EARTH DAY – Chelsea Christenson checks on her kids, Avery and Beckett, inside a whale costume prior to the annual Parade of Species. Dozens of participants marched from Totem Square to the Crescent Harbor Shelter dressed as their favorite animals. The event 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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Mary Ann Perkins
Mary Ann Esther Ghering Perkins passed on to the next world peacefully at her son’s home in Silverton, Ore., on May 11, 2015.
She was born July 23, 1926, in Kulm, N.D., to Anna Marie Heck and Reinhold Gehring. She grew up in South Dakota, then graduated from the Nursing Cadet Corps.
In 1951, she boarded the SS Denali in Seattle and sailed to Sitka to work at the Public Health Service’s hospital for children with bone tuberculosis (later renamed and repurposed as Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital).
She met Alfred George Perkins in 1952 and they were married in Juneau on Oct. 31, 1953. Al and Mary Ann had two sons, Kim and Kelly, and raised their niece, Helen, as their own.
Mary Ann worked at Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital as a registered nurse until 1988. During retirement, she enjoyed talking on the phone with her sister Vi, spending time with her family, and looking at her beautiful view of Sitka Sound and the Thomsen Harbor breakwater, watching boats and planes coming and going from Sitka.
Mary Ann was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her sister Grace, and her son Kelly.
She is survived by her sister Violet Week and her brother Alan Burrer, both of South Dakota; her son Kim of Silverton and Sitka, and daughter Helen Desjardin, of Homer; daughters-in-law Bobbie Behrens of Soldotna and Jessica Perkins; son-in-law Paul Desjardin; grandchildren Holly, Brendan, Bryan, Jenci, Holly, Brady, Heidi, Aanḯ and Zen; and many extended relatives.
Mary Ann’s ashes will be placed with her husband, Al, at the Sitka National Cemetery once Kim returns to Sitka this summer.
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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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