FRANK HEBERT

Willow resident Frank A. Hebert, 80, died Dec. 31, 2005, at home, of natural causes.

A celebration of life will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, at the Upper Susitna Senior Center in Sunshine, with Dennis Lords officiating. His ashes will be spread along the Denali Highway, where he hunted.

Mr. Hebert was born Oct. 16, 1925, in Marenisco, Mich. He completed the seventh grade of education and served in the U.S. Army.

He lived in Michigan until 1964, then in Idaho until 1983, and moved to Alaska in March 1983.

He worked as a lumberjack and was a disabled American veteran. His hobbies and special interests were hunting, fishing, trapping and guns.

His family wrote, &#8220He was a loving husband and father. He was a self-made man who knew no strangers. He could speak to anyone and he made many lifelong friends along the fishing streams and while on hunting trips. He was proclaimed to be a man of many skills, but a master of none. He will be greatly missed by all. God speed, Dad.”

He was preceded in death by his mother, father, brother, three sisters, and a granddaughter, Seena Marie Hebert.

Survivors are his wife, Marie Hebert of Willow; daughters, Ellen Weston of Myrtle Creek, Ore., and Donna Allen of Talkeetna; sons, Frank Hebert Jr. of St. Maries, Idaho, and Jim Hebert of Post Falls, Idaho; sister, Pearl Havenor of Wakefield, Mont.; nine grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

Arrangements are with Valley Funeral Home & Crematory in Wasilla.