Obituary - Guila Chappell

Juneau Woman Dies Aboard Alaska While En Route From Seattle

Mrs. Guila Chappell, assistant in the Alaska Territorial Museum and Library at Juneau and widow of J. H. Chappell, insurance man, who was killed in a plane crash when Pilot Lon Cope went in off Grand Island two years ago, died suddenly aboard the steamer Alaska this week while en route from Seattle to her home in Juneau. She apparently died of a heart attack, according to officers aboard the Alaska. The body was taken from the vessel at Ketchikan.

Mrs. Chappell had been away several weeks visiting friends and relatives in Mansfield and Toledo, Ohio.

She was dancing with John D. Bishop, Behrends employee in Juneau, in the saloon when stricken.

Source: Wrangell Sentinel, Friday, February 21, 1941
Contributed 2022 Feb 26 by Norma Hass

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