Anchorage Daily News May 28, 1996
Longtime Alaska resident Margaret ''Gramma O'Toole'' Aseltine, 95, died in her sleep May 1, 1996, at the Anchorage Pioneer Home. No funeral services were held. There was a private ceremony to scatter her ashes at a lakefront cabin.
Mrs. Aseltine was born Oct. 26, 1900, in Strathcona (Edmonton), Alberta, Canada. She and her husband, Ed, started visiting Alaska in 1947, just after the Alaska Highway opened. They delivered a 1946 Ford to their son Jack. When her husband died in 1965, she moved to Alaska. She had been a housewife and had worked at Sears Roebuck and Co. for a short while. She said she only worked there to wear out her old clothes. Her hobbies included the Anchorage Glacier Pilots, tatting, knitting and needlework. When her fingers were still nimble, she gave tatting lessons at Rabbit Creek Elementary School. She was afraid tatting would become a lost art. She loved to sing the ''oldies,'' and would sing at the drop of a hat, whether there was music or not. In earlier years she was an avid hunter and angler. She was a crack shot and took many deer in Michigan and a bear in Alaska. Her husband and his partner owned a bi-wing plane in the 1920s, and on Sundays, she and her husband and the partner would go to the outskirts of Deerborn, Mich., and put up a ''sandwich board,'' advertising plane rides for $5. She would go up in the plane with a parachute on, wing walk and jump off, which was their way of attracting a crowd to make gas money for the plane.
She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Jack and Katie O'Toole of Anchorage; granddaughter, Danae McKinney of Anchorage; grandsons, Tommy of the U.S. Navy, Eddie of Seattle, and Patrick of Minneapolis; two great-grandchildren; and special friends for 50 years, Susan Trotter and Abby Rutherford. The family wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the staff on 2-North Nursing Wing of the Anchorage Pioneer Home.
Longtime Alaska resident Margaret ''Gramma O'Toole'' Aseltine, 95, died in her sleep May 1, 1996, at the Anchorage Pioneer Home. No funeral services were held. There was a private ceremony to scatter her ashes at a lakefront cabin.
Mrs. Aseltine was born Oct. 26, 1900, in Strathcona (Edmonton), Alberta, Canada. She and her husband, Ed, started visiting Alaska in 1947, just after the Alaska Highway opened. They delivered a 1946 Ford to their son Jack. When her husband died in 1965, she moved to Alaska. She had been a housewife and had worked at Sears Roebuck and Co. for a short while. She said she only worked there to wear out her old clothes. Her hobbies included the Anchorage Glacier Pilots, tatting, knitting and needlework. When her fingers were still nimble, she gave tatting lessons at Rabbit Creek Elementary School. She was afraid tatting would become a lost art. She loved to sing the ''oldies,'' and would sing at the drop of a hat, whether there was music or not. In earlier years she was an avid hunter and angler. She was a crack shot and took many deer in Michigan and a bear in Alaska. Her husband and his partner owned a bi-wing plane in the 1920s, and on Sundays, she and her husband and the partner would go to the outskirts of Deerborn, Mich., and put up a ''sandwich board,'' advertising plane rides for $5. She would go up in the plane with a parachute on, wing walk and jump off, which was their way of attracting a crowd to make gas money for the plane.
She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Jack and Katie O'Toole of Anchorage; granddaughter, Danae McKinney of Anchorage; grandsons, Tommy of the U.S. Navy, Eddie of Seattle, and Patrick of Minneapolis; two great-grandchildren; and special friends for 50 years, Susan Trotter and Abby Rutherford. The family wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the staff on 2-North Nursing Wing of the Anchorage Pioneer Home.
Anchorage Daily News May 28, 1996
Longtime Alaska resident Margaret ''Gramma O'Toole'' Aseltine, 95, died in her sleep May 1, 1996, at the Anchorage Pioneer Home. No funeral services were held. There was a private ceremony to scatter her ashes at a lakefront cabin.
Mrs. Aseltine was born Oct. 26, 1900, in Strathcona (Edmonton), Alberta, Canada. She and her husband, Ed, started visiting Alaska in 1947, just after the Alaska Highway opened. They delivered a 1946 Ford to their son Jack. When her husband died in 1965, she moved to Alaska. She had been a housewife and had worked at Sears Roebuck and Co. for a short while. She said she only worked there to wear out her old clothes. Her hobbies included the Anchorage Glacier Pilots, tatting, knitting and needlework. When her fingers were still nimble, she gave tatting lessons at Rabbit Creek Elementary School. She was afraid tatting would become a lost art. She loved to sing the ''oldies,'' and would sing at the drop of a hat, whether there was music or not. In earlier years she was an avid hunter and angler. She was a crack shot and took many deer in Michigan and a bear in Alaska. Her husband and his partner owned a bi-wing plane in the 1920s, and on Sundays, she and her husband and the partner would go to the outskirts of Deerborn, Mich., and put up a ''sandwich board,'' advertising plane rides for $5. She would go up in the plane with a parachute on, wing walk and jump off, which was their way of attracting a crowd to make gas money for the plane.
She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Jack and Katie O'Toole of Anchorage; granddaughter, Danae McKinney of Anchorage; grandsons, Tommy of the U.S. Navy, Eddie of Seattle, and Patrick of Minneapolis; two great-grandchildren; and special friends for 50 years, Susan Trotter and Abby Rutherford. The family wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the staff on 2-North Nursing Wing of the Anchorage Pioneer Home.
Longtime Alaska resident Margaret ''Gramma O'Toole'' Aseltine, 95, died in her sleep May 1, 1996, at the Anchorage Pioneer Home. No funeral services were held. There was a private ceremony to scatter her ashes at a lakefront cabin.
Mrs. Aseltine was born Oct. 26, 1900, in Strathcona (Edmonton), Alberta, Canada. She and her husband, Ed, started visiting Alaska in 1947, just after the Alaska Highway opened. They delivered a 1946 Ford to their son Jack. When her husband died in 1965, she moved to Alaska. She had been a housewife and had worked at Sears Roebuck and Co. for a short while. She said she only worked there to wear out her old clothes. Her hobbies included the Anchorage Glacier Pilots, tatting, knitting and needlework. When her fingers were still nimble, she gave tatting lessons at Rabbit Creek Elementary School. She was afraid tatting would become a lost art. She loved to sing the ''oldies,'' and would sing at the drop of a hat, whether there was music or not. In earlier years she was an avid hunter and angler. She was a crack shot and took many deer in Michigan and a bear in Alaska. Her husband and his partner owned a bi-wing plane in the 1920s, and on Sundays, she and her husband and the partner would go to the outskirts of Deerborn, Mich., and put up a ''sandwich board,'' advertising plane rides for $5. She would go up in the plane with a parachute on, wing walk and jump off, which was their way of attracting a crowd to make gas money for the plane.
She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Jack and Katie O'Toole of Anchorage; granddaughter, Danae McKinney of Anchorage; grandsons, Tommy of the U.S. Navy, Eddie of Seattle, and Patrick of Minneapolis; two great-grandchildren; and special friends for 50 years, Susan Trotter and Abby Rutherford. The family wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the staff on 2-North Nursing Wing of the Anchorage Pioneer Home.
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