Mina Nolley

Longtime Anchorage resident Mina Nolley, 92, died April 16, 2008, at the Anchorage Pioneers' Home in the arms of her oldest daughter and granddaughter.
A service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Grace Bible Church in Miles City, Mont. A graveside service will be afterward. She will rest beside her three daughters.
The daughter of homesteaders, Mary L. Mina Parks was born Christmas Day 1915 on the family ranch in Ekalaka, Mont. She married Edward Evians Nolley of Virginia on May 29, 1935, in Baker, Mont. Mina and her husband moved to Anchorage in 1948 from Vancouver, Wash. She worked for the Alaska Air Command on Elmendorf Air Force Base from 1956 until retiring in 1981. Mina was the accounting supervisor.
She witnessed Alaska statehood and the 1964 earthquake.
In earlier years, Mina was an active member of First Baptist Church. She served on many committees as well as church treasurer. Her greatest joy was volunteering in the nursery. Many Sundays she could be found rocking the babies and little ones to sleep. A devoted mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and aunt, she will be missed by all, her family wrote.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Mary Hufford Parks and Charley Edgar Parks; brothers, Ray Dixon and Ralph Parks; sisters, Mae Dixon Cline and Beulah Parks Nolley; and daughters, Beulah Mae Nolley, Juanita Nolley and Donna Rae Nolley.
Survivors are her daughters, Loretta Peters of Renton, Wash., and Lorraine Nolley of Anchorage; grandchildren, Jeffery Peters, Lori Peters and Paul Taylor, all of Washington state, and Trevor Taylor and Tammy Buben, both of Anchorage; seven great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews including Kenneth Nolley of Salem, Ore., Charles Nolley of Chicago, Carolyn Newell, Rita Anderson and Wilma Leidholt of Montana and Don Nolley of Minnesota.
The family thanks her "family" at the Anchorage Pioneers' Home.
"Their kind and gentle ways with Mina will never be forgotten nor the love shown by those who came in on their day off to say goodbye. Our appreciation also goes to Providence Hospice."
Donations may be made to Providence Hospice, 3435 E. Tudor Road, Anchorage 99507.