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Funeral services for Beverly Marie Blodgett, 70, are at 3 p.m., Friday, July 15 with a visitation beginning at 2 p.m. at Alaskan Heritage Memorial Chapel and Crematory, 1015 S. Check St., Wasilla. Beverly died June 30, 2011, at Mat-Su Regional Medical Center.
She was born Nov. 11, 1940, in Jamestown, N.D. She married her husband on Oct. 4, 1958, and they came to Alaska in 1976. She was a homemaker all her life. She loved to cook and play bingo.
According to her family, “She was a good wife, mother and grandmother and was a bingo nut.”
She is survived by her husband of 58 years, Robert Blodgett of Wasilla; daughter and son-in-law, Catherine and David Elliott of Wasilla; brother and sister-in-law, Cliff and Beverly Brown of Selma, Calif.; grandsons, David Elliott Jr. and Danny Elliott, both of Wasilla; and granddaughter, Angela Blodgett of Anchorage.
Private burial is at Fort Richardson National Cemetery.
Alaskan Heritage Memorial Chapel and Crematory of Wasilla cared for the family.