Longtime Alaskan Dorinda Lee Burr VanderMartin, 51, died at Providence Hospital on June 16, 2010 from a brain aneurysm. Services will be held on Monday, June 21st, at 3:30 pm, at the Klatt Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 11701 Puma Avenue. Dorinda was born in Sacramento, California and resided in [...]

Molly Yurkovich (1909-2010)   |    Molly Yurkovich, 100, passed away in the Fairbanks Pioneers’ Home on June 20, 2010. Molly was born Aug. 3, 1909, to Joseph Pasquan and Maria Susich Pasquan, in Roslyn, Wash. Molly grew up and met her husband, John Yurkovich, in Roslyn. Molly and John married Dec. 29, 1928, in Detroit, [...]

Robert Louis Wegener   |    Longtime Fairbanks resident Robert Louis Wegener passed away peacefully at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital on May 14, 2010, with family by his side. Robert, the first of six children to parents Dorothy and Louis Wegener, was born Aug. 23, 1938, in Scribner, Neb. Robert sold auto parts for more than 25 years [...]

Albert Vent   |    Our beloved father, brother, uncle and friend Albert Vent died June 10, 2010, at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. Albert was born Nov. 7, 1943, to Robert and Mary Vent of Huslia. He served in the U.S. Navy. He was honorably discharged. He fought a brave fight with cancer for the last 10 [...]

Kenneth Howard Thies Sr.   |   North Pole resident Kenneth Howard Thies Sr., 65, died of natural causes at his home on June 26, 2010. Kenneth was born Aug. 8, 1944, in Geneseo, Ill. In younger years, he served his country in the U.S. Army stationed in Korea, Germany, Georgia and Kansas. Then he served [...]

Gladyse Marie Christensen Tarble   |    Gladyse Marie Christensen Tarble, 86, passed away June 5, 2010, at the Denali Center, surrounded by her children. Gladyse was born in Hythe, Alberta, Canada, on March 17, 1924, to Percy and Bessie Wells. Gladyse would laugh while telling the story that because she was born on St. Patrick’s [...]

Sam Stoker   |    Longtime Fairbanks resident Sam Stoker died at home Friday, June 11, 2010. He was born July 9, 1938, in Alva, Okla., where as a boy, he brought home bones and fossils he’d collected from the surrounding plains and became a crack shot, an A-student and an Eagle Scout. Sam studied history, [...]

Mike Stickler (1945-2010)   |    Retired Alaska State Trooper Capt. Mike Stickler passed away quietly at his home on Saturday, June 19, 2010, after a long illness. He was born on April 6, 1945, and lived with his family in Coos Bay, Ore., until joining the Navy in 1962. While in the Navy, Mike did [...]

Judy Louise (Hagy) Neff   |    Judy Louise (Hagy) Neff, 63, of Fairbanks, passed away suddenly on June 4, 2010, at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. Judy was the only child of Jerome Leroy and Edith Pearl (Olsen) Hagy, born April 6, 1947, in Colfax, Wash. She grew up in Riverside, Wash., and Winthrop, Wash. In April [...]

Marion E. Moutrey (1938-2010)   |    Our beloved mother, Marion E. Moutrey, passed away unexpectedly in the early hours of April 15, 2010, at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. A Requiem Mass was held at Sacred Heart Cathedral on April 17, 2010. A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, June 12, at Birch Hill Cemetery at [...]