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Ketch Ketchum
Ketch Ketchum grew up on his parent's homestead in Readyville, a community in Southern Idaho. He lived the lifestyle—milking cows, digging post holes, working, and riding horses. A...view moreKetch Ketchum grew up on his parent's homestead in Readyville, a community in Southern Idaho. He lived the lifestyle—milking cows, digging post holes, working, and riding horses. And yes, he and his three brothers walked a mile summer and winter to the one-room school house. By 1942 Ketch, age 19, signed into the Army Air Corps Cadet Training Program and graduated as a pilot. He was commissioned second lieutenant and flew C-46 cargo airplanes in the vast Pacific regions and the Philippines. His squadron was on Okinawa when Japan capitulated, ending WW II on August 15, 1945. After 22 years in the Air Force, he retired as a Major, and he and his wife Marguerite brought their family up the Alcan Highway with a travel trailer to Alaska. He opened Ketchum Air Service on Lake Hood in Anchorage and, for the next 35 years, flew float and ski planes over much of Alaska's wilderness. During winters, he supported Geophysical Crews in the artic and the Valdez oil spill. Summers, he flew out big game hunters and fishermen. More than fifty years later, the Ketchums are still here with their extended Alaskan family, including a passel of rambunctious great-grandkids. As Ketch says, Alaska is home!""view less