-- Published in The Alaska Dispatch News, 01/24/2017:
Tootsie E. Abalama, age 88, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Jan. 18, 2017, at Alaska Native Medical Hospital.
She was born at Naknek Lake to Chief Reindeer Herder Pete Olympic and his wife, Natalia.
She lived there as a small child and moved to Ugashik, Alaska, with her mother and sisters when her father passed away. She attended school at Pilot Point and moved to Egegik, Alaska, where she married and raised her family.
She also later lived in Anchorage and Naknek, Alaska, in her later years. Tootsie was retired from the Lake and Peninsula School District as a school cook and had also served as a cook at Becharof Bible Camp for many years. She was a devoted believer in Christ and a member of Egegik Bible Church. She was devoted to all of her family.
She loved to bake bread, pick berries and make smoked fish and sourdough pancakes. She always made sure that the people in Egegik were fed and didn't go hungry.
She is survived by her children: son, Jack Abalama; daughter-in-law, Marcia; daughter, Natalia; son-in-law, Paul Boskoffsky; daughter, Mary; son-in-law, Mark Sindelar; daughter, Lucy; son-in-law, Brett Goode Sr.; daughter, Josephine; son-in-law, Marvin Williams; grandchildren, Chase, Merianna, Leenanna, Anastasia, James, Rosanna and Joseph Baehm, Maria Comeaux, George Chernikoff, Troy, Kelvin, Mitchell, Bradley and Alexandria Goode, Vanessa and Valery Williams and John, Tara and Patrice Broughton-Walker; and numerous great-grandchildren.
Preceding her in death are her husband, George Abalama; father, Pete Olympic; mother, Natalia Monsen; sisters, Anne and Olga; brothers, Phillip and Teddie Aletuk; sons, George Jr. and Daniel; daughters, Cathy Broughton-Walker and Nena Abalama; and grandchildren, Brett Goode Jr., Jewell and Mark Boskoffsky, Tiffany Sindelar and Brenda Baehm.
Memorial Services will be held at Sand Lake Baptist Church, 7434 Jewell Lake Road in Anchorage, Alaska, on Jan. 24, 2017, at 3 p.m.
A date will be given in June for a Celebration of Tootsie's life, to be held in Egegik, at the Fisherman's Hall, and burial to be held at the Egegik Cemetery with a potluck to follow.
-- Published in The Alaska Dispatch News, 01/24/2017:
Tootsie E. Abalama, age 88, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Jan. 18, 2017, at Alaska Native Medical Hospital.
She was born at Naknek Lake to Chief Reindeer Herder Pete Olympic and his wife, Natalia.
She lived there as a small child and moved to Ugashik, Alaska, with her mother and sisters when her father passed away. She attended school at Pilot Point and moved to Egegik, Alaska, where she married and raised her family.
She also later lived in Anchorage and Naknek, Alaska, in her later years. Tootsie was retired from the Lake and Peninsula School District as a school cook and had also served as a cook at Becharof Bible Camp for many years. She was a devoted believer in Christ and a member of Egegik Bible Church. She was devoted to all of her family.
She loved to bake bread, pick berries and make smoked fish and sourdough pancakes. She always made sure that the people in Egegik were fed and didn't go hungry.
She is survived by her children: son, Jack Abalama; daughter-in-law, Marcia; daughter, Natalia; son-in-law, Paul Boskoffsky; daughter, Mary; son-in-law, Mark Sindelar; daughter, Lucy; son-in-law, Brett Goode Sr.; daughter, Josephine; son-in-law, Marvin Williams; grandchildren, Chase, Merianna, Leenanna, Anastasia, James, Rosanna and Joseph Baehm, Maria Comeaux, George Chernikoff, Troy, Kelvin, Mitchell, Bradley and Alexandria Goode, Vanessa and Valery Williams and John, Tara and Patrice Broughton-Walker; and numerous great-grandchildren.
Preceding her in death are her husband, George Abalama; father, Pete Olympic; mother, Natalia Monsen; sisters, Anne and Olga; brothers, Phillip and Teddie Aletuk; sons, George Jr. and Daniel; daughters, Cathy Broughton-Walker and Nena Abalama; and grandchildren, Brett Goode Jr., Jewell and Mark Boskoffsky, Tiffany Sindelar and Brenda Baehm.
Memorial Services will be held at Sand Lake Baptist Church, 7434 Jewell Lake Road in Anchorage, Alaska, on Jan. 24, 2017, at 3 p.m.
A date will be given in June for a Celebration of Tootsie's life, to be held in Egegik, at the Fisherman's Hall, and burial to be held at the Egegik Cemetery with a potluck to follow.
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