MY PARENTS

Alaska Frontier Nurse

1930'S Autobiography of Lois Kroll, Henry's mother

While working for the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky and as Public Health Nurse in Alaska, Lois delivered more than 200 babies.

Lois first came to Alaska in 1937 after answering a small newspaper ad requesting a Public Health Nurse in Seldovia, Alaska. She applied for the position and to her surprise was accepted. When the Alaska Steamship Company ship, Aleutian arrived in Seldovia she remarked in her diary, "I met the outgoing nurse and inherited her cat and the boyfriend."

Upon arriving in Seldovia, Lois discovered that the landscape was dotted with outhouses. The people had no running water and were drinking polluted well water. Influenza, colds, and dysentery ran rapidly through the population. She immediately petitioned the Town Council to raise money for a pipeline and organized a group of men to install the water line from a makeshift dam at Fish Creek. Her job consisted of inoculating the population against typhoid, diphtheria, and smallpox and generally improve the living conditions and health of the people. Her territory was Seldovia, Homer, Kenai, Anchor Point, Port Graham and English Bay. The city of Soldotna didn't exist yet.

Having babies is a life and death matter. The stress of this occupation can wear heavy on a person after a few years. Here in her own words is her story titled, Frontier Living written for the Seattle, Ballard Senior Center 1990.

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Henry Kroll

513 Peninsula Avenue

Kenai, Alaska   99611

Phone: (907) 740-0386

Author - Lois Kroll
Published 2014
85 pages with illustrations
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Mad Trapper of Alaska

Legendary pioneer and bush pilot.

This is the story of Henry Kroll I, who ran away from home at age eight and was raised by the Nez Perce Indians, learning their language and culture. He later became a circus strongman, chopper pilot, commercial fisherman, and deputy US Marshall. Henry was a constant source of invention and excelled at everything he did. He was fluent in seven languages. As a musician, he played every instrument. Every day was an adventure. From trapping live wolverines to defending himself from a bear with an axe, there was nothing he couldn't do. Read about the adventures of this fascinating man.

Send Check or Money Order to:
Henry Kroll

513 Peninsula Avenue

Kenai, Alaska   99611

Phone: (907) 740-0386

Factual accounts by various authors, Henry Kroll
Published 2014
100 pages, well-illustrated
$20 Paperback + $5 postage  www.GuardDogBooks.com