SYLVIA A. WOLF

Sylvia A. Wolf, a lifelong Alaskan, died peacefully at her home Dec. 12, 2004, after a brief illness.

A celebration of life service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, at Lazy Mountain Bible Church in Palmer.

Mrs. Wolf was born Sylvia A. Nelson on Feb. 22, 1937, in Palmer, to Matanuska Valley colonists Paul and Margaret Nelson.

In 1964, she started a home-based business that at the time was called "Amway," and over the remaining years of her life she built and maintained a business that spans Alaska and the United States' worldwide markets.

Mrs. Wolf was an entrepreneur and strong advocate of the free enterprise way of life. She was active in the community by being on the board of the Crisis Pregnancy Center.

Her interests were reading, working on her flower beds, swimming laps at Palmer High School pool and building her network

of friends and business associates.

Mrs. Wolf was preceded in death by her father, Paul Nelson, and her infant son, David Wolf.

Her family wrote, "Sylvia will be greatly missed by her family and friends who knew her as a compassionate and caring person. Sylvia touched the lives and hearts of myriad people who knew her through her positive outlook on life, her deep relationship with Christ and her ongoing desire for people to become all they were designed to be."

She is survived by her husband of 49 years, Daniel Wolf; sons, Dan Wolf of Anchorage and Gary Wolf of Palmer; daughters, Naomi Hanks of Anchorage and Marina Coulombe of Palmer; mother, Margaret Nelson; sisters, Norma Marshall, Ruth Bailey, Janice Swartzbacker, Rita Colver and Pauline Standifer; grandchildren, Corene Swisher, Ryan Wolf, Cody Wolf, Lindsey, Megan, Steve and Peter Hanks, J.P. and Andre Coulombe and her great-grandson, Jude Swisher.

It was Mrs. Wolf's wish that donations be made to World Vision, P.O. Box 70200, Tacoma, WA 98481-0200.

Arrangements were made by Valley Funeral Home in Wasilla.