Martha Williamson, August 3, 1923 - April 19, 2023

Martha was born in Etowah, Tennessee, and grew up in Chattanooga. She moved to Chicago at age 19, and worked testing radio receivers during WWII. In 1950 she was invited by a married couple to accompany them on a sheep-hunting trip in Alaska. Severt Jacobson of Chitina was the guide. Martha and Severt exchanged letters after she returned to Chicago. They married in 1951 and settled in Yakutat.

Theirs was a restless marriage which took them to Idaho, then California, and finally to Colorado, where they divorced in 1964. Severt returned to Alaska, while Martha and their three children stayed in the Lower 48.

Martha and Severt reunited as friends in 1974. He died and was buried in Fairbanks in 1993.

Martha remarried in 2000 to Ed Williamson of Washington. He died a couple of years later.

Martha settled in Valdez in 2015 and is buried at the Valdez Cemetery. She is survived by her three children, Sylvia Jacobson and Debra Hoyle of Tok, and Roger Jacobson of Valdez.

Martha is dearly missed by her friends at the Providence Long Term Care facility, where she spent the final four and a half years of her life.