Bill and Trudy Wolfe

Bill Wolfe Sr. was born to Benjamin and Louise (Hammond) Wolfe on April 18, 1928, and died Nov. 29, 1997. He was of the Raven Moiety, the Takdeintaan Clan from the X'aalew Hit (Sockeye Salmon House). His Tlingit name was Kae Hee nook.  He married Gertrude ``Trudy'' Paul Wolfe on April 9, 1957, in Juneau, where they lived until moving to Hoonah in 1960.  

Trudy Wolfe was born in Sitka on August 7, 1933 to Frank Paul Sr. and Mary [Young] Paul. Trudy was a L'uknax sháa (Coho Woman) from Kayáashka Hít in Sitka. Her father (Káaneitl) was Dakl'aweidí from the Killerwhale House in Angoon and her paternal grandfather John Paul, Jr. (Káatlein) from the Needlefish House of the Deisheetaan making her a Deisheetaan grandchild. Her mother was a Chookaneidí yádi making her a Chookaneidí grandchild as well.  She was a President of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, Camp 12 of Hoonah for many years and was considered a hard and dedicated worker.

Trudy was a Community Health Aide in Hoonah, and helped create the Health Aide program under SEARHC.  She once said she liked "taking care of people. They didn't have a nurse in Hoonah but once a month I think. So it was good to have somebody there to help them when there wasn't anybody else."  She was so good at it that the clinic was named after her in 1988.

Photograph of plaque from the Hoonah Health Center.