Albert Jorgensen

Lifelong Alaskan Albert Jorgensen left peacefully for heaven on Easter Sunday, March 27, 2016, after a long illness at Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska. Albert was born in Nome, Alaska on June 17, 1933, where he spent his younger years. While still a young boy, his mother Nora Megganon, passed away and his father, Emil Jorgensen, being older, realized Albert was too much for him to raise so he ended up in a children’s home operated by Ray and Elenore Cather, in the Mat-Su Valley.

After graduation from Palmer High School in 1954, Albert joined the Army and having an Honorable Discharge in March of 1960 of SP4 Artillery, Albert met Myrtle Hughes, who was also raised in a home in Juneau, Alaska.

Albert and Myrtle were members of Assembly of God churches in Juneau, Wasilla and charter members of the Matanuska Assembly of God church in Palmer.

Albert worked on an oil platform on the North Slope for ARCO and BP, from which he retired while living at his home in Yadon Acres. He loved photography and took many beautiful pictures. He had a great interest in mining and he and his family spent many happy hours at Hatcher Pass panning for gold. Albert was a member of The Inventors Institute of Alaska and The Alaska Mining Organization.

Albert is survived by his wife, Myrtle of 51 years; his son, Albert (Evelyn) and her daughter, Jamie Wilby (Allen) and her children Emilee and Gage of Florence, Oregon; daughter, Kamilla Diamond (Ernest) of Wasilla; grandchildren, Angela English (Zachary); great-grandchildren, Kahri and Lukas; grandson, Richard Powell III, and granddaughter, Sondra Powell and great-grandson, Gabriel; and a very long extended family.

Albert is preceded in death by his son, Roger Jorgensen.

Memorial service will be Monday, April 11, 2016, at Matanuska Assembly of God in Palmer, Alaska, at 7 p.m.