Roseau Times-Region - Serving Roseau County for over 100 Years - The Official Roseau County Newspaper

Gatzke- Mary Elizabeth Storment was born on February 12, 1941 in Endicott, Washington to Hershel and Lena (Honn) Storment. She grew up on the Storment family farm and graduated from Endicott, Wash. in 1959. After high school she attended college in Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Wash. for teaching.

After college she worked in Colfax, Wash. at the hospital, where she took care of patients and helped out in surgery.

In April 1963, Mary went to Alaska, where she lived with her sister Francis and Jim Adams near Anchorage, Alaska. In Alaska, Mary worked at the local hospital in the ad...