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Ernest “Bud” Parker passed away at home on February 29, 2012. Bud was born to Ernest and Freda (Good) Parker on December 15, 1937. Bud attended Sedro-Woolley High School and then graduated from Oregon State University with a Teaching Certificate. Bud taught school, first in Reedsport, Ore., then Petersburg, Alaska, South Kitsap High School and eventually in the Concrete School District. Bud was a favorite of many school kids over the years both as a dedicated school teacher and as a wre...
Gladys (Thynes) Solberg, 75, died February 19, 2012 in Seattle. She was born in Petersburg on October 27, 1936. She was one of 6 children born to Gudrun (Tandstad) and Carl Thynes originally from Sykkylven, Norway. Gladys graduated from Petersburg High School in 1954. She met her husband Harley in Petersburg where they lived until 1961. Both her children Gayle and Chell were born in Petersburg. She is preceded in death by her brothers Peter, Erling and Carl Thynes, and her son Chell. She is...
Beverley Jean (Reid) Coleman, born April 8, 1952 lost her battle with cancer on February 16, 2012 at home, in Randle Wash. surrounded by family and friends. Bev was born and raised in Petersburg, where she married her high school sweetheart, Brian Coleman. They were married for 42 years. They moved to Randle in 1974 where Bev stayed home and raised their four children. Bev will be remembered for her faithful and longtime service as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Anyone that met Bev noticed her b...
Barton Austin Sollars Sr. died at age 83 on February 11 in the family’s winter home in Yuma, Ariz. He passed away five weeks after being diagnosed with stage 4 renal cell cancer. He was born in Klamath Falls, Ore. on November 9, 1929. Barton moved to Sitka when he was 13 yrs. old with his father Albert Sollars. They fished on the boat “Higill”. He married Carol Ann Johanessen in 1950. Together they raised four children in Sitka, Barton Sollars Jr., Lorna Sollars, Thomas Sollars and Lyman Sollars...
Ronald Bruce Simpson, 74, lost his battle with cancer on December 24, 2011. Ron was born on August 4, 1937, in Cashmere, Wash. to Orwan and Barbara Simpson. Ron’s very early years were spent in the Cashmere area. In 1943 the family moved to Anchorage, where Orwan, Ron’s father found work. In 1948 the family moved back to Cashmere, as Ron’s sister Sondra needed medical attention. The family resided there through Ron’s school years. He graduated from Cashmere High School, working at various jobs in the valley. He worked in the fruit industr...
Patrick W. Lloyd, 94, died February 3, 2012 in his sleep, in Anacortes, Wash. Mr. Lloyd was born on September 7, 1917, at Arthur Yates Memorial Hospital in Ketchikan, Alaska. He was the eldest son of Frank Lloyd, Alaska fisherman and salmon cannery man, and Jennie Heath Lloyd, daughter of Eugene Arthur Heath, early Alaska homesteader, land developer and newspaper publisher. Mr. Lloyd grew up in Ketchikan and graduated from Ketchikan High School. He attended the University of Washington for two...
Richard Henry Greenway was born September 16, 1936 and died February 7, 2012 at Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Washington. Richard’s zest for life involved anything outdoors. His free time was spent fishing, hunting and spending time with his sons. He was an avid animal lover and had many animal companions throughout his life. He served in the Navy on the U.S.S. Thor, laying sonar cables in the Pacific Ocean for two years. When he was discharged, he went into construction with his uncle a...
John Charles Ellis, the youngest of four children was born to Chet and Margaret Ellis on May 20, 1947 in Juneau, Alaska. The Ellis family lived near the Mendenhall Glacier, homesteading behind Auke Lake. Young John spent his first ten years subsisting with the family in the lifestyle of wood stoves, coal oil lamps, outhouses, and water buckets. They survived on a menu of venison and fish in addition to vegetables grown in a big garden. Early on in John’s life he spent summers trolling with C...
