Joint Funeral Services
Held for Drowning Victims
uual luneral services for Mr.
and Mrs. Augustin J. Bastion
■wore hold in tho Kenai Methodist
Church at 1 :30 p.m. Monday with
services being conducted by the
( hurch of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints.
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MR. AND MRS. AUGUSTIN J.
BASTIEN
The North Kenai homesteading
couple drowned in Seldovia Bay
last Wednesday when their boat
overturned while they were on a
clam digging trip. Bastien’s body
was found entangled in the boat’s
lines and Mrs. Bastien’s was re
covered from the beach across
from Seldovia.
Despite continued search, there
still has been no trace found of
their companions, Dr. P. Cary
Whitehead, physician and operat
or of the hospital at Seldovia, and
Gary Sheldon, Seldovia fisher
man.
Officiating at the Bastien rites
were President Kearlee Wright
of Soldotna and the visiting Mor
mon (Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints) missionaries
from Utah, Elder John Roach and
Elder Michael Gillings.
Elder Roach gave the invoca
tion and also served as speaker.
Martha Thomason was organist
and songs were by members of
the Church’s Relief Society. El
der Gillings gave the benediction.
Honorary pallbearers were
Dave Bell, A. J. Bochman, Nor
man Rinehart, Guy Moore, M. L.
Mullin and Bud Chamberlain.
Concluding services were at the
Kenai Cemetery with Elder Gill
ings officiating. Burial arrange
ments were by the Copper Delta
Mortuary of Soldotna.
Nadien Hazel Hansen Bastien
was born on June 21, 1928 in
Twin Falls, Ida. She was the fifth
child born to W. L. and Hattie
Hansen. She spent most of her
childhood and school days at
Buhl, Ida. At the age of 18 years,
she was married to Harry Bu
chanan hut they were divorced 10
years later.
During the year of 1953 she
took a practical nurse’s training
course and worked at this profes
sion until she drove up the Alas
ka Highway alone to visit mem
bers of her family living in Alas
ka. Here she met “Augy” Bastien
and they were married in June
of 19G1. For the past year and one
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half they had been engaged in
building their new home on their
homestead north of Kenai.
Mrs. Ba.stien, who was child
less, was preceded in death by
her mother, who died when Na
dine was an infant. She is surviv
ed by her father and stepmother,
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hansen of
Sterling; one sister, Mrs. Clara
Sweet of Nyssa, Ore., three bro
thers, Eugene of Soldotna, Roger
of San Bernardino, Calif., and
James of Colton, Calif., and by
numerous nieces and nephews.
Augustin Joseph Bastien was
born in Moose Jaw, Saskatche
wan, Canada on Oct. 20. 1923. His
parents homesteaded there for
many years. When he was 18, his
family moved to Minnesota,
where they operated a saw mill
until 1053 when the family mov
ed to South Dakota and continu
ed sawmill operation for many
years.
Augy or “Augie,” as he was
known to friends, joined the Na
vy in 1943 and was discharged
in 1945. He also received his na
turalization papers as a citizen of
the United States at this time.
He was well known through South
Dakota where he had a western
dance band for six years, during
which time he also played for
half an hour each day over radio
station KOLA in Mobridge, S. D.
In the spring of 1960, Bastien
came to Alaska and started home
steading in the North Kenai area.
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Council and School Board
Election Scheduled Soon
In anticipation of the coming
spring elections at Kenai on May
14, information concerning nom
inating petitions and registration
of voters has been released by the
city clerk.
There will be three vacancies
for offices in the Kenai City
Council. Two will be for three
year terms and the third will be
to fill out one year on an unex
pired term.
There also will be a vacancy on
the Kenai School Board as Ed
Ilollier’s term of office is expir
ing. This position will be for a
five-year term. Hollier currently
is heading the School Board as its
president.
The three vacancies on the
City Council will be for the of
fices originally held by Mac Mc
Gahan, Tom Hayes and Carl
Swanson, all of whom resigned.
His life was actively engaged in
fishing, doing carpenter work and
playing for many dances. In the
fall after he had married Nadine
Hansen Buchanan in June 1961,
he started building their home.
During the winter they hauled
legs in from the woods on a bob
sled and Augy hewed them out
by hand.
Bastien is survived by his pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bas
tien of Hoven, S. D., three chil
dren by a former marriage living
elsewhere, three sisters and two
brothers.
Billy McCann has been serving;
as fill-in for McGahan. Ernie
Knackstedt is presently fill-in for
the position for which Swanson
was elected. After Hayes resign
ed, Wayne TumSuden served for
a time and then he, too, resigned
with the vacated post currently
being filled in by M. T. Sims.
^ The posts in which Sims and
Knackstedt are now serving, will
carry a three-year term of office
for new couneilmen to be elected
in May. The other position, now
held by McCann, will be for one
year only on an unexpired term.
All persons contemplating run
ning for office in the spring elec
tions at Kenai are advised that
nominating petitions may now be
obtained at the office of the city
clerk, Frances Torkilsen.
A candidate to be eligible for
election must have filed a nomin
ating petition at the city clerk’s
office no less than 20 days prior
to the election on the second
Tuesday in May. Each petition
must be signed by 20 qualified
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have never registered for previous
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who have married and changed
their names since previous regis
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