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He served in the Alaska Army National Guard and worked in commercial fishing. Zharoff graduated from University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1971 and taught at Kodiak High School in Kodiak. Zharoff served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1979 to 1984 and in the Alaska Senate from 1985 to 1996. He was a Democrat. He died at his home in ...
Jul. 8—Alaska State Troopers on Friday identified the two people killed in a July 2 plane crash on Kodiak Island as Kodiak resident Rodney Murdock, 73, and Texas resident Byron Chitwood, 91.
Patricia Ann Roppel (April 5, 1938 – January 6, 2015) was a historian, writer and educator who specialized in the history of Southeast Alaska.She had thirteen books and more than 100 articles published during her career.
Kodiak (Alutiiq: Sun'aq) is the main city and one of seven communities on Kodiak Island in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska. All commercial transportation between the island's communities and the outside world goes through this city via ferryboat or airline. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city is 5,581, down from 6,130 in 2010. [5]
In 1970, he accepted an invitation from the Alutiiq village of Old Harbor on Kodiak Island in Alaska, where he served as priest with the Russian Orthodox Church. [1] [3]In 1972, he moved to Kwethluk, where he met his wife and continued his work as a missionary priest in various small communities along the Kuskokwim River.
Richard Louis Proenneke (/ ˈ p r ɛ n ə k iː /; May 4, 1916 – April 20, 2003) was an American self-educated naturalist, conservationist, writer, and wildlife photographer who, from the age of about 51, lived alone for nearly thirty years (1968–1998) in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin that he constructed by hand near the shore of Twin Lakes.
The American Cemetery, also known as the Old City Cemetery, is a historic cemetery on Upper Mill Bay Road in Kodiak, Alaska.It is a small parcel of land near the intersection with Wilson Avenue, about one third of an acre, now completely surrounded by buildings.
USA, near Kenai, Alaska — Cortes was killed immediately after being bitten in the head while laying seismic line in the Swanson River area. His crew walked past the bear's den. [170] [171] August 23, 1996: Robert Bell, 33, male: Wild: USA, Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska — Bell was killed while hiking with a friend near the Kugrak ...