JUSTINA KUZAKIN DUSHKIN, a lifelong Alaskan, died at the age of 90 on March 18, 2003 at South Peninsula Hospital Long Term Care, where she had lived for her last seven years.
She was born Oct. 15, 1912 in Belkofski to George Kuzakin and Alice Vereskin Kuzakin. She worked in the summers at King Cove Cannery. Her husband, Nicholas Dushkin was a priest and also a fisherman during the summers.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Nicholas Dushkin, who died in 1965; her daughters, Josephine Gould and Sara J. Turner, and her son Richard Dushkin.
She was survived by her sons, Steven, George, Nicholas Jr., and Simeon Dushkin of Anchorage, and Eugene Dushkin of Mesa, Ariz., and daughters Alice Balamoutoff of Anchorage, Annie Barnard of Portland, Ore. and Agnes J. Dushkin of Seldovia; and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and nieces and nephews.
Justina’s daughter, Agnes later married John Abelard Ardenia and both John and his granddaughter, Adrianna Rose Ardenia are buried in the Seldovia City Cemetery near Justine.