Bernice Kuoppala Boyle

Palmer resident Bernice Kuoppala Boyle, 86, died June 16, 2012, at Horizon House in Anchorage. She moved to Alaska in January 1944.

Bernice worked as a grocery checker at Koslosky’s Department Store in downtown Palmer.

Surviving are her daughter and son-in-law, Judy and Frank Towell of Battle Ground, Wash.; grandchildren, Jim Sandvik of LaCenter, Wash., and Brenda and her husband Dale Psenak of Palmer; great-grandchildren, Miranda Psenak and Jaime Psenak of Palmer and Mark and his wife Jen Psenak of Cave Creek, Ariz.; and great-great-grandson, Jackson Psenak. She also leaves behind her little dog, KoKo.

She loved spending time with her grandchildren and her nightly telephone visits with her stepdaughter, Chris Fritz.

Her family wrote: “We, her daughter and grandchildren, will miss Mom and Grandma.”

Arrangements were entrusted to the Cremation Society of Alaska. An online guestbook can be signed at alaskacremation.com.