Anchorage Daily News September 28, 1993
Olga Strandberg Doheny, 82, died Sept. 27 at the Anchorage Pioneer Home. A memorial service was held at the Evergreen Memorial Chapel. Pioneers of Alaska Auxiliary #4 officiated. A reception followed the service at the Hotel Captain Cook in room #1 of the Quarterdeck.
Mrs. Doheny was born Oct. 12, 1910, in Ester Creek near Fairbanks during the Gold Rush era. Her parents, David and Jenny Strandberg, came to Alaska from Sweden in 1898, and mined in the Klondike, Nome and Fairbanks areas and on the Kuskokwim River. As a child, she lived in the Strandberg mining camps in the Flat, Medfra, Cripple Creek and Iditarod areas, attending grade school in Flat. Family members said that in 1923, when she was 12 years old, she drove a team of dogs 400 miles along the Old Iditarod trail to Lake Minchumina. The family moved to Anchorage from Flat in 1923, and made their home at the present site of the Hotel Captain Cook. Her uncle, Arne Erickson, another Anchorage area pioneer, established the Crow Creek Mine near Girdwood in 1916. Mrs. Doheny graduated from Anchorage High School in 1928 and received a bachelor of arts degree in education from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks in 1932. She married mining engineer Lawrence C. Doheny in 1931 and lived in Cripple Creek and Fairbanks until World War II, when she took their three children to live in Spokane, Wash., for the duration of the war. She lived in Fairbanks, and in mining camps in Candle on the Seward Peninsula, and Wild Lake near Bettles until Mr. Doheny's death in 1952, when she moved to Anchorage. She was director of Strandberg Mines Inc. until 1961 and an employment counselor for the state of Alaska Employment Service from 1964 until her retirement in 1977. An active Republican, Mrs. Doheny campaigned for Alaska statehood. She worked on Gov. Wally Hickel's first election campaign in the 1950s and Sen. Ted Stevens' first campaign in the 1960s. She also was an active member of the Anchorage Pioneer Auxiliary, and served as president in 1953. Mrs. Doheny was preceded in death by her son, Michael, in 1984.
She is survived by her daughters, Jenny Johanssen of Eagle River and Kathleen Hennessey of Lubbock, Texas; her brothers, E. Odin Strandberg Sr. of Wasilla and Harold Strandberg of Green Valley, Ariz.; and her sister, Genevieve Crawford of Arcata, Calif. The family suggests donations to the University of Alaska Anchorage, where the Strandberg, Doheny and Erickson family memorabilia have been archived, or to the David and Jenny Strandberg Memorial Scholarship Fund at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Olga Strandberg Doheny, 82, died Sept. 27 at the Anchorage Pioneer Home. A memorial service was held at the Evergreen Memorial Chapel. Pioneers of Alaska Auxiliary #4 officiated. A reception followed the service at the Hotel Captain Cook in room #1 of the Quarterdeck.
Mrs. Doheny was born Oct. 12, 1910, in Ester Creek near Fairbanks during the Gold Rush era. Her parents, David and Jenny Strandberg, came to Alaska from Sweden in 1898, and mined in the Klondike, Nome and Fairbanks areas and on the Kuskokwim River. As a child, she lived in the Strandberg mining camps in the Flat, Medfra, Cripple Creek and Iditarod areas, attending grade school in Flat. Family members said that in 1923, when she was 12 years old, she drove a team of dogs 400 miles along the Old Iditarod trail to Lake Minchumina. The family moved to Anchorage from Flat in 1923, and made their home at the present site of the Hotel Captain Cook. Her uncle, Arne Erickson, another Anchorage area pioneer, established the Crow Creek Mine near Girdwood in 1916. Mrs. Doheny graduated from Anchorage High School in 1928 and received a bachelor of arts degree in education from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks in 1932. She married mining engineer Lawrence C. Doheny in 1931 and lived in Cripple Creek and Fairbanks until World War II, when she took their three children to live in Spokane, Wash., for the duration of the war. She lived in Fairbanks, and in mining camps in Candle on the Seward Peninsula, and Wild Lake near Bettles until Mr. Doheny's death in 1952, when she moved to Anchorage. She was director of Strandberg Mines Inc. until 1961 and an employment counselor for the state of Alaska Employment Service from 1964 until her retirement in 1977. An active Republican, Mrs. Doheny campaigned for Alaska statehood. She worked on Gov. Wally Hickel's first election campaign in the 1950s and Sen. Ted Stevens' first campaign in the 1960s. She also was an active member of the Anchorage Pioneer Auxiliary, and served as president in 1953. Mrs. Doheny was preceded in death by her son, Michael, in 1984.
She is survived by her daughters, Jenny Johanssen of Eagle River and Kathleen Hennessey of Lubbock, Texas; her brothers, E. Odin Strandberg Sr. of Wasilla and Harold Strandberg of Green Valley, Ariz.; and her sister, Genevieve Crawford of Arcata, Calif. The family suggests donations to the University of Alaska Anchorage, where the Strandberg, Doheny and Erickson family memorabilia have been archived, or to the David and Jenny Strandberg Memorial Scholarship Fund at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Anchorage Daily News September 28, 1993
Olga Strandberg Doheny, 82, died Sept. 27 at the Anchorage Pioneer Home. A memorial service was held at the Evergreen Memorial Chapel. Pioneers of Alaska Auxiliary #4 officiated. A reception followed the service at the Hotel Captain Cook in room #1 of the Quarterdeck.
