Rosemary Joan Metzger

Wasilla resident Rosemary Joan Metzger, 77, died March 30, 2011, at Michael’s Place

Care home in Palmer.

A celebration of life service in honor of Rosemary will be held at 11 a.m., April 8 at Valley Funeral Home Chapel, 151 E. Herning Ave., Wasilla. with Pastor Daniel Bracken officiating.

Rosemary was born Dec. 9, 1933, in Winchester, Hampshire, England, the daughter of Thomas Baden Powell and Kathleen May (Shearwood) Dudley.

She married her husband, Bruce, who was serving our country in the armed forces and stationed in England when she was 19 and moved to the U.S. with him in 1953. They moved to Alaska and she worked in civil service as an administrative assistant for the U.S. Air Force base in Fairbanks until her retirement, when she moved to Wasilla. She graduated from college in England before she moved with her husband to the U.S.

Her family will remember her fondly as someone who always had a smile for everyone she met and made friends with and that she liked to have fun. She always stayed in touch with her family in England, which will remember her as a loving sister and aunt and will miss her.

Rosemary is survived by her sister, Sheila Doherty; and nieces, Cathy Gray and Angela, all of England.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, Bruce, and Herb Metzger; her parents; sister, Ann; brother, Tom; and sons, Tom and Gary.

The family was cared for by Valley Funeral Home and Crematory of Wasilla.