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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Leona Josephine (Hill) Skultka
Services for Leona Josephine (Hill) Skultka, a lifelong Sitkan, will be 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 6, at Sheet’ka Kwaan Naa Kahidi, 200 Katlian Street.
A luncheon will follow. Donations will be welcome.
A viewing for family and friends was 1 to 3 p.m. today at Prewitt’s Funeral Home.
Leona died Feb. 25, at SEARHC-Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital. She was 59.
She was born May 19,1955, in Sitka, the daughter of Evelyn Gertrude (Hamilton) and William Hill Jr. She attended Sitka schools, and was a commercial fisherwoman. She also worked on the Alaska pipeline.
She and Charlie Skultka were married June 16, 1985, at Sitka Tribe of Alaska.
Leona loved her husband, her children and grandchildren, and was a mother not only to her children and grandchildren but to nieces, nephews and many others who loved her as a mother.
Among her favorite pastimes was spending time on the boat fishing.
Leona was preceded in death by her parents, Evelyn and William Hill Jr.; sisters Wilma Hill-Leonard and Nancy Didrickson; brother William Hill III; and grandparents Edward and Leona Hamilton.
She is survived by her husband, Charles G. Skultka Sr.; children Charlie (Tane), Kendra (Chris), David (Samantha) and Amanda (Kristal); grandchildren Justin, Charline, Alissa, Mia, Sarah, Kaetlyn, Kaylee, Kaeden, David Jr. and Klaudia; brothers Edward Hill and Eric Hill; sister Anna Edenshaw (Steve); aunts Jessie Carlson and Nancy (Jake) Phillips; sister-in-law Sandy (Rodger) Johnston; and brothers-in-law Francis Carle and family, and Peter Burr.
Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers are Steve and Les Hamilton, Jim and John Phillips, Loren and Sharlene Sanderson, Gordon and Linda Guthrie, Tony and Jody Peele, Francis Carle, Calvin Carlson, Steve and Jerimiah Dilts, Bob and Becky Hall, John and Marsha Morris, Nancy and Jake Phillips, Tina Mackie, Rebecca Frank, Teresa Germain and Jessie Carlson.
Also, Rhonda Peratrovich, Lena Whitifield, Mary Morris, Doreen Washington, Crystal Kristovich, Heather Bremner, Tane Skultka, Lovi Hattan, Alva Peratrovich, Rhonda Stiles, Glenda Enloe and Grave Larson.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Skultka family, 110 Naomi Kanosh Lane, Sitka, AK 99835.
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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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