Christine Morgan Dies; Former Sitkan was 65

Christine Alvanez Morgan

Christine Alvanez Morgan, born Dec. 5, 1959, in Winterhaven, California, died Jan. 7, 2025, in Scottsdale, Arizona, after a long, courageous battle with cancer.
She was the beloved daughter of Howard and Fay Fitzgerald.
Christine was a member of the Cocopah Indian Tribe and lived her formative years in Sitka with her parents and sister Lila, graduating from Sitka High School in 1978. In 1983, she met and married Aron Morgan and they shared 42 adventurous years of love together.
Christine cherished her son and grandchildren. She enjoyed painting and sewing. She had a unique gift of communicating with animals, rescuing many and volunteering at the Westsound Wildlife shelter on Bainbridge Island, Washington, when she was able.
Christine was a very brave, compassionate person whose absence cannot be filled.
Unending Love
by Rabidranath Tagore
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, age after age, forever.
Whenever I hear of old chronicles of love, its age-old pain,
Its ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
You become an image of what is remembered forever.
You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played alongside millions of lovers, shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.
Today it is heaped at your feet, it has
Found its end in you
The love of all man’s days both past and
Forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal
Life.
The memories of all loves merging with
This one of ours –
And the songs of every poet past and
Forever.”
Christine is survived by many who loved her: Mother, Sister, Husband, Son, Daughter-in-Law, Grandchildren, Aunts, Uncles, Nieces, Nephews, Cousins and many many Friends.
There will be no calling hours and Christine’s ashes will be scattered in Sitka.
The family is grateful for the kind condolences of all.
Donations in Christine’s memory may be made to a charity of one’s choice.

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