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Kathryn Ann Chaney (Lohr), 81 passed away January 12, 2012 at her home in the Dover area southeast of Sandy, Ore. Kathryn was born October 29, 1930 in Dansville N.Y. She married Don Chaney in 1947 in Vancouver, Wash. Her early life was spent as the wife of a logger, in the late 50s her husband went to work for Cable Telephone Const., with two small children in tow they lived in places throughout Oregon, Washington, and California. In 1960 her husband went to work for General Telephone out of...
Dale Lee Tennison, 68 passed away January 29, 2012 at his home in Spokane, Wash. after a 10 month battle with cancer. Dale was born July 9, 1943 in Olympia, Wash. His family moved to Petersburg when he was seven years old and he attended school through his sophomore year. At that time he started working on “The Shirley”, a purse seiner owned by Ray Thomason, helping with the fishing and doing the cooking. In 1965 he was in Juneau, where he met and married his wife of 47 years, Donna Fra...
Stan Otness, 86, died on January 13, 2012. Stan was born on June 30, 1925, in Petersburg, Alaska to John and Ragna Otness. He was the fourth of five adventurous boys growing up fishing commercially in Alaska. He was brought up in a musical family with his father playing violin, his mother the piano for the local silent movie theater and his oldest brother the accordion. While attending Ballard High School he traveled back and forth to Petersburg, fishing halibut on his father’s boat. In 1944 h...
Dale Ross Johnston passed away unexpectedly on January 1, 2012 in Anchorage. He was born July 15, 1957 in Eugene, Ore. to Norman and Laura Johnston. The little family moved to Petersburg in 1960, where it was soon joined by Dale’s brothers Glen and Russ. They lived there until Norman’s job with Alaska Fish & Game transferred them to Juneau in 1974. Growing up in Petersburg instilled a great love in Dale for being outdoors, which continued his whole life. He helped fund his college degree by working summers as a stream surveyor for the Sta...
Michael Joseph Wittstock, 68, ascended from this life on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 20, 2011. Michael Joseph Wittstock was born in Juneau, Alaska, April 29, 1943 to Kenneth Joseph Wittstock and Elizabeth (Betty) Jane Miller. In the late summer of that year, the family moved to Spokane, Wash. where they lived with Betty Jane’s parents across the street from Gonzaga University. In 1948, when the family had grown to five children, they moved into their own home on East 9th near Sacred H...
Ruth Elsie Noreide died on December 5, 2011. Ruth was born in Ferndale, Wash., on March 24 1926 and raised in Sequim, Wash. on a small farm. She recalled her childhood as lots of chores, riding the cow around the barnyard as they had no horse, and the sound of her mother’s lovely piano playing. Ruth received her degree in nursing in 1947. She possessed the gifts for nursing, and her upbeat, outgoing charms were not lost on her family, friends or patients. Always ready to lend a hand, she led daughter Kristi’s Girl Scout troop and carted Ala...
Everett Gustav (Gus) Nelson, age 76, passed away unexpectedly, but peacefully, in his sleep on December 5, 2011 at his home in Sierra Vista, Ariz. Gus was born to Henrietta and Gustav Nelson on March 11, in Brainerd, Minn. Two months after his birth, Gus’s father died leaving Henrietta alone to raise Gus and his four older brothers and sisters, Donald, Carol, Shirley and Kenneth until she married Henry Gehweier in 1943. Growing up at ‘Camp Nelson’, their small fishing camp and summer resor...