Mrs. Doheny was born Oct. 12, 1910, in Ester Creek near Fairbanks during the Gold Rush era. Her parents, David and Jenny Strandberg, came to Alaska from Sweden in 1898, and mined in the Klondike, Nome and Fairbanks areas and on the Kuskokwim River. As a child, she lived in the Strandberg mining camps in the Flat, Medfra, Cripple Creek and Iditarod areas, attending grade school in Flat. Family members said that in 1923, when she was 12 years old, she drove a team of dogs 400 miles along the Old Iditarod trail to Lake Minchumina. The family moved to Anchorage from Flat in 1923, and made their home at the present site of the Hotel Captain Cook. Her uncle, Arne Erickson, another Anchorage area pioneer, established the Crow Creek Mine near Girdwood in 1916. Mrs. Doheny graduated from Anchorage High School in 1928 and received a bachelor of arts degree in education from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks in 1932. She married mining engineer Lawrence C. Doheny in 1931 and lived in Cripple Creek and Fairbanks until World War II, when she took their three children to live in Spokane, Wash., for the duration of the war. She lived in Fairbanks, and in mining camps in Candle on the Seward Peninsula, and Wild Lake near Bettles until Mr. Doheny's death in 1952, when she moved to Anchorage. She was director of Strandberg Mines Inc. until 1961 and an employment counselor for the state of Alaska Employment Service from 1964 until her retirement in 1977. An active Republican, Mrs. Doheny campaigned for Alaska statehood. She worked on Gov. Wally Hickel's first election campaign in the 1950s and Sen. Ted Stevens' first campaign in the 1960s. She also was an active member of the Anchorage Pioneer Auxiliary, and served as president in 1953. Mrs. Doheny was preceded in death by her son, Michael, in 1984.
She is survived by her daughters, Jenny Johanssen of Eagle River and Kathleen Hennessey of Lubbock, Texas; her brothers, E. Odin Strandberg Sr. of Wasilla and Harold Strandberg of Green Valley, Ariz.; and her sister, Genevieve Crawford of Arcata, Calif. The family suggests donations to the University of Alaska Anchorage, where the Strandberg, Doheny and Erickson family memorabilia have been archived, or to the David and Jenny Strandberg Memorial Scholarship Fund at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Olga Strandberg Doheny, 82, died Sept. 27 at the Anchorage Pioneer Home. A memorial service was held at the Evergreen Memorial Chapel. Pioneers of Alaska Auxiliary #4 officiated. A reception followed the service at the Hotel Captain Cook in room #1 of the Quarterdeck.
Mrs. Doheny was born Oct. 12, 1910, in Ester Creek near Fairbanks during the Gold Rush era. Her parents, David and Jenny Strandberg, came to Alaska from Sweden in 1898, and mined in the Klondike, Nome and Fairbanks areas and on the Kuskokwim River. As a child, she lived in the Strandberg mining camps in the Flat, Medfra, Cripple Creek and Iditarod areas, attending grade school in Flat. Family members said that in 1923, when she was 12 years old, she drove a team of dogs 400 miles along the Old Iditarod trail to Lake Minchumina. The family moved to Anchorage from Flat in 1923, and made their home at the present site of the Hotel Captain Cook. Her uncle, Arne Erickson, another Anchorage area pioneer, established the Crow Creek Mine near Girdwood in 1916. Mrs. Doheny graduated from Anchorage High School in 1928 and received a bachelor of arts degree in education from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks in 1932. She married mining engineer Lawrence C. Doheny in 1931 and lived in Cripple Creek and Fairbanks until World War II, when she took their three children to live in Spokane, Wash., for the duration of the war. She lived in Fairbanks, and in mining camps in Candle on the Seward Peninsula, and Wild Lake near Bettles until Mr. Doheny's death in 1952, when she moved to Anchorage. She was director of Strandberg Mines Inc. until 1961 and an employment counselor for the state of Alaska Employment Service from 1964 until her retirement in 1977. An active Republican, Mrs. Doheny campaigned for Alaska statehood. She worked on Gov. Wally Hickel's first election campaign in the 1950s and Sen. Ted Stevens' first campaign in the 1960s. She also was an active member of the Anchorage Pioneer Auxiliary, and served as president in 1953. Mrs. Doheny was preceded in death by her son, Michael, in 1984.
She is survived by her daughters, Jenny Johanssen of Eagle River and Kathleen Hennessey of Lubbock, Texas; her brothers, E. Odin Strandberg Sr. of Wasilla and Harold Strandberg of Green Valley, Ariz.; and her sister, Genevieve Crawford of Arcata, Calif. The family suggests donations to the University of Alaska Anchorage, where the Strandberg, Doheny and Erickson family memorabilia have been archived, or to the David and Jenny Strandberg Memorial Scholarship Fund at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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