charles "Chuck" Morton, stepsister Theresa (Mike) Howe, eight grandchildren, and many beloved cousins, nieces, and nephews.
Walter had a pioneer spirit and was an avid hunter and fisherman, who truly loved his life in Alaska. Interment will be in the Salmon cemetery with military honors at a later date.
Arrangements were made by Peninsula Memorial Chapel.