Paul K. “P.K.” Price

Longtime Alaska resident Paul K. “P.K.” Price passed away June 18, 2014, at Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Palmer.

P.K. was born on Sept. 3, 1939, to Ralph and Laura Price in Polson, Montana, and he married Sharon Arndt from Whitefish, Montana, on Feb. 25, 1961.

He worked as a lumberjack, logging in and around the Flathead National Forest, before moving his wife and two sons to Anchorage to work alongside his brother on an oil drilling platform on the mouth of Drift River in Cook Inlet in 1970. He then became a plumber, and by 1976 they added a little girl to the family and had started Price’s Plumbing and Heating. He ran a thriving business for 20 years, retiring to Hatcher Pass around 1995.

P.K. spent his early retirement years gardening and enjoying Louis L’Amor and Zane Grey novels. He had devoted the majority of his time chopping wood for the wood stove and watching old cowboy westerns on TV. His family says “He was a good and honest man, with a great judge of character. You could count on him for anything if you were lucky enough to be considered a friend.”

Surviving are his sons, Robert R. and Curtis E. Price of Anchorage; daughter, Sandra K. Cannon of Wasilla; grandchildren, Daniel and Christopher Price, Chloe Hooper, Benjamin, Jonavan, Savannah and Sabrina Cannon; and sister, Beverly Price of Columbia Falls, Montana. Preceding him in death were his sisters, Eleanor June and Leona Fay Price; brother, Ralph Price; and former wife, Sharon Price.

Visitation is from noon to 1 p.m., June 27, at Kehl’s Palmer Mortuary, 209 S. Alaska St. in Palmer. Services begin at 1 p.m. and burial will follow at Valley Memorial Park. A potluck celebration of his life will be held following burial at the home of Glen and Mary Hamilton, 5200 E. Welch Way, Wasilla.

Arrangements were trusted to Kehl’s Palmer Mortuary.