KAY B. HITT

A celebration of life for Kay B. Hitt, 69, will be Feb. 22, 2010, at 4 p.m., at the Amvets Post 11 (951 Hermon Road) in Wasilla.

Kay died Feb. 13 at home from lung cancer. Kay was born Sept. 29, 1940, in Cape Girardeau, Mo. She worked in the food service industry from 1960 to 1977. From 1977 to 1984, she was a Mississippi River towboat cook. She came to Alaska in 1991 and from that point until 1992 she was a cook in a gold mine.

Kay was a member of the American Legion Post 35 and also Amvets Auxiliary Post 11. She enjoyed playing games, especially Texas hold’em.

According to her family, “Kay lived her life with no regrets. She wasn’t afraid of anyone or anything. She worked on towboats and in gold mines. As she was dictating her obituary, the one thing she wanted people to know is: ‘She liked to live wild and dangerously.’ And she did …”

Kay is survived by a son, Donald Gibson of Wasilla; two daughters, Jessica Blake of Wasilla and Gretchen Hayes of Anchorage; one granddaughter, Magen Blake of Wasilla; four grandsons, Jeremy Blake and Kyle Blake both of Wasilla; Joshua Patterson of Missouri and Nathanial Cartwright of South Carolina; two great grandchildren; four sisters and one brother.

Cremation arrangements by Alaskan Heritage Memorial Chapel & Crematory, Wasilla. www.akheritage.com.