MARJORIE LEWIS BEST

Marjorie Lewis Best, 95, died July 31, 2005 at Valley Hospital in Palmer, of congestive heart failure.

A service was held at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Aug. 3, at the Palmer Pioneers' Home.

Mrs. Best was born Oct. 24, 1909, in Fayetteville, Ark. She completed three years at the University of Arkansas and was a widow of retired Air Force Col. Philip H. Best. She began her Alaska residency in 1994, joining her daughter, Carolyn McVeigh, after the death of her husband. She lived in Anchorage, then Settlers Bay and then settled in Palmer. Mrs. Best was a homemaker and attended the United Methodist church. She enjoyed golfing.

Her family wrote: "Special thanks to all of those who took such loving care of her at the Palmer Pioneers' Home, and Valley Hospital in Palmer."

She is survived by her daughters, Betty B. Sprague, Carolyn B. McVeigh, Barbara B. Hunter and Cynthia B. Blakely; 12 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.

Arrangements were with Kehl's Palmer Mortuary.