Jirdes Winther Baxter, the last living survivor of the diphtheria epidemic that prompted the 1925 serum run credited with inspiring the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, died Jan. 5 at Bartlett Regional Hospital at the age of 101. “This is kind of an end of an era for that period of time,” Fred Baxter, one of […]
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