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Inez "Jake" Williamson
Graveside services for Inez "Jake" Williamson, a retired Anchorage
nurse, will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Fort Richardson National
Cemetery with the American Legion officiating. Mrs. Williamson, 70,
died Oct. 26 at Providence Hospial.
Born Feb. 7, 1917, in Paw Paw, Ky., she had lived in Alaska the past 42
years and had homesteaded with her husband. She attended nursing school
in Charleston, W.V., and received her degree in 1939. She was a second
lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps and served during World War II. She
had worked in several hospitals in Alaska, before ending her career at
Alaska Native Medical Center. She worked there from 1954 to 1977 and
for 15 years served as head nurse in the eye, ear, nose and throat unit.
She was a member of American Legion Aurora Borealis Post 21, Jack Henry
Unit 1 Auxiliary, VFW Auxilliary 9365, Honor Society of Women
Legionnaires, Elks Lodge 1842 in Palmer, Pioneers of Alaska Auxilliary
11, Women of the Moose Chapter 139 and Wasilla Senior Citizens. She
enjoyed hunting, fishing and gardening.
She leaves her husband, John, of Wasilla; her sisters, Opal Davis, of
St. Joseph, Missouri, Elaine Ireland, of Lewiston, Calif., and April
Johnson, of Hydesville, Calif.; and her brothers, Grant Thornbury, of
Lewiston, and Allen Thornbury, of Felicity, Ohio.
Memorials may be sent to the Pioneers of Alaska, Wasilla chapter, or
the Wasilla Senior Citizens, 1301 Century Circle, Wasilla 99687.
Arrangements were by Evergreen Memorial Chapel.
Source: Anchorage Daily News - October 28, 1987
Submitted and transcribed by Sandra Davis
