Anchorage Daily News February 17, 1995

Lifelong Alaskan Gus M. Constantine Oskolkoff, 69, died Feb. 12, 1995, at his residence in San Francisco. For the past few years, he had spent winter months in California and Washington state. A visitation was held with a Panahida service at Transfiguration of Our Lord Orthodox Church in Ninilchik. A funeral was held at the church with the Very Rev. Archpriest Paul Merculief of Anchorage officiating. Co-officiants were the Very Rev. Archpriest Simeon Oskolkoff of Anchorage and the Very Rev. Archpriest Marcarius Targonsky of Kenai. Burial was in the Ninilchik Orthodox Cemetery. Active pallbearers included Mike Bouwens, Bill Bouwens Jr., Robert and Dale Woodhead, and Bruce and Gary Oskolkoff. Howard Wilson, Harold Ahrich, Thomas Culhane and Bill Bouwens Sr., were honorary pallbearers.

Mr. Oskolkoff was born May 24, 1925, in Ninilchik. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the Aleutian Islands with the 36th Transportation Corp. He had been a boat captain and commercial fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico and Cook Inlet. He was a licensed practical nurse and had worked in several hospitals in the Anchorage area. Mr. Oskolkoff was a member of Transfiguration of Our Lord Orthodox Church in Ninilchik. He loved to hunt and enjoyed all outdoor sports. He had a large extended family of friends in Alaska, California and Washington. His family said: "He made friends easily and was a well-liked person." Mr. Oskolkoff was preceded in death by his parents, the Rev. Michael and Matushka Zoya Oskolkoff.

He is survived by five brothers, Larry of Sacramento, Calif., Grassim and Michael of Ninilchik, Arnold of Kenai, and Ralph of Palmer; four sisters, Ella Woodhead, Alice Bouwens and Carolyn Reifsnyder, of Anchorage, and Nancy Ahlrich of Soldotna; and many nieces and nephews. Local arrangements were handled by Evergreen Memorial Chapel.