Primary Name: Peterson, Lillian Lydia
Filed as: Peterson, Lillian Lydia
Also known as: Lillian Lydia Babcock; Lillian Peterson
Occupation / Association: Charter Member, Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Igloo No. 6; Territorial government employee
Associated places: Juneau, Alaska; Vanderbilt Point, Juneau, Alaska
Keywords: Lillian Lydia Peterson Babcock, Lillian Peterson Juneau Alaska, Doug Babcock family Juneau, Hugo Peterson landslide Juneau 1936, Hilja Malin Peterson, Juneau High School orchestra violin, Territorial Game Commission Alaska, Alaska Territorial Legislature staff, Chilkat Fuel Juneau, Vanderbilt Point Juneau history
Biography
Lillian Lydia Peterson was a Charter Member of the Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Igloo No. 6. She was born in Juneau, Alaska on November 9, 1914 to Hugo and Hilja Malin Peterson.
Her parents were killed when a landslide destroyed their apartment building on South Franklin Street on November 22, 1936.
Lillian graduated from Juneau High School in 1932, where she played the violin in the school orchestra. She later attended secretarial school and, upon returning to Juneau, began a long career in territorial and state government service. She worked for the Territorial Game Commission, the Territorial Legislature, and later the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services until her retirement in 1976.
She married Douglas “Doug” Babcock in Juneau on October 14, 1937. The couple had two daughters: Malin, born in Juneau on October 31, 1939, and Susan, born February 5, 1945.
Doug and Lillian purchased a home on Vanderbilt Point where they lived for thirty-five years. The site of their home later became the location of the Juneau Pioneers Home.
Lillian was one of the organizers of the 4-H program in Juneau in the late 1940s and was also an owner of Chilkat Fuel during the 1960s.
Lillian Lydia Peterson Babcock died in Juneau on April 21, 2000.
Sources
1930 and 1940 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau.
U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index.
Gastineau Channel Memories, Volume II, page 311.
Oral Interview with Malin Babcock.
Juneau High School Yearbook, 1932.