TEC 4 U.S. Army
World War II
Anchorage Daily News July 4, 2003
Eagle River resident Johnny Elwood Lamb, 85, died July 2, 2003, at the Horizon House Dementia Unit in Anchorage. He suffered from Parkinson's Lewy-Body dementia. A funeral will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Witzleben's Bragaw Chapel. The Rev. Marlan Schoenleben will officiate, with a eulogy by one or more of his children. A reception/wake will follow at 5:30 p.m. at the St. James House on Monastery Road in Eagle River. Call 694-3700 or 696-2972 for directions. A burial will be Thursday, with a procession to Fort Richardson National Cemetery leaving Witzleben's Bragaw Chapel at 11:15 a.m. Family and friends are invited to join in any or all events. Mr. Lamb was born Aug. 18, 1917, in Michigan. He grew up hunting, trapping, fishing and working full-time from the age of 14. He served in the U.S. Army 1st Armored Division during World War II as a tank driver in North Africa and Italy and received a Purple Heart. During the '40s, '50s and '60s, he worked in the oil fields of Africa, the Middle East, South America, California and Alaska as a mechanic. He helped set up one of the first oil rigs on the North Slope and worked on Amchitka Island to help prepare the atomic test there. During the '50s and early '70s, he commercial fished and trapped in the Yakutat area and built cabins in Icy Bay and at the Tsiu River. In the '60s, he ran Lamb Brothers Construction in the Hillside/Rabbit Creek area. He also had logging contracts on the Kenai, installing 4,000 peeled-tree fence posts on the Moose Range. Mr. Lamb was a hunting guide and had a "Boone and Crockett" record for a moose from 1968 to 1972. In 1970, he bought an 82-foot ex-Coast Guard cutter, Voyager, in the Great Lakes region with the intention of bringing it to Southeast Alaska as a fish buying boat. Along with family and friends, he took it down the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico, where it sank in a hurricane. Mr. Lamb helped save himself and others by tying a rope around himself and swimming to shore. After camping on the beach until help was found, they bought a car and then drove back to Alaska, bringing a few salvaged parts from the boat. Mr. Lamb is survived by his wife of 42 years, Eloise; sister, Della Michaels of Michigan; six children and their spouses, Dave and Karen Lamb, Pat and Jane Lamb, Nancy and Frank Hodge, Tim and Sabrina Lamb, Theresa and Ron Mock, Marilyn and Merle Reynolds; and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
World War II
Anchorage Daily News July 4, 2003
Eagle River resident Johnny Elwood Lamb, 85, died July 2, 2003, at the Horizon House Dementia Unit in Anchorage. He suffered from Parkinson's Lewy-Body dementia. A funeral will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Witzleben's Bragaw Chapel. The Rev. Marlan Schoenleben will officiate, with a eulogy by one or more of his children. A reception/wake will follow at 5:30 p.m. at the St. James House on Monastery Road in Eagle River. Call 694-3700 or 696-2972 for directions. A burial will be Thursday, with a procession to Fort Richardson National Cemetery leaving Witzleben's Bragaw Chapel at 11:15 a.m. Family and friends are invited to join in any or all events. Mr. Lamb was born Aug. 18, 1917, in Michigan. He grew up hunting, trapping, fishing and working full-time from the age of 14. He served in the U.S. Army 1st Armored Division during World War II as a tank driver in North Africa and Italy and received a Purple Heart. During the '40s, '50s and '60s, he worked in the oil fields of Africa, the Middle East, South America, California and Alaska as a mechanic. He helped set up one of the first oil rigs on the North Slope and worked on Amchitka Island to help prepare the atomic test there. During the '50s and early '70s, he commercial fished and trapped in the Yakutat area and built cabins in Icy Bay and at the Tsiu River. In the '60s, he ran Lamb Brothers Construction in the Hillside/Rabbit Creek area. He also had logging contracts on the Kenai, installing 4,000 peeled-tree fence posts on the Moose Range. Mr. Lamb was a hunting guide and had a "Boone and Crockett" record for a moose from 1968 to 1972. In 1970, he bought an 82-foot ex-Coast Guard cutter, Voyager, in the Great Lakes region with the intention of bringing it to Southeast Alaska as a fish buying boat. Along with family and friends, he took it down the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico, where it sank in a hurricane. Mr. Lamb helped save himself and others by tying a rope around himself and swimming to shore. After camping on the beach until help was found, they bought a car and then drove back to Alaska, bringing a few salvaged parts from the boat. Mr. Lamb is survived by his wife of 42 years, Eloise; sister, Della Michaels of Michigan; six children and their spouses, Dave and Karen Lamb, Pat and Jane Lamb, Nancy and Frank Hodge, Tim and Sabrina Lamb, Theresa and Ron Mock, Marilyn and Merle Reynolds; and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
TEC 4 U.S. Army
World War II
