Garry Stewart

Longtime Haines resident Glenn “Garry” Stewart died Nov. 6 at home. 

Wife Kolia Ann Stewart remembers him as a man who protected her since the day they met at her favorite neighborhood bar near Los Angeles, California. 

“It was love at first sight,” she said of the first time she laid eyes on the tall, blonde, mustached Garry. “I go, ‘he looks like General Custer.’” 

Somehow he heard her and came over to…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...