BIG RIGS – Max Bennett, 2, checks out the steering on a steamroller during the 3 to 5 Preschool’s Big Rig fundraiser in front of Mt. Edgecumbe High School Saturday. Hundreds of kids and parents braved the wet weather to check out the assortment of machines, including road building trucks, a U.S. Coast Guard ANT boat, police cars and fire department rigs. Kids were able to ride as passengers on ATVs. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Former Sitkan Karla K. Linder Dies in Wash.
Karla K. Linder
Karla K. Linder (Keeley, Baker, Essendrup), who had lived in Sitka for many years, died June 21, 2018, in Whidby Island, Wash., her home since the early 2000s.
Karla was about to turn 74, and had had a long battle with two different kinds of cancer.
She was born June 26, 1944, in Seattle, the daughter of Betty and James Keeley. She graduated from high school there.
After coming to Sitka, Karla worked in a doctor’s office and at Sitka Community Hospital. She also was a volunteer with Sitka Fire Department.
Karla was kindhearted and, in the words of her daughter Kathryn Mathews, “did the best she could in life and tried each day to become a better person. My mom was not perfect but she was loved greatly. In this life none of us is perfect and I will spend each day trying to follow her example, to try to be a better person each day than I was the day before.
“I will remember all the good times with her, crazy trips she took with her grandchildren (and she was crazy fun for them); and the lives of the children she took in as her own.”
Karla is survived by her children, Kathryn (Ron) Matthews of Sitka, and Todd (Sandi) Essendrup and Collette Rochon, both of Iron Mountain, Mich.; her brother Rick Keeley of Washington; and her sister Barbara (Dan) Moldenhauer of Phillips Lake, Wash.
Many grandchildren, nieces and nephews also survive.
“My brother Todd and I wanted to express huge gratitude to Aunt Barb and Uncle Dan, who were with our mother during her last hours on this earth before joining the Lord,” Kathryn Mathews said.
“To the friends she left behind, in a letter she wrote she apologized to those she hurt and hoped you could forgive her someday and that she loved all of you very much.
“Her friends and family were her whole world. God bless you all.”
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20 YEARS AGO
April 2004
Responding to the requests of athletes, coaches and parents, the Sitka School Board voted unanimously Monday against a proposal that would have changed Sitka High School’s classification from Class 4A, which includes Juneau and Ketchikan, to the 3A, which has schools with enrollment of 100 to 400 students.
50 YEARS AGO
April 1974
Memories of Sitka’s first radio station have been revived by a St. Louis, Mo., man who was one of the founders. Fred A. Wiethuchter recently wrote a letter to “Mayor Sitka, Alaska” asking about the town since he was here during World War II. He was an Army private at Fort Ray when he was attached to Armed Services Radio Station KRAY and WVCX ....
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