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)
By YERETH ROSEN
Alaska Beacon
The federal government owes Alaska more than $700 billion in comp [ ... ]
By CLAIRE STREMPLE
Alaska Beacon
Sylvester Byrd Jr. served nearly three decades in prison for a [ ... ]
By Sentinel Staff
Competing Sunday in a City League volleyball match, a short-handed Yellow Je [ ... ]
Heritage, Cultural
Tourism Event
Here this Week
The ninth annual Heritage and Cultural Tourism Conferen [ ... ]
Sitka police received the following calls by 8 a.m. today:
March 15
At 4:30 a.m. a fender bender invol [ ... ]
By SHANNON HAUGLAND
Sentinel Staff Writer
Rep. Rebecca Himschoot and School Board President Tri [ ... ]
By SHANNON HAUGLAND
Sentinel Staff Writer
With $20 million needed to complete the Katlian Bay r [ ... ]
By GARLAND KENNEDY
Sentinel Staff Writer
A historically high herring return is forecast for Sit [ ... ]
By GARLAND KENNEDY
Sentinel Staff Writer
After a year-long vacancy in the Sitka Superior Court [ ... ]
By JAMES BROOKS
Alaska Beacon
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, following through on an ultimatum, vet [ ... ]
By YERETH ROSEN
Alaska Beacon
For many of the women considered to be at high risk for breast ca [ ... ]
Climate Connection -- Cruise Tourism Choices
Citizen groups in many port cities have mobilized to pre [ ... ]
Sitka police received the following calls by 8 a.m. today:
March 14
An Austin Street resident said a c [ ... ]
By SHANNON HAUGLAND
Sentinel Staff Writer
The Sitka Homeless Coalition and St. Michael’s Sist [ ... ]
By GARLAND KENNEDY
Sentinel Staff Writer
Sitka’s annual Heritage and Cultural Tourism Confere [ ... ]
By CLAIRE STREMPLE
Alaska Beacon
Language matters, the House agreed on Wednesday, when it advan [ ... ]
By JAMES BROOKS
Alaska Beacon
A new state revenue forecast that includes modestly higher oil pr [ ... ]
Sitka police received the following calls by 8 a.m. today:
March 13
Vehicles left parked at Sealing Co [ ... ]
SFS, Coliseum
To Show 15 Shorts
The Sitka Film Society and Coliseum Theater will present the Oscar Sho [ ... ]
By SHANNON HAUGLAND
Sentinel Staff Writer
Sitka Tribe of Alaska told the Assembly Tuesday that [ ... ]
By SHANNON HAUGLAND
Sentinel Staff Writer
Among proposals presented to the Assembly Tuesday for [ ... ]
By GARLAND KENNEDY
Sentinel Staff Writer
The public is invited to a discussion Thursday on the [ ... ]
By BRYDEN SWEENEY-TAYLOR
Outer Coast executive director
In 1986, two linguists, Ron and Suzie Scollon, [ ... ]
Vigil on Saturday
At Roundabout
Community members are invited to attend the weekly Voices for Peace vi [ ... ]
Daily Sitka Sentinel
Mary Elizabeth Hughes
Services have been scheduled for Mary Elizabeth Hughes, a Sitka resident since 1958.
Recitation of the rosary will be 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, at St. Gregory’s Catholic Church. A Mass of Christian burial will be noon Saturday, Oct. 6, also at the church, with a reception to follow downstairs in Corrigan Hall.
Mary died at her home on Sept. 13. She was 84.
She was born July 9, 1928, the third of five children of Michael and Marie (Strohman) Dunn, and was raised on a farm outside of Keswick, Iowa, during the Depression and World War II.
She attended Keswick public schools until her senior year when she transferred to Ottumwa Heights Academy. She graduated from Ottumwa Heights Junior College in 1946 with a teaching certificate, and taught in small towns in Iowa for the next 10 years.
In 1956, she headed west where her brother and sister-in-law resided with their family, and taught at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic School in Wheatridge, Colo.
In the summer of 1957 she went to Fairbanks to visit her cousin, Pat Lawlor and her husband, Joe, who owned a dairy farm. While there she met Jerry Hughes; they were married the next summer in Wheatridge and moved to Sitka, where Jerry was working on construction of the Alaska Lumber and Pulp mill.
Mary taught at Baranof School that year, 1958-59, then chose to stay at home for the next 20 years to care for their six children.
She returned to teaching in 1978 after receiving her bachelor’s degree in education at Sheldon Jackson College.
She retired in 1987, and for the 1988-89 school year she and Jerry volunteered in Kekaha, Hawaii, on the island of Kauai.
In the 1990s she worked as a guardian ad litem for the Sitka court system.
She was a member of the Iota Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, a professional honor society of women educators.
She served on several boards and city commissions, including Sitka Community Hospital, Historical Trust, and the Port and Harbors Commission.
She was director of the Pregnancy Aid office. Beginning in the early 1990s she and Jerry were a support couple for the Jesuit Volunteer Corps program, which was their most rewarding volunteer activity. She continued with the program until recently.
In recent years she also devoted time to Sitka Cancer Survivor’s Society and Sitka Community Hospital Foundation. She was a 54-year member of St. Gregory’s and was active in various church ministries throughout the years.
Mary was preceded in death by her daughter Marie Hughes and a sister Lucille Butler in 1995, and by her husband Jerry in 2000.
Surviving are daughters Ellen Hughes and Ann (Scott) Winnop of Sitka, Joan (Chris) Gianotti of Juneau and Margy Hughes of Anchorage; and her son, Patrick Hughes of Sitka.
Her grandchildren are Diana (Don)Morris of Washington state; Trevor and Chad Winnop of Sitka; and Mary, Andrew and Zachary Gianotti of Juneau; and Robbie and Lily Hood of Sitka.
Also surviving are siblings James Dunn of Wheatridge, Rosemary Connell of Freeport, Ill., and Frank (Maryann) Dunn of Dubuque, Iowa, and their families; and Butler nieces and a nephew of Des Moines, Iowa.
Charities that Mary supported throughout the years include Brave Heart Volunteers and Cancer Survivor’s Society of Sitka, and Friends of Chimbote, a Peruvian mission parish run by Jerry’s cousin, Fr. Jack Davis. The address is Friends of Chimbote, C/O Susan Trnka, P.O. Box 717, West Fargo, ND 58078-0717.
Login Form
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.