EARTH DAY – Chelsea Christenson checks on her kids, Avery and Beckett, inside a whale costume prior to the annual Parade of Species. Dozens of participants marched from Totem Square to the Crescent Harbor Shelter dressed as their favorite animals. The event was hosted by Sitka Conservation Society, University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service and the Sitka Sound Science Center. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Michael Arthur Littlefield
Michael Arthur Littlefield
Services for Michael Arthur Littlefield, 70, will be 2 p.m. Friday, June 29, at Sitka National Cemetery.
A potluck will follow at the ANB Founders Hall.
Mike, who served in the military in Vietnam, died May 21 in Sitka after a long illness connected to his service.
He was born March 10, 1948, in Juneau, but lived most of his life in Sitka. His Tlingit name was Sakuyei, and he was of the Raven Moiety of the Ganax Tediee Clan of the Ishisa Hit Taan House.
Mike worked with the BIA high school, BIA boat shop, Public Health Service Hospital, Alaska Marine Highway, Alaska Pipeline, and Sitka Police Department, and was in Juneau, Haines and Washington state.
He was a U.S. Navy Seabee attached to a Marine Corps battalion while in Vietnam. He served in several areas, and was in action during the Tet Offensive, where he was wounded and earned the Purple Heart.
Mike was preceded in death by his parents, Arthur N. Littlefield and Nancy Littlefield, and a sister, Alice Titell.
He is survived by his daughter, Heather Littlefield, and his son, Joseph Littlefield, both of Lemmon, S.D.
Also surviving are his brother Patrick Littlefield, his wife Shirley Littlefield, and their son, Loren Littlefield; and his sister, Charlene Johnsen, her husband Earl Johnsen, of Longview, Wash., and their children, Yvonne Grant, Christopher Johnsen, Mary Jane Frazier and Terry Burgett.
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20 YEARS AGO
April 2004
Michael Stringer, environmental specialist for Sitka Tribe of Alaska and a founder of the community garden, takes the concept of Earth Week literally. This weekend he hopes others will share his appreciation for “earth” and things growing in it by joining him in preparing the community garden just behind Blatchley Middle School for another growing season.
50 YEARS AGO
April 1974
Classified ads Houses for Sale: Price dropped to $36,500 for 2-story, 4-bdrm. carpeted home on Cascade. Kitchen appliances, drapes, laundry room, carport, handy to schools.