MICHELLE SCHEIBL

Wasilla resident Michelle Kay Scheibl, 42, died July 11, 2005, at her home in Wasilla, after a difficult struggle with a lengthy illness. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Valley Funeral Home in Wasilla. Pastor Karen Martin-Tichenor will officiate. A reception at the Krug residence, 2481 S. Vicarious St. in Wasilla, will take place after the service.

Mrs. Scheibl was born Nov. 25, 1962, in Anchorage. She resided in Anchorage until she moved to Palmer with her family in 1982. She met her husband, Steven Scheibl of Palmer, and they married in 1985.

They had one daughter, Kayla Rose, born in 1989.

They left Alaska only once, for Washington state, in 1986.

Missing their families and realizing they wanted to raise their daughter in Alaska, they returned in 1993 and started their new home in Barrow.

Mrs. Scheibl worked five years for the North Slope Borough School District as a maintenance specialist.

She loved working in the school her daughter attended. They returned to Wasilla in 1998 to be closer to family.

Her special interests were writing poetry, reading, music, Alaskan art, going camping with the family, and spending time with her pets.

Her family remembers her as a kind, gentle, and giving person who appreciated and loved her family and friends.

They wrote, "Michelle will be remembered adoringly and missed dearly by her loved ones. We all pray her soul is at rest and that she shines down upon us until we meet her again. As was her wish, her ashes will be buried in the Talkeetna Mountains."

She is survived by her daughter, Kayla Rose Scheibl; husband, Steven Scheibl; mother, Lorena Horton; sister, Marguerite Goodman; sister, Kathleen Krug, and her husband, Tim Krug; nieces, Janine Goodman and Sarah Krug, and nephews, Adam Goodman, Dustin Goodman, and Paul Krug, all residing in Wasilla.