She liked to be busy, loved going to garage sales, had a quest for learning, and a talent for doing many things. She would say that every day was a bonus. She took joy in life, loved travel and music, and would often show her happiness in dance. Mabel was a loving and caring wife, mother, grandma, sister, aunt, and dear friend. Later, she owned two restaurants: Mabel’s Drive In, on Sawmill Creek Road and Moy’s Café, 303 Lincoln Street by St.
Over the years she owned a second-hand store had the first gas pumps outside of town at her grocery store on Sawmill Creek Road and worked in restaurants in Sitka, Pelican and Elfin Cove (Harbor Café, Dock Shack, The Jade Room and many more). When their marriage ended in 1964, Mabel worked full time to support the family, putting others before herself until finally retiring in 1985.
Mabel and Ike took in many foster children over the years and when one little one in particular pulled at their heart strings, they adopted Patti. When her teachers tried to talk her into going to college, she said, no way! It wasn’t for her. Mabel said she would have liked to have had lots more children, it was what she had always wanted. Married for 23 years, they had six children. He was Eagle, a Kaagwaantaan of the Box House.
She fell in love at SJS and married Alton Ike Cropley right after graduation. Pretty much every time the family drove by the campus on Jeff Davis Street, Mabel would sing the Sheldon Jackson school song or tell a story about her high school years. When Mabel was 14 she was required by law to attend boarding school in Sitka, so her parents moved to be near her. She was named after the shaman who was there at the beginning and who was the Hit S’aati (the Housemaster of the family). Mabel was Tlingit of Lituya Bay, Yeil (Raven), T’akdeintaan, Sea Pigeon of the Kaa Shaayi Hit (Severed Head House). She was a granddaughter of Paul Brown, Kaagwaantaan, Eagle, of the Kook Hit (Box House). 14, 1924, in Hoonah to Henry Moy (born Moy Gee Pong) and May Molly (Brown) Moy. with her granddaughter Tamsyn at her side. Mabel Elsie Moy, 93, of Sitka, died peacefully at home Aug. Created on Friday, 15 September 2017 21:48
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