Anchorage Daily News July 4, 2003
Eagle River resident Johnny Elwood Lamb, 85, died July 2, 2003, at the Horizon House Dementia Unit in Anchorage. He suffered from Parkinson's Lewy-Body dementia. A funeral will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Witzleben's Bragaw Chapel. The Rev. Marlan Schoenleben will officiate, with a eulogy by one or more of his children. A reception/wake will follow at 5:30 p.m. at the St. James House on Monastery Road in Eagle River. Call 694-3700 or 696-2972 for directions. A burial will be Thursday, with a procession to Fort Richardson National Cemetery leaving Witzleben's Bragaw Chapel at 11:15 a.m. Family and friends are invited to join in any or all events. Mr. Lamb was born Aug. 18, 1917, in Michigan. He grew up hunting, trapping, fishing and working full-time from the age of 14. He served in the U.S. Army 1st Armored Division during World War II as a tank driver in North Africa and Italy and received a Purple Heart. During the '40s, '50s and '60s, he worked in the oil fields of Africa, the Middle East, South America, California and Alaska as a mechanic. He helped set up one of the first oil rigs on the North Slope and worked on Amchitka Island to help prepare the atomic test there. During the '50s and early '70s, he commercial fished and trapped in the Yakutat area and built cabins in Icy Bay and at the Tsiu River. In the '60s, he ran Lamb Brothers Construction in the Hillside/Rabbit Creek area. He also had logging contracts on the Kenai, installing 4,000 peeled-tree fence posts on the Moose Range. Mr. Lamb was a hunting guide and had a "Boone and Crockett" record for a moose from 1968 to 1972. In 1970, he bought an 82-foot ex-Coast Guard cutter, Voyager, in the Great Lakes region with the intention of bringing it to Southeast Alaska as a fish buying boat. Along with family and friends, he took it down the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico, where it sank in a hurricane. Mr. Lamb helped save himself and others by tying a rope around himself and swimming to shore. After camping on the beach until help was found, they bought a car and then drove back to Alaska, bringing a few salvaged parts from the boat. Mr. Lamb is survived by his wife of 42 years, Eloise; sister, Della Michaels of Michigan; six children and their spouses, Dave and Karen Lamb, Pat and Jane Lamb, Nancy and Frank Hodge, Tim and Sabrina Lamb, Theresa and Ron Mock, Marilyn and Merle Reynolds; and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
World War II
Anchorage Daily News July 4, 2003
Eagle River resident Johnny Elwood Lamb, 85, died July 2, 2003, at the Horizon House Dementia Unit in Anchorage. He suffered from Parkinson's Lewy-Body dementia. A funeral will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Witzleben's Bragaw Chapel. The Rev. Marlan Schoenleben will officiate, with a eulogy by one or more of his children. A reception/wake will follow at 5:30 p.m. at the St. James House on Monastery Road in Eagle River. Call 694-3700 or 696-2972 for directions. A burial will be Thursday, with a procession to Fort Richardson National Cemetery leaving Witzleben's Bragaw Chapel at 11:15 a.m. Family and friends are invited to join in any or all events. Mr. Lamb was born Aug. 18, 1917, in Michigan. He grew up hunting, trapping, fishing and working full-time from the age of 14. He served in the U.S. Army 1st Armored Division during World War II as a tank driver in North Africa and Italy and received a Purple Heart. During the '40s, '50s and '60s, he worked in the oil fields of Africa, the Middle East, South America, California and Alaska as a mechanic. He helped set up one of the first oil rigs on the North Slope and worked on Amchitka Island to help prepare the atomic test there. During the '50s and early '70s, he commercial fished and trapped in the Yakutat area and built cabins in Icy Bay and at the Tsiu River. In the '60s, he ran Lamb Brothers Construction in the Hillside/Rabbit Creek area. He also had logging contracts on the Kenai, installing 4,000 peeled-tree fence posts on the Moose Range. Mr. Lamb was a hunting guide and had a "Boone and Crockett" record for a moose from 1968 to 1972. In 1970, he bought an 82-foot ex-Coast Guard cutter, Voyager, in the Great Lakes region with the intention of bringing it to Southeast Alaska as a fish buying boat. Along with family and friends, he took it down the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico, where it sank in a hurricane. Mr. Lamb helped save himself and others by tying a rope around himself and swimming to shore. After camping on the beach until help was found, they bought a car and then drove back to Alaska, bringing a few salvaged parts from the boat. Mr. Lamb is survived by his wife of 42 years, Eloise; sister, Della Michaels of Michigan; six children and their spouses, Dave and Karen Lamb, Pat and Jane Lamb, Nancy and Frank Hodge, Tim and Sabrina Lamb, Theresa and Ron Mock, Marilyn and Merle Reynolds; and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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