Fred Brechan’s
Mother Subject
Of News Story
Mrs. Myrtle Brechan, mother of
Fred Brechan and a frequent vis
itor in Kodiak who this year cele
brated her 82nd birthday, is the
subject of a feature story in the
Aug. 31 edition of the “Courier”
published in Prescott, Ariz., where
she resides.
Entitled “Mrs. Brechan A ‘Prac
ticing Stork’,” it describes how she
turned her house into a nursing
home at Tempe in 1915 and didn’t
give it up until 1957 when shp was
75 years old.
As a young girl she earned a
teacher’s certificate in Iowa and
taught school for four years at $25
a month before she turned to nurs
ing. It was in this vocation that
she met Dr. Fred C. Brechan and
later moved to Arizona where he
had gone for his health.
Dr. Brechan set up a practice
and she helped him when she
wasn’t busy with their two chil
dren—Lenore, born in 1906 and
Fred, Jr., born in 1912—Arizona’s
statehood year.
Her husband died in 1915 and
she was left with two children to
raise and it was then she decided
to establish the nursing home.
She delivered a lot of babies by
herself because there wasn’t time
to get a doctor. Two particular ba
bies she remembers are Lucille
Pyle, wife of firmer Gov. Howard
Pyle, wife of former Gov. Howard
Mrs. George Meyer who lived in
Prescott.
Mrs. Brechan, the article states,
has just returned from a two
month visit to Alaska, where her
two sons live (she later adopted
another boy), and she says that she
likes to “jet” up there because it’s
only a seven-hour journey. One of
her favorite possessions is a jade
ring surrounded with gold nuggets
that she got in Alaska.
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DISEASE REPORT
Only one communicable disease
appeared on the report for South
central Alaska from the Kodiak
area for the week ending Sept. 7,
and that was for gonorrhea, accord
ing to the Health office.
JOYCE WHITE AT WHITMAN
Mrs. Wilton “Dag” White re
turned recently from Walla Walla,
Washington. Mrs. White accom
panied her daughter, Joyce, who is
entering Whitman College for her
first year of college.
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