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Joshua Bradford Nove

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Joshua Bradford Nove

Birth
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
3 Jul 1997 (aged 23)
King Salmon, Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska, USA
Burial
Burial Details Unknown. Specifically: Drowned in Mother Goose Lake, Alaska Add to Map
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Joshua Bradford Nove was born on 8 Aug 1973 at Boston, Suffolk Co., MA., son of John and Elenor Ranson Nove. He died on 3 Jul 1997 at Mother Goose Lake, Becharof Lake Wildlife Refuge, King Salmon, Alaska, 572044N1573258W, at age 23. Josh was leading a group of forty college students on a bird and nature study group. In The Land of Holes he was last seen as he slipped into a grass sink hole and disappeared. The unsuccessful search was called off 10 July, the authorities pronounced him dead, his body never recovered.
Volunteer for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service drowns on Alaska Peninsula. A 24 year old Massachusetts man was drowned while banding gull and tern chicks when he disappeared into the glacial silt laden waters of Mother Goose Lake, located in the Becharof Lake/ Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge in King Salmon, Alaska. Josh was attempting to catch and tag a pair of mew gull chicks in the shallow waters of the lake, as he followed the chicks, the ground dropped off suddenly. Water filled his partially rolled-down hip waders, and he disappeared rapidly into the lake on 10 Jul 1997 at Anchorage, Alaska.
Grandmother, Jennie Nove
Grandfather, Sam Nove
Joshua Bradford Nove was born on 8 Aug 1973 at Boston, Suffolk Co., MA., son of John and Elenor Ranson Nove. He died on 3 Jul 1997 at Mother Goose Lake, Becharof Lake Wildlife Refuge, King Salmon, Alaska, 572044N1573258W, at age 23. Josh was leading a group of forty college students on a bird and nature study group. In The Land of Holes he was last seen as he slipped into a grass sink hole and disappeared. The unsuccessful search was called off 10 July, the authorities pronounced him dead, his body never recovered.
Volunteer for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service drowns on Alaska Peninsula. A 24 year old Massachusetts man was drowned while banding gull and tern chicks when he disappeared into the glacial silt laden waters of Mother Goose Lake, located in the Becharof Lake/ Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge in King Salmon, Alaska. Josh was attempting to catch and tag a pair of mew gull chicks in the shallow waters of the lake, as he followed the chicks, the ground dropped off suddenly. Water filled his partially rolled-down hip waders, and he disappeared rapidly into the lake on 10 Jul 1997 at Anchorage, Alaska.
Grandmother, Jennie Nove
Grandfather, Sam Nove

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