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Long time Anchorage resident Phillip Logan, 82, passed away June 30, 2019 peacefully in his sleep of natural causes. A Celebration of Life will be held at Rabbit Creek Church, 3401 Rabbit Creek Road, Anchorage at 3:00 pm on August 6, 2019. Phil Logan was born September 27, 1936 in Arkansas City, Kansas to Scoville and Vivian Logan. In his youth he worked at various jobs to include a drug store clerk, a roundhouse railway clerk and he also worked at a meat packing plant and a concrete block factory. At age nineteen, after graduating from junior college, he began his teaching career in a one-room rural school which had eighteen pupils in grades one through eight. In 1961 he graduated from Southwestern College at Winfield, Kansas with a B. A. in English and secondary education. Phil went on to complete extensive advanced college studies throughout his career as a teacher, to include attending the French Language Institute at the University of Nevada in the summer of 1963. In 1962, Phil moved to Alaska for a teaching position at West High School, where he taught French and English. He continued in Language Arts at Wendler Junior High School, subsequently transitioning to teach in elementary school, where he retired from Gladys Wood Elementary School in 1989. Phil enjoyed working with his students and has said he always attempted to be creative and imaginative in his classroom.
In 1968, Pihl met his wife Betty at a teacher's conference at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Phil and Betty were both French teachers for the Anchorage School District. Together they raised four daughters and recently celebrated 51 years of marriage.
Phil was actively involved in his church in various roles which included Sunday School teacher, youth leader and church Deacon. Charles Bridges, one of the Pastors Phil worked alongside, has said Phil was the best Deacon he ever had.
In retirement he enjoyed caring for his grandchildren, attending the Great Alaska Shoot Out and Glacier Pilot Baseball games.
His family wrote, "Phil had lots of compassion for others and found joy in sharing his love for the Lord."
He is survived by his wife, Betty Logan, his four daughters and sons-in-law, Kathleen Medina and Dennis Page, Madeline and Mike Rush, Vivi and John Monahan and Julie and Beto Perez, eleven grandchildren, ten great grandchildren and one great, great grandchild on the way. His grandchildren are Michael Medina, Jenny Medina, her children Leticiya Elzy, who is expecting the family's first great, great grandchild, and Arianna Elzy, Bryan Medina and his children Diego and Mariella Medina, Michael Rush, his wife Jessica and their children Connor, Preston and Mason Rush, Megan Beans and her husband Ryan Beans and their children Cadence, Liam and Declan Beans, Paxton Guitierrez and her husband Trevor Guitierrez, Laiken, Trevor and Miley Monahan and Chloe and Nicholas Perez.
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