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[John Lynn]

Published in the Anchorage Daily News on 1/20/2007.

Judith Ramage
    
Peters Creek resident Judith Faye Ramage, 62, died of heart failure Jan. 17,
2007, at Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage.

A celebration of life memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at
Evergreen
Memorial Chapel. The Rev. Dr. Javis Odom will officiate. The family requests
that you share a story of Judi or memorable moment about her at the service
if
you wish.

Ms. Ramage was born Jan. 10, 1945, in Greenwood, Miss., to Roy Anthony and
Marjorie Faye (Human) Tucker. She graduated from Whitehaven High School in
1963. She went on to complete beauty school and continued her college
education
throughout her entire life. She sought to learn something new every day.

Ms. Ramage came to Alaska in 1972. "She sought out the adventure and dream
of
living in the Last Frontier, which in those days as a single mom was just
unheard of," her family said. 

She worked at Enstar Natural Gas as a gas control dispatcher for the past 24
years.
Ms. Ramage was a member of the Alaska Pipe Trades UA Local 367 for 24 years.
She was a member and current treasurer of the Chugiak Range Riders, a member
and current vice president of the Anchorage Amateur Radio Club, a past board
member and 1986 board president of the Anchorage Community Mental Health
Services, and a member of the Gassy Girls -- a Red Hat Society chapter. Ms.
Ramage was an avid blood donor, donating more than 32 pints of blood and
became
a platelets donor to help those in need. 
Her family wrote: "Judi will always be remembered for her brilliant
personality, her generosity, her lively sense of humor, her willingness to
help
those in need, her love of animals and her love of family -- both natural
and
adopted. She had an incredible curiosity about life and the world. She was
well-informed and conversant about almost everything: politics, the
environment, natural resource development, history, science and other
cultures.
There was no limit to her desire to continue learning and actively
participate
in life.

She is survived by her mother, Marjorie Faye Hawkins of Chimicum, Wash.;
daughter, Ragan Anderson of Wasilla; sister and brother-in-law, Phyllis and
Calvin Ryan of Olympia, Wash.; brother, Roy Tucker Jr. of Tucson, Ariz.;
grandchildren, Shelbi and Brandon Anderson of Wasilla; and many aunts,
uncles
and cousins throughout Tennessee and Mississippi.

She was preceded in death by her father, Roy Anthony Tucker Sr.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be mailed to Peninsula Equine Therapy
Inc.,
P.O. Box 1607, Soldotna 99669. A trust fund has been set up in Judi's name
to
help at-risk youths suffering from emotional distress with the assistance of
the horses that she loved so much.

Arrangements were by Evergreen Memorial Chapel.