AUTHOR’S NOTE: Happy Valley resident Rex Hanks began his own private cemetery in the winter of 1951. By the end of 1958, the little graveyard’s inhabitants numbered four. The problem was that Hanks and his wife didn’t own the cemetery land. Kenai Peninsula road-builders had other plans for that location, so all the graves had to be moved.
After earning 100 AR points, Stephen Tullos, a first grader in Mrs. Lewis’s class, chose to spend the day in the kindergarten class with Mrs. Debbie Burt as Teacher of the Day.
On Feb. 19, 2024, Shirley Mae Cox, 98, passed away peacefully at the Powell Valley Care Center where she had been a resident for only one week. While so many of her relatives and …
Patsy Ruth Garner passed away peacefully on Jan. 10, 2024, surrounded by the love of her family. Born on Sept. 27, 1936, in Porum, Oklahoma to Nathaniel and Ruth Spears, Patsy was a pillar of …