Edward Mark Glenz, 80, passed away January 27, 2012 at his home in Wrangell. Ed was born July 9, 1931 to Edward and Helene Glenz in Portland, Ore. The family home was in Castle Rock, Wash. Ed came north 60 years ago to work in the logging camps. He had a store, fuel dock, and a fish station in Meyer Chuck where he lived for 45 years. He commercial trolled on the F/V Good Luck. He was gardening and enjoyed wood lathe work. Edward is survived by his wife, Marian of 53 years, one daughter Teresa...
Kathryn Ann Chaney (Lohr), 81 passed away January 12, 2012 at her home in the Dover area southeast of Sandy, Ore. Kathryn was born October 29, 1930 in Dansville N.Y. She married Don Chaney in 1947 in Vancouver, Wash. Her early life was spent as the wife of a logger, in the late 50s her husband went to work for Cable Telephone Const., with two small children in tow they lived in places throughout Oregon, Washington, and California. In 1960 her husband went to work for General Telephone out of...
Dale Lee Tennison, 68 passed away January 29, 2012 at his home in Spokane, Wash. after a 10 month battle with cancer. Dale was born July 9, 1943 in Olympia, Wash. His family moved to Petersburg when he was seven years old and he attended school through his sophomore year. At that time he started working on “The Shirley”, a purse seiner owned by Ray Thomason, helping with the fishing and doing the cooking. In 1965 he was in Juneau, where he met and married his wife of 47 years, Donna Fra...
Stan Otness, 86, died on January 13, 2012. Stan was born on June 30, 1925, in Petersburg, Alaska to John and Ragna Otness. He was the fourth of five adventurous boys growing up fishing commercially in Alaska. He was brought up in a musical family with his father playing violin, his mother the piano for the local silent movie theater and his oldest brother the accordion. While attending Ballard High School he traveled back and forth to Petersburg, fishing halibut on his father’s boat. In 1944 h...
Dale Ross Johnston passed away unexpectedly on January 1, 2012 in Anchorage. He was born July 15, 1957 in Eugene, Ore. to Norman and Laura Johnston. The little family moved to Petersburg in 1960, where it was soon joined by Dale’s brothers Glen and Russ. They lived there until Norman’s job with Alaska Fish & Game transferred them to Juneau in 1974. Growing up in Petersburg instilled a great love in Dale for being outdoors, which continued his whole life. He helped fund his college degree by working summers as a stream surveyor for the Sta...
Michael Joseph Wittstock, 68, ascended from this life on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 20, 2011. Michael Joseph Wittstock was born in Juneau, Alaska, April 29, 1943 to Kenneth Joseph Wittstock and Elizabeth (Betty) Jane Miller. In the late summer of that year, the family moved to Spokane, Wash. where they lived with Betty Jane’s parents across the street from Gonzaga University. In 1948, when the family had grown to five children, they moved into their own home on East 9th near Sacred H...
Ruth Elsie Noreide died on December 5, 2011. Ruth was born in Ferndale, Wash., on March 24 1926 and raised in Sequim, Wash. on a small farm. She recalled her childhood as lots of chores, riding the cow around the barnyard as they had no horse, and the sound of her mother’s lovely piano playing. Ruth received her degree in nursing in 1947. She possessed the gifts for nursing, and her upbeat, outgoing charms were not lost on her family, friends or patients. Always ready to lend a hand, she led daughter Kristi’s Girl Scout troop and carted Ala...
Everett Gustav (Gus) Nelson, age 76, passed away unexpectedly, but peacefully, in his sleep on December 5, 2011 at his home in Sierra Vista, Ariz. Gus was born to Henrietta and Gustav Nelson on March 11, in Brainerd, Minn. Two months after his birth, Gus’s father died leaving Henrietta alone to raise Gus and his four older brothers and sisters, Donald, Carol, Shirley and Kenneth until she married Henry Gehweier in 1943. Growing up at ‘Camp Nelson’, their small fishing camp and summer resor...
