Benjiman E. CAMERON

CAMERON, MOATS, STEWARD, BLUE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 12/13/2006 at 18:29:45

Copyright, Anchorage [AK] Daily News
1 December 2006

Benjiman Cameron, 92

Longtime Anchorage resident Benjiman E. Cameron, 92, died Nov. 22, 2006, at Providence Alaska Medical Center. Visitation and services were Sunday at Bethel Chapel. Burial was in Kashwitna Community Church Cemetery in Willow. Mr. Cameron was born Jan. 7, 1914, in Goldfield, Iowa. On Oct. 23, 1940, he married Alma Rachel Moats. During World War II, he supported the war effort by helping produce food for overseas troops. He and his family drove to Alaska, arriving in Anchorage on Aug. 5, 1952. For three years he and his wife delivered mail and cleaned the post office at night. They lived for a winter at the Civil Aviation Administration station at Farewell. In 1960 he began working as a civil service employee on Elmendorf Air Force Base as a carpenter and later in family housing until his retirement in 1976. In 1976, the Camerons purchased a winter home in Hawaii. In 1989, they permanently returned to Alaska to be closer to family and friends. His family wrote: "He loved fishing and hunting, and enjoyed gardening and growing flowers. He loved the Lord God with all his heart, soul, mind and body." "A friend, Pastor Norman Jones, said, 'He would witness at the drop of a hat, and given half a chance he would drop his own hat.' "He was a devoted husband and loving father who ran his race with patience and love and finished with honors. He would want us to remember his death as a glorious graduation. To examine our lives in the privacy of our prayer closet, and in the presence of the Holy Spirit to sort out anything that might hinder us from going on to meet him and the Lord Jesus Christ in the hereafter."

Survivors include his children and their spouses, Gene and Priscilla Cameron of Tampa, Fla., and Nadine Blue, Cindy and Ken Steward, Bill and Linda Cameron, and David and Cindy Cameron, all of Anchorage; 14 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife in 1993; and by nine siblings. Donations may be sent to Crossroads Teen Center, P.O. Box 191, Goldfield, IA 50542. Arrangements are with Evergreen Memorial Chapel.