DIVE PRACTICUM – Dive student Karson Winslow hands a discarded garden hose to SCUBA instructor Haleigh Damron, standing on the dock, at Crescent Harbor this afternoon. The University of Alaska Southeast Sitka Campus Dive Team is clearing trash from the harbor floor under floats 5, 6 and 7 as part of their instruction. Fourteen student divers are taking part this year. This is the fifth year the dive team has volunteered to clean up Sitka harbors. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Gertrude Hazel Shayen
Gertrude Hazel Shayen
Services for Gertrude Hazel Shayen will be held 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 28, at the United Pentecostal Church, 101 Cascade Creek Road.
Gertrude passed away on Dec. 10, 2017, at SEARHC Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital, surrounded by family. She was 70.
Gertrude was born May 29, 1937, to Louisa Marsden (Feak) and Steven Marsden Sr. of Metlakatla, Alaska.
She grew up in Metlakatla, and attended grade school there but attended high school at Mt. Edgecumbe High School where she graduated.
Gertrude was an awesome Mom of nine, an awesome Gramma of 24 and awesome Gigi of 27. She lived for and loved her family, and prayed daily for them all. She was well known for her kindness and love for all she met, and always found time to pray for everyone.
“She made the best homemade bread ever,” her family said. “It was always a blessing to us to get loaves of her bread for toast.”
Gertrude worked at the Mt. Edgecumbe Girls Dorm on the night shift, where she enjoyed her co-workers and her job.
She and her husband always went to Metlakatla for Founders Day, on Aug. 7, and would stay there for one month to enjoy family there.
Gertrude was preceded in death by her father and mother, Steven Marsden Sr. and Louisa Marsden; her son William Lawrence Shayen Jr.; her grandson Robert Dean Samuelson Jr.; her siblings Anna Laura Marsden, Allan Steven Marsden, Ida Margaret Marsden, Alice Maggie Marsden, Johanna Alma Neucklavok, Gertrude Marsden, Henry Stanley Marsden, Hazel Marsden, Louisa Marsden, Janet Louisa Hanson, Margaret Maude Marsden and Stanley Steven Marsden.
She is survived by her loving husband William Lawrence Shayen Sr. and children Myrna (Ray) Howard of Sitka, George (Tracy) Johnson III of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK, Brian Johnson (Sharon Thomas) of Sitka, Mary Samuelson (Andy Morris) of Ketchikan, Georgianna (Michael) Smith of Sitka, Sheryl (Mike) Sanderson of Window Rock, Ariz., Karen Howard (Kirk Callow) of Ocala, Fla., and Karla Shayen of South Pasadena, Calif.; 24 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; siblings Steven Edward Marsden of Soldotna, and Lena (George) Dundas of Metlakatla.
Gertrude will be missed, for she touched many lives with her kindness, love and prayers. God has gained an angel.
“Love you Mom, and we miss you so much, but we all know you are in a better place,” her family said. “Until we all meet again. It’s never goodbye, it’s see you later!”
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20 YEARS AGO
April 2004
Photo caption: Sitka High students in the guitar music class gather in the hall before the school’s spring concert. The concert was dedicated to music instructor Brad Howey, who taught more than 1,000 Sitka High students from 1993 to 2004. From left are Kristina Bidwell, Rachel Ulrich, Mitch Rusk, Nicholas Mitchell, Eris Weis and Joey Metz.
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April 1974
The Fair Deal Association of Sealaska shareholders selected Nelson Frank as their candidate for the Sealaska Board of Directors at the ANB Hall Thursday.