TRUCK FIRE – Firefighters knock down a fire in a Ford Explorer truck in Arrowhead Trailer Park in the 1200 block of Sawmill Creek Road Saturday evening. One person received fire-related injuries and was taken to the hospital, Sitka Fire Department Chief Craig Warren said, and the truck was considered a total loss. The cause of the fire is under investigation, Warren said. The fire hall received the call about the fire at 5:33 p.m., and one fire engine with eight firefighters and an ambulance were dispatched, he said. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)

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    Services for Shirley Joyce Winters have been scheduled 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at the United Methodist Church, 303 Kimsham St.
    Officiating will be the Rev. Robert Hattle, the Rev. Charles Bovee, and the Methodist pastor the Rev. Ferdinand Llenado.
    A celebration of Shirley’s life will follow at Swan Lake Senior Center.
    Shirley, a Sitka resident since 1964, died Sept. 4 at the Sitka Pioneers Home. She was 79.
    She was born May 23, 1933, in Banida, Idaho, the daughter of Carlile and Elizabeth Campbell Casperson. In 1943 the family moved to Gustavus, and then to Juneau, where Shirley graduated from Juneau-Douglas High School. She attended secretarial school.
    Shirley lived in Ketchikan before moving with her then-husband, Richard Winters, to Sitka in 1964, where they opened Richard’s Interiors furniture store on Sawmill Creek Road. In the 1970s it was named Alaska’s Small Business of the Year.
    Shirley began her active life of giving and sharing when she was a child in the Girl Scouts. She continued on to help many organizations throughout the community, an adept and faithful volunteer. She was an active member of the Pioneers of Alaska, Beta Sigma Phi, the Alaska Native Sisterhood, the Republican Party and Brave Heart Volunteers, holding offices and serving on boards.
    She was extremely active in the First Presbyterian Church, where she was a lay pastor, deacon, elder, church secretary and moderator of Presbyterian Women of Sitka.
    She enjoyed knitting,  baking cakes and pies, sewing and spending time with her family, friends and her organizations. She made a special effort to form a strong bond with each of  her grandchildren.
    She was preceded in death by her parents, Carlile and Elizabeth Campbell Casperson; siblings Jeannette Trevarthen, Dallas Casperson and Bruce Casperson; a niece, Helen; a great-nephew Devon; a son, David Winters; and a son-in-law, Ken Mahoskey.
    She is survived by a son, Jon Winters of Marble, N.D.; and daughters Carla Mahoskey of Sitka, Karen Dhillon of Santa Clarita, Calif., and Colleen Palmer of Las Vegas, Nev.; 17 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
    Honorary pallbearers are Kevin Casperson, Jerome Mahoskey, Dylan Mahoskey, Conner Mahoskey, Marcia Mahoskey and Jheryn Lewis.
    The family suggests that in lieu of flowers contributions be made to the Alaska Native Sisterhood, 235 Katlian St., Sitka; or Brave Heart Volunteers, P.O. Box 6336, Sitka.


 

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20 YEARS AGO

March 2004

Businesses using the Centennial Hall parking lot testified Tuesday against a proposal to charge them rent in addition to the $200 annual permit fee. City Administrator Hugh Bevan made the proposal in response to the Assembly’s direction to Centennial Hall manager Don Kluting to try to close the $340,000 gap between building revenues and operational costs.


50 YEARS AGO

March 1974

Alaska Native Brotherhood Grand President William S. Paul Sr. will be special guest and speaker at the local ANB, Alaska Native Sisterhood Founders Day program Monday at the ANB Hall.

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