OBITUARIES
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Jon A. Berry
Wasilla resident Jon Allan Berry, 30, an accountant for Matanuska
Telephone Association in Wasilla, died Aug. 25 at the Alaska State
Fairgrounds in Palmer. A service will be held at noon Sunday at Kehl's
Palmer Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Michael Shields officiating.
Mr. Berry was born Sept. 22, 1958, in Bagley, Minn. He enjoyed hunting,
fishing and volunteering his time to the American Heart Association,
Crisis Intervention Center and Crisis Line.
Mr. Berry is survived by his mother, Margaret, his sister, Kimberley,
and his paternal grandmother, Blanche, all of Bagley; and his sister,
Carol, of Willmar, Minn. Interment will be in Bagley. Memorials may be
sent to the American Heart Association, Alaska Affiliate, 2330 E. 42nd
Ave., Anchorage 99508.
Source: Anchorage Daily News - August 27, 1989
Submitted and transcribed by Sandra Davis
Geraldine M. Bertram
Services for Geraldine Bertram, 65, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at
Evergreen Memorial Chapel. Officiating will be the Rev. Ronald
Martinson of Central Lutheran Church. Visitation will be held one hour
prior to the service.
Mrs. Betram died May 21 in Titusville, Fla., where she was visiting.
Born May 14, 1921, she was a 35-year resident of Alaska and made her
home at Big Lake. She had worked as a dispatcher for the Yellow Cab Co.
She is survived by five children, Pat Bertram of Anchorage, Kenny
Bertram of California, Gary Scritchfield of Maui, Hawaii, Dan
Scritchfield and Linda Townsend of Titusville; and 12 grandchildren.
Burial will be in Valley Memorial Park.
Source: Anchorage Daily News - May 29, 1986
Submitted and transcribed by Sandra Davis
Jane Browne
Services for lifelong Wasilla resident, Jane Cadwallader Browne, 66,
will be conducted at 1 p.m. Friday at the Assembly of God Church in
Wasilla. The Rev. Paul Riley will officiate.
Mrs. Browne died Aug. 12 at her Wasilla home after a long illness. She was born May 9, 1921, in Anchorage.
A 1938 graduate of Wasilla high school, she later worked at the Palmer
Coop, Wasilla School, Matanuska Telephone Association and for the City
of Anchorage. She was a member of Pioneers of Alaska, Wasilla Igloo 31;
Veterans of Foreign Wars, No. 9365; and the Palmer Moose Lodge. She
also was a pastpresident of the Republican Women's Club. Mrs. Browne
was active in the Wasilla Senior Center's bowling club.
She leaves her husband, Neil Jr., of Wasilla; her daughter, Janeil
Roberts of Wasilla; two sons, Loren, of Wasilla, and Neil III, of
Juneau; her sister, Mary Johnson of Wasilla; and six grandchildren.
Memorials may be donated to Pioneers of Alaska, Snyder Park Fund.
Burial will be at Wasilla Aurora Cemetery. Arrangements by Kehl's
Palmer Mortuary.
Source: Anchorage Daily News - August 13, 1987
Submitted and transcribed by Sandra Davis
Jake E. Bryant
Services for pilot and businessman Jake E. Bryant, 67, of Big Lake,
will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at Kehl's Forest Lawn Mortuary in
Anchorage. Mr. Bryant died July 1 at his Big Lake home.
Born Oct. 19, 1919 in Mead, Okla., he moved to Alaska from Seattle in
1951. He went to work for Reeve Aleutian Airways. He also was employed
by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Later, he started Alaska
Floatplane Services, one of the first air taxi operations at Lake Hood.
After selling that business, he established Jake's Aircraft Salvage,
which he operated until his death.
After 35 years in Anchorage, he and his family built a home on Big Lake
and moved there six months ago. He also moved his hangar to the Big
Lake airport. He had his private and commercial pilot licenses and was
a member of the Anchorage Moose Lodge.
Mr. Bryant leaves his wife, Edna, of Big Lake; two sons, Stephen and
Michael, both of Anchorage; his daughter, Glenda Sykes of Oak Harbor,
Wash.; his brother, Alvin, of Boise, Idaho; 15 grandchildren and 11
greatgrandchildren.
Source: Anchorage Daily News - July 5, 1987
Submitted and transcribed by Sandra Davis
Charlie Bumpus
Mayor of Wasilla Dies at 42
Wasilla Mayor Charlie Bumpus, who saw himself as a maverick politican
working to build the image of his community, died early Wednesday
evening after collapsing from an apparent heart attack on Elmendorf Air
Force Base. Air Force public affairs officer Maj. Darrell Hayes said
Bumpus, 42, was with three golfing partners playing through the 12th
hole at the Eagleglen Golf Course when he fell just before 6 p.m. Two
of his friends began performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation while a
third ran to the club house to call for an ambulance, Hayes said.
Medics from Elmendorf Hospital attempted to revive Bumpus, then rushed
him to the base hospital. He was declared dead about 7 p.m., Hayes
said.
Known as a tenacious and controversial businessman and politician,
Bumpus began a three-year term as Wasilla's first mayor in January
1985. Residents had voted to give Wasilla first-class city status three
months earlier. Talking about his role as mayor last year, Bumpus
agreed that he was something of a maverick. "A maverick's a colt that
runs by itself. Yeah. I guess that's me. I'm not your average
politician."
In May, Bumpus began a controversy by pushing a proposal that his city
create its own time zone, 30 minutes ahead of the rest of Alaska.
Indeed, the city council at first approved their mayor's resolution,
but rescinded its vote weeks later while Bumpus was on vacation.
He fought to change Wasilla's image from that of a sleepy town to a
progressive city and initiated a fight to get Palmer's Valley Hospital
to build a full-service hospital in his town. In September of last year
the city council approved a retroactive salary for the mayor, agreeing
to pay Bumpus $54,035 a year in salary and benefits. When he was
elected there was no salary set for the mayor.
A 13-year Air Force veteran, Bumpus was a graduate of the Air Force
Academy and served in Vietnam for a year and a half. He moved to
Wasilla in 1975 and opened a land development company. He served on the
city council from 1978 to 1983, but was bumped after a federal court
convicted him of tax fraud charges in August of that year. He was
reputed to have been illegally sheltering money in a Belize
corporation. He fought the charges and won a reversal of the conviction
from a federal appeals court a year later. Bumpus had also been known
as a jazz musician and had often sat in with musical groups around
Anchorage on weekends.
Source: Anchorage Daily News - July 25, 1986
Submitted and transcribed by Sandra Davis
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