Beverly Wiggers

Long time Wasilla resident Beverly Wiggers, 86, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on April 13, 2024, at Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage. Cremation arrangements were made by Valley Funeral Home and Crematory in Wasilla. Bev will be buried next to her husband Dan, at the Aurora Borealis Cemetery in Wasilla, Alaska.

Beverly was born May 10, 1937, in Lennox, South Dakota, to Alf and Alice Weeg. She was one of 10 children. Bev married Dan Wiggers on September 12, 1956. Beverly and Dan had seven children, the oldest being born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the next five children were all born in South Dakota, and the baby of the family was born in Palmer, Alaska.

Beverly and her family came to Alaska in 1972 via the Alaska Highway in a converted school bus. When they arrived, the then family of eight, lived in the bus on a hillside in Eagle River, Alaska. The family moved to Palmer, Alaska for a few years, then moved out to Dutch Harbor, Alaska for a few more, and the last move brought them to Wasilla, Alaska.

Bev was a homemaker at heart but also worked in retail sales off and on. She was kept very busy with her large family. She enjoyed baking, sewing, gardening and her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

Bev’s family wrote, “Nothing, absolutely nothing was more important to Beverly than her family, even at great cost to herself. Every Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, Birthday - basically any holiday or for no reason at all - was spent with her family.”

Beverly was preceded in death by her husband Dan Allen Wiggers Sr., her parents Alf and Alice Weeg, her daughter Jean Ann Villa, and grandson Jared Reed Wiggers. She is survived by her sons and daughters and their spouses, Dan and Sarah Wiggers of Eagle River, Alaska, Vicky & Scott Sanderson of Palmer, Alaska, Kary Wiggers, Dean and Angelica Wiggers, Kathy Wiggers Stafford, all of Wasilla, Alaska and Sara Wiggers of Anchorage, Alaska, 13 grandchildren and 20 Great-grandchildren.

The family asks that donations be made to St. Jude’s Children Hospital or Shriner’s Hospital for Children in lieu of flowers.