Mary Ann Esther Ghering [sic] Perkins passed on to the next world peacefully at her son's home in Silverton, Ore., on May 11, 2015.
She was born July 23, 1926, in Kulm, N.D., to Anna Marie Heck and Reinhold Gehring. She grew up in South Dakota, then graduated from the Nursing Cadet Corps.
In 1951, she boarded the SS Denali in Seattle and sailed to Sitka to work at the Public Health Service's hospital for children with bone tuberculosis (later renamed and repurposed as Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital).
She met Alfred George Perkins in 1952 and they were married in Juneau on Oct. 31, 1953. Al and Mary Ann had two sons, Kim and Kelly, and raised their niece, Helen, as their own.
Mary Ann worked at Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital as a registered nurse until 1988. During retirement, she enjoyed talking on the phone with her sister Vi, spending time with her family, and looking at her beautiful view of Sitka Sound and the Thomsen Harbor breakwater, watching boats and planes coming and going from Sitka.
Mary Ann was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her sister Grace, and her son Kelly.
She is survived by her sister Violet Week and her brother Alan Burrer, both of South Dakota; her son Kim of Silverton and Sitka, and daughter Helen Desjardin, of Homer; daughters-in-law Bobbie Behrens of Soldotna and Jessica Perkins; son-in-law Paul Desjardin; grandchildren Holly, Brendan, Bryan, Jenci, Holly, Brady, Heidi, Aanḯ and Zen; and many extended relatives.
Mary Ann's ashes will be placed with her husband, Al, at the Sitka National Cemetery once Kim returns to Sitka this summer.
Source: Sitka Sentinel, May 22, 2015.
She was born July 23, 1926, in Kulm, N.D., to Anna Marie Heck and Reinhold Gehring. She grew up in South Dakota, then graduated from the Nursing Cadet Corps.
In 1951, she boarded the SS Denali in Seattle and sailed to Sitka to work at the Public Health Service's hospital for children with bone tuberculosis (later renamed and repurposed as Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital).
She met Alfred George Perkins in 1952 and they were married in Juneau on Oct. 31, 1953. Al and Mary Ann had two sons, Kim and Kelly, and raised their niece, Helen, as their own.
Mary Ann worked at Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital as a registered nurse until 1988. During retirement, she enjoyed talking on the phone with her sister Vi, spending time with her family, and looking at her beautiful view of Sitka Sound and the Thomsen Harbor breakwater, watching boats and planes coming and going from Sitka.
Mary Ann was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her sister Grace, and her son Kelly.
She is survived by her sister Violet Week and her brother Alan Burrer, both of South Dakota; her son Kim of Silverton and Sitka, and daughter Helen Desjardin, of Homer; daughters-in-law Bobbie Behrens of Soldotna and Jessica Perkins; son-in-law Paul Desjardin; grandchildren Holly, Brendan, Bryan, Jenci, Holly, Brady, Heidi, Aanḯ and Zen; and many extended relatives.
Mary Ann's ashes will be placed with her husband, Al, at the Sitka National Cemetery once Kim returns to Sitka this summer.
Source: Sitka Sentinel, May 22, 2015.
Mary Ann Esther Ghering [sic] Perkins passed on to the next world peacefully at her son's home in Silverton, Ore., on May 11, 2015.
She was born July 23, 1926, in Kulm, N.D., to Anna Marie Heck and Reinhold Gehring. She grew up in South Dakota, then graduated from the Nursing Cadet Corps.
In 1951, she boarded the SS Denali in Seattle and sailed to Sitka to work at the Public Health Service's hospital for children with bone tuberculosis (later renamed and repurposed as Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital).
She met Alfred George Perkins in 1952 and they were married in Juneau on Oct. 31, 1953. Al and Mary Ann had two sons, Kim and Kelly, and raised their niece, Helen, as their own.
Mary Ann worked at Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital as a registered nurse until 1988. During retirement, she enjoyed talking on the phone with her sister Vi, spending time with her family, and looking at her beautiful view of Sitka Sound and the Thomsen Harbor breakwater, watching boats and planes coming and going from Sitka.
Mary Ann was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her sister Grace, and her son Kelly.
She is survived by her sister Violet Week and her brother Alan Burrer, both of South Dakota; her son Kim of Silverton and Sitka, and daughter Helen Desjardin, of Homer; daughters-in-law Bobbie Behrens of Soldotna and Jessica Perkins; son-in-law Paul Desjardin; grandchildren Holly, Brendan, Bryan, Jenci, Holly, Brady, Heidi, Aanḯ and Zen; and many extended relatives.
Mary Ann's ashes will be placed with her husband, Al, at the Sitka National Cemetery once Kim returns to Sitka this summer.
Source: Sitka Sentinel, May 22, 2015.
She was born July 23, 1926, in Kulm, N.D., to Anna Marie Heck and Reinhold Gehring. She grew up in South Dakota, then graduated from the Nursing Cadet Corps.
In 1951, she boarded the SS Denali in Seattle and sailed to Sitka to work at the Public Health Service's hospital for children with bone tuberculosis (later renamed and repurposed as Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital).
She met Alfred George Perkins in 1952 and they were married in Juneau on Oct. 31, 1953. Al and Mary Ann had two sons, Kim and Kelly, and raised their niece, Helen, as their own.
Mary Ann worked at Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital as a registered nurse until 1988. During retirement, she enjoyed talking on the phone with her sister Vi, spending time with her family, and looking at her beautiful view of Sitka Sound and the Thomsen Harbor breakwater, watching boats and planes coming and going from Sitka.
Mary Ann was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her sister Grace, and her son Kelly.
She is survived by her sister Violet Week and her brother Alan Burrer, both of South Dakota; her son Kim of Silverton and Sitka, and daughter Helen Desjardin, of Homer; daughters-in-law Bobbie Behrens of Soldotna and Jessica Perkins; son-in-law Paul Desjardin; grandchildren Holly, Brendan, Bryan, Jenci, Holly, Brady, Heidi, Aanḯ and Zen; and many extended relatives.
Mary Ann's ashes will be placed with her husband, Al, at the Sitka National Cemetery once Kim returns to Sitka this summer.
Source: Sitka Sentinel, May 22, 2015.
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