Clint Chil Coleman

Wasilla resident Clint Chil Coleman, 39, died Jan. 8, 2012, in Anchorage following complications from surgery.

Clint was born in Fairbanks June 13, 1972. He attended North Pole schools and graduated from North Pole High School in 1991.

Clint enjoyed pushing the envelope of life and always took each challenge to the next step. If you said "call me tomorrow," he would call you five times tomorrow. If you said "take the snowmachine slowly down the hill," he would take it full speed ahead and live with the consequences.

Clint had a long 39 years. He suffered a head injury at the age of 3 and as a result faced a lot of taunting for his less coordinated behavior. He compensated for this by becoming the clown with a heart of gold who would give anyone who needed anything the shirt off his back. Clint loved to make people laugh and be happy, often at his own expense. He could be seen walking all over Wasilla waving at each and everyone who passed. He would walk up to strangers in a store and tell them to smile or have a good day.

Clint's greatest love was hunting and fishing. He would spend the entire hunting season in the woods never really caring if he got a moose. He loved ice fishing at any Interior lake and salmon fishing anywhere and anytime.

Preceding him in death was his father, Ray C. Coleman. Surviving are his mother, Judy Coleman; sisters, Cindy Fox and Sara Levine; and his family of friends in Wasilla.

There will be no services, and the family has asked that in honor of Clint to wave at those you don't know and be nice to each other.

Cremation Society of Alaska cared for the family.