Longtime Chilkat Valley resident Marilyn Wilson died June 26. She would have been 88 this month.
Wilson was born Aug. 3, 1938, in Juneau to Norwegian mother Nancy Burke and Lingít father Ben Wright of Angoon. Marilyn was Teikweidí, brought in by the late Esther Shea of Ketchikan, and her Tlingit name was Gush gu ge’. She spent much of her youth in Skagway, as well as in Angoon with her father’s mother, who raised…