--Published in The Alaska Dispatch News, 02/26/2016:
Anchorage, Alaska, resident Barbara "Barb" Bol, age 86, passed away on Feb. 24, 2016.
A Memorial service will be held on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at 2 p.m., at Trinity Christian Reformed Church.
Barb was born, the only child of Vernon and Gertrude Crane on June 10, 1929, in Seattle, Wash.
She graduated from West Seattle High School and attended Western Washington College of Education - now WWU - in Bellingham, Wash., for 2 years. Barb's family moved to Sumas, Wash., her senior year of high school when her parents purchased the Coffee Ann Cafe. Barb worked in that cafe the next years.
It was there that she met her husband, Jim. They were married on Oct. 20, 1951. In 1962, they along with their two children, Bob and Debbie, and their good friends, Don and Doris Hammingh and their three children, moved to Anchorage, where Jim and Don bought North Star Dairy Home Delivery milk routes.
Barb worked as a noon playground attendant at Chester Valley Elementary school for several years. She also worked at Clark Jr. High as a lunch room monitor. She then worked for Anchor Bible Book and Church Supply for 10 years, on the condition she could have election days off to work the elections, which she did for 39 years.
Barb was a Camp Fire leader and very active in her church teaching in Sunday School, Vacation Bible school and was a leader in Coffee Break, which was a women's bible study.
In her "younger days" Barb was very active in sports, especially softball, volleyball and field hockey. She enjoyed camping, Bible studies, traveling, winters in Surprise, Ariz., and playing Aggravation, Mexican Train dominoes, pinochle and cribbage.
Barb is survived by her son, Bob with wife, Rachel, grandson, Peter and great-granddaughter, Halley; and daughter, Debbie Norton with her husband, Doug, grandson, Andy and great-grandson, Ethan.
Barb was preceded in death by her husband of 58 years, Jim Bol. Arrangements are with Legacy - Kehl's Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, she asks that donations be made to World Renew Disaster Response Services. Please make checks payable to Trinity Christian Reformed Church, 3000 East 16th Ave., Anchorage, AK, 99508.
--Published in The Alaska Dispatch News, 02/26/2016:
Anchorage, Alaska, resident Barbara "Barb" Bol, age 86, passed away on Feb. 24, 2016.
A Memorial service will be held on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at 2 p.m., at Trinity Christian Reformed Church.
Barb was born, the only child of Vernon and Gertrude Crane on June 10, 1929, in Seattle, Wash.
She graduated from West Seattle High School and attended Western Washington College of Education - now WWU - in Bellingham, Wash., for 2 years. Barb's family moved to Sumas, Wash., her senior year of high school when her parents purchased the Coffee Ann Cafe. Barb worked in that cafe the next years.
It was there that she met her husband, Jim. They were married on Oct. 20, 1951. In 1962, they along with their two children, Bob and Debbie, and their good friends, Don and Doris Hammingh and their three children, moved to Anchorage, where Jim and Don bought North Star Dairy Home Delivery milk routes.
Barb worked as a noon playground attendant at Chester Valley Elementary school for several years. She also worked at Clark Jr. High as a lunch room monitor. She then worked for Anchor Bible Book and Church Supply for 10 years, on the condition she could have election days off to work the elections, which she did for 39 years.
Barb was a Camp Fire leader and very active in her church teaching in Sunday School, Vacation Bible school and was a leader in Coffee Break, which was a women's bible study.
In her "younger days" Barb was very active in sports, especially softball, volleyball and field hockey. She enjoyed camping, Bible studies, traveling, winters in Surprise, Ariz., and playing Aggravation, Mexican Train dominoes, pinochle and cribbage.
Barb is survived by her son, Bob with wife, Rachel, grandson, Peter and great-granddaughter, Halley; and daughter, Debbie Norton with her husband, Doug, grandson, Andy and great-grandson, Ethan.
Barb was preceded in death by her husband of 58 years, Jim Bol. Arrangements are with Legacy - Kehl's Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, she asks that donations be made to World Renew Disaster Response Services. Please make checks payable to Trinity Christian Reformed Church, 3000 East 16th Ave., Anchorage, AK, 99508.
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