July 19 - Background (from KTUU) & other sources

On Thursday afternoon, a head-on Parks Highway crash near Willow killed 80-year-old Delores Stilwell, of Trapper Creek, and three people were injured, according to Alaska State Troopers.

AST spokesperson Megan Peters says the crash happened at 1:15 p.m. at Mile 63 of the Parks. A sedan and van were involved with a total of four people involved.  Stilwell was the passenger in a 1989 Chevrolet van driven by 82-year-old Lee Stilwell, of Trapper Creek.

In the troopers dispatch, the van crossed the center line and collided with a 2004 Subaru outback traveling northbound driven by 68-year-old Jeannette Keida, of Willow, and 64-year-old Richard Keida, of Willow, was riding as a passenger in the sedan.

Delores Stilwell was pronounced deceased at the scene. Jeannette Keida was life flighted to Providence for her injuries and Rich Keida was taken to the Mat-Su Regional Medical Center trauma center.   

The following website is designed to give friends and family members of Rich and Jeannettee up to date information, as it is known, for the following purposes:

• To cut down on the thousands of telephone calls from worried individuals
• To limit the number of people travleing to the hospitals 
• To give everyone a single source they can come to for accurate information withouit spececulation