Christine Campbell-Graham

Wasilla resident Christine Ann Campbell-Graham, 57, died Dec. 31, 2007, at home in Wasilla of complications from a stroke.

A visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. Friday at Kehl's Palmer Mortuary. A service will be at 1 p.m. at the funeral home. Father Tom Brundage from St. Michael's Catholic Church will officiate. A celebration of her life will be at 6 p.m. Saturday at the American Legion off Outer Springer Loop in Palmer. Friends and family are welcome.

Campbell-Graham was born March 5, 1950, in Denver, Colo. She was raised in her elementary years in Omaha, Neb. She then moved to Phoenix, Ariz., where she graduated from Bourgade Catholic School, where her father taught and from which he retired.

Campbell-Graham and her sons moved to Alaska from Dallas in the summer of 1983. She met the love of her life and soulmate, Thomas Sommerville, when she first came to Anchorage. She and her family then moved to the Mat-Su Valley, where she lived out her life.

Campbell-Graham's hobbies included everything from reading her favorite book in bed with the love of her life Tom, to playing with her grandchildren and nieces by taking walks or teaching them ballet and how to bow after a lovely performance. She loved to water ski and fish. She also enjoyed gourmet cooking, which we all loved feasting on.

Her family wrote: “Christine’s generosity and kind heart were an inspiration to her family and friends. She valued her loving relationships with her husband, Thomas, and her sons. She enjoyed a wonderful relationship with all of her siblings and always was there for her family and friends. Christine lived her life with integrity and with love toward everyone.”

She is survived by her husband, Thomas; sons, William and Quentin Campbell; daughter-in-law, Mary; grandchildren, Brayton, Isaiah, Nellie and Tommy; siblings and their significant others, Thomas and Pat Campbell, Connie and Kenneth Groat, Christopher and Christy Hourihan, Billy and Janey Campbell, Patrick and Sue Hourihan, Cecelia and Brent Neer, Mary Ann Dotson, Jack Hourihan, Katie Campbell; and her loving nieces and nephews who were very, very close to her and loved her very much.

She was preceded in death by her sister, Madeline Lee Pruitt.