Obituary: Roy Bailey was war hero, history buff
Longtime Sitkan Roy Bailey died Saturday at the age of 84. Bailey served on the Sitka School Board, the Sitka Tribe of Alaska Tribal Council, the Historic Preservation Commission, and the board of the Sitka Historical Society. And he fought in World War II – a part of his life he didn’t publicly acknowledge for a long time, in part because the federal government didn’t acknowledge it either.
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