ALTA CRETE ROSENBUSH (Peterson) COLBERG was born on Feb. 24, 1934, in Seattle, Wash., to Alta Crete Phillips and Leslie Grant Rosenbush. Her family moved to Seldovia, Alaska in 1936, when she was a young girl. Seldovia is where she spent the majority of her life.
She married, first, in 1951, Albert Martin Peterson, and they had three children, Albert, Liza and Leslie.
Then, in 1955 she married another Seldovian, John Colberg and they had three more children, John, Alexis and Arlise. They raised these six children in Seldovia, she was busy member of the community.
As a member of the Seldovia Hospital Guild, working and learning from the doctors, she took the x-rays and developed them, helped deliver babies and was the night nurse. She was a member of the Parent Teacher Association; along with other parents she helped make positive changes and was instrumental in working with the parents to ensure a swimming pool was included when the new school was built and opened in 1973. The same year she and her husband bought and began operation of the Linwood Bar until they sold their business in October