Alfred A. Brattain

Alfred Adelbert Brattain was born July 28, 1915 on a cattle ranch near Tonasket, Wash., to Leslie Livingston Brattain and Nellie McNeil Brattain. He died Sept. 21, 2008 in his daughter Sonja’s home in Olympia, Wash.

In 1940 while in the Army, Brattain came to Alaska, where he married and raised three children, living in Seward, Anchorage, Hope, Moose Pass, Wasilla, Palmer and even Mile 52 on the Seward Highway.

Brattain spent six years in the miliary where he saw combat on the Island of Attu. He was a proud member of the famous “Alaskan Scouts.” His wife of 65 years, Gudrun, died March 7, 2008. He has three children: Sonja Ford of Olympia, Bruce Brattain of Wasilla and Bonnie Phillips of Roseburg, Ore.

Brattain was buried Sept. 27 in Olympia.