Services to be June 29 For Melinda Jo Bizon

Melinda Jo Bizon

Services have been scheduled for Melinda Jo Bizon, a former Sitka resident who died March 19 in Butte, Montana.
Her ashes will be spread at Blue Lake at noon Friday, June 29, at Blue Lake, with a potluck to follow at 1:30  p.m. at Halibut Point Recreation Area, the main shelter.
Melinda was born June 24, 1979, in Edmonds, Washington, the daughter of Katherine Dangel and Michael Bizon. In 1983 the family moved to Sitka, where Melinda attended Sitka schools, graduating from Pacific High School. She later received her CNA certification.
She moved to Del Norte, Colorado, in 2018, and then to Edmonds in 2022.
She was preceded in death by her father, Michael Bizon; her brother, Matthew J. Bizon; and her grandparents, Walter and Margaret Dangel, of Sitka.
She is survived by her daughter, Jade Haag, of Dallas, Oregon; her mother, Katherine Dangel of Edmonds; her brother, Michael J. Bizon of Edmonds; and aunts and uncles, mostly Dangels, of Sitka.

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