Homer High School Alaska Alumni Obituaries

After complications from a stroke Jean Webster Briggs passed peacefully into the spiritual world on February 3 2023 two days before her 88th birthday. Jean was born on February 5 1935 in North Conway New Hampshire to Guy and Leura Webster a farmer and a school teacher. As a child growing up in East ...

Galen Wayne Gordon, 90, lifetime resident of Homer, Alaska, passed into glory January 3, 2026, at Providence Alaska Medical Center.Galen was born to Harris and Thelma (Pratt) Gordon on February 25th, 1935, in Playa Del Ray, California. He joined twin sisters, Joan and Joyce. The following year when ...

Beverly “Lizzie” Jane Greischel, age 71, of Anchor Point, passed away in Homer, Alaska, on December 22, 2025. Beverly was born on February 6, 1954, in Patterson, New Jersey. She earned a bachelor's degree at Boulder Colorado University. Beverly moved to Anchorage, Alaska, in 1978, where she stayed u...

Vanita P Thurmond, 87, passed away at her apartment in Homer, Alaska with family by her side. She was born in Rexburg, Idaho and moved to Alaska in 1950 at the age of 12 with her parents, Frank and Wanda Loosli and siblings Diamond and John. They settled in Anchor Point, homesteading off the Old Ste...