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City Council Proclamation Honors The Late Mary Ciuniq Pete

Hubert Angaiak, Mary Pete’s husband, accepting the proclamation in Pete's honor from the Bethel City Council on December 11, 2018.
Christine Trudeau
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KYUK

  

At Tuesday night’s meeting, the Bethel City Council honored the memory of educator and advocate Mary Ciuniq Pete in a proclamation. They praised her as a “strong leader with a caring heart, who dedicated her entire life to serving the region she loved.”

 

“I know that she’d be very humbled by this and by your kind words. And so with that, I give you my heartfelt thanks,” said Hubert Angaiak, Mary Pete’s husband, while accepting the proclamation.

 

Others at the meeting also shared their remembrances.  

 

“Now there’s a farseeing person. Now there’s a very patient person. Now there’s a person who cares about every single person in, not just in Bethel, not just in the region, but worldwide. And I just wish that more people were like her,” said Mary Nanuwak.

 

Along with her work as Director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Kuskokwim Campus, Mary Pete served in local organizations and state government. She died of cancer in November.