The weeklong Koyukon Athabascan burial ceremony in September was traditional in all ways but one: McCormick died in 1931.
The 2,500-mile (4,000 km) journey ended at Morningside Hospital.
For more than 15 years, volunteers in Fairbanks and in Portland have been working to identify the people who were committed to the hospital.
Most records at the private hospital were lost in a 1968 fire, and territorial officials didn’t document those who were committed.
McCormick died within weeks from a post-surgery infection.
Persons:
— Lucy Pitka, McCormick, “, ”, Lucy, Wally Carlo, Karen Perdue, Niesje Steinkruger, Meg Green, Ellen Ganley, Robin Renfroe, Eric Cordingley, Ganley, Perdue, Gilford Kriska, Kriska, Henry Waldo Coe, Steinkruger, Cordingley, “ I’m, Baby Louise Haven, Lucy McCormick’s, —, Fairbanks, Helen Callahan, Carlo, Grandma Lucy, they’re
Organizations:
Morningside Hospital, Interior, National Archives, Alaska Natives, Morningside
Locations:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Fairbanks, Portland , Oregon, Valdez, Portland, Morningside, Oregon, College Park , Maryland, Nulato, Juneau, www.findagrave.com, Rampart