JEWEL AHO

Longtime Alaska resident Jewel E. Aho, 60, died Jan. 17, 2005 at Providence Alaska Medical Center, from liver failure due to cancer.

A visitation will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 24, at Kehl's Forest Lawn Chapel, 11621 Old Seward Hwy., with a service beginning at 1 p.m. Robert Kuenning will officiate. Flowers are welcome.

Ms. Aho was born Dec. 7, 1944 in Dona Ana, N.M. She arrived in Anchorage in April 1954 and graduated from West High School in 1962. She earned a bachelor's degree in business from UAA.

Ms. Aho worked for the state of Alaska from 1966-1986, when she relocated to Nevada and worked for the state of Nevada from 1990-2000. She moved back to Alaska to be closer to family and retired from the state of Alaska in 2004. Ms. Aho had a love for dogs.

Her family wrote, "Jewel was the kindest, sweetest person anyone could have known. She was a great friend and loving daughter, mother and grandmother. She would want everyone who knew her to celebrate her life and not to grieve her death."

Ms. Aho is survived by her parents, James and Lyla Inman of Butte; son, Jonathan St. Clair of Las Vegas, Nev.; daughter, Brenda Root of Anchorage; grandchildren, Scott and Paige, also of Anchorage, and countless uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces and nephews all across the country.

She was preceded in death by her sister, Lynda Inman Osborne.

Arrangements were made by Kehl's Forest Lawn Mortuary.