Crickett Forrest
March 12, 1936, Sand Point, Alaska — July 03, 1948, Seldovia, Alaska
Buried in Seldovia City Cemetery Plot #119LEROY FORREST, “Crickett” was only 11 years old when he drowned in Seldovia on July 3, 1948. His mother was Helen Skinner of Unga Island, but he was living with his grandparents Walter and Nellie Arkhimandritov Hansen Forrest in Seldovia at the time of his death. Nellie was Cricket’s grandmother and she and Walter had been raising him from an early age. In 1940 the family was living in Naknek, Alaska and Leroy was listed as Walter’s “step grandson in-law”. Helen was Nellie’s daughter by her husband Charles Skinner. By 1930 Charles and Helen were divorced and Helen and two of her younger sisters were living at the Jesse Lee Home, an orphanage in Seward, Alaska.
Old-timers sometimes confuse this cemetery name with “Jimminy Cricket” another Seldovia character, but Jimminy Cricket was an older black man and locals have many colorful stories about him.
