DELORES J. WHITT

Palmer resident Delores June Whitt, 84, died Sept. 10, 2005, at her home. A graveside service was held at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 14, at Palmer Pioneer Cemetery.

Mrs. Whitt was born in Bloit, Kan., on June 8, 1921. She moved to Alaska in 1955, driving the Alcan Highway with eight kids and the dog, arriving in Palmer on the 15th of March after 10 days on the highway.

After the kids all left home, she brushed up on her typing and got a job at the Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Service, working many years for John Mash. When he retired, it became a one-woman office. She remained working there until she retired. She loved getting out and going to Kenai for lunch during the summer months.

Her husband, James; sons, Rex and Dickie; granddaughter, Patty Jean, and a great-grandson, Kenneth, preceded her in death.

She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Jim and Pat Whitt; daughters and sons-in-law, Delores and Dennis Hamann, Leslie and Frank Jordan and Terry and Gary Cooper; daughters, Toni Stocks of Carson City, Nev., and Carol Holland of Honey Grove, Texas; 14 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.

Arrangements are with Valley Funeral Home & Crematory in Wasilla.