Mary Etta McKee, 76, died Oct. 1, 2008 at Providence Extended Care in Anchorage. 

A celebration of life will be held at Kehl’s Palmer Mortuary in Palmer at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6.

Mary Etta McKee was born March 5, 1932 in Chickasha, Okla.  She became an Alaska resident in September 1959 and resided in Palmer. McKee was employed in the civil service in the laundry facility on Ft. Richardson during the first half of the 1960s, then at the Kenai Dining Hall on Elmendorf Air Force Base during the late 1960s until about 1972 when she retired.

Her family states, “Mom enjoyed gardening and fishing. She was always trying out new smoked salmon recipes.  Mom also left behind her three babies, her dogs, Tilly, Susie and Peaches.”

She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Glenda and Kenneth Cross and Charlene and Jack Carney; son Wesley D. McKee II; grandchildren Bruce Busby, Patricia Greenstreet, Roy Cross, Boyd Cross, Neil and Virgil Tucker, Bruce Couch, Angela Tucker and Jackie Sexton; and 12 great grandchildren.