Tracie West, who lived in Haines as a youth, died March 19 at her home in Palmer. She was 53 and suffered from alcoholism, said her husband William West.
West was born Tracie Short on July 25, 1963 in Seattle. She came north with her family in the early 1970s. Walter Short, her father, was a trucker who hauled mobile homes up the Haines Highway during the trans-Alaska pipeline boom.
“She was 9 or 10…
