Julie Ann Giles

Julie Ann Giles, 63, died June 6, 2012, of complications from multiple strokes at Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Palmer.

She was born May 28, 1949, in Anchorage. She graduated from West High School in 1967. She lived in Anchorage until 1986, then moved to Wasilla. She worked for Chugach Electric, Anchorage telephone utility, Priscilla Horner CPA LLC and Klondike Photo. She retired in 2000 from the Anchorage telephone company.

She was a member of Valley Harvest Church. Julie’s special interests were church, traveling, shopping and her family.

Julie was a passionate prayer warrior who loved God and showed it daily. She was family oriented and had the joy of a child in her heart. She was a wonderful friend wife and mother. She loved traveling around the United States by air, sea, car and motorcycle. Julie loved being an aunt, great-aunt and grandma to all. The kids she would introduce to mischief and spoiled with a purse full of gum.

Surviving are her husband, Algon Giles; son, Jayson Giles; son-in-law Andre LaFrance; mother, Alexandria Severson-Roehl-Paisley; sisters, Shirley Alexander, Lana Kiernan, Sheila Hague and Candy Asplund; brothers, Harmon Roehl, John Roehl and Rocky Roehl; and many special nieces and nephews and their children, who liked to call her grandma.

A visitation is at 10 a.m., June 9. Pastor Joe Hand will officiate memorial services at 11 a.m., at Faith Christian Community, 4240 Wisconsin St., Anchorage. Pastor Barry Orzalli will officiate at graveside services at 3:30 p.m., at Wasilla Aurora Cemetery.

The family was taken care of by Legacy Kehl’s Palmer Chapel in Palmer.