Olive's nickname was "Ollie"
Audry died at age 5
Nina never married. She was the local telephone operator in Ft. Sumner for many years and retired from that position. Though "Healthy as a horse" she was quite deaf the last 20 or so years of her life. In her early nineties her "younger sister" Emma came to live with her and look after her. Emma was only a year or two younger than Nina. Emma eventually moved to Denver to be with her daughter and Nina went into the Ft. Sumner nursing home. She moved in with Jim and Pearl Devenport on Ave B for a few years and then re-entered the nursing home where she died.
Nina was the telephone operator in Ft. Sumner for many many years.
Elton Merle Anderson passed away on the evening of April 21st, at his home near Anchor Point after a long illness. Elton was born in Aurora Oregon in 1919. He grew up on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico, where he continued several generations of family tradition of being a trader and a friend to the Indians. He brought his family to Alaska in 1959, and homesteaded near the headwaters of Stariski creek. The family established the Bar-Five ranch on the North Fork in 1962, where Elton raised cattle and horses until his death.
Elton was a Veteran of World War Two. He served the U.S. Army, his fellow Soldiers and his Country honorably in battle in the Fiji and other South Pacific Islands.
Elton was active in Alaska road and oil-field construction until his retirement in 1984. He accompanied the first caterpillar train to the North Slope and the Beaufort sea with Frontier Construction Company.
He was affectionately known by many as the Old Man of the Mountain, and had a reputation of being a good neighbor and a source of farming and homestead knowledge. He spent countless hours helping and advising many of the younger families who made their homes in the area.
A memorial service will be held at the Homer chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on Homer East Road, Monday April 24th at 2:00 PM.
Elton was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and will be buried in the Hickerson Memorial Cemetery on Diamond Ridge, near Homer.
Elton is survived by his Wife, Edna, a brother Wallace, of Blue Gap Arizona; five Sons, Jeff Boggs and David Anderson of Homer, Jim of Anchorage, Andrew of Salem Oregon, Jerry of Espaqola New Mexico, a daughter, Joyce Turkington of Homer, 17 grand children, one great-grandchild, many other relatives, and friends without number.
Carroll Mitchell and Edna Presley had one son: Jerry Alan Mitchell who was later legally adopted after the Mitchell/Presley divorce by Elton ANDERSON.
Carroll Mitchell and Edna Presley had one son: Jerry Alan Mitchell who was later legally adopted after the Mitchell/Presley divorce by Elton ANDERSON.
Carroll Mitchell and Edna Presley had one son: Jerry Alan Mitchell who was later legally adopted after the Mitchell/Presley divorce by Elton ANDERSON.