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
Stella Louise Ashley, 60, passed away Aug. 17, 2008 at home in Wasilla from cancer. Born Oct. 9, 1947 to
Virginia Ellen Fikes, 74, of Big Lake, passed away Sept. 14. 2008 at Providence Hospital in Anchorage from heart failure.
Palmer resident Elena Wahlen, 68, died July 26, 2008, at Elvie’s Home Care in Wasilla. A memorial service was
Lifelong Alaskan and Wasilla resident Katherine June Hale, 53, died Sept. 16, 2008 at home from cancer. A private family
Dorothy Jane Putnam Minder, born Sept. 2, 1923 in Newark, N.J., to Naaman and Josephine Putnam, died peacefully at
A memorial service for Patty C. Galbraith will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at North Bear
Alicia Lee Crane, 37, died Sept. 1, 2008, en route to Anchorage from Palmer. Crane was born March 24, 1971
Wendy Divis died in her home in Wasilla on Sept. 4, 2008, in the caring presence of family. A celebration
Louise Ann Martin, 79, died Sept. 1, 2008 from cancer at Ruthie’s Assisted Living in Wasilla. A memorial service
Betty Rose Crowther, 83, died Sept. 10, 2008 at Heidi’s Assisted Living Home in Wasilla of natural causes. A
Joann Elaine Schwochert, 68, died Sept. 9, 2008, surrounded by family at her home in Wasilla after a 12-year
Wasilla and former long-time Kodiak resident Cherie Ann Burch passed away Sept. 1, 2008 in her Wasilla home. At