JACK M. WILLIS

Former Valley resident Jack Marvin Willis, 69, died Aug. 18, 2010, at Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Palmer.

He will be buried at St. John’s Cemetery in Pensacola, Fla., sometime next spring, with his parents.

Jack was born March 3, 1941, in Pensacola. He attended Pensacola High School and the University of Florida. He moved to Alaska in 1980. He worked in civil service at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage before becoming a fishing guide from 1992 to 2005 at Deshka Landing and in Homer. He was involved with search and rescue work and with Trout Unlimited, and enjoyed fishing, hunting and watching car races.

Surviving are his wife, Louanne Willis of Wasilla; brothers, Tom Willis of Gulf Breeze, Fla., Jerry Willis of Wellington, Fla., and Tim Willis of Pensacola; children and families, Kathryn Buher of Wasilla, Ski Williams and Rebecca Justice of Pensacola and Jack Webb, Jeff Webb and Julie Bray of south Florida. He was preceded in death by his mother and father, Anne and Hollis Willis.

Arrangements by Alaskan Heritage Memorial Chapel and Crematory of Wasilla.