Retiring teacher, coach urges Colony grads to ‘find their 68’
By Jeremiah Bartz Frontiersman.com A football coach using a hockey reference as the centerpiece for his keynote address may
Wasilla resident Jay Elias Bowen, 89, died peacefully of natural causes on Monday, July 26, 2004. His family laid Mr.
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Longtime Alaskan Ben Rule, 70, died peacefully at home on July 25, 2004, surrounded by his wife, children and brother.
Merle Delmore Fish, 28, of Rome, N.Y., died from drowning on July 22, 2004, in Rome Memorial Hospital, N.
Wasilla resident Carole Anntoinette Starace-Wiseman, 51, died peacefully in her sleep July 25, 2004, after having suffered from a
Palmer resident John Phillip Skinner, 54, died peacefully in his sleep on July 21, 2004, after suffering from a long-
Lifelong Alaskan George Burton Woodbury IV died July 25, 2004, at his home in Big Lake. He was 17 months
Former Wasilla resident Christopher Alan Stringer, 22, died July 23, 2004, in a boating accident on the Yentna River. A
Nancy Martin Ivey, wife of Dr. James F. Ivey (a physician in the Valley from 1969 to 1991), dedicated homemaker
Mildred Janet Marple, 84, of Boise, Idaho, died July 24, 2004, at her home. Friends are welcome to attend the
Wasilla resident Bentley Cookson Smith, 42, died of a stroke July 17, 2004, at Valley Hospital in Palmer. Visitation for
Wasilla resident Ronald Joe Eugene Jackson, 47, died July 17, 2004 at Valley Hospital in Palmer, of a heart attack.