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 Donald Dean Provins, 60, died of natural causes at Valley Hospital in Palmer on March 6, 2005. A
Wasilla resident Herbert Beldon Wilbur, 54, died at his home Feb. 27, 2005. A funeral service will be held at
Wasilla resident Barry Lawrence Hawkes, 53, died Feb. 8, 2005, of natural causes, at his home. A funeral service will
Wasilla resident Surge Albert Amundson, 81, died at his home of congestive heart failure on Jan. 26, 2005. A celebration
Elnor L. Baxter, 75, a 35-year Alaskan, passed away Dec. 24, 2004, in San Benito, Texas, after a long,
Katherine Sue Erickson, 58, died Nov. 3, 2004, at Valley Hospital in Palmer. A small service was held Nov. 5,
Longtime Sunshine resident James Edward "Jim" Shade, 79, died at his home Oct. 21, 2004, surrounded by his
Palmer resident Paula Lanette Griffeth, 52, died Sept. 16, 2004, at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage. Funeral services will
Wasilla resident Chester Green Anderson, 63, died peacefully Sept. 14, 2004, from prostate cancer, at his home on Cottonwood Lake.
Palmer resident Richard J. Mommsen, 77, died of a stroke at Valley Hospital on Aug. 1, 2004. His ashes will
Former Wasilla resident Beverly Ann Wethington, 67, died Aug. 12, 2004, in her home, of heart failure. A gathering of
Former Wasilla resident Christopher Alan Stringer, 22, died July 23, 2004, in a boating accident on the Yentna River. A