Longtime U.S. border agent Tom True died March 21 at the Sitka Pioneer Home, following a long decline due to dementia, and more recently, Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS). His wife of 42 years, Shelley Mc Laughlin-True, was with him.
For three decades, True served as an inspector for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, beginning in 1978 in the former custom’s house located at Main Street and Old Haines Highway. In 1979 he moved to…