Primary Name: Naghel, Annetta

Filed as: Naghel, Annetta

Also known as: Annetta Theresa Johnson; Annetta Theresa Naghel

Occupation / Association: Charter Member, Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Women’s Auxiliary No. 6; musician

Associated places: Juneau, Alaska; Sitka, Alaska; San Francisco, California; Alameda, California

Keywords: Annetta Naghel Juneau Alaska, Annetta Theresa Johnson, Charles Edward Nagel family Juneau, Pacific Coast Steamship Company Spokane musician, Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Women's Auxiliary charter members, Evergreen Cemetery Juneau burials

Biography

Annetta Naghel was a Charter Member of the Pioneers of Alaska, Juneau Women’s Auxiliary No. 6.

She was born Annetta Theresa Johnson on August 28, 1877, in San Francisco, California, to Annie T. McClary and Alexander Johnson.

In 1904, she met Charles Edward Nagel in Sitka, Alaska. At the time, he was a United States Marine stationed there, and she was working as a musician aboard the Pacific Coast Steamship Company vessel S.S. Spokane.

Nagel proposed during the 1905 tour season, and the couple planned to marry the following year. Instead, Annetta left the ship while it was in Juneau, and the two were married there on August 6, 1906.

Annetta and Charles had three children: Edward Quesnel “Pat” Nagel, born in Juneau on February 10, 1908; Grace Emette Nagel, born in Juneau on October 28, 1909; and Gladys Agnes Nagel, born in Juneau on October 10, 1911.

Annetta Theresa Naghel died in Alameda, California, on July 11, 1957. She was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Juneau on July 22, 1957.

Sources

1910, 1920, and 1930 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau, Alaska.

Gastineau Channel Memories, Volume 2, pp. 265–277.

Alaska Marriage Records.

California Death Index.