Myrna Lang Services Set On Nov. 30

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Created on Wednesday, 27 November 2024 12:57

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Myrna Lang

Services have been scheduled for Myrna Lang, a lifelong Sitka resident who died in Sitka on Nov. 20.
The service will be at 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30, at the Alaska Raptor Center. Friends and family are welcome to bring dishes for the potluck. The bottom circle of the parking area is reserved for elders only.
Myrna was born Feb. 6, 1970, at Mt. Edgecumbe. Her parents were Gerald Lang and Gussie Aloysius, who met while Gussie was attending Mt. Edgecumbe High School; they moved to Sitka shortly afterward.
Myrna attended Sitka High School, and went on to become a CNA and ROI tech, Bingo games director, a bartender and bouncer, and a Grandma.
Her favorite pastimes included Bingo, camping, music, walks, and gossiping.
Myrna also was a Red Cross Hero. She was manager of the Sitka Hotel when a fire broke out at 2 a.m. on April 11, 2006. Awakened by a coworker, Myrna immediately took her master key and went room to room waking up everyone and telling them to get out. When firefighters were ready to escort her out, she checked the guest register and noticed one person missing. Without hesitation she ran back into the burning building and found the man, who was hard of hearing and hadn’t heard the commotion. Myrna carried him out of the building.
The rescued man was Willie John Joseph, a member of the L’uknax.adi (Raven/Coho), and Myrna was later adopted into the L’uknax.adi by Ethel Daasdiyaa Makinen.
Myrna loved her family but she also cared for so many others.
She was preceded in death by her parents Gussie Aloysius and Osh Lang; her brother-in-law Trent “Uncle” Richards; and the love of her life, Pelu Roe.
Survivors include her sisters, Lisa Lang of Hydaburg, Deb Ely of Fairbanks, Cora Richards of Juneau, and Nichole Richards of Portland, Oregon, and her soul sister, Ange Grant of Sitka; three daughters, Heidi Vierek of Ocean Shores, Washington, and Kim Dodson and Jerryn Roe, both of Sitka; and grandchildren Kailyn Crowder, Caden Crowder and Camden Crowder of Washington, and Persephonie Svilar, Bentley Svilar and Mychal Svilar, of Sitka.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Myrna Lang Memorial Fund at up at Tongass FCU. The money will be used for ensuring her daughters and grandchildren are able to settle in after services.

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