ON PARADE – Children dressed as their favorite animals hold a Sitka Spruce Tips 4-H Club banner as they march down Lincoln Street on Earth Day, Monday. The Parade of Species was held in recognition of Earth Day. It 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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Former Sitkan Lotus Kuehn Dies in Tennessee at age 88
Lotus Kuehn
Lotus J. Kuehn, 88, formerly of Spring City, Tennessee, and Sitka, died Wednesday, January 2, 2019, at Memorial Northpark Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Lotus was born in Chattanooga, the daughter of Lawrence D. and Martha J. Booth Sutton.
She was a graduate of Erlanger Nursing School, Class of 1951, and worked at Erlanger until 1954, when she moved to Alaska to work. It was here in Sitka that she met, and in 1956 married, Lyle Kuehn.
In October 1981, Lotus and Lyle moved from Alaska to the Spring City community. A month before leaving Sitka, they donated to the city a Tennessee pine tree, the only one of seven that Lyle had brought here from Tennessee that had survived. (A lifelong Sitka resident, Lyle retired from Alaska Lumber and Pulp Co. in September 1981.)
Lotus enjoyed working crossword puzzles and doing counted cross stitch. She was of the Baptist faith.
Lotus was preceded in death by her great-grandchild Brandon Godsey.
Survivors include her husband of 63 years, Lyle M. Kuehn of Ooltewah, Tennessee; daughter Dotsy Woodall of Evensville, Tennessee; son Gary (Lynn) Kuehn of Ooltewah; sister Jo Ann (Lee) Miller of Spring City, Tennessee; grandchildren Jamie, Greg, Nick, Chris and Meridith; and great- grandchildren Alex, Lily, Haisley and one on the way.
Graveside services are Saturday, January 5, 2019 at 2 p.m. at the Spring City Memorial Gardens. There will be no visitation.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Spring City Memorial Gardens, P. O. Box 553, Spring City, Tennessee 37381.
Vaughn Funeral Home, Spring City, Tennessee, 423-365-5221, is in charge of arrangements. “Please share your condolences and memories of Lotus on our website www.vaughn-funeral-home.com,” her family wrote.
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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.
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