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- Posted: Sunday, July 29, 2007
Longtime Kenai resident Clifford Allyn Massie died Monday, July 23, 2007, from pancreatic cancer and a pulmonary embolism at Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna. He was 70.
Memorial services will be held at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 2, at the Kenai Central High School gymnasium. Pastor Lee Moore will officiate. A gathering with refreshments will immediately follow the services in the auditorium commons. His ashes will be interred in the "Kardinal Corner" at the Kenai City Cemetery.
Mr. Massie was born July 20, 1937, to Robert and Ella (Belden) Massie in Sundance, Wyo. His family moved to Battle Ground, Wash., where he graduated from Battle Ground High School in 1955. He earned a bacholar of science degree in education at the Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore., and enlisted in the Washington National Guard. He began a lifelong career in teaching in Washington as an elementary teacher and coach from 1962 to 1967.
Mr. Massie moved to Kenai in August 1968 to teach for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District. He taught drivers education, physical education, was the Kenai Central High School athletic and activities director as well as the KPBSD activities director and served two terms on the school board. He retired in 1987, but continued being a coach and a mentor to many. He received the Alaska School Activities Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007, and the community honored him by naming the KCHS gym floor "Cliff Massie Court." He also served one term on the Kenai City Council before resigning because of illness.
"Inside and out, Cliffy was an extraordinarily beautiful man. He loved his two daughters, his family, and friends. Losing Cliffy is devastatingly sad, but I was blessed to be his wife for 34 years, and it does not get any better than that. He loved coaching and working with young people, watching them learn life skills far beyond 'the' game," his wife, Lois, said.
Mr. Massie was preceded in death by his father.
He is survived by his wife of 34 years, Lois L. Massie of Kenai; daughters, Lisa LaTourneau and her husband, Chal, of Vancouver, Wash. and Lori Massie and her husband, Manny Gomez, of Olympia, Wash.; mother, Ella Massie of Battle Ground; brothers, Jack Massie of Battle Ground and Wally Massie of Kalispell, Mont.; sisters, Grace Redinger of Spearfish, S.D., and Loretta Lindberg of Sheridan, Wyo.; brothers, Rod Massie of Davenport, Iowa and Randy Massie of Battle Ground; adopted daughter, Kyong Jun and her husband, Paul, and their children, Eugenie, Alenn and Ellie of Tacoma, Wash.; and numerous nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions be made in Cliff's memory to the Central Peninsula Health Foundation, Way Out Women (WOW), C/O Kathy Lopeman, 250 Hospital Pl. Soldotna, AK 99669.
Arrangements were made by Peninsula Memorial Chapel in Kenai.
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