During today's memorial service in Anchorage, which drew family, friends and dozens from Alaska's political establishment, U.S. Rep. Don Young was remembered for his irreverence and dedication to the state.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks at Don Young’s memorial service at Anchorage Baptist Temple on Saturday.
The memorial at Anchorage Baptist Temple drew dozens from Alaska’s political establishment across the political spectrum, including current U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson, former Gov. Frank Murkowski, former U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, several current and former state lawmakers, and U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka, who is challenging Murkowski for her seat in November. The memorial also drew former Gov.
Young moved to Alaska in 1959, just after statehood. In Fort Yukon, he taught fifth grade in a Bureau of Indian Affairs school. He was elected mayor of Fort Yukon in 1964, a year after marrying Lula Fredson, a bookkeeper in the village. “He will continue to influence the direction the state goes in,” Vallely said Saturday. “Sharing him wasn’t so bad.”
“Don Young was authentic,” Sullivan said. “In an age of blow-dried, over-coached politicians, he was a throwback — a throwback to a time and place where people were respected not so much for how they talked and how they looked, but for what they could do.”
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