Alaska Pioneer Homes

Anchorage Pioneer Home resident turns 100

Mabel Didrickson was born in Sitka on May 27, 1911. She is Tlingit, of the Raven moiety and Beaver clan. A lifetime member of Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 4, she is mother of six children, four living; aunt to many nieces and nephews, grandmother to 12, and great-grandmother to 15. She is a member of the Russian Orthodox faith.

Mabel worked part-time in the housekeeping department of the original Pioneer Home in Sitka that opened in 1913. She later worked full-time in the Home’s current building that opened in the 1930s, until she retired. She eventually lived in the Sitka Pioneer Home for a time, before coming to Anchorage to be closer to her oldest daughter. She has lived at the Anchorage Pioneer Home since 2000. Her joys include her family, eating salmon, playing Bingo and talking with people. Along with her family, the Pioneer Home residents and employees wish her a wonderful birthday!