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Persoonlijke gegevens William DeWald Rager 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1921.
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 2005, hij was toen 84 jaar oud.
• Een kind van William Henry Baker (AK) Rager en Katherine DeWald
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 11 februari 2023.

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Notities over William DeWald Rager

Written by Donna Basinger 345-4721 on December 16, 2004 for a future occasion.

Lifetime Alaskan resident, William Henry Rager Jr., 83, died at his home in Anchorage on January 30, 2005.

Born April 17th, 1921 to William Rager and Katherine DeWald Rager, William attended first grade at Anchorage‘s Pioneer School House. His father, a lawyer, came to Alaska prior to the WWI and to Anchorage in 1920. William Rager Sr. served as United States Commissioner until 1926 when he established his own private practice. A few years after his father‘s death William and his mother moved to Seward where she taught high school English and Latin for many years.

William graduated from the Ryan School of Aeronautics of San Diego as an Aeronautical Engineer in 1941. During WWII he received a deferment to work as a Structural Designer for the Ryan Aeronautical Company where his expertise was needed for the war effort. After a short tour of duty in the service, he returned in 1946 to Anchorage where he was Chief of Engineering Services for the Post Engineers of Ft. Richardson. He took an early retirement because of a neurological disease.

An early memory of Mr. Rager is shaking hands with President Warren G. Harding in July of 1923 when the President came to Alaska to commemorate the completion of the Alaska Railroad from Seward to Fairbanks. As he and his father walked their dog near the Anchorage Depot they were surprised by a passenger train arriving at an unusual time. Even more unusual were the men in fancy suits who stepped off the train. —Hello Buster. Fine looking dog,“ were the President‘s words to William. His father stopped by Denny Hewitt‘s photography shop on the way home to commemorate the occasion with a photograph. For years the 1923 picture of Bill was displayed on the screen of the Empress Theater, 4thAve. and G St., as an advertisement for Hewitt‘s

Mr. Rager served as president of Igloo No.15, Pioneers of Alaska, and was King Regent of the 1964 Fur Rendezvous with Queen Regent Mrs. A. J. Wendler. He became a Life Member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (the engineering society for advancing mobility in land, sea, air, and space) and was a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. In addition, Mr. Rager served numerous times on the vestry of All Saints Episcopal Church. His parents, married by the Rev. Hughes the day his mother‘s ship arrived in Anchorage in 1920, were one of the first couples married at All Saints when it was located on 3rdAvenue (on site of Elevation 92 Restaurant). The wedding was held after the tide came in and the passengers could disembark from the ship.

A memorial service will be held at All Saints Episcopal Church with the Rev. James A. Basinger, officiating.

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