He and his wife moved to the Fairview Loop area of the MatSu Valley in 1980 and built their house. He worked for the Anchorage Sand and Gravel Company as a foreman in a block plant. After his discharge he worked on the family farm in Nebraska until 1959, when he moved to Alaska. He received a World War II Victory Medal and served on the USS R.B. He joined the Navy after he graduated from Belden High School, and served in the Pacific theater until 1948.
Following the funeral, a graveside service will be held at Wasilla Aurora Cemetery. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m Tuesday at First Presbyterian Church, Bogard Road, Wasilla, with the Rev. Submitted and transcribed by Sandra Davis Source: Anchorage Daily News - November 29, 1988 Local arrangements were by Kehl's Palmer Memorial Chapel. Fireweed Lane, Suite 101, Anchorage 99503. Memorials may be sent to the American Cancer Society, 406 W. her brother, Loyd Needles, of Baycliff, Texas and seven grandchildren. She leaves her husband of 43 years, Clinton, of Wasilla her son, Daniel, and her daughters, Dixi Goldsmith and Lynn Bryant, all of Wasilla her sisters, Mona Houseman, of North Platte, Neb., and Lola Griffith, of Laramie, Wyo. She was an avid bird watcher and grew a large vegetable garden every summer. She was known in the Valley for her wedding cakes and her oil paintings. She was a 30year member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Wasilla Veterans of Foreign War, and was a 4H leader while her children were young. Adcock worked as a telephone operator for 10 years for the White Alice military communication site. Adcock gave birth to her oldest daughter and had to be rescued off the Ship Creek mudflats by the only ambulance in Anchorage, which took her to Providence Hospital. In 1951 while out on a dory in the Cook Inlet on her way home from a Point MacKenzie fish camp, Mrs. She lived in Spenard until 1956, then homesteaded off KnikGoose Bay Road near Wasilla. She moved to Alaska in 1949, driving up the alldirt Alcan Highway with her husband in a 1948 Dodge flatbed truck.
In accordance with her wishes, there will be no service. 25 at her Wasilla home following a lengthy illness with cancer. Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska A Proud Part of the Genealogy Trails History GroupĮllen Emmaline Adcock, 62, died Nov. Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, Genealogy Trails - History and Genealogy obits_01.htm