Patricia Agnes Alexander

Longtime Alaska resident Patricia Agnes Alexander, 79, passed away following a two-year battle with cancer.

A service will be held at Palmer Pentecostal Church, 235 Albrecht Ave., Palmer, at 1:30 p.m., Jan. 4, 2016. A gathering will follow the service at the home of Patricia’s family, where her ashes will be scattered with her husband’s on a flowerbed that they had tended together.

Patricia was born in Bennington, Vermont, to Cliffton and Doris Webb,where she lived across the street from the original home of Norman Rockwell. After moving to Palmer, Alaska, in 1965, she attended school in Kenai, earning her GED. She married her husband, Raymond Alexander, on Dec. 30, 1978, in Sterling, Alaska.

Throughout her life, she worked various kinds of jobs, including waitressing at the Frontier restaurant and Bounty restaurants in Palmer. She also lived and worked in the Kenai Peninsula, where she had a House and Horse show -- Stable and Tack shop.

Patricia enjoyed painting, horses, spending time with her grandkids, and telling her family about the “Good Old Days”.

Surviving are her two brothers and sisters-in-law, Perle and Mary Webb, and Cleo and Marge Webb; six children, Gary and Michelle Hewlett, Scottie and Jimmie Burgess, Loui and Crystal Gilbert, Johann, Craig Stratton, and Kelly and Anthony (Chris) Aparicio; 11 grandchildren, Christina, Anthony, C.J., Elisha, Holly, Kayla, Latisha, Justin, Morgan, Gilbert, and Samantha; 30-plus great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Kehl’s Palmer Mortuary.