SECOND CUP – Ceren Gokpinar, who was an AFS intercultural exchange student at Sitka High from 2017 to 2018, serves Turkish coffee she made to Pioneers Home resident Robin Emmens and others this afternoon. Gokpinar, who is currently studying to be a veterinarian in Turkey, returned to Sitka this summer to volunteer at Pet’s Choice and Sitka Animal Hospital and earn money at Pizza Express restaurant. Skye Workman, activities director at the home, remembered that Gokpinar had made coffee for residents and staff in 2018 and asked for a repeat visit, which she was prepared and happy to do. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Fred H. Hope, 84, Dies; Services to be on Aug. 1
Fred H. Hope
Fred Howard Hope, a lifelong Sitkan, passed away July 20, 2019, surround by family and friends. He was 84.
Services will be 11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, at Sitka National Cemetery. Following a luncheon an Alaska Native Brotherhood service will be held at the ANB Founders Hall.
Fred was born Dec. 30, 1934, in Sitka, one of 14 children of Andrew and Tillie (Howard) Hope. His Tlingit name was Shaaxhwaa Shaay Eesh, and he was of the Kiks.adi Raven clan, Point House.
After graduating from Sheldon Jackson High School in 1954, he fished on the Neva, his father Andrew Hope’s purse seiner.
He then joined the U.S. Army Infantry, serving with the 11th Airborne Division. After his honorable discharge, he met, and in 1960 married, Katherine Lott. They had two children, Shirley and Loren.
Fred held various jobs, including as a taxi driver and a laborer, before going to work fulltime for Alaska Lumber and Pulp. He continued working there until it closed, in 1993, retiring as department supervisor.
Afterward he worked on a log ship with his son Loren, in Hoonah.
While attending an Alaska Native Brotherhood/Alaska Native Sisterhood convention, he met Margaret Gross. They married in Hawaii in 1984, and ran a bed and breakfast inn on Monastery Street for several years. She died June 3, 2016.
Fred was active in the Alaska Native Brotherhood, and held several offices.
He and a brother, Herb Hope, documented and organized a Kiks.adi survival march in 1994 and again in 1996, reenacting the one the Kiks.adi took to Chichagof Island following the 1804 battle at Indian River between the Tlingits and Russians.
Fred was a lifelong Presbyterian. His family had ties to the Cottage community.
Fred also enjoyed painting, drawing fishing boats, fishing, hunting and hiking. He also liked to ride a bike and within the last year was still riding around town, looking at the boats and even going so far as to Starrigavan.
Fred was preceded in death by his wife, Margaret Gross Hope; his parents; and all his siblings – he was the last of the 14 children.
He is survived by his daughter Shirley Littlefield (husband Pat) and their son, Loren Littlefield, of Sitka; and son Loren Hope (Priscilla Jordon) and their children Carrie Hope, Ruby Hope, Jessica Hope and Jason Hope, of Juneau.
Numerous nieces and nephews also survive.
Thanks to the generosity and expertise of the the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska broadband department, Tidal Network ; Christopher Cropley, director of Tidal Network; and Luke Johnson, Tidal Network technician, SitkaSentinel.com is again being updated. Tidal Network has been working tirelessly to install Starlink satellite equipment for city and other critical institutions, including the Sentinel, following the sudden breakage of GCI's fiberoptic cable on August 29, which left most of Sitka without internet or phone connections. CCTHITA's public-spirited response to the emergency is inspiring.
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September 2004
Both of them 0-3 in the Great Land Conference this season, Sitka and Valdez looked to be evenly matched football teams Saturday at Moller field. But similarities were hard to find as the Wolves toppled Valdez 33-7. Both quarterback Jason Koelling and Mark Manuel scored two touchdowns.
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Monday Night Mixed Bowling: High series men – Tony Hrebar, Ted Borbridge and Curtis Baird. High series women – Dodie Shayen, Georgia Rhyner and Vicky O’Dell.
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