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LAURA BERGT CROCKETTWell-known Alaska Eskimo Laura Bergt Crockett died Wednesday morning of kidney failure in a Honolulu hospital. She was 43.She had lived in Fairbanks for many years with her husband, Neil Bergt, and their four children and was an active civic leader.Born Laura May Beltz, daughter of Frederica “Rica” and Bert Beltz, Sr., on Oct. 1,. 1940, she attended Mount Edgecumbe High School at Sitka where she was a cheerleader.In 1958 she married Bergt, a pilot for Alaska Airlines and later a pilot for Interior Airways which he eventually bought and turned it into Alaska International and subsequently MarkAir which began flying passengers this month.Sometime after her divorce from Bergt in 1977, she was married for about two years to William Crockett, a prominent attorney in Maui whose clients included such celebrities as Jim Nabors and Carole Burnett.She usually spent her winters in Hawaii but also maintained homes in Anchorage and at Harding Lake where she spent the summer of 1983.At one time she served as secretaryof the Fairbanks Chamber of Com merce, was active in the organization and operation of the World Eskimo Indian Olympics, and served as an officer of the Tundra Times board of directors for many years.She was active in Native affairs and once appeared on national television to invite Johnny Carson to attend the Eskimo Olympics and present him with a walrus oosik.She is survived by her mother, Frederica Beltz of Kotzebue; a sister, Arlene Stevens of Fairbanks; two brothers, Ronald of Fairbanks, and Bert Beltz, Jr.; two daughters, Debbie Bergt of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., and Karen Bergt, formerly a teacher in Salem, Ore., and now doing graduate work in California; and two sons, Michael Bergt who works for Quadrant Development in Anchorage, and Bryan Bergt who is a freshman at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. She was preceded in death by a brother, Louie.The body is being cremated in Hawaii. Memorial services will be held in Anchorage but final arrange ments have not been made.
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Fairbanks Daily News Miner
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Thu, Mar 15, 1984
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