Primary Name: Mantyla, Hazel Elaine
Filed as: hazel_elaine_mantyla
Also known as: Hazel Elaine Honeycutt; Hazel Elaine Boyce; Hazel Elaine McKinnley; Hazel Boyce Mantyla
Occupation / Association: President, Juneau Women’s Igloo (1960); Order of the Eastern Star, Juneau Chapter 7 Matron
Born: March 20, 1910, Linnton, Oregon
Died: September 20, 1981, Juneau, Alaska
Parents: Wills Hermann Honeycutt; Ida May “Jessie” Bradley Honeycutt
Spouse: James McKinnley (m. 1930; div. 1932); Art Mantyla (m. 1932)
Children: Carmen Dolores Mantyla; Betty J. Mantyla; Patricia A. Mantyla
Associated places: Linnton, Oregon; Douglas, Alaska; Petersburg, Alaska; Sitka, Alaska; Juneau, Alaska
Keywords: Hazel Elaine Mantyla, Hazel Honeycutt, Hazel Boyce, Hazel McKinnley, Hazel Mantyla, Honeycutt family, Mantyla family, Juneau Women’s Igloo President 1960, Eastern Star Juneau Chapter 7, Douglas Alaska, Sitka Alaska, Petersburg Alaska, Juneau Alaska pioneers
Biography
Hazel Elaine Honeycutt Boyce-Long-Mantyla served as President of the Juneau Women’s Igloo in 1960.
She was born March 20, 1910, in Linnton, Oregon, to Wills Hermann Honeycutt and Ida May “Jessie” Bradley Honeycutt. As a child, she was photographed with her grandmother, Nancy Bradley. After her mother remarried Marion Franklin Boyce in 1920, Hazel adopted the surname Boyce.
On May 5, 1930, she married James McKinnley in Douglas, Alaska. The marriage ended in divorce on January 25, 1932. Later that year, on December 17, 1932, she married Art Mantyla in Petersburg, Alaska.
The Mantyla family had three children: Carmen Dolores, born in Washington in 1932; Betty J., born in Alaska in 1935; and Patricia A., born in Juneau on June 19, 1938.
During the 1940 U.S. Census, the family was living in Sitka, where Art Mantyla worked as captain of a cannery tender.
Hazel Mantyla was also active in fraternal organizations and served as Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star, Juneau Chapter No. 7.
She died on September 20, 1981, and is buried in Juneau, Alaska.
Sources
Alaska Marriage Certificates; 1930 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau; 1940 U.S. Federal Census, Sitka; Oregon Death Certificate
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