Primary Name: Behrends, Virginia Margaret Pakke
Filed as: behrends_virginia_margaret_pakke
Also known as: Virginia Pakke; Virginia Behrends
Occupation / Association: School teacher; Charter Member, Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Women’s Igloo Auxiliary No. 6
Born: April 9, 1863, Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia
Died: February 12, 1936, Ketchikan, Alaska
Parents:
Spouse: Bernard “B. M.” Behrends
Children: Beatrice Margaret Behrends (b. September 25, 1893, Juneau, Alaska)
Associated places: Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia; Sitka, Alaska; Juneau, Alaska; Ketchikan, Alaska
Keywords: Virginia Behrends, Virginia Pakke Behrends, B M Behrends family, Juneau Women's Igloo
Biography
Virginia Margaret Pakke Behrends was a charter member of the Juneau Women’s Igloo Auxiliary No. 6 of the Pioneers of Alaska.
She was born April 9, 1863, in Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia.
Pakke arrived in Sitka, Alaska, in May 1886 and worked as a school teacher at the government school, later known as Sheldon Jackson Community College.
She married Bernard “B. M.” Behrends on October 25, 1889, in a ceremony performed by Sheldon Jackson. The couple had one daughter, Beatrice Margaret, who was born in Juneau on September 25, 1893.
Virginia Behrends died of pneumonia on February 12, 1936, in Ketchikan while returning from a trip south.
Sources
1910 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau, Alaska; Alaska Vital Records Record of Deaths; Evergreen Cemetery Burial Record.
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