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Shelley Ruth Wendt Nagel

Anchorage, AK
October 10, 1956 - January 16, 2022
Oct 10, 1956 - Jan 16, 2022
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Remembering your mama today and holding space in my heart for you all. ❤️❤️❤️Janie
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Had many moments remembering Shelley this summer/fall. Visited the peony farm in Homer now owned by Megan, recalling how Shelley loved them! And I go to the Botanical Gardens every season because it was one of her fav spots in her fight with melanoma that brought her joy! Happy Heavenly Birthday my friend, you are missed down here🙏💐

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Shelly and I go waaaaay back. She and I live at  APU for awhile but we worked at Providence lab for years. She introduced me to my later husband - Bjarne Holm - with whom I spent 34+ amazing years. He, too, has passed with cancer but my memories are many. Photos of Shelley are also full of wonderful memories of our time in Alaska. I so miss the both of them. Cheers, Robin Holm
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2015, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico
Flower crowns in Mexico together at Thanksgiving. Glad we made this happen. Missing mom every day! Thankful for her visits in dreamlife.
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2023, Alaska Botanical Garden
Shelley's Presence on the Memorial Wall — with This memorial put up by her friends from the visitor center. The gardens were one of Shelley's favorite places to visit during her fight with her cancer
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Writing in her travel journal Paris France
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Shelley hiking up the Eiffel Tower 1980
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Miss you Shelley. I see your photo in front of the Providence outpatient lab every time I go there, and I get to say hello. I think about you so often , and I see your lovely bright smile . 

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Some moments in time now over 20 years ago for me. I was looking through a family photo book I made and was enjoying her hand writing and memories of skiing together and a cruise we took. Of course she was talking about the cold and funny ravens. Missing you mama.
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2015, Visit Anchorage Center
Posing with the freshly carved bench with Seymour — with Beverly and Shelley
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Beverly Churchill
Jan. 17, 2024, 3:55 p.m. AKST
2015, Anchorage Visitor Center
I miss you so much Shelley! I see your picture posted at the VIC every week among the volunteers.
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Always in my heart, sweet angel!💜 
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Shelley's 60th birthday
2017, Edmonds, WA, USA
Shelley's 60th birthday — with Mike Swinford
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On Shelley's birthday in 1977 we went to Deadwood, SD, Saloon #10, and danced to a local band - - -songs like "She's a good-hearted woman in love with a good timin' man" by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings.  
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I think of Shelley every day when I listen to Birdnote on public radio.  I think of her when I finish reading a book or watching  a great program on Masterpiece theater.  Today I will share extra bird seed with our Anchorage winter birds and spend a quiet moment watching the birds with thoughts of your Mother/Shelley. 🤟🏽
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I just heard about Shelley.  I worked with her at the Visitor Center in Anchorage.  What a beautiful soul she was.  I so enjoyed the short times we spent with each other.  I had no idea she had melanoma.  I moved from Anchorage for the same reason a couple of years ago.  I wish she had told me....I wish I had told her.  We could have exchanged war stories.  I am so sorry.
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2015, Anchorage Visitor Center
We were excited about the one hundred year anniversary of Anchorage and the new Seymour sign and bench.  It's the little things!!

— with Beverly Churchill
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Cho-cho All Aboard!
2019, Seymour Awards
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